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.
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Kate
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Kate
Two bars in the Plateau were firebombed overnight.
Jeff
At what point will insurers say it just doesn’t make sense to cover montreal bars?
Chris
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
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
@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
>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
Occam rang, Chris. He has a razor for you.
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Kate
More déjà vu: the city has extended the state of emergency it first invoked on December 21.
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Kate
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.
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Kate
The Canadiens are going ahead with a U.S road trip even though a bunch of their guys are already out with “Covid protocol” and they’re bringing along a taxi squad of substitutes. Well, it can’t get much worse, can it?
DeWolf
I find it very strange with news items declare that such-and-such player is now “in the Covid protocol.” It’s some kind of weird Orwellian rhetoric unique to professional sports.
Uatu
At this point you might as well just broadcast a match between two teenagers playing NHL 22 on an Xbox
dhomas
EA already runs simulations of CPU vs CPU seasons and predicts the Stanley Cup winners:
https://mobile.twitter.com/EASPORTSNHL/status/1449404895958913029
Last year’s details:
https://www.ea.com/games/nhl/nhl-21/news/season-simMight as well take actual humans right out of the equation (even the teenage players)!
Bert
There were, and still are, some e-sport racing / motor sport series that ran through 2020 / 2021. Many of them were broadcast through the same established on-line sources as their real world counterparts were or would have been.
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Kate
8,231 new cases of Covid turned up over the last 24 hours in Quebec, as Canada marked two million cases since the start of the pandemic. Emergency wards are still bracing for a rush as hospitalizations rose by 38% since official counts went silent for the Christmas break.
There’s also some gloomy déjà vu with the news of a CHSLD outbreak in St‑Hubert.
Update: Radio-Canada says Tuesday’s count will be 12,830.
Update again: there will be a presser at 1 pm Tuesday.
Kevin
From what I’ve seen we are looking at 75-85 hospitalizations per day since last Friday, and about 240 admissions on Monday
So we are bang on to the curves predicted by health authorities in early December assuming nothing was done.
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Kate
The young man killed while working on the Old Port Ferris wheel on Christmas has been identified. He was Riley Jonathan Valcin, a student at the École polytechnique, and he was simply removing snow when the incident occurred.
Max
Now I *really* don’t like that stupid wheel.
Here’s the gofundme if anyone feels like supporting the kid’s family:
Daniel
Thanks for sharing that, Max.
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Kate
La Presse has a year-end interview with Valérie Plante and her hopes as we go into 2022.
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Kate
Montreal-born director Jean-Marc Vallée died suddenly Sunday in a chalet near Quebec City. He was 58.
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Kate
The tally for Sunday is 7874 new cases and three new deaths.
dhomas
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=20Did someone forget to change the toner on the fax machine before the Christmas break again? 😛
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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.
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