Montreal!

I was going to say that IME the ideology you described above is mainly the one of white people with fine art degrees/musicians. Montreal is large and diverse enough that you can have a great social life in media/art while almost being able to ignore those type of people.

it's every demographic here. i went to church once and the minister started his lecture by acknowledging that he was a genocidal colonizer and asked everyone to say it back lmao. and then the sermon was some vague shit abt how we should listen to indigenous stories but not tell them to each other

i think indigenous sov is super impt and there are good things about the way they're foregrounded here, and i even like some of the more symbolic stuff like land acknowledgements. but a lot of the discourse around it is v weird and often avoids political subtance & is kinda otherizing or wtv

i once pressed a friend who is particularly egregious w this stuff and they told me that canada should cede all power to indigenous leaders so that they can implement eco-socialism. which, i mean that sounds fine to me if it were to happen, but just goes to show how little that ideology thinks through the political tensions involved (incl within indigenous communities)

oh sure, make the indigenous people do all the governing for you, as if their lives haven't been negatively affected enough already

Not the biggest fan of pulling on the first come first serve land sovereignty thread; but really yes, dealing with those white progressive communities is often navigating signal virtuousness waters.

Also I have a problem with calling yourself a genocidal colonizers when you never participated in institutions that programmed and executed the colonial genocide.

ya i have a bit of weird feelings about like, calling my grandmother, who moved here fleeing the holocaust and lived as a poor immigrant for decades, a genocidal colonizer

bizarre pervasive local ideology that's a mix of dumb mystical bullshit like astrology and these confusing rhetorical references to indigenous politics (everyone here loves to preempt everything they say with 'i recognize that i am a white-supremacist genocidal colonizer') that have no actual political substance and are more like a new-age self-help thing(?)

ha, this is so true.

lot of people playing "I'm a bougie white person with vaguely "left" neoliberal identity politics how do i express my political beliefs in a the most woo woo way in a manner that conforms to what i imagine POC and indigenous people's interests are?" (oh btw my friend group is 100% white - barring the odd rich canadian of east asian descent)

i used to be vegan and i would get criticized for this being racist and classist by rich white people

oh yeah sorry for derailing the montreal thread obv.

back to montreal: that gnocchi place next to fairmount bagels is so fucking good

I wish I could afford restaurants seriously.

sending jim out to scout locations a few weeks before I visit somewhere next time instead of a couple months after

I mean, I don't regret the multiple portuguese chicken and poutine meals I ate on the cheap, but..

the gnocchi place is called drogheria fine and it sells one thing - gnocchi in calabrian tomato sauce - it costs $5 and is filling enough to have for lunch. it is $1 extra if you want extra pecorino romano on it

worth the drive from Toronto? (i love gnocchi)

that's one hell of a drive but if you generally like montreal and spending time there then why not

the train is an option but spoiler: you can't really see the lake, it's mostly trees the whole way

yeah it's not a very picturesque journey

i think it is! taken it there and back a few times.

isn’t the gnocchi place on beaubien better? or is that the same business that moved?

imo it's not a real montreal recommendation if someone doesn't immediately tell you about the better place that's a few blocks away

I've sometimes, after having a meal I really liked, mumbled "oh I had a sandwich nbd" if someone has asked me where I ate lunch, so as to not get sidetracked into where I should have eaten

xp. iirc this place has been there for years (like i think it was there last time i visited like 5 years or so ago)

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I wish I could afford restaurants seriously.

Lock thread

when i was flush w cash living that yuppie DINC mtl lyfe my ex and i would eat out at a fancy french place one a month; ate at all the toqués, l'expresses, joe beefs. good times

i ate at larry's, was dece

now i live in vancouver and am broke but eat the best szechuan, vietnamese, korean ive ever had in my life once a week. so, also good times

xp- love Larry's

I should admit I have been to some great restaurants here. Bouillon Bilk, Tuck Shop, and Vin Papillon were all rad

love vin pap

lol are these airport drop boxes new? I only remember seeing warning signs

you are now leaving Canada pic.twitter.com/M2UHvx76hp

— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) December 22, 2019

Saw them at least back in August. Considering I was flying to PDX it was kind of lol

I must have just not noticed them when I was there in August.

I'd suggest a FAP at some point but epidemiological conditions aren't exactly ideal at the moment. Something to keep in mind for the future, however.

Pas cool, Valérie.

- The police operating budget in 2021 will be $679 million, an increase of just under $15 million from last year.

- The budget for housing, including funding for the city's goal to create 12,000 affordable and social housing units by 2021, will be $140.5 million, down nearly $13 million from last year.

what the fuck??

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/11/13/possible-prise-dotages-chez-ubisoft-a-montreal

A group of suspects would hold dozens of people hostage, Friday afternoon, in Montreal, in a building that houses the premises of the Ubisoft company, on Saint-Laurent Boulevard.

wtf

wtf

yikes. news is very unclear so far

One of my friends works like a block from there, in a building where Ubisoft also has offices. Thankfully the hostage situation seems to be limited to a single building but reports of a ‘group’ of suspects are hardly comforting.

Suspects reportedly asking for $$$. To be confirmed.

scary stuff

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For all I know it could all be a hoax, nothing had been 100% confirmed so far.

Well aside from the fact that it’s being treated as a potentially dangerous situation.

fuck the postmillennial that's alt right bullshit

but the images of people on the roof don't particularly evoke hostages so far; i think it's premature to assume they are.

i have a friend inside who says there's lots of police and he's safe

i'm two blocks away, my son's daycare is less than a block away. :( i know s1ocki is nearby too

let's wait and see :(

s1ocki has tweeted that they're staying put inside their office which sounds like they're safe

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― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

appreciate that that is a somewhat informative link but that's an alt-right website

Yeah it seems there isn’t much information atm from official sources, hope for a fast and peaceful resolution.

sorry was by a friend of mine who works there and is in the story

I'll ask a mod to delete I had no idea