The SPVM is reinstating eight officers who were suspended in 2016 for their involvement in the Escouade affair which involved, among other things, spying on journalist Patrick Lagacé.
He isn’t mentioned at all, but I sense the presence of Denis Coderre in this matter.
There had been fears that Carey Price would be selected by the new Seattle Kraken team during its expansion draft, but it didn’t happen.
CBC radio is saying this is not definite till 8 pm this evening.
Update: It’s definite. Price stays with the Canadiens, although some reports suggest he may lose some of next season to recovery from injury repairs.
The city’s chamber of commerce is pushing businesses to insist on a return to office life and they even want the businesses to sign a declaration.
The chamber of commerce is made up of commercial real estate developers and bar, restaurant, and cafe owners who lease from real estate developers. Office workers are their livelihood, and they have mortgages/leases to pay. It’s quite brazen of them to try to get businesses to force workers back into offices.
Sun Life has already told employees they don’t need to ever come back to the office https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-sun-life-will-let-canadian-employees-choose-whether-to-return-to-the/
I got emails today from 2 groups pushing for a return to the office, and they say “53% of people want to return to the office!”
Then you look into the actual details of their own survey and see that number is the total that would be willing to work at a downtown office one day a week— and the numbers plummet from there.
The link to the Chamber of Commerce survey just to be clear
https://www.ccmm.ca/~/media/Files/PDF-Section/2021/jaime-travailler-au-centre-ville/J-aime-PPT-sondage-retour%2022-06.pdf?la=fr
10% willing to work 5 days
10% want 4 days
24% want 3 days
27% want 2 days
15% want 1 day
12% want to never return
Of those willing to come back, 75% want to skip rush hour.
84% say remote work is more satisfying and more productive.
We’re going back to the office in September and boss wants us there “at least once a week, on average” but also said that those of us that will be at the office less than 4 full days will have to share offices with other people. Which is totally fair, they can use the space for new people, or whatever.
I’ve already talked with a potential “bunkmate” and I’ll be working Tuesday and Wednesday and she’ll be there Wednesday and Thursday. That gives us a day alone and a say together at the office.
I’m rather happy with it
I’m doing the hybrid model now, and I love it. When I’m in the office (2-3 days a week) I like being there. It does allow me to forge stronger relationships with my new colleagues…but working from home can be more productive as an introvert. I also get more sleep and eat leftovers which are healthier than my typical lunches.
What type of work are they doing? Some thrive working at home, others not so much. Some need the escape of an office, others need escape from negative toxic work environments. We have proven we can work from home successfully.
I think employers should be flexible. The last thing you want is a team of resentful employees.
The last thing you want is a team of resentful employees.
In a sane world, maybe. You’re lucky if you’ve never worked for people who could not have cared less whether their employees felt resentment, or indeed felt anything, for any reason.
Remember, the CCMM, aka the BoToMM are the same people who ripped the city off with BIXI, who run Tourisme Montreal and collect a “tax” of 3.5% from all hotel rooms, but do very little for them and of course own/owned Stationnement Montreal. The kind of people that I count my fingers after shaking their hands. They always have a side interest and making money off of the city of Montreal public funds is somehow always in their plans. I don’t try ANYTHING they say, ever. Snake Oil salesmen.
I would imagine a lot of business are thinking about how much they can save in office rent by moving to a hybrid / hotel working approach. Also, I think the businesses which are going to succeed in recruiting the best people are going to be the ones which allow remote working flexibility. I think it’s hard to argue against either of these two benefits, which is perhaps why the CCMM are being so aggressive on this matter?
@Ephraim, Are there any journalists out there who would be willing to take (another?) hard look at CCMM? Linda Gyulai, maybe? Or is there reluctance to probe the matter?
I’m looking forward to not making my own sandwiches for lunch a day or two a week. Also, there’s a Soda & Slice on Ste-Catherine now, just west of Guy. Finally, a decent downtown slice!
