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Cision Canada
16 hours ago
- Business
- Cision Canada
BIXI is now available in all 19 boroughs of the city of Montreal Français
"The expansion of BIXI to all boroughs of the City of Montreal marks a major step forward for territorial equity in mobility. Our administration is proud to have made this citywide rollout possible. We firmly believe that every Montrealer, regardless of their neighborhood, should have access to sustainable transportation options. By expanding access to bike sharing, we are reinforcing our commitment to active, inclusive, and accessible mobility for all," said Sophie Mauzerolle, responsible for transportation and mobility on the City of Montreal's executive committee. ''BIXI is proudly Montrealer and, over the years, the city has become a leader in sustainable mobility in North America for its implementation of bike sharing. It was only natural that even more Montrealers should be able to benefit from this service, which has proven its necessity and impact on the daily lives of the city's population.'', mentions Christian Vermette, General Manager of BIXI Montréal. A thriving network for mobility that is uniquely Montreal This new phase reflects BIXI's commitment to offering a bike-sharing service as a sustainable and active public transportation option. These new stations, strategically located near attractions and transportation hubs, will make it easier for residents to get around on a daily basis, while allowing them to enjoy the iconic landscapes of the western part of the island, such as Cap-Saint-Jacques Nature Park. In addition to this expansion in the west, BIXI continues to strengthen the core of its network. Among the new stations installed: Plage du parc-nature du Cap-Saint-Jacques (De la Plage / Service) Parc du Château de Pierrefonds (De Pierrefonds / Château-Pierrefonds) Mairie d'arrondissement de Pierrefonds-Roxboro (De Pierrefonds / Saint-Léon) Cégep Gérald-Godin (Gouin / Parc-Royal) Visit the BIXI app to discover all the locations and plan your trips. A success that extends beyond Montreal Driven by its desire to be present across Quebec, BIXI's success now extends beyond the city limits of Montreal. This year, the network will be available in 13 cities, with a fleet of 12,600 bikes distributed across more than 1,000 stations. Over the coming months, BIXI will launch its services in Sherbrooke, Saint-Eustache, Deux-Montagnes, and Saint-Lambert, confirming enthusiasm for bike sharing as a means of transportation. About BIXI BIXI Montréal is a non-profit organization responsible for managing bike-sharing services in Montréal, Westmount, Mount-Royal, Montréal-Est, Longueuil, Laval, Boucherville, Terrebonne, Sainte-Julie and, soon, Sherbrooke, Saint-Eustache, Deux-Montagnes and Saint-Lambert. By 2025, the BIXI network will include 12,600 bicycles, including 3,200 electric bikes, at 1,080 stations in 13 cities. Montreal has the largest fleet of electric bikes in Canada, and one of the largest in North America.
Montreal Gazette
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Montreal Gazette
Dunlevy: Montreal documentary hunts for stolen indigenous masks that inspired surrealists
The repatriation and restitution of art and cultural materials is a hot topic these days. A prime example is estates trying to reclaim objects taken by the Nazis or sold by Jews under duress as they fled Germany. But there's another example closer to home. Montrealer Joanna Robertson and Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond's absorbing new documentary So Surreal: Behind the Masks explores what happened to Yup'ik and Kwakwaka'wakw ceremonial masks taken from these indigenous tribes in Alaska and British Columbia's northwest coast more than a century ago by traders, government officials and collectors. The masks were brought as far as New York, where they inspired some of the great European surrealist artists, who were living in exile mid-century, and eventually made their way to auction houses, world-famous museums and private collections. Leading us on an investigative journey to learn the significance of these masks, the circumstances of their removal and where they ended up is Diamond. He appears on camera throughout the film as an unassuming, intrepid protagonist, pushing the narrative forward with playful determination. He has done the same in his other films, including 2009's Reel Injun, which examined the problematic portrayals of Native Americans in Hollywood westerns, earning him and co-directors Catherine Bainbridge and Jeremiah Hayes three Gemini Awards and a Peabody Award. 'I've gotten quite comfortable (on screen),' Diamond said recently, over coffee with Robertson at Outremont's Croissanterie Le Figaro. 'Sometimes I forget the camera's rolling and I just act real goofy.' 'I think people appreciate it,' Robertson said. 'You bring a lot of humour to these (potentially) doom and gloom situations.' One amazing shot in the documentary shows Diamond puffing on a cigarette as he rides a bicycle down the middle of the road in the bustling Champs Élysées, with the Eiffel Tower behind him, and ponders his next move. Inspired by their subjects, the filmmakers take a surrealist approach to the storytelling as they weave together disparate clues and different ways of seeing the situation. On the one hand are Yup'ik tribe members who are happy to see their masks being preserved and showcased under the same roof as the Mona Lisa: One magical moment finds Yup'ik artist and storyteller Chuna McIntyre singing and dancing joyously as he approaches one of his tribe's masks on display at the Louvre, during an after-hours visit. On the other are members the Kwakwaka'wakw and their allies, who are in a continuing fight to see their masks — including many stolen during Canada's Potlach ban in 1921 — come home. At the heart of the intrigue is a quest to locate a mystical Raven Transformation Mask and possibly converse with its current owner about its eventual return. Somewhere in the middle are the wild surrealists — Max Ernst, André Breton, Roberto Matta, Enrico Donati and Joan Miró — and their friends, including famed French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, who were endlessly stimulated by the otherworldly dreamscapes evoked by these masks. The extent to which they were aware of how these artifacts were obtained is unclear. 'I'm grateful we're able to shine a light on these stories, which are so fundamental to our understanding of who we are — of colonization and also the importance of Indigenous storytelling and culture,' Robertson said. 'The surrealists saw something — they lived through war after war after war — and they saw something in these masks, however problematic, as a reminder there's another way of being, and of seeing the world.' She expressed hope their film can foster empathy toward indigenous communities and all that they have lost. 'Yeah,' Diamond agreed, 'because if you lose your culture, you have nothing else.'
