Atwater Market

Okay.

I'd probably start at the Atwater Market.

I think that just, like, I really miss the markets in Europe.

In London, there's beautiful, beautiful markets.

Jean Toulon Market's fine, but it's just, like, too far for me.

Yeah.

I really like Atwater Market.

I know it's expensive and whatever, but it's a great spot to start the day.

This place was set up.

It's called Atwater Market in Montreal.

It's at Atwater and by the place where they have a nice Atwater Market.

I used to live in lower Westmounts, in Westmount, and it was a beautiful area.

They opened a safe injection site, and the area was always kind of a little dingy in any event, but it's turned into literal... hell on earth i walked across the street over the summer and literally saw a dime bag of god knows what and then people like viva you should have called the cops to come pick up that dime bag like a i'm not picking it up because i don't know what the f that is and b this is what the resources of the city need to be spent on now calling a cop to pick up a dime bag because it's on the street where there's literally a playground across not even across the street next door and an open market that's one of the best tourist sites in montreal across the street Well, they're decided to, you know, you can't deny the right to end your own life to the mentally ill and eventually the homeless and drug addicts in Montreal, in Canada, because that's where they want to go.

Yeah.

Went up to Atwater Market.

Yeah.

What a day.

And I don't think they're going to be doing it that much longer.

I don't know if it's the last week, but the food court up at the Atwater Market.

Yeah.

And it was around, I guess, about one o'clock yesterday.

But last night on the streets of St. Henry, we saw two groups of protesters think faced off against each other in the rain, shouting at each other, booing at each other with police between them.

What was the topic, right? Was it Israel-Palestine? Was it some other contentious issue? No, it was supervised drug consumption sites, okay? This was about the Benoit Lab facility, which is close to elementary school and the Atwater Market.

Now, people who support the illegal drug den argue the organization is being made a scapegoat for problems that extend well beyond the facility.

But many who live and work nearby the organization say the climate around that center has deteriorated.

So where exactly, uh, is this, Herman?

Okay, so to be very precise, it's exactly in front of the Atwater Market.

Okay.

So everybody knows the Atwater Market.

Sure.

So there's a, um, you know, it's, it's, there's a road leading to, uh, the highways, Highway 15, so there's high-speed traffic going, going on, but the main problem is that's at this ...

Yeah, that's like, that's what I'm, that's what I'm there for.

I will still, no, I'm still gonna go to Atwater Market and buy all of my...

I'm not buying fruits and vegetables from Costco.

They got good grapes.