The body of Navdeep Gohtra, the only suspect in last week’s murder in Park Extension, was fished out of the Back River Wednesday morning, where it was found in the basin of the hydroelectric dam.
So now their two kids have neither parent, and at some point they will come to understand their father killed their mother. I’m not a squishy sentimentalist but you’ve got to feel for the situation they’re now in.
St-Hubert BBQ has backed away from giving the Canadiens the cold shoulder over Logan Mailloux.
Of course they did.
Yeah, but they might change their tune if Logan Mailloux is caught singing karaoke maskless with hundreds of hacidim while standing on a controversial bike path.
Too bad. In just a few weeks the Habs went from a gritty team that came close to winning the Stanley Cup to happy home for sex offenders.
Yeah the sponsors want credit for saying it matters but not to have to do anything.
Basically the same thing the Habs did.
Yep
Covid cases are again on the rise in Quebec as the delta variant takes hold. On the positive side, vaccination levels also continue to rise. You can even get vaccinated at La Ronde now.
The important part will be hospitalizations and deaths staying low. If this does become endemic, as seems likely (honestly as seemed likely from the beginning), it’ll spread for a long time, but vaccinations should keep severe cases low and reduce the likelihood of more variants of concern emerging.
The real worry is that it keeps mutating because anti-vaxxers keep it alive to the point that a new version comes around against which the vaccine is less or not effective.
The official Rt is 0.98, which is climbing….
For those wondering, Ro is at the pandemic start, after it’s called Rt.
From everything I’ve read, it’s seems very unlikely, maybe even impossible, for a variant to render vaccines completely ineffective, due to the fact that there’s only so far that a coronavirus can mutate (it can’t become a totally new virus), and because the biggest danger is from it being novel, which is no longer the case for anyone vaccinated (or who previously contacted covid). We might see a little loss of effectiveness but probably no real increase in the severity of symptoms in the vaccinated population.
24 Heures’ Florence Sara G. Ferraris has a series on walks in Montreal: nature walks outside of Mount Royal park, riverside walks, rediscovering the city’s industrial past.
Two things bug me about this CTV piece on Milano closing Mondays because of a labour shortage. One is trivial: the store is not called Milano’s.
The other is the implication that CERB caused people to shirk work. CERB allowed people to remove themselves from sites of possible contagion at the worst of the pandemic. Given the option to protect themselves by locking down, many people took it, and the trend to blame them for not being good little worker bees (which we’ve even seen here in comments on the blog) while putting their health on the line for low-paid jobs is one that I despise, since it usually comes from people who were able to comfortably isolate at home while complaining about other people not putting themselves at risk.
Milano management clearly knows they make the lowest sales on the day after the weekend, so let them close on Mondays. Their customers will adapt.
Completely agree with you. That line of argument is classic corporate welfare hypocrisy. If businesses paid and protected their employees better, which is how it is supposed to work in the fantasy world of free market, then the employees would come to work.
But even that argument is not relevant as the uncertainty and small amount of the CERB is not enough to stop people from working. Most people want to work, just not at a shit job.
Yeah, I was starting to listen to a story on the radio about Milano closing, and I got disgusted and turned the radio off after I started hearing the CERB being blamed.
If 2K (taxable) a month is more alluring than the pay for a job, something needs to change. People will work if the pay and conditions are decent/safe and if it looks like they can move up in some way and make more money. Dead-end work where people are constantly reminded that they’re disposable will get the loyalty it deserves. No surprise.
“For the first time in its history” (in the hed) seems a bit histrionic. Sometimes places adjust their hours. I have to assume they ran the numbers and concluded it wasn’t worth paying people $50/hour to work the cash.
At any rate, I’m betting Monday sales represented far less than 1/7th of their weekly receipts.
There was a big call during the pandemic from various factions for a Just Recovery Plan, aka Just Transition, Resilient Recovery, Green Recovery, etc. because the pandemic revealed so many critical flaws in our economic infrastructures. The pandemic was a great opportunity for so many countries for a do-over and revamp, but what the hell happened to that? It all seems so half-assed. Maybe other countries like New Zealand or Iceland have had a better go of it. I know that some MPs have been trying to push Trudeau for a better just recovery plan.
>…concluded it wasn’t worth paying people $50/hour to work the cash.
They’ll earn 0$ an hour when all the cashes are converted to self-checkout machines.
@Chris – Contrary to popular belief, self-checkout isn’t about replacing people, it’s about scarce resources and an unloved job. In fact, it’s almost an abusive job, as we require them to stand all day, when in most Scandinavian countries, they are seated. But basically, supermarkets, just like fast food, have trouble hiring enough people to fill these jobs. As they automate, they move people into customer service.
Long term, even the self-checkout should disappear as we move to RFID tags and RFID checkout as costs go down. Basically no UPC, you just put everything down and it reads the tags.
Even longer term, we may eventually be able to shop, pack and walk out with it and just pay at the door as we leave. No scanning at all. (And they are going to have to get a lot more ingenious to shoplift, especially expensive items, which might use active RFID, so even putting it into something to shield it, could trigger alarms.)
I’m with Ephraim! People who are against self checkouts ( barring accessibility exceptions, older people, etc. ) sound to me like they would have refused to get electricity installed 150 years ago to save candle-makers jobs!
Some jobs are are going the way of the dodo, and I am ok with that.
I mean farriers still exist, but they are a niche thing, instead of having one on every corner.
also that is why i am rabid proponent of UBI.
But that is another can of worms we will burn when we get to it 😉
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