The season’s fourth snow removal campaign begins Tuesday evening. Update: CTV says it will begin Wednesday morning and not be a rush job, with more snow expected soon.
CTV also says there’s been more snow than average this winter. It has felt like a pretty usual winter to me so far (judging by how much I’ve had to shovel off my steps) but I wasn’t counting.
Mamadi Camara may be offered permanent residency in Canada although it is not a done deal.
Update: It’s done! Camara is now a permanent resident.
Actually, no. As has been pointed out to me, while votes were taken in favour of Camara in both Ottawa and Quebec City on Tuesday, he is not yet official.
Good. This will allow him to stick around when he wins legal compensation from the SPVM, which may drag out for years.
After the reading the article it seems his application will be fast-tracked but strictly speaking, he is not yet a permanent resident. As his lawyer says: “C’est sûr qu’on est très heureux, mais la motion n’est pas encore une décision exécutive. On attend que le ministre de l’Immigration [Marco Mendicino] nous contacte pour régler les détails au niveau légal. Pour le moment, on parle encore d’intentions, de beaux gestes.”
The Stewart Museum on St Helen’s Island has closed permanently. Its collection was blended with the McCord’s in 2013, so the contents won’t be lost, leaving the question of what will be done with the historic building on the island.
Guy Laliberté: (laughs in Pangean)
That reminds me of the idea Denis Coderre had to give a large piece of the island to Laliberté to turn into a prestige cemetery.
Didn’t the space clown also have a private island somewhere that he rented for lots of money on AirBNB, and had some sort of idea for a pyramid?
Don’t know where I’m going with this, other than saying that super-rich people can be weird.
As a friend once said: “I’m just strange, not rich enough to be eccentric”
Sadly inaugurating this year’s pedestrian fatality tote board, a woman was killed in Park Ex on Tuesday morning when a truck backed up over her in an alley.
That lane, just north of JT, which leads into Wiseman or Stuart, is horrible; drive down Wiseman 3-4x/week and seems there’s always a truck backing out or coming out – she must have just stepped into the path. Very sad.
Any confirmation of the victims identity of this tragedy or was a resident of parc-ex?
Inmates at Bordeaux Jail are holding intermittent hunger strikes over strict confinement to cells because of Covid.
Park Avenue’s Bar Exxxotica is closed for good and the building has been sold.
Don’t you mean, Closed for Bad?
I walked by so many times, with my office in the area. It seemed so out of place, without that many bars–let alone strip bars–in the surrounding blocks.
Ahhh good.
As a longtime news blogger I have to say that while we’re having all this head‑clutching about gun crime, this is such a peaceful city that the only incident reported overnight is that a tow truck lost control of a minivan, the van rolled through a gas station window, and nobody got hurt. Some of the reports say the van driver lost control, but the vehicle has clearly slid off a tow truck ramp in the photos I’m looking at. I doubt it was under power when this happened.
Also, while some of these reports call the business a dépanneur, it’s not a real dep, it’s a Super Relais in a gas station.
That’s not a before picture of it sliding off a tow truck… that’s the AFTER picture of it getting towed out of the store-front. (pardon my mansplaining).
Perhaps you’re right 🙂
I had to google that location because never have I ever heard of Helen Rochester St.
Now that I know where it is, about 400 metres from my first apartment, never would I ever use that street name to describe that location.
The Gazette was being printed in a big plant right there, so the street was named for their longtime restaurant reviewer. How would you describe the location, Kevin?
The intersection of St. Jacques W. and Blvd. Ste. Anne de Bellevue.
I’m along dwgs’s lines — although I’d probably just say the Petro Canada next to McDo’s on St. Jacques, since most people don’t realize the road that leads to the 20 is named Ste. Anne de Bellevue.
Wow yeah, I’ve driven to Renaissance on that street many times and I didn’t realize that was a “real” street; I figured the north part was a private driveway and the south part just part of the intersection, as dwgs said.
The Roman Catholic archdiocese is offering to open its files on sexual abuses, a meaningless ploy given that they also admit that the files have already been sanitized.
The Roman Catholic Church….
Warning of a third Covid wave as mononcle Legault prepares to open things up for students’ spring break.
The man is fucking with us. He’s calculating that he’d rather bolster his popularity, even if it means more people get sick. Don’t forget – he isn’t elected by Montrealers. He’s throwing us to the wolves.
Also, if I ever find out that vaccination has been delayed by jurisdictional squabbling between Quebec City and Ottawa, I will seriously capote.
Define to capote
(Québec) (Familier) Faire une crise de colère, d’impatience ou d’indignation, péter les plombs.
Ah, Google didn’t help in English
“fucking lose it”
I don’t know about anyone else, but I find the pandemic response has been better the lower down the hierarchy you go. Cities have been more practical than the province(s), who have been better than the feds. Montreal public health seems more on the ball than Quebec public health. My kid’s school has been way ahead of the MEQ. Stores in my neighbourhood had stricter restrictions than the ones the province eventually brought in. There are plenty of exceptions, obviously, but it’s interesting to see how competence does not correlate to rank.
Found this link at the bottom of the Exxxotica story. Theatres, indoor rinks, and pools opening…https://cultmtl.com/2021/02/montreal-movie-theatres-indoor-skating-rinks-swimming-pools-are-reopening/
DeWolf 13:47 on 2021-02-17 Permalink
It’s been a pretty nice winter compared to the last few years – consistently cold and snowy, but not so much that it’s unpleasant to go outdoors.
GC 14:06 on 2021-02-17 Permalink
I agree. This has really been the best of what you can get out of a Montreal winter. If I had to pick the winter we’d have during an isolating pandemic, it would pretty much be the weather we’ve had so far.
Kate 14:13 on 2021-02-17 Permalink
True. When I think back to some of the roller coaster winters we’ve had with days of thaw and freezing rain and ice everywhere, this is pretty good.
walkerp 14:17 on 2021-02-17 Permalink
Yes, really been lovely. I had forgotten how nice winter can be with all the ice and slush of previous years. We also have had a lot of sunlight and not tons of wind.
GC 21:29 on 2021-02-17 Permalink
Definitely. There have been a few days that the windchill number sounded scary, but I went outside I found that there basically was no wind at all. I know how some on this blog feel about windchill factor but it REALLY doesn’t matter when there isn’t even any wind blowing.
mare 22:33 on 2021-02-17 Permalink
I agree it’s a lovely winter with bright cold days and lovely snow without sludge-freeze cycles. But it helps in our perception that most of us, unlike in “normal” winters, aren’t often outside in the evening and night. I can tell you the temps drop and the wind and windchill can pick up considerably after sundown, and there have been a couple of very cold walks with my dogs. (Curfew walks are the best; super quiet and you don’t have to dodge upcoming pedestrians on narrow sidewalks. Still would prefer there was no need for a curfew, of course.)
GC 00:16 on 2021-02-18 Permalink
Fair point. I haven’t been out between 8 PM and 8 AM in a while.