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L’hiver montréalais gagne en cachet cette année avec l’arrivée d’une toute nouvelle expérience éphémère : le Chalet des Fêtes à la Terrasse Belvu. Perchée au sommet du Marriott Château Champlain, la terrasse à ciel ouvert se transformera en refuge lumineux et festif, parfait pour célébrer la saison sous les étoiles… et les flocons.
Un endroit festif et chaleureux
Le Chalet des Fêtes invite les visiteurs à profiter d’un moment de détente hors du temps ainsi qu’à trinquer aux Fêtes dans un décor digne d’une carte postale hivernale – guirlandes scintillantes, sapins enneigés, et ambiance chaleureuse.
Que ce soit entre amis, en couple ou avec des collègues, on y vient pour vivre la magie des Fêtes dans une ambiance chalet qui réchauffe même les journées les plus froides, mais avec le panorama unique d’un rooftop montréalais. Le Chalet sera ouvert dès le 21 novembre, tous les jeudis et vendredis de 16 h à 20 h, et les samedis de 14 h à 18 h, en plus de soirées thématiques et d’événements spéciaux.
Un après-ski gourmand
Côté menu, Belvu reçoit tout aussi chaleureusement en revisitant les classiques après-ski avec une touche raffinée. Les grilled cheese gourmets volent la vedette : du Forestier au beurre truffé jusqu’au Bleu à l’effiloché de canard et poires confites. Les douceurs hivernales font aussi partie du menu avec un riz au lait vanillé au caramel et un biscuit chocolat-guimauve grillée qui goûte les s’mores d’hiver.
La carte de boissons joue aussi la carte du réconfort : Hot Toddy revisité, vin chaud épicé, boissons chaudes réinventées et cocktails signature maison vous accompagneront dans cette ambiance chalet!
In remarks about the death of Jamal Khashoggi and the suspicions that the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had ordered his assassination, made while the Crown Prince was seated next to him at the White House, Trump said that «things happen» to the «extremely controversial» journalist, downplaying the CIA’s findings.
«You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial».
Inside the building
Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist who was critical of the Saudi leadership, was killed in 2018 after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to get documents for his upcoming marriage.
According to Turkish and Saudi prosecutors, he was quickly overpowered and killed inside the building, then his body was dismembered and removed by a 15-man team that had flown in on Saudi government aircraft. His remains have never been found.
«You don’t have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that.»
Embarrassing his guest
As Trump responded to a question about why the United States continues to support the Saudi Crown Prince despite the CIA’s conclusion that he likely ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Crown Prince was seated beside him at the White House.
Trump dismissed the assassination and immediately attacked the reporter for raising the issue, accusing him of embarrassing his guest:
«You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial.»
He then doubled down, saying:
«Whether you like him or don’t like him, things happen. But [Prince Mohammed] knew nothing about it. And we can leave it at that. You don’t have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that.»
While Trump brushed off the killing with his «things happen» comment and by calling Khashoggi «extremely controversial», the CIA had already concluded with «high confidence» that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the operation to capture or kill Khashoggi, directly linking the Saudi leadership to the premeditated murder.
As the Trump administration comes under scrutiny over questionable targets in its so-called ‘drug cartel’ campaign, Trump is refusing to rule out U.S. military action in Venezuela, while the American military presence intensifies in the Caribbean with a major deployment of resources and personnel for large-scale exercises over the next few weeks.
Rising tensions in the region
Tensions in the region around Venezuela are running high, as neighbouring countries anxiously await the United States’ next move, with the U.S. military presence in the area at its highest level in nearly two decades and amounting to a near blockade of Venezuela.
During a round of questions from journalists inside the Oval Office, Trump was asked whether he would rule out sending U.S. troops to Venezuela and replied:
«No, I don’t rule out that. I don’t rule out anything.»
Trump then framed possible military action as part of Washington’s wider duty in the region, adding:
«We just have to take care of Venezuela.»
