Montreal shopping mall playing Baby Shark song to prevent unhoused from loitering

A shopping mall and office complex in downtown Montreal is being criticized for using the popular children’s song Baby Shark to discourage unhoused people from loitering in its emergency exit stairwells.At the mall Thursday morning, the catchy children’s song – versions of which have been viewed and streamed hundreds of millions of times online – was being broadcast from speakers in at least one of the mall’s stairwells, on loop and at various speeds.