The tally for Sunday is 7874 new cases and three new deaths.
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Kate
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Kate
La Presse says there were no Boxing Day crowds on Sunday morning.
For some time I’ve seen pieces saying Black Friday’s popularity has been overtaking Boxing Day – for example, this piece from 2019. So it isn’t surprising.
steph
Black Friday sales this year were unremarkable – stores citing supply chain issues. The boxing day sales aren’t attractive either.
Ephraim
Really, how much more crap do we all really need to buy? If there were remarkable deals… maybe, but there aren’t. And there really just isn’t all the much more that we need, especially since there is no office “fashion show” (not that guys usually care about that.) What more do we need? The air fryer of the year? I have only one thing on my entire shopping list and it’s a replacement for something broken. Even looked at the deals on laptops… nothing exciting at all. Most of the laptops are SSDY (same shit, different year). It’s not like they are selling up new super speedy cheaper laptops… it’s the same laptops with maybe 5% more speed, same SSD, same memory, same OS (update was free anyway). Gotta make me excited if you want my money.
ant6n
Apple m1 laptops are pretty fast, but i guess they’ve been out a while and wouldn’t cause boxing day crowds
Dominic
Can confirm, Costco and Walmart were empty!
j ... tenmillionandone
Was walking around a bit today and I did see modest line-ups outside Gamestop and one other gaming-type store in Plaza St Hubert this afternoon.
dhomas
Lineups at game stores have been happening for months, regardless of Boxing Day. It’s usually when it leaks that a given store has received stock of PS5, which are still in short supply.
DeWolf
La Presse jumped the gun by publishing their story at noon… I took a walk downtown yesterday afternoon and Ste-Catherine was very busy. There was a block-long lineup outside Best Buy. The whole scene was busy enough that I didn’t feel comfortable walking there so I took a stroll down René-Lévesque instead.
Kate
Global actually went and had more of a look at Boxing Day.
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Kate
The Globe and Mail has a piece Sunday on the fate of one calèche driver who lost his livelihood two years ago. The Journal has a summary of the piece. Despite headlines, it’s not so much a survey of what happened to everyone in the trade.
Ironically, the calèche business would probably have been ended by the squelching of tourism in 2020 and 2021, even if laws had not come in to shut it down.
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Kate
The city is preparing a response to bad landlords involving certification for owners of more than six units. I have a feeling that loopholes, numbered shell companies and other legal folderol will thwart this plan.
Ian
As many others have noted this lets anyone who owns a triplex (you know those things most people in central Montreal live in) fly under the radar. Worth noting, many elected members of Projet Montreal are landlords. The fix is in.
Ephraim
The city should incentivize it in some way. For example, you are required to do it to get the lower residential rate and that if you don’t, you are charged commercial as we assume you are renting under AirBnB/monthly or empty.
DeWolf
Are owner-occupiers really the problem, Ian? The real exploitative landlords aren’t the ones who own a single triplex.
Ian
Not all, but some – and a sixplex seems rather arbitrary since the majority of rental stock falls under that cutoff. I know several people that have been renovicted by owner-occupiers or by landlords that owned a single triplex.
EmilyG
Yeah, I was somewhat renovicted by a landlord who owned a triplex. He lived below me and was very abusive to me, in addition to not ever fixing anything before the renovations. I guess there isn’t any way he would face consequences for any of the things he did.
EmilyG
(I meant a sixplex, or a building with 6 units. I’m not sure of the terminology.)
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Kate
City hospitals are back to barring visitors in an attempt to limit contagion coming from outside.
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Kate
A young man working at the Old Port Ferris wheel was seriously injured Saturday afternoon, and is in critical condition.
Mid-Sunday the news is that the young man has died of his injuries. There’s no indication what happened except that he was doing maintenance when it happened. The CNESST is investigating.
dhomas 11:10 on 2021-12-27 Permalink
Also in the news, on Monday it was reported that hospitalizations were higher than reported due to an error:
https://twitter.com/sante_qc/status/1475255975695331333?s=20
Did someone forget to change the toner on the fax machine before the Christmas break again? 😛