Maxime Bernier led a protest Saturday afternoon against public health measures and vaccine mandates. A photo report from CultMTL.
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Kate
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Kate
A drunk driver caused five crashes Friday evening on the Met in Anjou.
Raymond Lutz
Blork?
Tee Owe
Not fair, even in jest ,,,,,,,,,
Blork
No worries. I was going to post something similar but Raymond beat me to it. 🙂
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Kate
Not one but two recent stories of deplorable behaviour by locals have circulated internationally: the racist tirade in the Nuns Island grocery store made the Daily Mail and the plane party people the BBC and the New York Times. I could cite many, many more from other sources in other languages. Let’s just say they don’t reflect well on us.
Update: I see the UK Independent also has the story – filed under US Crime News.
EmilyG
I heard someone on a podcast say that the party plane thing was a typically Quebec news story. I was worried about that, the story reflecting bad on other Quebec residents.
Max
This Awad guy is truly a special case. Not only can he not bring himself to apologize for the behaviour of his group, he seems to be spending his time planting self-aggrandizing drivel like this on the web:
Max
Here’s another one. The guy is Trump-level narcissistic.
MarcG
Those URLs alone are cringeworthy
Max
“Working tirelessly to get everyone back home safely as quickly as we can” indeed. I’m embarrassed to share the planet with this freak.
Ok, I’ll stop spamming you with this crap now.
Uatu
This is the type of empty jargon filled nonsensical articles in magazines like Ocean Drive that enable start-ups like Theranos.
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Kate
It isn’t surprising at this stage of the pandemic that a hotel doorman’s work is precarious. The Globe and Mail talked to a man who has worked as doorman at the Queen Elizabeth but is currently on hiatus because of the curfew. On the other hand, this writer quotes Richard Martineau with no sense of irony.
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Kate
Coming a bit late, here are the driving crises of the weekend.
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Kate
It’s not a record, but Saturday’s report of 44 new Covid deaths in Quebec is the highest since before vaccinations began. Hospitalizations are also rising. The Quebec College of Physicians wants to see stricter measures put in place to limit the activities of the non-vaccinated.
La Presse talked to various health professionals about whether the virus has won. One interviewee says that if we’d had Covid in the 1980s or 1990s, it would have been carnage, presumably because we didn’t have mRNA vaccines then. The overall message is moderately hopeful. On the other hand, the Gazette says the virus is in charge, and that public messaging has become confusing and compliance uncertain.
Le Devoir says that while one out of ten Quebecers is not vaccinated, when it comes to Covid fatalities, it’s one out of three.
Meezly
I’ve been looking at the weekly epidemiological report and Quebec is the worst performing province in every way, ie. daily cases, deaths, hospitalizations, you name it. Our weekly incidence rate per 100K is almost twice that of Ontario.
What gets me is that there are intelligent former and current colleagues that keep defending the CAQ, but if they bother to even glance at the data, it speaks for itself. It’s evident that the CAQ clearly messed up.
jeather
Without suggesting that the CAQ has done anything correct except have a mask mandate in most public areas, we do have a higher per capita PCR test rate, which is affecting our case rate. We have higher death and ICU rates over the past 2 weeks, though not as startlingly high as for case rates, which suggests probably we’re just undercounting somewhat less. (Tara Moriarty on twitter has done some math about this — not to say Quebec is doing well, just that we’re not doing as comparatively badly as it seems.)
Chris
Is it even comparing apples and oranges? Even stats like “hospitalizations” are ambiguous. Are they hospitalized *for* covid? or were they found to be positive after being admitted for something else? At the Jewish, about 30% of hospitalized patients *with* covid were not admitted *for* covid, they just tested positive because everyone gets tested as a matter of policy upon hospitalization. So for example you come in for labour, have no covid symptoms, but test positive, then you get added to the stats. The Jewish at least has started splitting these numbers.
Kevin
Chris
That is a distinction without a difference: we still need to treat patients with Covid as the infection vectors they are.
A few years down the road I think the masses are also going to realize the long term effects of this disease, and that the initial infection is, in many, a warning sign.jeather
Don’t forget there is the hospitalized causing covid group, uninfected people who get it from the plague pits that are hospitals.
Meezly
@jeather. I found the Tara Moriarity analysis, thanks for that. I saw the data but lacked the know-how to put it in more perspective.
Meezly
Now that the province has ended PCR testing for the general public, it’ll be interesting to see how this impacts our data.
Chris
>we still need to treat patients with Covid as the infection vectors they are.
True.
>That is a distinction without a difference
Not true. Meezly was comparing numbers between Ontario and Quebec. I was saying that may be an apples to oranges comparison if one province counts differently. ex: 500 covid hospitalization in Quebec but only 400 in Ontario. But if Quebec’s published stats with patients *with* covid and Ontario’s stats are patients *for* covid, then you can reach the wrong conclusion about who is doing better/worse.
Kevin 19:45 on 2022-01-08 Permalink
It’s not like he’s allowed to go anywhere else…
Ephraim 09:51 on 2022-01-09 Permalink
What else has he got to do. Is he even employable? He can’t even get elected anymore. He’s worked in law, finance and banking. Who could even employ him now, without a backlash?