A second young man has been arrested in the stabbing death of Jannai Dopwell-Bailey last month. Unlike the first suspect, this young man is 18 and can be named. He’s also facing other charges including possessing a prohibited firearm.
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Kate
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Kate
The federal government has tabled a bill meant to make it illegal to obstruct healthcare workers and hospital patients, among other things. It’s something of a game – what’s the anti‑vaxxers’ next move? Full wording of the bill here thanks to reader H. John.
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Kate
In their first formal meeting since the elections, Valérie Plante and Justin Trudeau discussed security vs guns in the streets.
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Kate
Santé Québec’s daily Covid case number is back up over 1000. So, nu?
DeWolf
Zero new deaths today and the same number of people in hospital as two weeks ago. In fact, the number of people in hospital is the lowest it has been in nearly three months.
In this week last year, we had twice as many new cases, five times more hospitalizations and 12 times more deaths. It’s a testament to just how well the vaccines are working. Let’s just hope we can quickly vaccinate kids and get booster shots to everyone who needs one.
Mark Côté
Indeed, Kate your death count is wrong for today. Santé Québec says 0 as DeWolf reported.
H. John
They didn’t go with nu as the name for the new variant. The WHO went with Omicron.
And it’s worth noting, this new variant may not be stopped by the current vaccine.
thomas
They probably skipped over nu because of confusion on the pronunciation. It is actually pronounced ni.
Kevin
Spotted in Belgium from a traveller who went to Egypt, so we’re shutting down travellers from 7 other countries 5,000 km further south :/
And a Canadian caught it in Hong Kong, likely from someone wearing a mask with a valve – you know, the kind that lets the wearer exhale all over others :/Ian
Oh OK I though Kate was making a joke in Yiddish. I’ve been living on a Hassidic street for too long apparently.
Kate
I was making a Yiddish joke, but when I posted this it was still nu. Now it’s omicron. (I’m geeking out now because of “omicron particles” on Star Trek, but let that pass.)
Mark Côté, thanks for the correction.
ant6n
VOY fan, eh?
(I thought it was a German, “und nu?” – “and now / now what?” – then German is just a serious version of Yiddish)Raymond Lutz
Kate, Je sais que c’est platte d’expliquer une joke, mais c’était quoi? Also (as if we needed this) the omicron variant seems to have a Ro AROUND TWO… That’s why we should have adopted an IP waiver for covid vaccines. Fuck Bill Gates.
https://eand.co/why-were-heading-into-another-perfect-storm-of-covid-7f1ac97159f9
Kate
ant6n, at the risk of outgeeking you, they also turn up in DS9.
Raymond Lutz: Yikes.
ant6n
3x in ENT, 1x in DS9, 3x in VOY (according to memory alpha). But nobody is an ENT fan.
Kate
ant6n, ENT had its moments. I didn’t watch it until years after it came out, and it was better than I’d been led to expect, although like any part of the whole epic, individual eps can be real slogs.
ant6n
Agreed.
Chris
But after the crap that is Picard and Discovery, ENT seems great in retrospect!
Ian
@ ant6n Yiddish is the only Germanic language that does not use the roman alphabet. It is very, very similar to Hochdeutsch but has simplified verb tenses and different vowel sounds. Worth noting, in Yiddish, “ייִדיש” pronounced “yiddish”literally means “Jewish”. For comparison in German “Jew” is “Jude”, pronounced “yoo-deh” and in Yiddish it is “איד”, pronounced “yid”. North American Yiddish has a lot more English loanwords, where many of the older Yiddish speakers that came to Canada after the pogroms have lots of Polish and Russian loanwords. I already have basic-to-intermediate German so I’ve been working on learning Yiddish. Given my neighbourhood I’ll have more chance to practice.
For the record I’ve been rewatching VOY an episode a night for a couple of months now. I think it definitely holds up the best of all the series.
ant6n
@Ian
My thinking of the comparison of Jiddish and German comes from the movie “train de vie” (1998), where a fictional small Jewish village during WWII decides to fake a nazi deportation train and “deport” themselves to the Soviet Union in order to escape actual deportation by the nazis. The guy chosen to play the Nazi commander has to take German lessons, and the teacher explains that German is very harsh, and that Jiddish is very soft, that Jiddish is a parody of German, to which he responds: “Do the Germans know we parody them? Maybe that’s the reason for the war” (see full film, with link to that scene here: https://youtu.be/OD57oQ-z9N0?t=1011)Ian
That’s a pretty weird take, Berlin German (for instance) is very soft and Yiddish haas a strong throaty ch sound. Both pronounce “ich” as “ish”, though.
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Kate
The city wants to close a rooming house in Pointe-aux-Trembles which doesn’t fit any of the official categories. The building used to be a seniors’ residence, but was emptied out in the first wave of Covid and now houses a “difficult and motley crew” that provokes complaints for noise and fighting.
The question remains: where else are these people meant to go? Not everyone fits neatly into bureaucratic categories, but they have to live somewhere, if not on the street.
Ephraim
You need someone with an iron fist to run a rooming house and rules behind it. They often attract a motley crue, but they are needed and if you can throw out those disturbances, you get a place where people who may otherwise be homeless can live well and move up into the working force.
What we need isn’t to close them, but to make special regulations that give the manager the power to run them and the police the right to enforce for that manager. We really need more rooming houses, not less.
thomas
Completely agree on the need for rooming houses in the city. However, getting approval on zoning changes runs up against too much local opposition. Perhaps a solution is for Montreal to change the zoning of the area surrounding the Royalmount project to multi-tenant housing?
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Kate
The new mayor of TMR is saying no to condo construction in the Royalmount project. It was a key part of Peter Malouf’s campaign and he regards his election as having also been a referendum on the issue.
Malouf is also firm about keeping the fence along l’Acadie that stops les Monterois from easily slipping across the street into Park Ex for Greek or Indian food.
carswell
Malouf is also firm about keeping the fence along l’Acadie that stops les Monterois from easily slipping across the street into Park Ex for Greek or Indian food.
Sure. That’s the exact purpose of the repellent barrier. 😉
BTW, the English equivalent of Monterois is Townie.
Uatu
Heh. Ironically all the Townie kids I knew moved out to NDG or the plateau because they were so bored growing up in TMR and couldn’t wait to gtfo.
qatzelok
“Boring and snotty… by design”
Losing entry in competition for TMR city motto
ant6n
The Berlin wall was called “imperialist-protective barrier” by the GDR leadership. So It’s stated purpose was to keep those imperialist capitalists out.
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Kate
Here are your driving crises of the weekend.
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Kate
It always seems odd to me that we have a retail festival on the day after a holiday we don’t even observe. Some Montreal retailers are even avoiding Black Friday because of supply chain issues and shortage of staff.
EmilyG
Somewhat bizarrely, the CBC radio announcer said that one of the stores (I think one mentioned in that article, Terre a soi) was closing in part to “protest against communism.”
Maybe he meant “protest against consumerism.”
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Kate
A school dedicated to developing indigenous leaders has opened in HEC Montréal. The courses will be given simultaneously in English and French, which I expect will cause an outcry in QMI‑land.
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Kate
Some voters in the municipal election who refused to lift their masks for a moment were denied their right to vote, according to this Gazette piece.
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