Business Upturn
27-05-2025
- Business
- Business Upturn
Moisson Montréal Rolls Out the Red Carpet and Awards $2 Million in Grants to 69 Heroes of Food Assistance
MONTREAL, May 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — This morning at the Jean-Talon Market, where it all began 40 years ago, Moisson Montréal concluded its 40th anniversary celebrations by awarding $2,048,311 in grants to 69 community agencies. These grants will fund the purchase of basic equipment like refrigerators, cold storage units, vehicles, crates, and tables, essential and concrete tools to better nourish Montrealer's living in precarious situations. To mark this important gesture, Moisson Montréal symbolically rolled out a red carpet. Not to celebrate prestige, but to honor those who, far from the spotlight yet at the heart of the action, work every day to support the most vulnerable. 'This isn't a glamorous event. What we are awarding today are fridges, stoves, and trucks. But behind each of these pieces of equipment lies an essential gesture toward food dignity. Today, we are celebrating the real heroes working in the frontline,' said Chantal Vézina, Executive Director of Moisson Montréal. A Powerful Response to Pressing Needs A total of 162 project proposals were received, reflecting a community sector under strain — rich in ideas but limited by resources. The high quality of submissions highlighted the scale of needs: outdated or missing basic equipment, spaces needing renovation, and delivery capacity to be strengthened. More than $5 million would have been needed to fund all submissions. The selection was carried out by an independent committee composed of individuals from diverse backgrounds in food security, applying rigorous criteria to prioritize project diversity, tangible impact, and territorial equity. 'We received solid, meaningful, human proposals. The selection process was heart-wrenching. Most of the projects deserved funding. That's why our Board of Directors decided to extend funding beyond the initial plan,' added Ms. Vézina. A Gesture Made Possible Thanks to The Rossy Foundation The grants were made possible through a major philanthropic donation from The Rossy Foundation, bolstered by a vote from Dollarama employees who helped direct The Rossy Foundation's funding to Moisson Montréal. This collective gesture raised $1.3 million, which was supplemented by Moisson Montréal's own funds. A Map Showcasing Impact Across All Boroughs A geographic map installed onsite allows visitors to visualize the projects supported throughout Montreal's boroughs. Each point represents a concrete solution driven by a community-based organization. This morning, 69 faces of resilience walked the red carpet. No trophies. Just everyday heroes feeding the vulnerable. For more information, please contact: Éliane LaroucheSenior Advisor, Communications and Public AffairsMoisson Montréal514 701-4206 [email protected]
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Moisson Montréal Rolls Out the Red Carpet and Awards $2 Million in Grants to 69 Heroes of Food Assistance
MONTREAL, May 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This morning at the Jean-Talon Market, where it all began 40 years ago, Moisson Montréal concluded its 40th anniversary celebrations by awarding $2,048,311 in grants to 69 community agencies. These grants will fund the purchase of basic equipment like refrigerators, cold storage units, vehicles, crates, and tables, essential and concrete tools to better nourish Montrealer's living in precarious situations. To mark this important gesture, Moisson Montréal symbolically rolled out a red carpet. Not to celebrate prestige, but to honor those who, far from the spotlight yet at the heart of the action, work every day to support the most vulnerable. "This isn't a glamorous event. What we are awarding today are fridges, stoves, and trucks. But behind each of these pieces of equipment lies an essential gesture toward food dignity. Today, we are celebrating the real heroes working in the frontline," said Chantal Vézina, Executive Director of Moisson Montréal. A Powerful Response to Pressing Needs A total of 162 project proposals were received, reflecting a community sector under strain — rich in ideas but limited by resources. The high quality of submissions highlighted the scale of needs: outdated or missing basic equipment, spaces needing renovation, and delivery capacity to be strengthened. More than $5 million would have been needed to fund all submissions. The selection was carried out by an independent committee composed of individuals from diverse backgrounds in food security, applying rigorous criteria to prioritize project diversity, tangible impact, and territorial equity. "We received solid, meaningful, human proposals. The selection process was heart-wrenching. Most of the projects deserved funding. That's why our Board of Directors decided to extend funding beyond the initial plan," added Ms. Vézina. A Gesture Made Possible Thanks to The Rossy Foundation The grants were made possible through a major philanthropic donation from The Rossy Foundation, bolstered by a vote from Dollarama employees who helped direct The Rossy Foundation's funding to Moisson Montréal. This collective gesture raised $1.3 million, which was supplemented by Moisson Montréal's own funds. A Map Showcasing Impact Across All Boroughs A geographic map installed onsite allows visitors to visualize the projects supported throughout Montreal's boroughs. Each point represents a concrete solution driven by a community-based organization. This morning, 69 faces of resilience walked the red carpet. No trophies. Just everyday heroes feeding the vulnerable. For more information, please contact: Éliane LaroucheSenior Advisor, Communications and Public AffairsMoisson Montréal514 701-4206elarouche@ in to access your portfolio
