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Kate 10:10 on 2021-01-14 Permalink Reply  

• Joey 10:24 on 2021-01-14 Permalink

  Two hilarious elements to this:

  1. It’s UQAM, which is effectively run by the Government of Quebec (unlike, say, UdeM, which is a private institution, though publicly-funded).

  2. This university managed to send this blanket, unnecessary to *all* Faculty but only *some* adjuncts/lecturers. Even when doing bullshit pandemic-skirting nonsense, they found a way to sneer at non-tenure-track academics.

• Bill Binns 14:10 on 2021-01-14 Permalink

  Again, blame the politicians. When rules are written with loopholes big enough to drive a truck through, don’t be surprised when they get used.

  UQAM, *could* have sorted through all their employees, decided which ones needed to be out after curfew, handled all the inevitable rabble rousing over whom they chose or could take 5 seconds to attach a form to an email and press [send all].

  Did anyone see that piece on CTV interviewing florists who have no idea why they have been deemed cessential”? One said she thinks Legault “has a florist close to him”. Another said she was ashamed to be open when other neighboring businesses had been forced to close.
  https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-florists-say-they-don-t-fully-understand-why-they-are-essential-1.5263336

• david46 18:49 on 2021-01-14 Permalink

  Florists makes sense: we’re talking about massive stock losses and potential irremediable destruction to both livelihoods and supply chains.

• Kate 22:21 on 2021-01-14 Permalink

  I figured they were expecting a rush on wreaths for all the funerals.