Aaron Derfel reports on Twitter that Quebec will soon put a mechanism online for moving your second Covid shot up if yours was scheduled for months away.
At the same time, Global reports that some older people were turned away from appointments for their second shot.
The young bear seen in Dorval Sunday has been euthanized by the authorities.
Poor little guy. I don’t see how they had much choice though. The only other possibility would have been sending him to the Ecomuseum. He was too young to make a go of it on his own.
Shades of that poor whale who came upriver this time last year.
The statue of patriote Jean-Olivier Chénier was restored Monday in time for the appropriate holiday, but it’s misleading to say it was “restored to its usual place in front of the CHUM research centre” because, while it used to be located in that general area, it was taken down before the CHUM construction began.
Did Chenier fight off the British advance at the Battle of the Superhospital? I definitely read that in PKP’s “Histoire vraisemblable du Québec, peut-être”
Somebody is decapitating cats in Pointe‑Claire.
Shades of Magnotta
Ugh, not something that one wants to be reminded of
The closure of the Île-aux-Tourtes bridge has caused the domino effect with the closure of 30 schools off that end of the island. Parents and some employers out there are mad as hell about this decision by the Trois‑Lacs board educational services centre.
Update: Exo has added more trains to help with the bridge outage.
They still haven’t started work to fix the bridge they broke.
Four days going into five and there is no plan…
Could they even get a proper ferry up there, given the rapids? I mean a ferry that could reasonably handle the traffic and vehicles that use the bridge, not a barge.
Otherwise, that’s one hell of dropped ball.
You would need several awfully large ferries, roadways to the water, large paved areas to hold the waiting cars, a heavy duty slip on either side for the ferries to dock, probably have to do significant dredging…
I heard on the Ceeb this morning that the toll on the 30 has been lifted. The other route is going by Hawkesbury and the 50, but that is a long way around.
I don’t think a ferry would be practical. If you want to get even a small boat between Lac St. Louis and Lake of Two Mountains you’d better follow the buoyed channel off Senneville. Your chances of bottoming out are pretty good if you don’t.
A big new high school has been planned on a piece of land next to the Lafarge quarry in the east end. Some are saying it’s a dangerous and noisy location, with 800 trucks going in and out daily. There’s also a huge rocky gouge in the earth there, although it’s not made clear what risk that would pose to high school students, unless it’s expected to become a challenge for daredevils.
curious NIMBY
The Journal says that Louis-Joseph Papineau will become a personnage patrimonial and the Patriotes monument in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges will be classed as patrimonial – both of which I would’ve expected were already the case.
It’s unfortunate but, in the world of preservation, presume it isn’t protected.
A monument in a cemetery is more or less protected by its very nature. It’s not as if anyone’s going to demolish it to put up a condo.
Compared to other Canadian cities, Montreal’s public health caution over the last few months turned out to be wise: we didn’t get hit as hard by a third Covid wave, and have held the Indian variant at bay.
Joey 10:01 on 2021-05-25 Permalink
Feels like something’s missing – surely the government will want to continue to have a framework in place for second-dose intervals, no?