A man was attacked and injured Friday evening in Acadie metro station.
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Kate
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Kate
CTV has a long thoughtful piece on the pervasiveness of crimes and hateful acts against Asian Montrealers, including a detailed description of his experience from the man attacked with some kind of pepper spray gel in the Plateau this week.
Chris
Good article. Still no actual evidence presented that it was a racist attack. Only the victim’s hunch. The victim says the perps came from behind. Did they even know his race?
Interesting to note that the perps were all black. So much for the white supremacist arguments I guess.
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Kate
François Legault is signalling hard that the blue line is dead: he thinks it would be redundant with the east-end REM.
ant6n
So REM kills Pink Line and Blue Line extension. Isn´t it odd how Legault, who doesn´t seem to care much about cities, apparently is the #1 transit expert of the province, apparently drawing lines on a map deciding what our metro system will look like for the next 50 years.
qatzelok
An old political hack who was brought into the political limelight (by big money) to save the car industry and to sell previously public infrastructure to private interests.Like so many others.
Kevin
I think it’s more a case of no true Quebecer lives in Montreal.
PO
If that’s the case, then I want the CAQ and every individual in an elected leadership position within the party to sum up down to the dollar the cost of every single prefeasibility and feasibility report, study and commission that ever went into the blue line extension in the last 20 years. Then all of them personally reimburse the province and city that paid for those.
There has to be, at this point, hundreds of millions of dollars spent on this blue line extension already. Every new bullshit elected party ends up dishing out millions for a new and updated feasibility study, then sits on it and does nothing, and then the next crew of rats does the same thing. The CAQ takes it a step further now and just cans it all because they sold our public infrastructure to a private corporation.
We Quebecers spend a decade having the Charbonneau commission tell us we’re being controlled by thieves, but we continue to let ourselves be at the hands of thieves.
Ant6n
To be fair, the current planning for the blue line makes the project the most expensive subway in Canada per km, she about 2-3x the cost you’d find in Europe.
(I think it’s about the same cost per rider as the rem2, but the dinky elevated mini metro will at least bring its small clientele directly downtown)
qatzelok
Ant6n, this may be true. But when will people in Quebec get to hear an honest explanation for why all our construction projects cost much more than they should. This is an extremely important handicap that makes us uncompetitive and our infrastructure irrational and out-dated.
It makes Quebecois look like we are prime targets for racketeering by backroom “old boy” politics and financial predators. Eternal suckers for skimming of infra money.
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Kate
Two cats belonging to owners who tested positive for Covid have also tested positive in a study being done by the UdeM. The virus doesn’t make cats sick, and researchers find it unlikely that humans can catch the virus from them.
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Kate
The city has announced plans to rework the corner of Remembrance Road and Côte-des-Neiges, making it into more of an entrance to Mount Royal park and demolishing the crossover-overpass that must have been built there in the same enthusiasm for highway-style structures that gave us the Park-Pine interchange, now also gone.
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Kate
Here are your weekend driving notes.
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Kate
The driver in the police chase incident that killed a pedestrian on Tuesday is under age and has no licence, it turns out. It’s also alleged that her only experience with driving was in video games.
In addition, not only did she knock down the older woman, she fled the scene and then fled the crashed car on foot with the two friends who were in the car with her.
Bill Binns
Don’t worry, I’m sure this person will spend several weeks (maybe even months!) being inconvenienced by the justice system for the life she took.
Kate
She is certainly lucky (?) in being under age. As noted in the item, her companion, 18, has already been fined and been made ineligible to get a licence, even though he was not the one at the wheel. He’ll probably be more inconvenienced than she will.
steph
At 16 I got a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt. They docked me the 2 points the moment I got my license a year later. It really sucked because you started with 3.
She may be equally inconvenienced by the SAAQ, and I’m sure her deed will cost her more than the 3 you start with.
thomas
So less sanction than what someone at the same age might post on social media?
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Kate
In a move bound to be unpopular, the vaccination site planned for Park Ex has been moved to Outremont making it harder to reach a population that’s already known to be vulnerable.
DeWolf
Too bad there isn’t a big tennis stadium just sitting there, unused…
Kate
There’s also the Howie Morenz stadium.
Chris
Sounds like a tempest in a teapot.
“For elderly people who don’t speak English or French, for example, they may fear getting lost in a new neighbourhood.” I mean, really? You’re offered a free life-saving vaccine, but hey, you might need to look at a map, or go with a friend, or plan a little more. “fear getting lost” is a minor inconvenience. The elderly I know would crawl over broken glass backwards uphill in the winter to get this vaccine. I feel like some people will complain if it’s anything less than to-your-door-vaccine delivery.
Sure, it’d be nice to have more sites, but the sky is not falling.
vasi
Chris, I kinda hear you! Most elderly people are indeed super excited about getting the vaccine, we already have over 70% uptake. But still, anything that helps at the margin is good. If there’s a 68 year old who thinks it might be a good idea, but is a bit scared about vaccines, maybe being inconvenienced will be the thing that makes a difference!
Vaccination is a social good. If that 68-yr-old ends up getting COVID and giving it to other people, it doesn’t help any of the sick people if we say it’s the 68-yr-old’s fault for prioritizing convenience. So this is a time to focus on doing the most good, even if it sometimes feels a bit extra.
Kate
I don’t want to get ad hominem on your ass, Chris, but man, your lack of imagination is something special. There are a lot of folks in Park Ex who don’t understand either English or French very well, and we know they’re difficult to reach with information. The older people are not likely to be all that mobile so they can’t just grab a taxi, and the younger family members they live with often do physically taxing jobs and haven’t time to bring their older relatives to unknown addresses outside the area.
We absolutely need to bring the vaccine closer to them, it’s a no-brainer, not make it a challenge to get it.
Joey
There are also pharmacies in Parc Ex offering vaccines. The article makes it seem like it’s a desert, when it isn’t.
JP
I think Kate nailed it. I used to live in Parc-Ex. I know there are limited spots where this could be done, but it just seems like Parc-Ex is an afterthought. What if you live on the other side of Parc-Ex that’s closer to the Met…I guess then your site is in TMR…but wait, they probably wouldn’t want that.
Chris, it’s great for you that you know better, smarter elderly people than the stupid, lazy ones in Parc-Ex.
For what it’s worth, my aunt and uncle in their seventies who live in Parc Ex went to the Palais de Congres site. I did wonder if there was a place that was closer or if they went there on purpose, but didn’t enquire further at the time.
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Kate
Health authorities are reaching out to leaders in the Jewish community in an effort to hold back the surge in Covid variants. It’s interesting how Aaron Derfel carefully notes that nobody is blaming any specific cultural or ethnic groups, but social gatherings in the west end may be going on, and, according to a spokesman, there may be “a certain skeptical stance toward secular society.” Add the factors of large families and kids in school, and you have a nifty Petri dish situation – and Passover is starting on March 27.
I want to observe quickly here that Europe is facing new lockdowns – Paris is shutting down this weekend, for example, and there are more details here on other situations in Europe. And Brazil is in terrible shape. We may have vaccines but Covid is not over yet, not by a long shot.
Ephraim
If I have to read more articles like this, I’m going to end up bald, from pulling my hair out. We aren’t scapegoating a particular community and then they throw a particular community under the bus… a community that doesn’t go to Bialik or Beit Rivka… and they know it. Beit Rivka, if you don’t know, is an all-girls chabad-run school
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Kate
It’s not surprising to see that the pandemic has created stagnant population growth and a rise in deaths in Quebec over the last year.
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Kate
A man and a woman were found stabbed to death in a taxi in St-Léonard Friday morning. How it came about is still not known.
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