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• Kate 23:56 on 2021-11-14 Permalink | Reply  

  A man was shot in St-Michel on Sunday evening.

  Update: Monday morning, news is that this was not a man, but a 16-year-old boy, and he has died. Police are numbering this the 31st homicide of the year.

  It was mentioned on radio news that the shooting could be in retaliation for the murder last month of Jannai Dopwell‑Bailey outside his school in Côte‑des‑Neiges, but I don’t know whether that’s a journalist’s guess or a police surmise.

  (Also, if this is homicide #31 it seems police may have determined that the double killing in Mile End earlier this month was two homicides, not a murder-suicide, but I haven’t seen any clarification of that case.)

   

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• Kate 21:47 on 2021-11-14 Permalink | Reply  

  Another test of the Quebec alert system will be set off Wednesday at 13h55.

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  • Vazken 02:49 on 2021-11-15 Permalink

    thanks, I’m usually sleeping for work,. will make sure my phone is on silent

  • Kate 09:13 on 2021-11-15 Permalink

    I can’t promise that the alert is not designed to ignore your phone settings and go off anyway.

  • EmilyG 14:31 on 2021-11-15 Permalink

    I only have a flip phone, which doesn’t get the alert thing. But I might hear it on the radio.

• Kate 10:47 on 2021-11-14 Permalink | Reply  

  A rockhopper penguin chick hatched at the Biodome recently. It’s the only zoo in North America that has succeeded in breeding the species which, like many seabirds, is endangered by oil spills and climate change.

   

• Kate 10:00 on 2021-11-14 Permalink | Reply  

  The Journal’s history bit from the Centre des mémoires this Sunday is about the rise and fall of Eaton’s but also the history of the Banque provinciale, seemingly offered as a francophone counterweight to the anglo incursion from Toronto.

  The piece is also written as if Morgan’s (later The Bay) and Eaton’s were our only department stores, but this page describes several others that flourished in the era of grand stores a century ago, but are long forgotten.*

  Not a lot of news this weekend: the Journal has a second history piece about Yves Jasmin, the chief publicist of Expo 67.

  *My great-aunt Louisa Ryan was a milliner at Scroggie’s department store on Ste‑Catherine Street, before leaving Montreal to marry her fiancé who’d gone to make his fortune in backwoods British Columbia. Some day I’ll write a very Canadian novel about her.

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  • vasi 23:31 on 2021-11-14 Permalink

    This is great, I had no idea about all those old department stores! Thanks Kate

  • JP 01:24 on 2021-11-15 Permalink

    Would love to read the novel, Kate!

  • Kate 09:14 on 2021-11-15 Permalink

    JP, I’ll need a grant first to go actually look at where she went to live, which is still far from urban centres and difficult to reach. She did it with horse and wagon, possibly only horses and pack saddles past a point, in 1907. Even the drive now would be arduous, and I don’t drive. A small plane would probably be best.

    Spoiler: the husband never made a fortune.