Mayor wants offices to reopen
Mayor Plante wants downtown offices to reopen even though cases of Covid are starting to rise again – or else she wants support from Quebec and Ottawa for the city’s economy.
Even so, stats show Montreal is recovering pretty well compared to other cities in North America, despite Quebec having been a Covid hotspot.
Mark Côté 16:42 on 2020-09-01 Permalink
The vast majority of deaths in Quebec (and Montreal) were confined to long-term health-care facilities. This is incredibly sad, but it implies that community spread has not been anywhere near as bad and is perhaps comparable to other major cities. However I’m inferring this from deaths, as I can’t find any statistics as to the living situation of people who tested positive, only those who died from the virus.
But maybe they don’t want to talk about this too loudly for fear (reasonably, I guess, sigh) that people will then think community transmission isn’t a big deal and will relax their guard.
Ian 17:10 on 2020-09-01 Permalink
I get it that economically the downtown core relies on office workers but if Plante really wants to help the environment and move forward into the future, telecommuting makes a lot of sense. I realize much of PM’s stance is predicated on simply appearing green with easy wins while still turning a profit though, so I’m not surprised by the hypocrisy.
Kate 18:19 on 2020-09-01 Permalink
It was also a mere week ago that it was announced the city would be having as many as 9,000 of its people working from home indefinitely to save on rent. If city hall can see the potential savings, they should realize other people can too.
Speaking of pandemic savings, I realized recently I don’t need anything like as much wireless data as I had on my phone plan. Changed my plan, and cut my phone bill in half from one month to the next. Should’ve done it months ago, I was paying for GB I was hardly touching.
Ephraim 19:15 on 2020-09-01 Permalink
We still need a land line for the alarm, but cut out all the services. It’s amazing… no one knows what to do when you don’t have call answer. Seriously.