We had riots over a police-shooting-youth incident this year too, but I guess Montrealers aren't as exciting as Athenians. (Or maybe it's just cause it wasn't Christmas yet.) A burning Christmas tree! I think I'll start amassing a Top 10 Nightmares Before Christmas list...
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Yeah, how the hell did I not know about this? So, "Montreal Nord"? I guess that whole thing about We Suck and all... Anyway, where is that neighborhood? The news reporting on it that I found is terrible, describing it as merely an "ethnic neighborhood," with no analysis of things like, y'know, racial profiling, police brutality, poverty... And assumptions that those "ethnic" folk are just "naturally" prone to rioting. Sheesh...
Well, cnews had better coverage, I just found... Anyway... I mean... One has an expectation that one will *hear* about these kinds of things living, you know, not very far to the South. Same as we heard about the Paris riots. I mean, seriously, this should have been, um, On the News.
The BBC report gives more details. That's why I likes them for intl news.
I should read them more regularly... I subscribe to the Guardian Weekly, but that's just a weekly and not very comprehensive thing... I'm one of those people who needs a paper copy of the newspaper in order to read it every day.
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