A man was shot on Wednesday afternoon in St‑Michel, or – as TVA puts it – he was the target of an attempted murder. His life is not in danger; nobody’s been arrested.
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Kate
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Kate
Daycare workers in Montreal and Laval have voted to strike.
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Kate
Julie-Pascale Provost is a Lachine councillor elected with Projet who was chucked from the party after posting negative views about that plan to convert a marina into a park. Denis Coderre then adopted her and she was running for borough mayor under his banner until dropping out on Wednesday. Coderre has already found a new candidate whose big issue is also preserving the marina for boat owners.
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Kate
Jeff
I’m so tired of this guy
mare
And of course the article and the photo are not in sync. In the article everybody who’s interviewed talks about the section in Petite-Patrice, between say St-Hubert and St-Laurent, that has very few businesses. But Coderre’s “press conference” is much more to the east, in Rosemont where there are indeed more small businesses. However, in most sections there is still parking on one side, so Coderre wants to remove one bike lane and turn it into *another* parking lane, and make the remaining bike lane bi-directional.
Of course not to get votes from good citizens of Rosemont, but from the readers of the JdM in other parts of town, to show he is defending their rights as drivers against the bike maffia.steph
He quips that “removing a bike lane” as the safest way to protect cyclists from the “trucks that illigal park in the bike lane”. It’s like he’s lost all sense of reasoning.
Daniel D
What Jeff said.
Coderre is proceeding on the assumption the electorate are idiots who can’t see through his transparently opportunistic moves. It is tiresome, and personally I give more credit to the acuity of Montrealers than Coderre seems to.
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Kate
Creating a stupid precedent and an incoherent situation, Loto-Quebec says that although customers at the Casino have to be vaccinated, its workers don’t.
Public health says vaccination rates are lagging in St‑Léonard and Rivière‑des‑Prairies.
Dhomas
The article mentions “Riviere-des-Prairies, Montreal North, Bordeaux-Cartierville, Saint-Leonard, Mercier East, Saint-Michel and Parc-Extension.” Is there data to suggest that it’s worse in St-Léonard and RDP? I don’t doubt that it is (I know lots of people from these areas and, anecdotally, they are more often the anti-vaxxers than people in other boroughs), I’m just wondering why you mentioned those 2 boroughs and not the others. Maybe I missed some info?
dhomas
Oops! I see it’s in the headline! 😀
I read the article but skipped the headline (usually, it’s the other way around!).
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Kate
There was a panic at McGill University Tuesday morning after someone called 911 about an unattended suitcase.
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Kate
Here’s a timely piece following recent discussions on the blog: Bruno Bisson tells us how the ARTM is recruiting testers for buying transit tickets with our phones. Seems like you need to be using the Chrono app, for starters.
Daniel D
This article seems thin on details. It wasn’t all that long ago the only way to charge your OPUS card from home was if you were sent a bulky USB card reader.
Has the OPUS technology quietly evolved since then? I’m wondering how the card can be updated. Perhaps the NFC chips on modern phones now makes this possible, when a few years ago it wasn’t.
Dhomas
There’s an app to read your Opus card already. I use it to figure out which of my cards still has tickets and/or which one has my monthly pass, for when I reactivate it (maybe someday…).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=card.opus
Maybe it’s possible to also provision the cards via NFC, as Daniel D suggests.
Joey
I think for this pilot they have newer OPUS cards that have slighlty advanced tech…,
Véronik
They beta tested this back in July or August with the chrono app, and it worked fine with an old Opus card and an Iphone 8.
Kate
I’ll have to try it with a stone knife and a bearskin next.
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Kate
The mayor of Anjou has announced he supports Denis Coderre. Luis Miranda heads a borough-specific party called Équipe Anjou.
Philippe Pichet, Coderre’s police chief, is threatening to sue Valérie Plante over things she said implying he was just that – Coderre’s man.
These stories certainly come at an opportune time for Coderre, as he tries to claw his way back into his old job. If only he wanted the job because he felt strongly about making things better for Montrealers rather than simply aggrandizing himself.
Cadichon
With Miranda joining Ensemble, I’d be curious to know how many Coderre candidates are actually former Tremblay councillors or mayors.
Kate
Right now there are 4 Équipe Anjou councillors including the mayor, and one independent. Most of what I’ve got comes from that French Wikipedia article. Miranda was a Tremblay councillor in 2001 but left in 2003 because he felt strongly about the forced merger. In 2005 all 5 seats (borough mayor, city councillor and 3 borough councillors) were won by Équipe Anjou.
In 2008, four of the five elected by Team Anjou returned to Union Montreal, Gérald Tremblay’s party. Luis Miranda stated that Union Montreal is “our family”. In 2013, after Tremblay’s resignation, Équipe Anjou was revived and won all 5 seats again.
Whether all the individuals currently sitting (and running again) – Andrée Héneault, Kristine Marsolais, Richard Leblanc, and the one independent, Lynne Shand* – were also Tremblay people I don’t know, and it would take a bit more digging than I have time for right now to find out.
*The reason Shand is an independent was a cause célèbre in 2019.
