It’s lucky the Hôtel-Dieu wasn’t turned into condos, because it’s back in service, accepting the more stable COVID-19 patients from the CHUM and, in a separate unit, noninfected people from CHSLDs.
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Kate
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Kate
City hall flags have been lowered to half-mast to honour the victims in the Nova Scotia rampage. At least 19 people were killed, although it sounds like police may not have found all the victims.
Update Tuesday: the count is now at 23.
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Kate
Côte-Vertu metro station was set to close this summer for work connecting it with the big underground train garage being constructed nearby. The work has been put off till 2021, so the station will stay open this summer.
Bert
Good ol’ STM. Rearranging work schedules to ensure that as many people are inconvenienced as originally planned.
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Kate
I gather from tweets and comments that Claude Lafortune has died which is sad if you grew up with his shows, but this is one of the moments where I experience the old “two solitudes” thing, because I never saw those shows and didn’t know who he was.
Clément
As a kid, Claude Lafortune made a huge impression on me. I did not grow up in a religious family, but watching “L’Évangile en papier” on TV was fascinating. He had an amazing talent for recreating (biblical) stories with paper figures, narrated by his quiet story telling voice. You truly felt like he was your friend.
If I want to attempt a “two solitudes” analogy, I can think of the “guy with the giraffe”.
Kate
I didn’t watch a lot of TV as a kid, besides a few cartoons on Saturday mornings, but of course I know who you mean by the “guy with the giraffe” because my sister watched it, and being anglo, it was just sort of on in the background. I even have a vague memory it was in a half-hour block with Mr. Dressup, which I always found inane.
It’s that kind of stuff – stuff you might not actively watch, but is around in your milieu – that comes to define you culturally.
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Kate
As of Sunday, the number of COVID-19 deaths in Montreal was 513 and Quebec’s is inching ever closer to 1000.
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Kate
La Presse interviews Dr. Mylène Drouin, head of Montreal public health, who’s been appearing alongside the mayor at pressers. “Mon patient, c’est la population de Montréal.”
Ian 07:13 on 2020-04-21 Permalink
That is rather fortunate. Nice to see the oldest hospital in North America (second oldest if you count Mexico as North America) back in business for one last hurrah
Francesco 12:19 on 2020-04-21 Permalink
It wasn’t too long ago we were discussing the old Northern Electric building on Lucien L’allier, and its interesting pedigree that included being reused as an auxiliary hospital during the city’s 1909 typhoid outbreak. History does tend to repeat.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-police-suspect-someone-set-fire-to-100-year-old-building-on-lucien-lallier-st