Saturday has beaten a temperature record with a high of 34.5°, the previous mark having been 32.8° in 1955. The reddit guy who notes temperature extremes says it was the hottest August 21 since records began in 1871.
I don’t know whether night-time lows have also hit a record, but I found it hot out all night Friday into Saturday. It got down to 22°, but tonight will be going down to 23°.
Percolating over the last week was the story of the resignation of Pascale Nadeau from Radio‑Canada’s Téléjournal Weekend. The reasons were widely debated in media and social media. How much could be believed about a report about her “victims”? Now La Presse reveals that Nadeau was a difficult person to work with, citing seven people who had done so.
In counterpoint with the Nadeau story is Stéphan Bureau, who is also resigning at Radio‑Canada. He had been blamed, as far as I can see, for presenting a segment in which a controversial French doctor was allowed to talk nonsense about some foolish and unsupported Covid treatment, without mentioning that these were not accepted medical ideas. I’m not sure why this was followed by outrage from a couple of Journal columnists, but it too blew up into something of a cause célèbre.
She may have been a demanding boss for a famously thin-skinned group (journalists), who live and breath gossip, and whose younger members literally break down when someone points out that they’re not doing their job properly? She may have been fired because they were just sick of her?
How much attention this is getting would be more interesting if the media would just get to the point of why they think it’s so interesting.
Your assumptions are riddled with bias, david.
fvck the SRC and the CBC and the socialist ladder-climbing meat grinder political hamster wheel. you’re all a bunch of opportunistic ethically bankrupt children who use woke politics to stick the butter knives in each others backs at the most opportune times while shilling the establishment talking points. I’d like to see you all begging on the street or in bread lines.
I think fred might be qatzelok’s angrier brother.
Some big employers had planned to reopen offices after Labour Day this year, but the Delta variant has messed with their plans. I could wish the writer hadn’t kept using the phrase “back‑to‑work” because presumably most of the people concerned have been working from home throughout.
Perhaps back-to-office is more accurate
QMI says the man accused of stabbing a woman in the St‑Marc tunnel recently is the same person alleged to have attacked a pregnant woman in Point St Charles a few months ago. He’s now locked up in Pinel, but questions are asked why he was let out the first time.
We may hit a temperature record in coming days, and the heat is especially rough on the homeless.
Valérie Plante has emphasized her confidence in Will Prosper as her party’s candidate for mayor of Montreal North. La Presse went to Montreal North to ask a selection of residents what they think. MBC is doing his best to tear Prosper down this weekend, but I decline to link to his racist outpourings.
Balarama Holness is championing the idea of getting an NBA team for Montreal. He thinks it would be more interesting for young people than a baseball team.
A basketball team over a baseball team is the difference between 3% interest and 2% interest. Just let whatever businessmen want to bring a team to Montreal do their thing, and don’t involve any city money or effort.
david##, I’ve said this so many times, and it’s hot so I’m going to keep it brief.
There is no such thing as bringing a major professional sports team to town without involving city money and effort. If promised, it’s a chimera and a scam. You can’t do it.
Maybe not in Quebec or Canada, but in lots of other places, you do see it. I read about how some NBA team moved from Oakland to San Francisco, and basically the team had to beg and pay the city millions of dollars to be allowed to do it. I remember something similar with the football teams moving to Los Angeles. Seattle is making a profit from the new NHL team, after paying nothing for the renovation of their civic arena.
It’s perfectly reasonable to think expect that Montreal should in no way participate in any professional sports anything. If that means no new teams, no big deal.
And now that I think of it, has the city ever subsidized the Saputos with their team?
Allowing the Saputos to build a stadium on public land sounds like a subsidy to me.
Sports teams almost always manage to negotiate reductions in taxes they pay, too.
@david91, Montreal is just a big enough market to make an NBA team pay to come here. There’s also the language issue that complicates players’ endorsement deals and other revenue streams.
I mean, yeah. We just shouldn’t pay any money for anything like that. It’s crazy.
I’ve never been a fan of the way we do things like this, but really became “woke” on the issue when they built that $400 million or whatever arena up in Quebec for the NHL team that never happened. I think it was Jedwab who wrote that essay about sports and Quebec identity, and I get the purpose and feelings that your Balaramas and Coderres are trying to stoke here, but it’s just lame, we can’t afford it, and these business men who want to take on such a speculative venture shouldn’t have the public purse backing them up because of some weird political thing.
The difference with an NBA team is that it requires no new infrastructure; pretty much everything that the team would require is already in place because of the Canadiens.
The downside is that the NBA and NHL seasons overlap almost completely. For what it’s worth, 11 American cities have two teams in what are considered the “big four” professional leagues (NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB). None of those 11 cities have both an NBA and NHL team, in part because those two seasons overlap in that way.
CBC looks at the closing of Monastiraki after 23 years on the Main.
I was just wondering how they were doing, thanks for the link.
Kevin 22:05 on 2021-08-21 Permalink
I spent part of the afternoon paddling and I was a little surprised how few people were taking advantage of a beach.
dhomas 05:34 on 2021-08-22 Permalink
I too went to the beach and was surprised how few people there were. On our way home, we passed by some splash pads and they were empty, at 15h30.
Maybe people preferred to stay indoors with air conditioning on such a hot day?
ant6n 09:28 on 2021-08-22 Permalink
(..) the highest temperature ever was 37.6 °C (99.7 °F) on 1 August 1975. (Wiki)
EmilyG 09:32 on 2021-08-22 Permalink
I can only speak for myself, but I don’t want to walk all the way to the bus stop in extremely hot weather, then ride to the beach (with a sweaty mask on, in a bus that may or may not be air-conditioned), walk to the beach in hot weather, walk back from the beach in hot weather, and then take the bus back and have to again walk in very hot weather home again.
It doesn’t seem worth it to me.
(I’m thinking about the Cap-St-Jacques beach, which is near me, but variations on this thought process could be applied to any Montreal beach.)
Kevin 10:58 on 2021-08-22 Permalink
EmilyG
I did that once for Jean Doré with my kids. Never again.
Kate 11:58 on 2021-08-22 Permalink
I once went out to Cap-St-Jacques beach from Villeray by bus. Boy oh boy. Henri-Bourassa metro, take one bus end to end, change bus in Cartierville, bus moves slowly out to the west end of the island, finally you get to the park, then it’s about a half-hour hike from the bus stop to the beach.
It was a hot day and definitely nice to get in the water for awhile. No doubt about that.
Then coming back I realized I had missed the window for the sparse bus route that passes by the park, so I set off to hike south along Anse à l’Orme. This is basically a country road, no sidewalks, speeding motorists, and it was a much longer walk from Gouin down to the 40 than I expected. But I finally reached civilization and was able to get a bus going back eastward.
Nope, not again.
EmilyG 12:47 on 2021-08-22 Permalink
The Cap-St-Jacques beach is relatively easy for me to get to, but it still involves that 68 bus that doesn’t come too often. And hot walks to and from places.
ant6n 20:39 on 2021-08-22 Permalink
You guys just need to get a car and this’ll all be easy.
JaneyB 09:42 on 2021-08-23 Permalink
STM could also run a special express bus from a central location eg: Cote-vertu metro. That would make sense.