The fact that Plante can't even describe a leftist agenda after stepping down explains a lot about the last eight years.

In the upside-down world of policing, punishment is reward and reward is punishment. Kill someone on the job? You risk being "suspended with pay" - which, in the normal word, is called paid vacation.

What does this mean? Not much, in the long term. We're in for the struggle of our lives in the coming years, and that would be the case regardless of the outcome of this election. We need everyone in this fight, and we need to understand that liberalism won't save us.

Public safety for whom? An analysis of public safety, policing, and the current Montreal election - on my substack.
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This report, released today (?), has a lot of food for thought about the undiscussed consequences of Projet's time in power.
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Projet Montréal has spent more time complaining about a Transition candidate's social media post, which joked that we should be allowed to kill anyone who uses the word "woke" in their platform, than the actual violence committed by the SPVM on its watch. J'ai mal à mon Montréal.

I would have expected Transition's platform to spark a debate, but I haven't seen it. Both Projet and Ensemble are promising to reduce racial profiling by introducing body cams (which don't reduce profiling) and expanding "mixed squads" (which don't do anything useful).

The exception is Transition Montréal, which has a smart plan to improve public safety for everyone by removing the police from situations it was never meant to address (non-criminal 911 calls) and banning practices that harm people without contributing to safety (street checks).

Journalists and communicators can shift coverage and provide context to help counter copaganda.

Our latest online resource⬆️ is a guide for how journalists/communicators can deal with law enforcement disinformation. It expands on our “Don’t Be A Copagandist” guide series, which you can find here:

If the decline in housing starts from 2021 to 2024 was caused by regulations and fees, what caused the increase in Montreal in 2025 - the highest increase of any large Canadian city?

Is it possible the housing market is more complicated than the developers' lobby purports?

Not surprisingly, Ensemble's claim is lifted directly from the March 2024 report of the developers' lobby group, l'Institut de développement urbain. So, too, is their claim that the decline is caused by regulations and development fees.

One last point. The reason the 20-20-20 policy hasn't operated as intended is that the CAQ eliminated the social housing program, AccèsLogis. Developers were never expected to PAY for social housing; they were expected to BUILD it with gov't funding. That's the CAQ's fault. 7/7

... and will create a city-owned enterprise to build social housing, Batir Montreal. None of this is radical or unprecedented. It reflects the longstanding and once-mainstream view that there are sectors of the economy that are especially dysfunctional (housing). 6/7

The best option in the election is neither Projet nor Ensemble, but Transition Montreal. TM promises to extend the principle of wealth distribution by raising taxes on the property of the richest Montrealers and using the money to end homelessness ... 5/7

While the 20-20-20 policy redistributes wealth from the top down, Ensemble Montreal wants to do the reverse. Developers will no longer be required to pay into a social housing fund. Instead, all of *us* will pay developers. The developers lobby is happy. 4/6

Projet Montréal deserves criticism for failing to stop egregious rent inflation in private housing, renovictions, and the conversion of rental units into condos. It's the party's policy on private market housing, not the 20-20-20 social housing policy, that merits criticism. 3/6

The 20-20-20 policy doesn't operate as people hoped, for reasons I explain below, but it does something essential. It redistributes wealth within the most out-of-control and life-destroying part of the economy - the housing market. 2/6

"Body cams are not a solution" | The history of police body cameras tells a different story than the marketing campaign.
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