A march was held Saturday afternoon in memory of Rebekah Harry and against domestic abuse generally, this following another demo on Friday on the same theme. Eight women have been murdered in eight weeks in Quebec, all apparently by their domestic partners.
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Kate
Le Devoir has a special feature on walking up the Main from one river to the other, mostly with a concern about the language spoken in businesses along the street. Also video clips, numbers on the fragility of French and the issue of small independent businesses having trouble always being able to give service in French.
This is part of their week-long series on language called Devoirs de français.
Jack
That Le Devoir piece is really good. I hope someone at Quebecor reads the last 4 paragraphs of that article.
DeWolf
It’s a really thoughtful, considerate piece. And I agree with Jack – the last bit makes an important point that is refreshing to see in a newspaper like Le Devoir.
Uatu
I’ve felt like that my entire life. There was a point where I really wanted to integrate and listened to french music and watched french TV, but it doesn’t matter because there’s always jerks who’ll remind you that you don’t belong. I think parizeau blaming people who looked like me for ruining their chance for a new country was the point where I quit trying to please everyone by trying to fit in. I speak French and respect the need to preserve it, but I’ll watch and read and listen to whatever I want. If you don’t like it, screw it. And the French guy who failed his french exam only makes my point that it’s almost impossible to please these self appointed arbiters of QC Franco culture and language
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Kate
The hospitals that were going to hire untrained workers for their operating rooms have decided not to do that after all.
dmdiem
The mushrooms probably wore off.
SMD
“Pierre-David Gagné, assistant chief nurse of night surgery at the MRH, said 15 of his colleagues have already indicated — by signing their names to a list posted in the staff room after that morning meeting — that they are planning to quit because of the pilot project.” (https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/strapped-hospitals-plan-to-hire-unskilled-workers-to-replace-or-nurses)
Good for them. You don’t win if you don’t put up a fight.
Meezly
And meanwhile, the CAQ won’t agree to a contract that meets what healthcare workers consider fair wages and working conditions. Wouldn’t they want to properly pay the ones who are willing to stay with their jobs??
steph
I imagine this another step in how you privatize health care.
Kate
steph, private clinics have been doing surgeries for the public side for awhile already, and Quebec plans for them to do more. The argument that this reduces waiting lists has some validity, but it also moves a lot of public funds into private hands.
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Kate
François Legault is selling his posh Outremont house, and the Gazette gives it the full real estate treatment with photos of the rooms and features.
One reason given for the sale is that the premier needs less space because his sons no longer live with him: the question whether they still did was raised in February by Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who accused Legault of breaking household bubble rules by socializing with them. Legault riposted that it was OK because both boys lived with him, so either they’ve been given their marching orders within the last few weeks, or Legault was telling a convenient fib. They’re aged 27 and 28.
Jacques Villeneuve has finally sold his mansion in Westmount. It’s a rather grim-faced brick façade but no doubt cushy enough inside.
Ephraim
Proposmontreal-Martin
This sentence on the Villeneuve story proves the quality of journalism of TVA.
L’acheteur, dont la clinique dit être débordée actuellement, se spécialise dans les augmentations mammaires et des fesses (les Brazilian butt lifts), entre autres.
Why did they think that this was necessary to the story?
Kate
Well, it caught your eye : )
ProposMontreal-Martin
@Kate ok, well yes, you got me, but it got my attention for the wrong reasons
dwgs
Because it was titillating???
Poutine Pundit
Note the leopard-print carpet in Legault’s home theatre. It’s in the Gazette piece but that photo has since been removed from the Remax listing.
Kate
Very stylish!
ant6n
Thats a great location for a giant masion. Wit the REM itll be like 10-15 minutes from downtown.
…Although I don`t think like a rich person, who´d get like chauffeured around or something.
JaneyB
The AssNat is in Quebec city and Legault has been living in Mtl? He must have another place near work with a shorter commute as well, I assume.
Kate
The Gazette says Legault & fam have been living in that house since 1998, which is also the year he was first elected (as a member of the PQ at the time). So he’s been commuting to Quebec City for some years.
Legault is a West Island boy. I did a bit of his family tree to try to verify whether he has indigenous ancestry, as he has claimed, and found that he comes from several generations in the Ste-Anne de Bellevue area and was born there himself. In some sense, a Montrealer. I wasn’t able to determine whether anyone in the tree was indigenous, but it didn’t look like it for the 4 or 5 generations I worked out. French Canadian, one line of possibly German ancestry, but no apparently native names.
GC
I feel the same way, ant6n. I look at big houses and think “ugh, all that cleaning”…as if I’d be cleaning it myself when I could afford it. And, yeah, can’t help but think of how accessible the metro would be…
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Kate
Following recent news of the case of UQÀM vs. the scantily clad student, more students are stripping down by way of protest, with the university logo visible in the picture.
Ephraim
I want to be first to call it… misandry and racism! Shouldn’t there be men and people of colour?
PatrickC
The student says “Je trouve ça powerful”. Shouldn’t UQAM be suing her for a French fail?
Ant6n
Okay boomer
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Kate
A large theft of industrial material in a Mexican facility is interrupting production of Azur trains in Quebec and causing temporary layoffs of Alstom workers in La Pocatière.
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