Wow, welcome back Terry D... that was quite a climb on the Stairway to Heaven, thank god it's not your time yet! Enjoy the life as it comes to you... Been a fan since the early CHOM-FM days... nice to hear a familiar voice again!! Ironically, my position was "abolished" during covid, after 18 years of service with the company... forced "semi-retired" status... push out the old mentality! There's a bitter sweet aftertaste leftover... Life goes on!
I don't know whey anglophones think we HATE them, or Journal de Montréal wants to "kill them", it's idiotic. I'll fully admit I don't know who to settle the language thing as it should be easy to understand that we, francophones, are a tiny minority in North America and want to protect our language at all cost (I don't think it should be done by law to be clear), while Anglophones are minority in Quebec only. In, fact, we should understand each other better than anyone else as we're both minorities in our own right and this co-existence of two distinct cultures in Montreal is what makes it so "electric" and interesting.
Terry is absolutely correct about his observations of Vancouver, I moved from Montreal in 1981. Been here 42 years. !!! Terry there is a couple of very decent smoke meat places here and one in Langley in fact.
at 5:48, Dimonte was going to elaborate on the St-Denis Street REV and low and behold, Lesley Chesterman interrupted him yet again. Now I guess we’ll never know……
I can totally relate to what Terry was talking about at 20:00. Same thing at Cirque…. They totally disregarded anything we did in the early years. In their eye, there was no value in it. They were all gonna tell us how to do things, and yet, look at’em now, just a bunch of wannabe’s.
We love you Terry DiMonte, so good to see you. I listened to you back in 1984, learned to speak English, with you guys on CHOM. Thank you for all the years of great radio. " Video killed the Radio Star". In our Montreal heart you remain forever.
Terry DiMonte is not the only veteran broadcaster to be cashiered in Canada. I don't think the people that run radio and TV in the Great White North understand that we, their audience,, like talent that is talented Surely CHOM was making more money off of Mr. DiMonte than they were paying him. The same non sane bullsh*t is happening from sea to shining sea. In the States, although not nirvanic, the broadcast industry seems to grasp that quality attracts listeners and viewers. Not so much here.
Moved to Montreal after thirty years of living in Vancouver and would love to see it transform into Copenhagen, Amsterdam or parts of Paris. Construction doesn’t bother me much because I walk or take public transit (the metro is not dangerous) just as I did in Vancouver. I’ve driven in both cities and will take Montreal drivers anytime before the aggressive ones in Vancouver. What really bugs me are complaints from drivers in the suburbs that don’t live here. Park your car and take the metro. Stop ruining it for those who live here. To those in the demerged areas, stop complaining about a mayor and council you didn’t vote for. As for the comments on the Vancouver area, they don’t have potholes because of the climate. All that rain also keeps the streets cleaner. It’s something I noticed whenever my plane landed no matter where I was coming from.
Vancouver Drivers are absolutely brutal, been hit 8 times and still paying the price for extremely incompetent drivers here. I will return the Montreal to live again. !!!! Its my home, always was and will be again.
Montreal will become the Bike Capital of the world passing Beijing China where people barely have cars. I feel bad for Montrealers, not to say that Montreal is already the orange cone Capital of the world 😞 And God bless Terry who survived that scare and seems in good shape! 🙏
I live on st denis and the rev is great , there is always cyclists , all ages , all shapes. its safe and its the futur. you complaint so much. also SUVs everywhete isnt the way to go and its obvious.
@@trevorchabot864 When we had a bad winter for us (-4) a few years back the roads really got a lot of potholes in surrey and vancouver. Made me realize how bad it would get in other parts of canada.
This was a really interesting conversation, and I got a lot out of it, but saying biking is too dangerous gets on my last nerve, especially when talking about bike lanes. I'm not saying biking is amazing and no one should have cars - I have a car, but I also have a bike. My point is I'm tired of people acting like biking is some dangerous activity that will kill you. It's not!!!! I bike 6 hours per week weather permitting and have done for my entire life, and I've never even fallen off my bike let alone get hit, and get this - I never will. I can say that with absolute and utter certainty, just as if I was speaking about walking. Why? Because I don't bike fast and I pay attention to the road. It's that simple. If you get injured biking on Saint-Denis, I have no sympathy for you. You're an idiot and you deserved it. Point blank period. Sure, biking down Sherbrooke is more perilous, but if you're in a bike lane, you're an idiot if you get injured.
