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• Kate 13:00 on 2021-12-28 Permalink | Reply  

  Tuesday marks a new high of 12,833 new Covid cases in Quebec.

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  • H. John 19:32 on 2021-12-28 Permalink

    Kate, I hope you’re able to find another Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) so you can re-do the test.

    A number of people on twitter have been vocal about the need to swab the back of the throat, and then the nose.

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• Kate 10:47 on 2021-12-28 Permalink | Reply  

  La Presse’s Daniel Renaud has a summary of shooting incidents in 2021 and some numbers concerning police seizures of drugs and guns. Renaud also has a piece on what he calls the new normal: a rebalancing of power among the old Mafia, the gangs, and the young hotheads.

   

• Kate 10:33 on 2021-12-28 Permalink | Reply  

  Two bars in the Plateau were firebombed overnight.

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  • Jeff 11:06 on 2021-12-28 Permalink

    At what point will insurers say it just doesn’t make sense to cover montreal bars?

  • Chris 14:15 on 2021-12-28 Permalink

    Is ‘firebomb’ really the right word? Doesn’t that term imply that some actor attacked the bar?

    For all we know the owners burnt it down themselves, what with the government forcing them closed seemingly forever.

  • walkerp 14:42 on 2021-12-28 Permalink

    NOOOO! Not Primetime! 🙁
    That really hurts. Was a great place to watch sports and enjoy the weird goings-on. Felt like the last vestige of old Avenue du Parc. Had a lot of good times there. Really sad.

  • Ian 14:57 on 2021-12-29 Permalink

    @Chris I think you forget Primetime has been firebombed before, as have other businesses on Parc. Safe to presume the protection racket is responsible.

  • Chris 00:53 on 2021-12-30 Permalink

    >Safe to presume the protection racket is responsible.

    No, I don’t think it’s safe to say that. It’s certainly a plausible hypothesis, but just because something similar happened once before, does not mean the same has occurred this time.

  • Kate 11:48 on 2021-12-30 Permalink

    Occam rang, Chris. He has a razor for you.

• Kate 10:32 on 2021-12-28 Permalink | Reply  

  More déjà vu: the city has extended the state of emergency it first invoked on December 21.

   

• Kate 05:36 on 2021-12-28 Permalink | Reply  

  A man was shot in St-Léonard on Monday evening. Update: He died. Homicide #37.

  Update: TVA has some background on the victim, whom they say had no criminal history.

  Adding later: The victim, Kevin Batebi, was a manager at the Anatolia grocery store. Metro talked to people in nearby businesses about the affair.