The idea of sharing an office or desk for people who rarely come in makes sense from management’s POV, but not so much from the entrenched employee’s POV. But I will admit to being a bit spoiled on my desk situation. It’s not like in some tech companies where all you need to do is find a space for your laptop. I have a 36″ monitor on my (downtown) desk, plus a bunch of gear such as keyboard, mouse, trackpad, dock thingy, paper notebooks, etc. I also have drawers full of my stuff. Not sure how I’ll manage that if it ends up shared with someone.
Also: not looking forward to riding buses and Metro again.
@PatrickC – They didn’t when the head of Tourism Montreal walked away with a golden parachute over $600K. They didn’t when they got caught faking stuff on TripAdvisor. They didn’t, when they left montreal with Bixi, they haven’t done anything asking who is Tourism Montreal and who they represent….. etc.
I collect that 3.5% tax for them. I asked for maps for my guests. First reply was NO! When I pressed, they offered to allow me to pick them up from them in St-Laurent. These aren’t for me. I now teach people to preload it on their phone… so no ads for Tourism Montreal.
PS: The real force in local journalism is usually local TV. But TVA wouldn’t do a thing about this… it’s all right-wing corruption.
There are some exceptionally grim details out about the murder in Park Extension this week of Rajinder Prabhneed Kaur. The killer, allegedly her husband – who was under a restraining order – sent video of the killing to his family in India, from where police alerted the SPVM.
Police think the husband may have suicided in the Back River.
The couple leaves two children.
Another story being noted is the sad end of two young Montreal women who were taking a quick break in Florida last month and were staying in the Champlain Towers South building when it collapsed. One of the bodies still has not been found.
Update: They’ve found the second woman.
McGill recent graduate too.
Very sad that what is just a bad decision – ie. to stay up in Surfside instead of on Miami Beach – would cost them their lives.
Imagine that because you stayed up in Crémazie instead of on the Plateau, you ended up getting crushed in a building. Very random and dark.
Suggesting that they made a “bad decision” is extremely insensitive and presumptuous DavidX. Using this logic, I suppose a pedestrian mowed down by a car made a “bad decision” to not walk on the other side of the road?
I missed that they were staying with the one girl’s father. I guess it wasn’t really a bad choice in the sense that I meant, which was that staying way up in Surfside is vastly inferior to staying down on Miami Beach. They just stayed where it was free.
They just stayed where it was free
The more you say on this thread, david, the further that foot goes into your mouth.
They were young women, friends who’d just finished their degrees, and having a little break together before they went their separate ways for their careers. And they stayed where they could afford to stay.
Hey man, I was just saying that if you’re going to Miami and you’re young and fancy free, staying up in Surfside only makes sense if it’s free, because you’re much better off down Miami Beach way, in Brickell, up Edgewater near 27th (Wynwood), etc. Vacationing in Surfside is like vacationing on Nun’s Island or something – boring and super far away. It’s a tragedy that they croaked, and my initial comment was an insouciant comment to the effect of ‘imaging that staying on the equivalent of Nun’s Island, an obviously bad idea, actually ended up costing you your life.”
“Insouciant” is a pretty good way to describe almost everything you post here David~. You seemed to be pointlessly obsessed with getting a couple digs in at Surfside despite the fact that nobody here cares much about the quality of one part of Miami over another (and I’ve been to Miami Beach, nice architecture but not much else going for it).
This is being reported all over, so I thought I’d better include it: security video showing a couple making out in a doorway and shattering the glass door of a barbershop and tattoo parlour on St‑Hubert in Petite‑Patrie. As of now, nobody knows who they are.
A worker for the STM used one of its recently installed defibrillators to save a man who had collapsed just outside Côte-Vertu station, back in May. Luckily for the victim, the STM guy had had previous training how to use it.
The city is funding the transformation of a really nice graystone row house into a rooming house for indigenous indigents near Viger Square.
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Yeah, the ‘dark side of the force’ is here, but it’s not Coderre, it’s the police union, and the city bureaucracy that convinced Plante’s team to let this whole thing play out like this.