Montreal Gazette
26-05-2025
- General
- Montreal Gazette
‘Our voices will not be silenced': Montreal Irish community remembers 6,000 who died in 1847
By Dozens of members of the Irish community and community leaders walked 2.1 kilometres on Sunday to remember and honour the 6,000 Irish immigrants who died of typhus during the summer of 1847 and are buried in a mass grave in an industrial area on Bridge St., southeast of Montreal's downtown core. The location of the largest mass grave in Canada is marked by a 30-tonne, three-metre-high boulder known officially as the Irish Commemorative Stone but more commonly known as the Black Rock. It was placed there in 1859 by labourers building the Victoria Bridge who uncovered bones of those who had perished of typhus. The workers, many of them Irish, planted a boulder dredged from the St. Lawrence River over the burial site. They inscribed it in part: 'To preserve from desecration the remains of 6,000 immigrants who died of ship fever.' (Typhus was known then as ship fever.) Pollution from the nearby railroad and vehicle traffic has coloured the monument black. The 157th edition of the Annual Walk to the Stone, as Sunday's event is known, was organized by the Ancient Order of Hibernians to honour the dead, those who tried to save them and their descendants. Some participants were regulars: Eighty-three-year-old Montrealer Brian McBrien, for instance, said he did the walk for the first time at the age of three. The Ancient Order of Hibernians is an Irish Catholic fraternal organization with roots in Ireland and a significant presence in the Canada and the United States. Sunday's walk, which began following a memorial mass Sunday morning at St. Charles Catholic Church, featured a Montreal police escort and, at the front of the line of walkers, piper Alan Jones. The 75 or so participants, a number wearing green, included Canadian and American representatives of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, representatives of the St. Gabriel's Elementary School community and MNA Guillaume Cliche-Rivard, whose riding includes the monument. Victor Boyle, national president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians Canada, presided over brief presentations at the Black Rock. Among those who placed wreaths at the rock were Lori Morrison, president of the United Irish Societies; Danny Doyle, president of the Erin Sports Association; Carol Clifton, a longtime educator and lunch monitor at St. Gabriel Elementary School in Pointe-St-Charles; Kevin Callahan of the Friends of Sinn Féin Canada and Bryan Essiambré, representing the Little Angels charity. 'It is so important that we are here to honour our ancestors,' said Morrison. 'It is a testament to our resilience as a people — and our voices will not be silenced.' A fungal infection in Ireland in 1845 caused half the potato crop to rot in the earth; in 1846 it wiped out almost the entire crop. Potatoes were the main source of sustenance for much of the population and estimates place the death toll in Ireland of the Great Hunger or the Great Famine, as it was also known, at about one million. A million or more chose emigration and about 100,000 headed for Canada, then a colony of British North America. British traders shipping lumber from Quebec City and St. John's were happy to have impoverished emigrants to pay low fares and serve as ballast on the return trip to Canada. Typhus, meanwhile, was raging though Ireland. The disease, which causes severe headaches, high fever, rashes, delirium and death, is passed to humans through lice. It was rampant also on the ships that carried the emigrants, crammed in the holds below deck. Some of those who died en route are buried around St. Andrews, N.B. Overwhelmed Canadian officials intercepted thousands of ill travellers at Quebec's Grosse-Île, known then as Quarantine Island and now a national historic site with more than 5,000 graves. Men, women and children 'deemed in good health' were allowed to continue their journey to Montreal — and many brought typhus with them. The local population showed great compassion. John Mills, Montreal's mayor at the time, commissioned the construction of more than 20 large 'fever sheds' for ill newcomers in the neighbourhood that is today Pointe-St-Charles and, with the Grey Nuns, led efforts to care for them. Many, including Mills, lost their lives to typhus. The Mohawk community also came to the assistance of the sick. Many priests fell ill after leaning in to hear the last confessions of the dying. More than 1,000 orphans were adopted by Quebecers. In 2023 the Black Rock Montreal Irish Monument Park Foundation became the new owner of the Black Rock. The site, which had previously been the property of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal, is a small patch of greenery in the median of a heavily travelled street near the base of the Victoria Bridge linking Montreal and the South Shore, not far from the Bridge St. Costco. With support from the City of Montreal, the space is to be transformed into a park.
