The Gazette has a piece about getting the Covid vaccine, when and how. Similarly from CBC, La Presse, and so on.
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Kate
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Kate
A weather tracking redditor says we have more snow on the ground now (42 cm) than any winter since 2008, and another redditor is reminding people to clear snow from roofs and balconies before the weekend, which is expected to be mild, with rain.
mare
links?
Kate
mare
thanks!
Bert
Historical data is available from Environment Canada, per weather station. Number crunching required – https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?StationID=51157
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Kate
The coroner’s report on the fiery truck accident on the Met in August 2016 says it was avoidable on two counts. As was reported before by the CNESST, the initial truck that stopped unexpectedly was known to have that problem, but it hadn’t been fixed. But the coroner also found that none of the drivers (a chain of four trucks was involved) was keeping a safe stopping distance, as if they ever do in traffic slowdowns.
One man, Gilbert Prince, died in that crash, and I sometimes wonder how the other driver is doing who was unable to free Prince from his impacted cab before the flames overtook the vehicle.
John B
If a truck keeps a safe stopping distance several cars will immediately be in it. The only way for a truck to keep a safe stopping distance somewhere like the Met is to remain stopped.
steph
@JohnB, are you saying the Met wasn’t designed for the current capacity for trucks AND cars?
dwgs
@steph I think that what John B is saying is that if a vehicle, any vehicle, tries to maintain the stopping distance recommended by drivers’ ed on the Met that gap will be constantly filled by people pulling in front of you from the adjacent lane in a bid to get ahead. The best you can do is keep a gap not quite large enough for that to happen and be hyper aware at all times.
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Kate
Francine Pelletier does an admirable number on Yves Francœur vs. Valérie Plante and finds where the “ideology” is hiding.
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Kate
The city is promising a plan that will ensure the role and exemplary nature of the French language for the city. This puzzles me, because the city does everything in French already, so what else can they do?
Reduce their use of English, I suppose, because then it will look like they’re more determined about it.
I saw that story on my ipad this morning and went to find it to post, and when you look up the words “Montreal français” here are the headlines:
Joly et le français: on nous raconte des histoires (Mathieu Bock-Côté. The stories are not good.)
«Le français dégringole à une vitesse jamais vue»
Protection du français: est-il trop tard?
Le français au Québec: une langue sans pays – Denise Bombardier
And now, from Radio-Canada, Défense de la langue française : qu’en pensent les trentenaires? Here’s a cite: “Sentent-ils que la langue française est menacée? « Non! Je n’ai pas l’impression que ça va mal pour la langue. On a aussi une vision vraiment montréalocentriste, parce qu’on vit à Montréal, mais si on regarde à la grandeur du Québec, non! »
I was struck recently by this letter to the editor in Le Devoir, where the writer speaks about le virus linguistique anglophone, an evil to be stamped out for sure. (It’s delightful to feel that your language, the language you speak and in which your life is expressed, is seen as a disease. An unearned thrill of wickedness!) Pierre Lincourt writes angrily from Chicoutimi – where I’m guessing he never hears a word of the langue de Shakespeare spoken from one year’s end to the next – of terms he hears on the media and presumably reads on the internet.
These usages have nothing to do with local anglos and how we live our lives, but we’re the ones who have to do penance for the virus we carry. Has anyone got a face mask that will stop English words from getting through?
DeWolf
Most of the vitriol is coming from Quebecor, which is doing a Fox News number on Quebec. Not just on language issues but with anything that strays from the pro-business, right-wing nationalism of PKP. It’s a dangerous game.
steph
When is this blog going to be in french? /s quick, go register mtlvilleblog.com
Kate
I once dared another anglo blogger to post in French once a week, so there was a period when I did all my blogging in French on Fridays, before realizing the other guy didn’t give a shit and I was only succeeding in annoying my readers. I can write in French but not with the insouciant grace I can bring to English on a good day.
Raymond Lutz
chiche! 😎
dwgs
Insouciant Grace will be the title of my next novel.
CE
I liked the French Fridays. Feels like that was a long time ago!
Kate
It was, CE. And it takes me longer to think and write in French, so I’m not going to go back to it.
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Kate
An urbanist professor writes against urban sprawl in Le Devoir.
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Kate
Mario Girard praises the plan for the renovation of Phillips Square.
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Kate
City hall has plans to pedestrianize ten commercial streets this summer.
MarcG
They couldn’t find a single photo where people were masked up?
Izy
Why would they be masked up? They’re outside 🙂
DeWolf
Looking forward to seeing the details. Last summer was a mixed bag, which is to be expected when everything was improvised in the space of a few weeks, but the successes were truly successful. Mont-Royal was amazing and so was Wellington.
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Kate
The city has rejected the poor rating issued last week for its flood preparations, saying it learned a lot in 2019 and is ready to act if the river rises.
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Kate
TVA says two architect firms have walked out in a refusal to help design an elevated train that will cut along René-Lévesque.
ant6n
Oh I had missed this before. I could imagine this kind of went down like this:
Rem: make this elevated concrete structure pretty, errr, acceptable so we can sell this
Consultant: ok here is a proposal, it costs 200Mio extra
Rem: too expensive. Make it cheaper
Consultant: i can’t make it cheaper while still producing something that is acceptable
Rem: just make it cheaper but sell it as the best thing there is, It´s been working for us for five years!
Consultant:….
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