The growing number of empty buildings around downtown are worrying firefighters.
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Kate
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Kate
What La Presse calls the heart of the old Champlain bridge was taken down very carefully overnight and will be floated over to be dismantled in Brossard next spring. It’s the largest-scale move of the kind ever done in Canada. Good pics from the Journal.
Orr
The PJCC has a photo archive of the déconstruction of Pont Champlain with many great pics.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pjcci/50726836952/in/album-72157717362014353/Uatu
It’s pretty amazing. There’s this huge counter weight sitting on the super structure keeping everything in place while they strip out the metal.
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Kate
SPVM chief Sylvain Caron wants to reduce neighbourhood police stations because they’re too expensive to run. With a short timeline of how police stations have been added and removed in recent years.
This is one of those pendulum issues. One generation decentralizes, the next one centralizes. Each generation has arguments in favour of their position, although saving money is usually first on the list.
DeWolf
Sylvain Caron: “On est partout sur le territoire et en même temps on n’est nulle part. On est divisés en 30 postes de quartier. Trouvez-moi une ville en Amérique du Nord qui a 30 postes. Ça ne nous aide pas.”
Brooklyn (population 2.5 million) has 34 police stations.
There. Found one.
Ephraim
LAPD 21 stations. NYPD 77 precincts. Vancouver 41 divisions.
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Kate
Journalist Amady John Wesley, who worked for Montreal’s Haitian-language Écoute FM, was killed in an attack outside Port-au-Prince on Thursday.
(I’m not linking to Écoute FM because it gives out with security warnings, but it’s Google-able.)
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Kate
Hospitals are overwhelmed, shelters for the homeless are in crisis because so many of their staff are out sick, the army has arrived to support vaccination efforts, and federal prisons are running short of staff.
Tim S.
I got my booster at Palais des Congres yesterday, and there were a handful of people in uniform (maybe Navy?) wandering around, wiping down surfaces and whatnot. Seemed a bit ‘disaster theatre’ to me, but maybe they’re doing more behind the scenes.
vasi
Hearing some stories fon Twitter from Ontario about the situation in hospitals:
“There is no bed to admit my mother to so Ottawa Hospital is sending her from the pain clinic to the ER. The ER has a 6 day (DAY!) wait to get admitted. My mother, a stage 4 immunocompromised cancer pt, will potentially be sitting on a gurney in the ER for 6 DAYS.”
“One more sign of strain in healthcare system: our kid slipped and hurt her shoulder. We called Telehealth Ontario to figure out if it should be looked at. Waited on hold for 45 mins. A receptionist recorded our number, said a nurse would call us back in 4 days.”Everyone stay safe, and try not to do anything that might possibly lead to requiring medical attention. Unless it’s refusing to get vaccinated, then it’s fine, we wouldn’t want to ration care or anything.
Kate
It’s a good piece of advice, vasi.
Blork 21:47 on 2022-01-07 Permalink
“IS” worrying. The subject of the verb is “number,” which is singular, even if it refers to a plural number of buildings (the object). OMG I just had a grammargasm! #grammarnazi
Blork 21:48 on 2022-01-07 Permalink
If the next comment isn’t “go home Blork, you’re drunk” I’m never coming back here.
Kate 22:10 on 2022-01-07 Permalink
Go home, Blork, you’re drunk. Takes a comma after “home”.
Chris 22:36 on 2022-01-07 Permalink
Better get home soon Blork, coronavirus can spread starting around 22:00, don’t ya know? 🙂
As for the grammar, looks like a case of English vs American: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_grammatical_differences
ant6n 04:03 on 2022-01-08 Permalink
Nice come back Kate,. 😉
dwgs 09:09 on 2022-01-08 Permalink
@ant6n That should read ‘comeback’. 🙂
Blork 12:38 on 2022-01-08 Permalink
This is more fun than watching Netflix!
ant6n 13:25 on 2022-01-08 Permalink
@dwgs
No backtalk you!
Janet 17:25 on 2022-01-08 Permalink
@ant6n
You forgot your comma, you.