Funny enough, the national press is covering the other-side of this issue (in French). That is, the displacement of artists & creatives: https://ici.radio-cana

Funny enough, the national press is covering the other-side of this issue (in French). That is, the displacement of artists & creatives: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1130346/305-bellechasse-howard-shiff-marc-seguin-david-lafrance-ateliers-artistes https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1130346/305-bellechasse... What used to be the "creative bohemian area" of the city has been heavily invested in by Ubisoft (first), and then by a slew of other tech startups. The same thing happens in every city: the artists and the small community shops are being forced out to make space for poke bowl restaurants and tiki bars when the spaceship lands. As a result, the local framing has become "artists vs AI". Grassroot action will paint this influx as a bad thing. To be fair, this whole situation has been mismanaged for decades. By private stakeholders, by the borough's mayors. Montreal as a whole has been historically bad at using alternative scenes to rehabilitate part of itself, then undercutting support to these alternatives scenes & smaller communities... See Griffintown, St-Laurent/Mile-End, St-Henri