Students have again blown off classes to hold a climate demonstration Friday afternoon in tandem with young people in other cities.
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Kate
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Kate
It’s not really news to most of us, but it’s always better if an impression is backed up by facts: 911 has received more calls for falls on ice than in other recent winters.
Veronik
It really doesn’t mean anything. From the article: “Il est important de rappeler que l’ambulance ou le 9-1-1 n’est pas toujours le moyen approprié à la situation.”
Kate
The article isn’t saying calling 911 is always the right thing to do. It’s simply using the number of calls as a way to estimate the degree of ice hazard this winter.
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Kate
The city is paying out big bucks for lawyering over the Formula E cancellation, although note the tone in the lede: “après l’annulation de la course par la mairesse Valérie Plante.” Cancelling that deal was the only thing to do. We couldn’t’ve staged this lame event year after year to stave off a court case.
david100
I completely agree that there’s it should have been canceled, that short article points to exactly how nuts this idea was. Néanmoins, on se pose la question : six hundred thousand bucks (so far) spent on outside counsel, and Blake Cassels no less? Not great. Do we no longer have city employed attorneys for this sort of mess? Coderre’s long arm of stupidity and waste, yeah (guy should be in prison), but PM needs to make more significant changes to how business is done.
Kate
We don’t have nearly enough expertise at city hall any more, david100. Neoliberal views over the last couple of decades meant the city contracted out, and even though the speciousness of those views (especially as applied to public works) have been repeatedly demonstrated, city hall was hollowed out by them and is still not as strong as it should be.
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Kate
There’s a special weather statement about freezing rain coming for Sunday. As of now, though, Saturday ought to be quite mild-mannered.
Kevin
I thought it was a glorious day for spring skiing
Kevin
And sunday morning is here and it is terrible. Don’t go outside without your spiked boots
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Kate
Like a bad relative who borrows money, Hydro-Quebec has been collecting too much for years and is having a really hard time giving any back. According to this story, even if the utility obeys orders and gives out rebates for awhile, half the money still stays in government coffers.
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Kate
The mad baseball folks are now suggesting Montreal could share a baseball team with Tampa Bay. I don’t see how even Stephen Bronfman could sell this as a premise for building an entirely new stadium on public land.
qatzelok
By emphasizing the perils of ownership, the article suggests that professional sports are all about owning people.
Ephraim
Really? Name some business where employees aren’t essentially prostituting themselves for money? We all do it. Now, can we have some real insight? Like the fact that these teams aren’t really local anyway. If we put a rule that stated that you could only use locals… then maybe. But we don’t. This is nothing about local… it’s all about the money. But so is most of life.
walkerp
Let’s get a friggin’ NBA team here!
Bill Binns
@Ephraim – It was exactly that realization (that all the guys on the Red Sox did not grow up around Boston or at least New England) that killed forever any spark of interest in sports I may have had as a kid.
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Kate
I always raise a faint eyebrow at headlines like Canada’s oldest man dies at 110 because once that person on the leading edge dies, there’s another oldest man waiting to take his place, therefore the oldest man can never die. Yeah, don’t invite me to your dinner party.
Anyway, this oldest man was 110 and a doctor, and was born and died in Montreal. Item says his brother made it to 109, so they’re being studied.
Tim F
Are you kidding? You’re welcome over any time
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Kate
The head of security at the Montreal General has been fired after workers signed a petition for more and better security in the downtown complex. This isn’t the first time that safety for this hospital’s workers has been in the news: a nurse was attacked and promises were made about security cameras a year ago, and the Gazette reported last month on incidents and lapses in security there.
Hamza
This is a travesty and indeed from first-hand experience the hospital is very disorganized and chaotic. I cannot fathom the decisions being made by the MUHC and provincial authorities.
Uatu
I actually work there and the disconnect between the real world and the theoretical one discussed in the board room is palpable. The administration might as well be in a building on the moon.
Hamza
I have the highest respect for the nurses , orderlies and (occasionally) the doctors who work in these risky conditions. The administration/politicians who allow this to happen and make it worse through budget cuts are awful
JaneyB 13:20 on 2019-02-23 Permalink
Good for them. Does anyone know a reliable site for news of coming climate protests? I know about La planète s’invite au parlement but theirs isn’t (yet?) mentioning the 15 March global event. Of course, I learn about them after the fact in the standard news…
Kate 17:25 on 2019-02-23 Permalink
Extinction Rebellion Quebec is one source. The Twitter feed @pourlefuturmtl also.