The government is going to compensate taxi drivers and permit owners for permitting Uber. Owners of Uber must be laughing at getting public money to subsidize their predatory business model.
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Kate
Public consultations on systemic racism will be held in town after a petition containing 20,000 names was presented at city hall. Dates are not yet set.
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Kate
Sir John A. has been vandalized once again in Place du Canada.
Update: City hall says the statue stays.
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Kate
CTV’s got a preview of what the official cannabis stores will be like – simple, clinical, the exact opposite of the head shop as we’ve known it.
At the risk of revealing my age: I can just remember when the SAQ was like this. You went into a store that had nothing but a counter and a binder listing the products. The consumer was protected from the blandishments of pretty labels or other marketing strategies. There was no browsing – you asked for what you wanted and a bored SAQ worker would fetch it from the back shelves, out of sight of the customer. (I think I recall this from going with my dad for the one celebratory bottle of whisky he’d get at Christmastime.)
This wasn’t a small-town SAQ, this was how it was everywhere, until Quebec realized booze didn’t have to be doled out like prescription drugs. I imagine cannabis will come to this as well.
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Kate
Aaaand – the weekend driving notes. Also from Radio-Canada and from CTV.
CTV says Quebec is throwing $46 million at helping traffic not get worse. Reliable prediction: traffic will get worse.
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Kate
STM maintenance workers are planning a new work slowdown, refusing overtime as of Saturday.
Update: The start of the work slowdown may be delayed: workers are under pressure from Essential Services – although how even Essential Services can demand overtime I do not know. Any organization that runs on chronic overtime is not planning well.
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