A drunk driver who killed one road worker and injured six others on the 20 near Dorval Circle in February 2018 has been sentenced to four years in prison. CBC report at the time of incident and La Presse.
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Kate
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Kate
Montreal rents have doubled in the last five years, whereas incomes certainly have not. There’s pair of petitions to sign to the government to pass legislation to hold back real estate speculation, both residential and commercial. The deadline to sign is September 7.
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Kate
A big anti-vaccination demonstration is under way in Old Montreal on Sunday afternoon. La Presse estimates 4000
idiotsprotesters are out in the streets on their way to downtown Montreal.There were 778 new cases of Covid recorded over the last 24 hours. We should keep in mind that these are cases tested and confirmed. How many more cases might there be out there in people not being tested?
Le Soleil talked with a woman in her 30s in Quebec City, healthy and active, who thought catching Covid would be no big deal when it happened last fall, but is still dealing with the extended consequences of “long Covid”. Do the anti-vaxxers think people like this are all part of a grand hoax?
ant6n
I have a friend in her thirties who’s had no/a screwed up sense of taste since December
That doesn’t sound like fun (also could be dangerous if you can’t correctly identify spoiled food).Ephraim
I was going to tell a COVID joke, but they are all pretty tasteless. 🙂
Ask any of these people if COVID came back, like shingles, 30 years later and forever, if they still want to take a chance… most will still say yes, because they just don’t understand enough about the risks. It’s incomprehensible to think of consequences. No rainy day savings, no retirement saving, etc.
MtlWeb
Have been employed in critical care/ICU at one of our hospitals x 31 years now and throughout the years endured never-ending budget cuts, an inability to have adequate staffing for more than 3…4 months at a time, administration & union leaders who both choose to forget (most used to work a regular position) thus neglect what occurs 24/7 on the front line of patient and family care.
Still, like many colleagues, have always felt it a privilege to be able to help and care for those who are ill, and in ICU they are often the sickest of the sick, along with their loved ones. This is done in an environment that is constantly evolving due to innovations in technology, pharmaceuticals, and an understanding of what works best and why via a plethora of literature that aids our multi-disciplinary teams to effectively manage complex diseases and disorders with the goal of allowing the patient to return to their pre-hospitalization life at home, functional and productive, and with their loved ones by their side.
While the need to apply critical thinking skills within this fast-paced world to keep our patients safe does create a constant buzz, many clinicians adapt and learn how to handle the daily stress without it affecting our own health. There have always been risks due to possible work-related transmission (blood, chemo, radiation, air-borne/TB/H1N1/SARS) but Covid was and continues to be a greater concern for many even if one always felt safer wearing adequate PPE in a hot zone than walking into the local Costco.
While initially, many of use would constantly try to explain to friends, media, neighbors, the ‘domino-effect within the health-care system’ reasoning behind why our city/province had to ensure that ICUs and hospitals were not approaching capacity, that attempt at correcting the constant disinformation stopped a while ago as it became exhausting to realize that many were adamant at believing whatever they felt suited their beliefs.
This same tiredness has led to many of our staff during the past 6-9 months leaving and taking other positions in the network (not in critical care) or even taking early retirement, personal/sick LOAs which is leaving us severely short of staff. Now, with delta spreading all over our cities bolstered by schools opening and unvaccinated students, the last thing anyone wants to see is members of our own community demonstrating by the thousands – I pray they do not choose to do so in the front of any of our health care sites. Their chants of liberty and personal freedom ring hollow and are brutally insulting to our ears, and should have the same effect to all of our society’s ears.
Apologize for the long vent but have become quite fed up with the selfishness and disregard many have for the people, especially those less fortunate, who share this earth with them.
If you have not been vaccinated, please do so – it is too late when we have no choice to but insert lines and tubes inside the body.walkerp
Thanks for all your hard work, MtlWeb. And for sharing some of your perspective on the front lines. I think it is time we start organizing counterprotests against these brainwashed zombies (or selfish assholes, depending on how you see it).
I also think the media should stop covering them altogether. It’s a parasitic dynamic, with the media knowing they will get outrage clicks while the organizers also feed off the attention. Disgusting.
Kate
walkerp, you know, you’re right. I think I will leave those stories off the blog from now on (unless there’s some pressing reason to mention them, like a demo that goes haywire or whatever).
MtlWeb, thank you for your work and for your thoughts on this.
Raymond Lutz
Dans mon livre à moi, anti-vaxers are principally alt-right, la meute, proud boys, JBP and/or Maxime Bernier followers, Greta haters etc… Not that it changes anything, but we should know our opponents…
Kevin
There are many people in media who are outraged that these events are being covered as if they are just another protest.
