At grips with Covid, the Canadiens are suspending all play till Sunday.
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Kate
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Kate
The Reddit weather guy says Tuesday has been the warmest March 23 since records began in 1872, reaching a high of 18.9°.
dmdiem
Nice try, fake spring, but you’re not going to trick me this year. I have grown wise to your ways.
Kevin
This weekend could see 20 cm of snow or huge rain. We are on the bubble
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Kate
You can only imagine the steam coming out of my ears as I post that François Legault is open to spending public money on baseball. At a time like this, after a year of pandemic, lost jobs, damage done to the economy and the environment, he’s going to give money to millionaires to employ other millionaires to throw a ball around.
What fools, what gullible fools, we all are.
Blork
Sounds like Denis Coderre did a drunk dial last night and caught Legault my Eggo in a good mood.
Kevin
How many more monuments to gullible politicians do we need in this province?
At least the big O was used last centuryant6n
Legaults Coderre moment
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Kate
The woman who sustained serious injuries in a domestic violence incident on the weekend has died. Her domestic partner was arrested at the time, and will now face additional charges.
Bill Binns
On parole for another assault. Another Canadian who paid for a criminal’s second chance with her life.
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Kate
The inspector general has issued doubts about a long-term contract by the STM with a firm that supports the tickets and passes side of the service. No bidding has occurred in this area for too long a time, according to the critique.
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Kate
Questioned on how Montreal will put French first, Mayor Plante says she wants to lead by example rather than punishment. Six boroughs which haven’t yet been blessed by the OQLF with francisation certificates – Pierrefonds-Roxboro, CDN-NDG, Montreal North, St-Laurent, St-Léonard and Lachine – will have to get them. But nobody can figure out a way to shut down “Bonjour Hi” within the law. Plante prefers that we just say Bonjour.
j2
Nah nah it’s “bonjour ho” now, we’re done here. Tourists will love it!
I appreciate her trying to get ahead here but I also like the idea of separating Montreal from Quebec a lot more.
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Kate
TMR mayor Philippe Roy, who’s been in the position for 11 years, says he won’t run again ths fall, citing the same issues as Verdun’s Jean-François Parenteau: the toxic hate from social media.
MarcG
Can’t they just not use it? I still cringe when I hear “The President of X tweeted today that…” – like, don’t you have a communications department for things like that? Maybe I’m just old.
Kate
I think they feel they need to be responsive to the public. For example, this morning someone had a complaint on Facebook about a hole in a sidewalk in Park Ex, and the councillor, Mary Deros (or possibly her assistant, but somebody posting under her name) replied that it would be seen to. People have come to expect this kind of thing.
But the amount of abuse that must come into a town or borough hall these days, for the mayor and all the other elected officials, must be a burden. I follow a few city-oriented groups on Facebook and a lot of Twitter feeds, mostly for the blog’s sake, and there are always folks who hand out criticism, slanders and abuse, most of it not very bright – blaming city officials for things that were decided or done in previous administrations, are unavoidable changes due to worldwide conditions (not just the pandemic, but changes in technology or in the general zeitgeist) or are properly the realm of the province or the feds, all the time. All the time. But the torrent of abuse must take its toll on whoever has to look at it.
Kevin
These are people using their personal pages to communicate with friends and family and getting death threats on a frequent basis.
Honestly, Zuckerberg had no idea what he was creating. He should have read Frankenstein instead of learning to code.
Ephraim
If more people got visits from the RCMP at 6AM in the morning (yes, really, that’s often the time they show up) to discuss death threats online, the more people would just calm the F down and stop with that nonsense. They think it’s a joke, they don’t realize it has repurcussions.
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Kate
Owners of bars and restaurants, keen to reopen for summer, are on a hiring blitz and this item suggests that experienced cooks can name their own price.
DeWolf
With the early spring we’ve been having I wonder if Quebec would consider allowing terrasses to open in red zones, similar to what they’ve done in Toronto’s equally ambiguous “grey zone.” It would be a boon for restaurants and not much risk, especially if they only allow two adults per table like in the orange zones.
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Kate
Hydro-Quebec wants to buy a piece of art created in Granby for its projected Irish memorial site down by the Black Rock. Radio-Canada calls it a mural, but it looks more like a mosaic to me. It’s by Alfred Pellan but it looks like a child’s drawing, so it’s not surprising to learn that it was done for a grade school that’s about to be demolished – you can see it here on Streetview. If Hydro insists on moving the Rock – and I wish they wouldn’t – this piece of art will not dignify the site.
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Kate
The Canadiens were supposed to play a match against the Edmonton Oilers on Monday night, but it’s been postponed because two Montreal forwards are on the Covid protocol list.
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