[NEWS] Some First Nations links: bigotries, Montréal plaques, High Arctic yarn, Abenaki

• The startling anti-native racism demonstrated in a series of tweets by retired Brock University professor Garth Stevenson may see him stripped of any continuing affiliation with that university. CBC reports.
• SBS notes how Canadians Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern, visiting Sydney, set to engaging in racist slander against Australian Aborigines.
• The Bank of Montreal has just replaced plaques, on its headquarters at the Place d’Armes, commemorating the death in battle there of an Iroquois chief. I actually saw these in place on my recent visit, just days before these went. CBC reports.
• New findings suggest that, if yarn technology did diffuse in the High Arctic in the Norse period, it came from the Inuit to the Norse and not the other way around. Global News has it.
• Ici Radio-Canada reports on a new dictionary of Abenaki that might yet help save that indigenous language.

[PHOTO] Bank of Montreal Head Office, night

The Bank of Montreal Head Office on the northern edge of Place d’Armes is lovely.

[PHOTO] Maisonneuve Monument, at night

The Maisonneuve Monument, erected in honour of Montréal’s founder Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, stands squarely at the heart of the Place d’Armes.

[PHOTO] Five photos of the Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal at night

The Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal is a huge edifice towering over its neighbourhood. I had seen it looming over Vieux-Montréal, but it was only when I tried to take a photo of the entire building that I realized its size. I had to back up to the far side of the Place d’Armes just for a single shot of the entire building in my viewfinder.