It seems like a joke for the downtown REM to be sent into a tunnel for half a kilometer, between Robert-Bourassa and Jeanne-Mance.
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Kate
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Kate
Jeannette Zacarias Zapata, the boxer injured in the ring here last weekend, has died. Although only 18, Zapata was married, and was with her husband at the end.
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Kate
A fisherman drowned off Nuns’ Island on Thursday. His body has been pulled out of the river by the rescue service.
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Kate
Here’s an excellent Twitter recap of the student protest Wednesday at McGill in favour of a vaccine mandate and better pandemic accommodations. The Gazette covered the general story a couple of days ago, also mentioning that Concordia doesn’t have a vaccine mandate either, although other universities in Canada have done so.
As far as I can see, neither UQÀM nor the UdeM have made vaccination a requirement either.
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Kate
Public health is bracing for a new surge in cases of Covid.
There were 699 new cases over the last 24 hours.
jeather
Good thing we need a vaccine passport for everything except all retail stores, malls (except the food court), hair stylists, massage therapists, other spa treatments, etc.
Bert
You don’t need a passport if you don’t go out! Just saying.
DeWolf
The passport is required for activities and environments where people are unmasked, like eating in a restaurant or drinking in a bar. Retail stores, hair salons, museums etc. are places where masks are required at all times. Have there been any outbreaks linked to these masked environments?
jeather
I feel a lot more at risk in a hair salon or massage parlor or a driving lesson than at an amusement park or bowling alley.
Mark Côté
Almost all outbreaks come from work, school, and daycare (over 80% of current outbreaks in Quebec) according to Santé Quebec. “Autres établissements”, which I imagine encompasses everything from hair salons to bars to museums, account for only 4% (“activités and évènements” is another 11%, but I assume that doesn’t include regular patronizing of restaurants and such).
MarcG
What constitutes an outbreak? How are they traced? I doubt the government is organized enough to know that someone got covid from the person next to them at the hair salon.
walkerp
I don’t know the details, but my understanding is that the contract tracing in Montreal is quite sophisticated and one of the reasons we were able to tamp down the wave (I’ve lost count) in January. So I think they do have a pretty good idea where people are catching covid.
DeWolf
It’s not the government that tracks outbreaks, MarcG, it’s Santé Montréal.
MarcG
Isn’t Santé Montréal a government agency? And all of this data comes from them? https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/health-issues/a-z/2019-coronavirus/situation-coronavirus-in-quebec#c75434
MarcG
Anyway, my point was that it seems like a very difficult thing to track especially considering that you can have covid and be asymptomatic (and therefore probably not get tested).
Mark Côté
It’s definitely hard, but this is the only data we have. I’m no statistician but I figure even if some outbreaks are missed, it’s probably roughly indicative of how the virus is spreading…
Also the group that monitors outbreaks has been doing this for 20 years.
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Kate
Sébastien Simon, who stabbed a young gas station worker to death in 2006, has been denied escorted outings for the third time.
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Kate
The city is doubling its budget for activities intended to engage young people and tempt them away from gangs and trouble.
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Kate
The city’s first participatory budget has resulted in seven projects moving forward. The process wasn’t a wide open suggestion box: the city proposed 35 ideas and participants could vote for the ones they liked most.
Patrick
There was an “open suggestion box” in November last year and 620 ideas were collected : https://www.realisonsmtl.ca/17965/widgets/71573/documents/57218
Every step of the process are here : https://www.realisonsmtl.ca/budgetparticipatifmtl
Kate
Thank you, Patrick.
DeWolf
These are all interesting projects. The Lachine lighthouse is such a treasure but the pier it’s on is just an asphalt tarmac. The revamp will make for a very nice space.
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Kate
As is becoming routine, shots were fired overnight with no victims found, this time in Pierrefonds.
Kevin 10:58 on 2021-09-03 Permalink
The more I think about this, the more I am convinced that someone at the Caisse and at the top level of the provincial government despises Montreal.
I am having great difficulty imagining any other province where a third party could walk into a city and say “Hey, you know your major thoroughfare? We’re going to permanently shut that down to install something that nobody is asking for but it’s going to make us a lot of money, and you’re going to have to pay for it.”
qatzelok 11:01 on 2021-09-03 Permalink
I used to wonder how the Parc-Pine highway interchange ever got approved. I think I understand how this happened now. Money can’t understand anything that gets in the way of more money.
The ugly and dysfunctional Pine-Parc highway interchange was just a way to sell more cars and oil. And this elevated skytrain that cuts through downtown is just a way to sell suburban real estate.
Money can’t understand why ugliness and dysfunction should be allowed to stop more money from flowing.