A Montreal mother claims police told her to take down a charity lemonade stand her kids had set up and threatened her with arrest.
Ayana Massa told Global News her two young sons, 11-year-old Ness and 8-year-old Ariel, have been selling lemonade to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.
Another group has announced it will launch a legal challenge against Quebec’s controversial language reform law.
Bill 96 was passed in the provincial legislature earlier this week.
The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) announced late Thursday evening it has hired a legal firm to help it contest the validity of Bill 96, An Act Respecting French, the official and common language of Quebec.
This feels like something Indonesia would do, not a modern parliamentary democracy. Whoops sorry, I meant parliamentary dictatorship.
Montreal Police spokesperson Veronique Comtois said the protest included seven acts of mischief and four armed assaults on police officers.
Another police spokesperson, Manuel Couture said that the protest began at Place du Canada and that “within minutes,” protesters began using smoke bombs and committing acts of mischief.
In a recent opinion piece in the Gazette , Concordia political science associate professor Noah Schwartz says calls for gun bans are among typical “knee-jerk” reactions to gun violence that “drain precious resources” that could be better invested in long-term solutions to crime and violence in Canada.
Schwartz seems to have accepted the argument — often presented by the gun lobby — that gun violence is mostly limited to criminal gangs “in specific neighbourhoods” and that “licensed, vetted” gun owners are already “heavily regulated” enough.
Current scene in downtown Montreal. A protest is taking place against the covid passport system that is coming to Quebec. The turnout here is massive. https://t.co/iS2UfzC2fp@RebelNewsOnline pic.twitter.com/3F6abY1E82
— Lincoln Jay (@lincolnmjay) August 14, 2021
Defending your rights at the Freedom March against #VaccinePassports in Montreal pic.twitter.com/16JJ9nwxJa
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) August 14, 2021
Hundreds of people in Montreal waved Palestinian flags, drove through the streets and gathered in front of Israel’s consul general in Westmount in support of Palestine in wake of the growing violence between Israel and Hamas.
Pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian supporters clash near Manitoba Legislature
Separated by a line of around 50 Winnipeg Police Service officers, approximately 50 Israel supporters and 300 Palestine supporters volleyed death threats, insults and bottles of water.
Then of course there’s Toronto… Diversity is our Strength!
More footage. The man had to go get treated at the hospital. Will update as I get more information. pic.twitter.com/vFn9tCALj0
— Eli 🦁 (@EliKohn3) May 16, 2021
Se Above vids – from the CBC – “Among the myriad of Palestinian flags were dozens of Israeli flags flown by counter-demonstrators in the square. Police appeared to set up a barrier to separate opposing protesters. As of Saturday night, police had no information about any arrests made in connection with the rally.”
From the Star – A pro-Israel group of around 100 people were also protesting at the scene, with police setting up barricades to separate opposing protesters. Toronto police say there are no reports of violence at this time, and no arrests or charges have been made.
Speaking to the city’s Public Safety Committee, Montreal police Inspector Migüel Alston and division chief Marie-Claude Fradette presented the police force’s efforts to date to recruit more officers from ethnic backgrounds and racialized communities.
Federal Labour Minister Filomena Tassi has tabled back-to-work legislation for the Port of Montreal’s 1,150 dock workers, who have been on strike since Monday morning.
The legislation, set to be debated Tuesday afternoon, would require employees to return to work after the bill passes. It would also extend their previous collective agreement until a new one is negotiated.
The legislation would also prevent any strikes or lockouts until a new agreement is signed and impose a mediator-arbitrator on both parties if negotiations fail again. Workers at the port also walked off the job seven months ago.
Over the weekend, reporters were arrested, a man was violently detained by police and hundreds of people took to the streets of Montreal to protest the Quebec government’s mandatory COVID-19 curfew and stringent lockdown regime.
Members of a far-left group claiming to be responsible for a St. Patrick’s Day vandalism incident targeting McGill University’s Queen Victoria statue issued calls for the royal family to be killed via car crash in a Facebook post taking credit for the incident.
Can children consent to using puberty blockers? Really think about that question for a moment.
Can a child, whose portion of their brain responsible for good judgement won’t be fully developed until their mid-twenties, actually be expected to anticipate the physical and psychological consequences associated with believing that something is inherently wrong with their body and appearance, requiring medical intervention?
Canada’s largest city saw what appeared to be its largest protest against municipal and provincial lockdown restrictions yet. On a day where temperatures were above the seasonal average, a crowd that seemed to be in the thousands gathered on the lawns of Ontario’s legislature, Queen’s Park, just as they had nearly a year earlier.
Protesters started to fill the area shortly before noon, with police taking a mostly hands-off approach to the crowd, unlike previous weeks.
Audrey Roy Cloutier, spokeswoman for the director of prosecutions, confirmed Monday that the court last week declared Adam Riga not criminally responsible after he underwent a psychiatric evaluation to determine if he was fit to be arraigned.
