You know, mostly I don’t blog about sports, partly because I don’t care much and partly because I figure fans will have better sources than my blog for scores and stats and so on, but when the Canadiens blow a 3-0 lead to go down in defeat 6-3 – to the Leafs – even I can feel the iron enter my soul a little bit.
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Kate
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Kate
Frederick Silva, suspected of a murder in NDG in 2017 and another in Laval in October, was arrested by a SWAT team early Saturday.
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Kate
Michel Cadotte has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of his wife, Jocelyne Lizotte, whom he smothered with a pillow after years of watching her decline from early-onset Alzheimer’s. Lizotte was only 60 years old but had progressed to a state of total helplessness. Cadotte said he was relieved by the verdict. He will be sentenced next month.
dwgs
Given that the jury was given only two option, manslaughter or second degree murder, I’d say they did the right thing.Hopefully he receives a reasonably light sentence.
Kate
I agree. But the judge may want to draw a line here because of the distinction between formally and informally assisted death. A court case was running in parallel looking at the existing law and its limits, and people are talking about extending the law to allow for advance planning if someone knows they’re facing a condition that will leave them unable to make a competent request as their illness gets worse. Arguably, Lizotte might have done that if the law had allowed for it, and Cadotte decided to take it into his own hands – but he must have known he was putting himself in the wrong, legally, to do so. Remember the Robert Latimer case here too.
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Kate
The city is having to contract to engineering firms to hire people to supervise construction sites but this brief piece only lightly touches on the origin of this problem. Governments shed expertise like crazy through the 1990s and early 2000s as budgets for internal people dried up, based on the neoliberal credo that only private ownership was worthy of respect and dollars. And now the city doesn’t have many of its own people with the expertise and experience for these roles.
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Kate
There was a non-fatal stabbing Friday evening in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve; no arrests.
Very early Saturday a young man was found on St-Laurent at Milton in bad shape from a head injury following a brawl, and is in critical condition.
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Kate
One of the two men hurt in the Decarie Square stabbing this week died, and now the other has been charged with murder in the second degree. TVA says the suspect was an engineer and the victim a real estate agent. I’d like to hear the back story on this one.
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Kate
It seems like a long time we’ve had protest stickers on SAQ outlets, but that era is ending with a strong approval for a proposed new contract.
Vazken 00:22 on 2019-02-24 Permalink
I was planning to drive to Toronto to watch this. Thankfully my plans changed and I was unable to go. I could not imagine watching this live.