Cadichon
Ok, so I compared the 2009 election results with Ensemble current list of candidates, and there are still indeed 15 candidates (including 5 potential borough mayors) associated with Tremblay’s old Union Montréal (I expect more to be added when LaSalle candidates are announced). That’s quite a few considering that was 12 years ago. Here’s a list if you’re curious:
Luis Miranda (Anjou)
Andrée Héneault (Anjou)
Lionel Perez (CDN-NDG)
Richard Bélanger (Île-Bizard)
Lise Poulin (Lachine)
Chantal Rossi (Mtl-Nord)
Marie Potvin (Outremont)
Jim Beis (Pierrefonds)
Catherine Clément-Talbot (Pierrefonds)
Giovanni Rapanà (RDP-PAT)
Alan DeSousa (St-Laurent)
Aref Salem (St-Laurent)
Michel Bissonet (St-Léonard)
Dominic Perri (St-Léonard)
Mary Deros (VSMPE)Kate
Good work, Cadichon. But political people don’t always slink away or die after a change in political formations. Not everyone elected under the Union Montreal banner was necessarily tainted by the corruption at the top, although admittedly knowing they’re on this list causes a slight raise of an eyebrow.
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Kate
Covid testing sites in town are overwhelmed and more may have to be opened.
jeather
A friend just tried to get tested and said the entire experience was miserable. Long lines, no spacing, everyone there coughing on everyone else. The closest place to me allows me to make an appointment to get a test 8 days later. Results are also getting slower and slower.
Meezly
I wish the article looked more into the why testing is so backed up. If it’s because many people think they can just walk in to get a test and the solution is appointment only, then why isn’t that being communicated?
And if making an online appointment involves waiting days to get tested, and more days to get a result, then something is wrong with the system and needs to get addressed soon.
Maybe the government should stop being snowflakes about everyone critiquing their unconstitutional laws and focus instead on protecting their citizens from real threats.
jeather
It was a very poorly written article, though the upshot (“we don’t have enough testing sites”) is true. If you can’t get a same day appointment, people won’t bother to get appointments. It’s also a real pain to see what sites are open when and the current waits.
Results are 24-72 hours at this point.
Dhomas
I had to go get my son tested on Monday. I tried to go at 8h when they opened, but there was a huge lineup and so I decided to come back later (I didn’t want to be TOO late for work). I went again around lunch time and the line was even longer. I finally went again at around 16h and the line was still long, but we waited (he needed to get tested so he can go back to school). It took just under an hour to get processed and out the door. The reason the line was so long is because they were no longer having people mill about inside the building (as they did in the past, when there were fewer people). Instead they had people form lines outside. Most of the people getting tested were parents with young schoolchildren. And yes, they were almost all coughing. It made me appreciate the decision taken to have people lineup outside. This was at the Chauveau testing center, close to l’Assomption metro, so the exact same center they cited in the article.
I think there is some other bug going around that is not COVID, though. My daughter was terribly sick this weekend and was coughing up some pretty nasty stuff (she and my son go to the same school, so he also needed to get tested or they wouldn’t let him back to class). We were sure it was COVID. She tested negative, though. And so did a bunch of other young kids we know with similar symptoms.
We got our results about 24h later (even though they said it would take 24 to 72 hours), so my son only missed 1 day of school. Anecdotal evidence tells me the situation might not be as bad as we think in the testing centers. Like I said, people are waiting outside to avoid having many people in an enclosed space. Also, Chauveau is one of the only places on island that offers gargle tests, which are very popular with parents, so that might explain why this site is so packed. More testing centers would definitely help, but also more testing centers offering gargle tests.Mark Côté
“Maybe the government should stop being snowflakes about everyone critiquing their unconstitutional laws and focus instead on protecting their citizens from real threats.”
Dontcha know, those are real threats that the new laws are addressing, according to the government and (looking at the CAQ’s continued popularity) the majority of the Quebec population… so important that the constitution and other fundamental documents have to be left behind. This’ll all end well, I’m sure.
Kate
dhomas, CBC radio had a clip of one doctor who said other viral respiratory diseases are back in force. I’ve seen a few references to RSV being on the rise.
jeather
It’s been 24 hours for my friend and no result.
I wouldn’t be comfortable waiting outside in a large group of people who all think they are sick (of whom about, what 3% have covid) coughing, even though outdoors is safer. I would be even less comfortable if I were bringing my child under 12. And honestly an hour long wait is pretty bad.
The place on Ste-Croix offers gargle tests too.
jeather
About 28 hours to get a (negative) result, which is reasonable enough given Quebec has something against letting people use rapid tests.
SMD
There are definitely many other viruses going around, including in my house. As this pediatric ER doc put it a few days ago:
« En réalité, la quatrième vague [à Saint-Justine] n’est pas une vague de COVID, mais de tous les autres virus », explique le Dr Antonio D’Angelo, chef du Département de pédiatrie d’urgence du Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) Sainte-Justine.
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Kate
Top story this morning on radio news is a two-hour backup on highways from Laval after a crash involving a road sign.
Close to noon, a new item says things are back to normal, which means just ordinary traffic jams, not fancy ones. The sign structure is being dismantled.
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