A sinkhole opened up in Chinatown at Viger and St-Laurent, blamed on an adjoining condo development. St-Laurent was closed between Viger and La Gauchetière and power was cut to several major buildings, including the Palais de justice and city hall. Not clear whether this has resolved as of Monday morning.
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Kate
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Kate
Montreal needs to hire more people and is going to take to social media to do it. But social media targeting of job posting ads may violate human rights law in showing ads only to people of a specific age group, or only to men or to women.
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Kate
TVA profiles the Vieille Europe, marking 60 years on the Main. Same in the Journal with different pictures. Later piece by CTV.
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Kate
Thousands marched Sunday against Bill 21.
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Kate
The MUHC is warning that people could have been exposed to measles at the Glen hospital between March 23 and 27 because a worker there has it.
Unvaccinated people are allowed to work at hospitals?
Jim Royal
Vaccines are not 100% effective for everyone. A typical vaccine is effective for 85% to 95% of the population. So a person could be vaccinated and still be susceptible. It’s another reason why maintaining herd immunity is so crucial.
Joey
What proportion of the adult population could prove that their vaccines are up to date? Do most people have their vaccination books from childhood handy?
John B
They would also have to tread very carefully requiring or inquiring about vaccinations.
For requiring vaccinations, there are human rights implications for the workers requiring they undergo a medical procedure, (vaccination), as a condition of employment, and applied with 100% rigour it would discriminate against people who can’t be vaccinated.
Asking about vaccination history of candidates could reveal things the candidates aren’t comfortable sharing with their employer, for example, someone with many more vaccinations than normal probably has or had some sort of major disease – something that should not factor into the hiring decision – or someone with very few or no vaccinations may belong to a religion that prohibits some or all vaccinations, which opens the door to accusations of discrimination based on religion.
This all assumes the employee is someone who can be vaccinated. There may be a valid medical reason that the employee wasn’t.
I’d like to have a way to know my family and I are not going to be exposed to easily-controlled diseases at the hospital, but I think this is a case of a devil in the details.
Also, Joey’s right. I bet most adults cannot provide accurate, detailed, proof of their vaccinations. I know I can’t.
John S
Also persons born before the period of mass vaccination (I can’t recall the precise date) are assumed to be immune due to the widespread epidemics of measles that occurred back then. The person involved might be older – and was “assumed” to be immune but actually wasn’t.
Blork
CBC Radio news says that the person HAD been immunized.
Kevin
The MUHC requires all staff to be vaccinated, but vaccination is rarely 100% effective. However even in those cases where a person does not become immune it very often provides benefit in that it lessens the severity of the disease should you get it
Kate
Fair enough, all. I’ve never had the shot because I had measles as a kid – but I couldn’t prove it either.
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Kate
The Centre d’histoire brings us back to April 1886 and the worst flood yet experienced here when an ice jam in the river caused four to six feet of water to invade the area we now call Old Montreal.
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Kate
Canadiens rookie Ryan Poehling sailed out onto the ice Saturday evening and got a hat trick and the game-winning shootout goal against the Maple Leafs – in a game that was conventionally meaningless with the Canadiens out of the playoffs. Poehling, 20, joins Joe Malone, Alex Smart, Aurèle Joliat and John Ferguson on the short list of Canadiens players to score more than once in his first outing. Too bad it had to be the closing game of the regular season.
Bar owners in particular are in mourning over the lost potential of playoff season.
Steve Quilliam
Yes, too bad it was the last game of the season but it is very promising for next year and the futur. It leaves the fans with very high hope.
Meezly 10:17 on 2019-04-08 Permalink
I think that massive blight on the landscape is Serenity Condos, a luxury condo project that got approved by the city suspiciously quickly without any consultation with the Chinatown community.
According to the Chinatown Working Group: Serenity Condos (www.serenitycondo.com) was given its permit 4 days before Christmas 2018, with no consultations for the Chinatown community. By January, there were cranes in the sky, and there are plans for subsequent phases of the project. When completed, the very entrance to Chinatown will be flanked by these condos and accompanying Hilton hotel, dwarfing the Chinatown gates.
Montreal’s Chinatown is undergoing some intense developmental pressures that could fundamentally alter its character. Currently, there are little to no heritage protections for Chinatown, and no cohesive municipal strategy for how development should proceed. This is after decades of decimation and expropriation which have drastically reduced the size of Chinatown, from the construction of the Complexe Guy-Favreau and the Palais des congrès, to the expansion of René-Lévesque and the creation of the Ville-Marie.
The CWG recently had a meeting with city councillor Robert Beaudry to voice their concerns, but I think this petition will still help in adding support to their cause: http://tiny.cc/savechinatownmtl
fliflipoune 15:42 on 2019-04-08 Permalink
On vit dans un état de droit. Il n’y a rien de suspicieux derrière la construction de cet édifice. Il est passé au CCU et dans le conseil d’arrondissement, comme le dit la loi. Le CCU a influencé le projet dans la mesure du possible, en donnant un avis défavorable à une version devant être franchement laide, et a donné un avis favorable à une révision. C’est un cheminement normal. Il y a de grosses limites à ce que la ville peut faire pour refuser un projet quand il répond aux exigences du règlement d’urbanisme.
D’ailleurs, ce projet est connu et public plusieurs mois avant la délivrance du permis.
Ce qu’il faudrait, c’est un PPU contemporain pour le Quartier Chinois, si on veut vraiment orienter son développement. Mais dans les règles actuelles, on ne peut pas bloquer un projet de manière arbitraire.
Martin 19:37 on 2019-04-08 Permalink
Also, heritage preservation is stretching it when the project is actually build on a vacant lot or a surface parking lot. It’s a plus, not a problem.
Kate 21:13 on 2019-04-08 Permalink
I still think it’s a question of scale. Those new buildings will loom – and will they have commercial space on the ground floor? Nothing’s more deadly to a commercial district than filling it up with purely residential buildings.