Aboard Air Force One a few days earlier, when asked whether he had decided on military action in Venezuela, Trump replied: «I can’t tell you what it would be, but I sort of have made up my mind.»
The latest military operation
American forces pressed ahead with their campaign against what Washington describes as drug-smuggling boats, carrying out another strike over the weekend. According to regional reports, the latest operation, conducted late Saturday off Venezuela’s northern coast, destroyed several small vessels suspected of carrying narcotics.
With this new attack, at least 22 boats have now been hit and 83 people killed since the campaign began in September, a mounting toll that is deepening international unease over the true nature of the targets.
An appeal for peace
At a rally in Caracas on Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro tried to dial down tensions with the United States by turning part of his speech into a peace appeal.
In front of hundreds of supporters, he accused Washington of seeking to «bombard and invade» Venezuela, then urged his audience to «do everything for peace, as John Lennon said» before briefly singing the refrain of «Imagine» on stage.
Donald Trump’s exchange with reporters aboard Air Force One over the weekend took a shocking turn when he tried to dodge a question about the Epstein Files from a Bloomberg journalist, responding with a degrading insult that quickly went viral on social media.
As Trump and his administration face growing controversy over his stance on the Epstein Files, refusing to release them, claiming the whole affair is «a Democrat hoax», and even disavowing one of his most loyal allies, Marjorie Taylor Greene, after she insisted he should release all the files, the pressure around the issue has intensified in Washington.
«Quiet. Quiet, piggy!».
-Donald Trump
A tense week
During a tense week, after a wave of renewed questions following the release of thousands of Jeffrey Epstein’s private emails and documents — many of which referenced Trump among others — and as the Epstein dossier refused to fade from the headlines, the president cut off a journalist in a way many have described as disgusting.
The moment, captured on video aboard Air Force One, shows Trump seemingly trying to dodge a question about the Epstein Files, turning to a female reporter, later identified as a Bloomberg journalist.
«Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years.»
In the video, the Bloomberg reporter is heard pressing him on why, if there is nothing incriminating in the files, he is acting as if there is, while Trump tries to quickly move on to another journalist to escape the question before turning back and insulting her:
«Quiet. Quiet, piggy!»
Even though the public has grown used to Trump’s frequent skirmishes with the press, he has recently leaned more on explicitly silencing language, and in recent weeks Trump has repeatedly used «Be quiet» to shut down journalists, barking «Be quiet!» at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins when she pressed him on his latest Epstein claim and telling NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor «Be quiet, listen!» when she questioned him about his Chicago rhetoric.
The exchange in detail
Jennifer Jacobs, a CBS News reporter who was also aboard Air Force One as Trump traveled to his Florida home on Friday night, recounted the exchange in detail on X. She explained that the gaggle grew tense as Trump was pressed on the newly released Epstein emails. When asked what Epstein meant when he said Trump «knew about the girls», the president responded:
«I know nothing about that.»
He then added: «Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years.»
But the moment that drew the most attention came when a Bloomberg journalist pushed him on why, if there is nothing incriminating in the files, he is acting as if there is. According to Jacobs, Trump abruptly turned to the reporter and said:
«Quiet, quiet, piggy!» a remark that was captured on video and quickly went viral because of its degrading tone.
Trump wants the focus on «How well we’ve done»
The gaggle continued with a rapid series of questions. Asked whether he had ruled out pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate and a convicted sex offender, Trump replied:
«I haven’t even thought about it,» and then: «I don’t rule it in or out. I don’t even think about it.»
On Marjorie Taylor Greene’s call to release all the files, he said:
«They can have whatever they want,» before insisting:
«I was never on his island. Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times.»
Trump then argued that if anything damaging existed, «they would’ve used it before the election.»
When Jacobs asked why, then, his own team had encouraged Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert not to pursue the matter, he answered that «it’s bad to talk about it» when Republicans should be focusing on «how well we’ve done.»
He also said he had heard that Pam Bondi had tapped U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, described by Trump as «a real legal talent», to look into Epstein’s ties to prominent Democrats.
