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LOCAL

The city of Montreal announced that the borough of Rosemont-La Petite Patrie will get $6.5 million in government subsidies for two housing projects. 

The projects will create 150 affordable units. Twenty per cent of them will be three-bedroom apartments suitable for families. 

The cooperative La Joie de Rosemont plans to transform and expand a former medical clinic to create 55 apartments by October. 

These subsidies are part of Mayor Valérie Plante’s election promise to develop 12,000 social affordable and family housing units by 2021. 

On Saturday, July 27th hillarious comedians Adam Conover and Ron Funches interviewed Ubisoft’s creative director Jean Guesdon about his work on the Assassin’s Creed franchise as part of Conover’s Humans Who Makes Games podcast. This hour of video game comedy was an absolutely informative delight!

Second City Toronto’s She The People is an outstanding, intersectionally feminist sketch comedy show you absolutely need to see! She The People ran until July 27th at the Centaur Theatre, featuring powerful performances from award winning, multi-talented artists Ann Pornel, Ashley Comeau, Kirsten Ramussen, Paloma Nuñez, Tricia Black and Karen Parker. She The People will make you laugh, cry and reflect on the challenges women and gender non-conforming individuals are still facing in 2019.

Full Of Hell’s highly-anticipated fourth full-length Weeping Choir launched back in May to critical success. Just between me and you, we’re well aware how tardy this review is being published. Now I, illuminated by my unnecessarily bright laptop screen in an otherwise deprived-of-light basement at two o’clock in the morning, could sit here and reason with you as to why such a big release wasn’t covered back on May 17th when it originally debuted. Perhaps the complexity and pummeling nature of Full Of Hell’s music needed a whole month and a half to properly decipher, or maybe one can find meaning in the inverse relationship between this album’s full-throttle attitude and my lazy summer work ethic.

LOCAL

Kanasatake grand chief Serge Simon is in a meeting with federal and provincial officials this morning to discuss the recent dispute over a land transfer in the municipality of Oka. 

Last week, Oka Mayor Pascal Quevillion voiced his concern that property values in his town would drop if a local developer transfers 60 hectares of land to the people of Kanesatake.