08873131-e1442514007940Hey guys, I’m coming off like a 10 hour work day or something so this is going to be a total shitpost.

However, it’s going to be a shitpost about Montreal. So there’s that going for it.

So, a couple of weeks ago I was sitting with Sophie and her mom and a man from France. This is a thing, it happened.

The topic of the Montreal Police (STM) came up and why exactly they went around in red baseball caps and (usually) camo pants. I explained, in short, that it was due to the government slashing into their pensions.

Now, it doesn’t really matter whether you’re pro or anti this pension based politicking. At the end of the day, the reality that we have lived with for the past year and a half is that our cops don’t really look like any other cops on the planet. The pension plan bill was passed December 4, 2014 and shortly after we started to see red hats and stickers all over our police force. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…