Montreal!

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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Posted: October 3, 2019 at 15:10:57
I wish I could afford restaurants seriously.

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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

er linked by a friend who works there and is thankfully working from home

TVA says they got swatted. Also to be confirmed.

might be useful for non-locals:

Something is going down at the Ubisoft building in Montreal / Mile End, but a few pointers for people looking for info or trying to share info:
- news outlets to check include TVA, Journal de Montréal, CBC, CTV, CJAD, Radio-Canada as they appear to all have people there.

— t'himbo (@timothyjforster) November 13, 2020

Swatting a video game studio is pure 4channery.

I guess that's the best case scenario really, but uggggh