Meezly
I don’t disagree with the idiots term, but I heard it was more to protest the vaccine passport.
There are people who are fully vaccinated who feel the vaccine passport is an infringement on our rights and freedoms. They really believe that they’re taking up a good cause and fighting for “everyone’s freedoms” when the passports are here to protect people who want to engage in high-risk and group activities, people in the work force who can’t risk tons of exposure, and it’s also meant to help prevent closures of businesses, recreation facilities, etc.
However, I do want some minimal coverage that these protests are happening because it’s important to know how many of them are out there. They better not be near any hospitals!
Kevin
Meezly
The question isn’t whether it’s an infringement.
This is Canada, so the relevant question is whether it’s a reasonable infringement of our rights.But people who have never read the constitution or think we live in the USA don’t realize that.
Meezly
Exactly, Kevin. I’ve never read the constitution either but I know enough to understand that the vaccine passport isn’t an unreasonable infringement of our freedom to live within society.
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Kate
La Presse looks at shootings in Little Burgundy and the effects they have had on the community. But the cop is surprised that most people won’t talk to police when something happens?
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Kate
The city’s Conseil des arts has named its first Black chairman in its existence, Ben Marc Diendéré, originally from Burkina Faso, who arrives from a long business and fundraising career.
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Kate
The CHUM is using intelligent communications technology to send texts to surgery patients and allow the patients or their family members to communicate with the hospital during their recovery. Is the MUHC doing anything like this?
John B
In my family we have a patient in each system.
At the MUHC:
we still need a hospital card for all appointments, which you show to a person on arrival and if you don’t have one you to to an office on the other side of the hospital to wait in line to get it, while hoping it’s fast enough that you don’t miss your appointment
a person calls us the day before to confirm an appointment, but generally if we have questions about the appointment the person can’t answer them because they work in a booking office, (in at least one area of the Childrens hospital it’s the actual unit that calls and confirms, and they can answer questions).At CHUM:
if we get a call it’s a robocall or text.
when you arrive at the hospital you scan your RAMQ card and it pulls up your appointment info and spits out the number they’ll call when it’s your turn.It seems like, especially since they moved into the new site, the CHUM has really embraced technology as a way to make the system smoother and cheaper, while the MUHC has remained really old-school, (I hate hospital cards – we already have an ID number issued by the province, just use that!). That may leave older or less technically-savvy people behind, and I don’t know how they deal with that, and I don’t know how it works if any of their computer systems breaks, but it seems like the CHUM has understood that we are no longer in the 80s when it comes to patient interactions, (MUHC’s patient data systems seem reasonably modern).
All that to say, I doubt MUHC is doing anything like this.
Kate
Thanks for this, John B.
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Kate
Since every local media site Sunday is telling me that Jesperi Kotkaniemi has left the Canadiens for the Hurricane, I am taking note. They have also acquired Christian Dvorak.
I notice it was also mentioned in a low-key way this week that Logan Mailloux, whom the Canadiens had hopes of, was suspended indefinitely by the Ontario Hockey League, as a consequence of his conviction in Sweden for sharing an intimate photo. It seems to be understood that this also spikes any future he might have had with the Canadiens.
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Kate
Plateau borough has announced it will protect artist studios and keep them affordable. This is shutting the barn door after the horse left ten years ago, but maybe it’ll help somebody.
DeWolf
This protects artists who are already working on the Plateau, and 900 artists certainly isn’t a small number.
The big difference between now and the golden years of Plateau creativity is that there are no longer any cheap, flexible spaces that can be used for informal exhibitions, concerts, afterhours parties or whatever. Everything has been formalized, regulated and slotted into some kind of official framework.
EmilyG
This is really good news.
The arts are still around in the Plateau, and maybe there can be more of a revival with this news.
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Kate
Shots were fired early Sunday in St-Laurent, and a bullet mark was found in the door of a house but nobody turned up injured. Photos of the house, and even a photo of the door from TVA, show it’s quite a tony location.
Later, police found a gun and bullet casings.
Also overnight, someone tried to firebomb a patisserie, but the fire was quickly put out and now they only have to fix the window.
Jeff
quite a “tony” location?
Kate
tony: Stylish, high-toned, upscale. See examples on the Wiktionary page.
…Oh. Shoe dropped. Tony, as in “Fix It Again, Tony”?
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Kate
For tourism-based businesses to be happy this became a better tourist season than 2020 seems fairly obvious, as it could hardly have been worse.
Ephraim
What I had in 2020 from June to Labour Day, I had by the 1st of August in 2021. August was good. End of August are the parents bringing their kids to University. But the normal travellers for September, aren’t here… seniors (alte kaker). Seriously… don’t miss them! October bring the leaf peepers and middle age groups, from Thanksgiving to before Halloween.
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