A high school on the South Shore was locked down because of threats Friday afternoon. An underage individual has been arrested. Makes me wonder: did this person think it would end school early on a Friday? Because in fact the students were kept locked down till 19:00.
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Kate
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Kate
The Jewish General is obliging its part-time nurses to work full-time hours because of the surge in Covid hospitalizations and the need to keep all its other services operating.
A long list of people connected with the movie business addressed an open letter to the premier demanding that he cancel the closure of museums, venues and cinemas for 28 days. You can understand their consternation while keeping in mind these are places where people tend to socialize, and we have to grit our teeth and reduce social contacts for awhile. In fact, Quebec may be about to ban team and contact sports soon too, and there will be an outcry about how unfair it is.
People need to get a grip. The virus doesn’t care if you’re a budding athlete or a movie person with a precarious career that needs chivvying along. It’s an impersonal threat that concerns everybody, but everyone who tries to make it about them and get an exception made for them or their business is basically endangering everyone.
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Kate
Notes on where you can and can’t drive this weekend.
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Kate
Jonathan Montpetit surveys the social state of Quebec, as people try to make sense of the red zone rules. It includes the nugget that the Legault government recorded a commercial for Quebec City’s Radio X (CHOI-FM) advising listeners to get information from trusted sources, but the station refused to air it.
jeather
“Use your common sense” is going to cause an awful lot of problems. This is how we got here.
“Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante suggested the anti-maskers march in a “potato field” instead.” That translates really poorly, I’m shocked they didn’t explain it.
MarcG
That potato field comment made me laugh but now it seems I’m missing the real joke – what’s the French twist?
Benoit
“Être dans les patates” means “to be clueless” or “to be wrong”.
jeather
“Dans les patates” means something like “way off track”.
MarcG
The full original quote seems to be “Je ne peux pas accepter qu’il y ait des manifestants antimasques qui viennent à Montréal. Là, on a été plus durement touchés! En plus, qu’ils veulent venir dans un quartier, dans le coin de Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension, où les gens sont le plus durement touchés. S’ils veulent aller manifester dans un champ de patates, c’est leur affaire!”. So it seems she meant it pretty literally, but with a wink to the expression?
EmilyG
Worth noting that Legault has also said that the law forbidding wearing religious symbols is “common sense.”
It seems to me that a lot of people use the term “common sense” to mean “something I agree with.”
Ephraim
Let’s start getting serious… there is a large group of people who don’t have any common sense anymore. They are anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, etc. So to heck with suggesting people use common sense… if they had common sense, they could put a damn mask on their face properly instead of being super spreaders with their nose out and the government relying on a minimum fine of $400 to convince them to wear it.
I was in the old 4 Brothers this week. Only 1 of the employees that I saw was wearing their masks properly. I won’t ever be back. Because if management can’t make them wear a mask properly to protect clients, I don’t want to think about how well they are doing with washing their hands, cleaning the store or cleaning the on-site kitchen.
JaneyB
Come to think of it, the idea of moving the anti-maskers outside the city and letting them march back and forth in a potato field is not a bad idea. I could get behind that.
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Kate
The presence of a bat in Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital this week forced the closure of five operating rooms for disinfection. The Radio-Canada item goes on to describe the poor condition of that hospital’s main building, which is still shored up with netting so nobody gets beaned by bricks falling off.
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Kate
Santé Québec registers 1,052 new cases of Covid over the last 24 hours.
poplar
you mean “to more than a thousand”
Kate
(poplar is referring to the headline of this post, which does not appear on the main page, but shows up on Twitter and in the sidebar.)
No, I mean they went up by 1,052, therefore, they rise by more than a thousand.
dwgs
All team sports to be cancelled as of Monday per TVA.
Kate
Here’s a link for that, dwgs. TVA also says the SQ is putting up roadblocks to limit travel between regions.
dwgs
I had the link, just don’t like to push traffic towards Peladeau Inc. 🙁
Kate
I know how you feel, but I had to overcome that sensation when I started this blog. 🙂
dwgs
There, but for the grace of God…
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Kate
QMI found groups of people in parks who claimed not to know gatherings were now forbidden; schools are facing a growing number of outbreaks – an outcome that could’ve been foreseen; health authorities say things will get worse before they get better. Covid news summaries from CBC – CTV – Journal de Montréal.
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Kate
Radio-Canada has a video report on tent camps around town and Metro looks at a small camp in Montreal North. The season for camping out, even for people who’ve learned to cope with harsh conditions, is coming to an end, and the city has to find places for them to shelter through the winter.
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