A cultural centre with the indigenous name Sanaaq will be included in the development rising on the site of the old Children’s Hospital. There will be a library and other community and cultural features (but no school).
The plan for a cultural centre was mentioned six months ago, but the name then was supposed to be Peter McGill.
The EMSB is spending $1.75 million on 800 air purifiers for its schools.
I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen an EMSB news story that wasn’t about internal squabbling.
The elections been postponed twice, that got stories.
They also got a story about the students doing well academically, so maybe the infighting is to limit the good news.
Despite the deadly mismanagement in Quebec’s CHSLDs early in the pandemic, the National Assembly has unanimously voted to reject federal conditions that would come with the money the feds are offering to improve care homes for the elderly.
I am so curious what the norms are. It seems suspicious that they aren’t being made public, though I suppose this could all be pre-posturing on everyone’s side.
The promised Place des Montréalaises near Champ-de-Mars metro is running two years late. Some details on the project (but not the delay) on the city website.
I’m a very very staunch proponent of covering up the giant 720 trench between Saint Laurent and the new super hospital, and the provincial transportation bureaucracy’s nixing of the initial plan made me into (to this day) an anti-Transports Québec activist. But this park was pure Denis Coderre money-wasting. The description in that article and reads almost like a send up of a modern idea for a park. Stumps II (or XI), as it were.
Will never be built in its designed form.
I have to admit the description of the plans doesn’t do much for me. Names on a sign. It’s like yeah, we ignored the contribution of women for 375 years, here, we’re going to make one monument for all of them, and it’s going to suck.
At least it won’t be as bad as the monument to Mary Wollstonecraft that was installed in a London park recently, and received pans from all sides. It looks like a pile of old solder.
The good news is that a block away, work on the Viger Square rebuilt is finally finishing up after… what, 13 years? Better late than never I guess.
Yeah, that Wollstonecraft monument. You suffered a lot in your short life, Mary, so we’ll honor you and your early feminist thinking by making a statue that looks like you’re stepping off the page of Penthouse Magazine, complete with a big pubic bush to get all the boys riled up. FFS!
(I have no problem with nudie statues, but there’s a context issue with this one…)
Five pavilions of the campus of the École de technologie supérieure (ETS) have been evacuated following a threat on social media.
Update: None. I checked later to see if there was any more of an explanation, but there wasn’t. How many students and staff are actually in the ETS buildings these days anyway?
With the speed of satire, the PQ’s Paul St-Pierre Plamondon smacks down Montreal FC and asks why it couldn’t be “CF Montréal”. See the discussion in yesterday’s post on this.
That would be Cystic Fibrosis Montreal in the rest of the league; great link with soccer.
I don’t care for it either – I’d like to see it be Olympique Montréal …
What are the odds that the IOC would be okay with the name Olympique?
Caroline Bourgeois, mayor of Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles, will take on the public security role on the city’s executive committee.
Steve Faguy tweets Wednesday’s Covid numbers, a 24-hour cycle with record 1514 new cases diagnosed in Quebec. Quoting him: “There have been 92 deaths added to the total in the past three days, and the number of people in hospital is up 7% in that time. Of the past 29 days, only one (Nov. 17) saw an announcement of fewer than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 in Quebec.”
The number of people inside stores is going to be strictly limited again.
The city once again renewed the state of emergency it has prolonged in five-day blocks since March 27.
The new limits on the number of people inside stores seem more generous than what many businesses already allow. This looks like an attempt by the government to be seen doing something and yet it is absolutely meaningless, because people aren’t getting sick by going out grocery shopping or even buying clothes, they’re getting sick from their classmates and coworkers.
According to the government’s own data, 70% of currently active outbreaks occurred in workplaces and schools. How about tightening the belt on those fronts, like requiring office workers to wear masks at all times, and making sure retail employees wear their masks even when they’re chatting with colleagues in the break room?
DeWolf: I’m curious where you found that 70% statistic? I’ve been looking for those numbers in futility for weeks.
You can see it for Montreal specifically here:
There is a weekly link “Rapport sur les éclosions actives à Montréal”
128 (45 %) éclosions étaient liées à un milieu de travail
87 (31 %) éclosions étaient liées à un milieu scolaire
41 (14 %) éclosions étaient liées à un établissement du réseau de la santé
20 (7 %) éclosions étaient liées à un service de garde
7 (2 %) éclosions étaient liées à un autre type de milieu
When the new restrictions were released today, my boss asked me to figure out the numbers to see how many people would be allowed in the public areas of where I work. I figured it out to around 70. The place feels full if there are 12 and we had already been making people wait outside if we had more than 15.
Thanks, jeather! Very informative
CE
I think you may have erred unless you work at The Bay. It’s 1 client per 20 square metres.
20 square metres is about the size of a bedroom.
And on Thursday afternoon, the CBC says “Christmas is cancelled”, well not those words and Christmas goes on, but no visiting. Legault didn’t even bother waiting till the 11th.
Found on the STM site: major reconstruction at Place-Saint-Henri station, one of the few with open entrances, which have to be closed off to create an edicule with an elevator (there’s a link to a series of images on the page). (OK, I like the word “edicule”…)
Not gonna lie, I’m a bit sad they’ll be doing away with the below-ground entrances… Despite the fact that in very snowy winters, the stairs were less than safe and maintained. Gave a unique charm to the station. I also hope they make the elevators blend in with the stations architecture (it’s my favorite station).
I know – they were unwieldy in the winter, but they worked, and had a more spacious feel than the little edicule a step west of there, which I always found cramped. The STM has a couple of stations like this with stairs that go around angles of 60° and I don’t know why but I never like those, they don’t feel like they work well with how human bodies use stairs. De Castelnau is another.
Three years to put in a few elevators! I guess this speaks to the technical difficulties of putting them in after the fact. Not to mention being architecturally respectful about it.
Not to sound insensitive to the disabled, but there is an edicule for this station across the street. Could they not put in an elevator there and leave the old one as-is?
I ask because there are a few metro entrances that are not accessible that I would hate to see disappear. For example, Square Victoria :
https://voyage-montreal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/m%C3%A9tro-Square-Victoria-OACI-5.jpg
There are many other entrances to this metro station, so I hope they don’t decide to replace this one for the sake of accessibility.
That Parisian entrance at Square Victoria is definitely definitely not going anywhere.
Long-term care residences have been hotbeds of Covid since the start of the pandemic, and they’re seeing more outbreaks again.
A plan to convert the handsome but long empty St-Sulpice library building into a technical lab for teenagers was floated some years ago. I’d seen no mention of it for a long time, but now it’s off the table completely. It never felt like the right venue for a high-tech venture anyway. Article has a timeline of the building since its construction in 1914.
The link posted is broken. This should work https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/590790/quebec-abandonne-le-projet-banq-saint-sulpice
Bert, thanks. But the link I posted works fine for me, in several browsers, so I don’t know what happened there.
The pressure to dump your load fast and get out is putting snow removal workers in danger at the St-Michel quarry where all lots of the snow goes.
Well, not all of it. The city has a couple dozen dump sites. St-Michel is the biggest, but it’s hardly the only.
Maybe we should worry about the dangers caused by snow removal workers rather than those they supposedly face. How many citizens do they kill a year on average? Two? Three?
Max, I was being handwavy, but I fixed it.
Bill Binns, let’s just say those trucks are dangerous to human life if you’re too close and not easily seen by the driver. Things need to be done to make them safer.
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