A man was arrested Wednesday in the act of spray-painting swastikas on Shaar Hashomayim synagogue in Westmount. He’s being sent for a psych evaluation.
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Kate
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Kate
Hospitals are adding beds for Covid patients and the situation is described as tense.
Two thousand homeless people are to be vaccinated starting this week. This piece doesn’t mention which vaccine they will get. I imagine it’s wisest not to give out a two-part vaccine to people without a stable address or contact information. Meanwhile all residents and workers in CHSLDs will be vaccinated by the weekend, at least, the first dose.
The city is putting off property tax deadlines for 3 months, moving the March deadline to June, and the June to September.
Calls for police help fell by 40% on the first weekend of curfew. Make people stay home and, whaddya know, they stay out of trouble.
Joey
Both of the authorized vaccines are two-dose vaccines. I would assume the city will work with organizations that support the homeless population to implement some kind of tracking.
Kate
Ah. I thought the Moderna vaccine was a one-shot. Thanks, Joey.
Josh
Kate, I believe the Johnson and Johnson one that’s not yet approved is one-shot.
david226
“Calls for police help fell by 40% on the first weekend of curfew. Make people stay home and, whaddya know, they stay out of trouble.”
Kate, this is a highly racist, classist and imperialist statement you have made here, as it implies that there can be anything positive about the crushing oppression the police state is imposing upon people of color, the homeless, and the poor.
Bill Binns
Lol. Welcome to the “right” Kate. See how easy it is? Racist, classist AND imperialist!
david226
I would have added sexist too, but that’s a bridge too far when talking about Kate, even for a Jaggi.
vasi
At the pres -conference today, they said they have 500 doses for the homeless, and sounded very confused about where the number 2000 may have come from.
MarcG
It’s possible that a lot was happening behind closed doors rather than in public, and that people were afraid to flee outside, causing an underreporting of domestic violence and other like shittiness.
Kate
Jesus, I was only kidding around when I wrote that.
CE
Excellent contribution David. So clever and imaginative! Bravo!
david249
What can I say? The Jaggis of this town, who rail against all the people and systems that allow them to live these work-free lives, advance a goofy scam version of left politics (‘hey, none of us have to work, we’ll just get all the money from the greedy fat cats’), and traffic on this paranoid idea that pretty much everything is a system of oppression . . . what can you say except that it’s not first year at Concordia or UQAM anymore for most of the people reading this blog.
What’s the purpose of these jokers? What legitimate function do they serve? Speaking truth to power? Agitating for change to this oppressive society that’s so peaceful and prosperous that people from all over the world are desperate to get to it? If that’s it, well, the times have overrun the need for this sort of activism.
The real change we need is to make housing more affordable (involving radical changes to zoning, among other things), to adopt a pro-growth agenda so that we don’t have a fifth or quarter of people here getting government assistance and so that we can actually keep our industries competitive, and resolutely not to adopt this imported American nonsense where we start talking with southern US accents and talk about a different country as if it’s ours. We’re not Americans, full stop. Pretending that we are, in whatever context, is just victimhood.
Progressive in our context isn’t about claiming that it’s racist to have a Subway sandwich that’s got an Italian or Asian name, progressive in our context is about ensuring that the people living here can get good jobs, have low-ish taxes, get all the services they need, and live full and productive lives. That’s progressive.
So yeah, I appreciate your compliment on my contribution, even though I’m not particularly hopeful that you’re on board with my particular political project.
Michael Black
But Jaggi Singh is a loud mouth snook who throws himself against fences, and is famed for that.
He’s no thinker, he’s no leader. He has a position and it’s pretty immovable, and that posting reposted here is his position, the rest is leverage. Lots of words, some big, but nothing anyone else could have said.
But that doesn’t invalidate real concerns by others. If you see Nakuset as being the same as Jaggi Singh, then you can’t see nuance. It isn’t a cause for her, it’s life. She was torn from her family in the sixties scoop, I’ve seen her “legal” name, it’s shocking to see such a white name.
Your rant makes you sound incoherent.
I don’t know where “speak truth to power” fits in here. Bayard Rustin is credited with the phrase, on a Quaker paper. He sat out WWII in prison, organized the Journey of Reconciliation after the war, was a major organizer in pacifist and civil rights matters. And was Black, and needed to do those things because of it.
Daniel
The insufferable, pretentious twatwaffle strikes again.
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Kate
New Covid cases in Quebec, which had been under 2000 for a couple of days, are back up to 2071 on Wednesday, and deaths in the city have reached 4001.
Max
We seem to be doing *something* right, per the last few days of the rolling average cases curve.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/covid-19-jan-13-need-to-know-1.5871054
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Kate
A woman whose car was stopped for curfew, and who had a legit letter from her employer to show the police, nonetheless had her lunch bag searched for no good reason by the cop.
