The Gazette has a map and list of roads closed due to flooding. On the island of Montreal, flooding is mostly in Pierrefonds-Roxboro and Ahuntsic-Cartierville, but there are lots of locations off island, and a breached dike in Ste-Marthe-sur-le-Lac is the big news of the moment. (Clue: you don’t want to be living anywhere “sur-le-lac” right now.)
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Kate
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Kate
Thousands were out Saturday to demonstrate in favour of urgent climate action.
Chris
“L’augmentation de la population humaine reste l’éléphant dans la pièce.” Good to see this point raised more and more.
Free condoms and birth control pills, provided globally, to anyone and everyone that wants them, I think would be a much more useful solution than changing light bulbs and all the other crap they’re pushing instead.
qatzelok
If we all assume that a lower population wouldn’t be destroying the earth’s environments right now, you have a point. But what if 3 billion people just consumed twice as much? The lower population would be useless.
walkerp
The problem is that our entire economy is based on population growth. Free birth control only works when there is not an economic demand for labour (in developing nations) and housing starts (in developed nations). We need to change the entire system so that economic growth is not the fundamental objective.
Chris
qatzelok: sure, theoretically, but what’s your point? We should just increase population then? Everyone wants a better standard of living. The Chinese would like to live as cushily as the Americans. It’s just not going to work without population reduction. Better with free condoms than eventual war.
walkerp: yes, capitalism’s requirement for relentless growth eventually breaks with the reality of a finite planet. This is little discussed.
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Kate
Équiterre cofounder Sidney Ribaux has taken the city’s top climate job – director of the Bureau de la transition écologique et de la résilience (BTER). The bureau’s aim is to make the city’s operations sounder ecologically.
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Kate
Next month the city begins a process of debate over systemic racism and discrimination sparked by a petition last summer.
SteveQ
What a waste of time and energy from our city officials who should concentrate on fixing the numerous and real problems in this town. Or at least try to fix the real problems such as social housings, transit and the never ending pot holes….just to name a few !
steph
@ SteveQ, If you think systemic racism and discrimination isn’t a problem, you are part of the problem.
Kate
Well put, steph.
walkerp
That argument of “why are we wasting time/resources on X when we have Y and Z” is just so dishonest and gross. Just come out and state your position instead of acting like this is a zero sum game and you are actually concerned about the other issues.
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Kate
Water levels have forced the closure of Galipeault bridge that links Île Perrot to Montreal; forty other Quebec roads are also closed for the same reason. La Presse tells us that fifty years ago, after a flood season, Quebec passed a law banning construction in flood zones, but never enforced it properly because towns were keen to build, flood maps were vague or inconsistent, and there wasn’t any sense of urgency to act.
dwgs
Also, the municipalities receive the money for the building permits and ensuing property taxes but it’s the province that’s on the hook when things go bad so the municipalities will continue issuing building permits where they shouldn’t .
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