Cops need to be trained not to fear looking stupid. Cop stops you, you prove you’re legit, but instead of waving you on, the cop needs to throw his weight around to save his ego. It’s stupid, but stories like this continue to pile up.
This woman was just lucky she was young, female and blonde. Some drivers are not.
Uatu
I think some people just became cops because they get to throw their weight around. Probably were bullied as kids and now it’s their “turn”
Jack
With Uatu, the only guy I ever new who became a cop had his ass handed to him in High School frequently. When we found out he became a Mountie we weren”t surprised and we were also happy that meant we wouldn’t run into him here.
jeather
What I don’t understand is where the cop would look stupid here. They are supposed to stop everyone! They did that, checked her details, she was allowed out, successful interaction for everyone. So it was about something else, not looking dumb.
If I had to drive to work outside of curfew time now, I’d be investing in a dash cam.
steph
ACAB
Michael Black
Maybe Kate is thinking the cop thinks this is below him, so he needs more. There seems to be resistance to dealing with “trivial” matters, even when it’s right away in front of them.
As for sloganeering, that won’t fix a thing, and neither will some hatred of cops for abstract reasons.
A year ago, still really weak, I slipped in the snow, and was looking for something I could use to leverage myself up. A cop appears and helps me up.
I still felt like I’d done something wrong, because of all the times I’d been stopped for no reason in the past, but at least the cop didn’t even ask for ID.I
Ephraim
She needs to book an appointment at the Commission de la Deontologie at https://deontologie-policiere.gouv.qc.ca/en/le-commissaire/nos-services/file-a-complaint.html for over-reach. In fact, people need to be pushed to do it, because if they don’t complain, they will push more and more.
As I have said before, sometimes the best way to fix things is… accounting. So, I assume that the department that checks contested tickets is likely run by the city or by the province, but bills itself separately from the police, it’s likely from an entirely other budget. That needs to be rectified. They should be sending a bill for the real costs of their service to the station of police that wrote the ticket. So, the chief of that station has to find the money… or get his officers to stop over-reaching. You can’t get something to change unless someone has to pay for it.
There should also be a cost related to the policeman, because he wrote it, so that he has to think… is this really worth my time if they can fight it and it won’t stand. But we likely can’t charge him, monetarily, because then the union can fight it. But we can require that a total of contested/unjustified tickets be kept on their personnel file and that an inquiry with his superiors be automatically required when it exceeds a certain amount and that they be required to pass a certification exam of some sort to teach them the law and when they should and shouldn’t issue a ticket.
Maybe this will or won’t work. We likely would need to try a bunch of things to see what will. But I’m sure we can find a solution that would make some of these officers recognize that MAYBE this isn’t worth it.
Bill Binns
This is the “discretion” Legault said he was depending on from the cops. This is what you get when you write sloppy rules.
DeWolf
Did the cop think she was hiding Covid in her lunch bag?
Kate
Maybe he liked the look of her and was trying to hold her longer at the stop, even trying to impress her with his cop power. He can’t seriously have suspected her of having contraband in a lunch bag.
Ephraim
Doesn’t matter. The lunch bag contents aren’t in view. He would need a warrant to search it. He should know better… and someone needs to make sure he knows it.
It’s increasingly stupid how many policemen don’t realize how many cameras are on them today. Some cars have dashcams that function all the time, including inside the car. Some cars, you hit the horn, it records the camera clip. There are cameras EVERYWHERE. Heck, mine caught the delivery person who forgot to leave my package today! Assume everything is on camera now… because it is. Some of the idiots at the Capitol are finding that out, the hard way.
JS
Isn’t there some law about cannabis in cars having to be stored in the trunk practically under lock & key? Maybe the cop wanted to make up for blowing the curfew thing.
Ephraim
@JS – Wouldn’t be admissible without the warrant, not in full view. The prosecutor would have thrown out the case and demanded that the cop be reprimanded.
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Kate
TVA has found some construction sites remain busy and few pandemic measures are respected among the workers.
Bill Binns 19:22 on 2021-01-13 Permalink
Maybe this will be the first ever prosecution of a graffiti vandal in Montreal.
MarcG 21:45 on 2021-01-13 Permalink
LMGTFY https://www.google.com/search?q=arrest+spray-painted+site%3Amontrealgazette.com&oq=arrest+spray-painted+site%3Amontrealgazette.com
MarcG 21:46 on 2021-01-13 Permalink
Err, jokes on me, apparently the Gazoo reports on other cities and none of those hits are from here
ant6n 11:21 on 2021-01-14 Permalink
@MarcG
try “arrest+graffiti”
MarcG 11:39 on 2021-01-14 Permalink
Vindication!