On Monday, Coroner Géhane Kamel closed the year-long inquiry into the Covid deaths in CHSLDs in the first wave of the pandemic early in 2020. Kamel’s frustration with never getting a straight story was apparent.
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Kate
Antimask hero François Amalega Bitondo was arrested Sunday night at the Radio‑Canada building as François Legault arrived for his appearance on Tout le monde en parle. Bitondo is banned from approaching the premier, so was arrested for breaking conditions.
Blork
Until François Amalega Bitondo came along I was always in the camp of “you can’t arrest someone just for being an idiot.” I am now reconsidering that position.
azrhey
@Blork you definitely shouldn’t arrest someone for BEING an idiot. But they could and should arrest someone for DOING idiotic things.
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Kate
Snow removal will begin Tuesday morning. Metro offers tips on how to clear snow without hurting yourself.
MarcG
The snow in Verdun has been getting cleared all day, am I missing something?
denpanosekai
maybe main arteries. also there’s a difference between removing and clearing.
Kate
MarcG, actually being carted away? Or plowed?
The sidewalks in Villeray have been plowed, but there are big piles now between road and sidewalk.
MarcG
Ah, gotcha. It’s plowed, which as a pedestrian seems good enough to me.
MarcG
A young(ish), able-bodied, pedestrian with a new pair of boots and no bags to carry, to be clear.
walkerp
Seeing Montreal got 17 cm total in the end. I told you! 🙂 Don’t buy into the hype.
Though Ontario got 46. Not fair!
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Kate
Outremont metro station will be closed till August for major repairs and the installation of elevators.
Max
Funny that La Presse would only announce this now. The STM’s page says the station has been closed since the 10th.
Kate
Maybe they just needed to have a minimum number of stories up, and it fitted. In any case, as noted somewhere in the piece, there’s been work going on at the station for months already. I walked by there toward the end of the summer, and while the station was operating, getting into it was a puzzle because it was all enclosed in boards and ramps.
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Kate
The teenager accused of stabbing a teacher at John F. Kennedy high school in December remains behind bars, but little else can be revealed because he’s a minor.
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Kate
Christopher Curtis reports on the filthy and inhumane conditions at Bordeaux Jail. Surely doing time should not include cohabiting with vermin and suffering from medical neglect?
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Kate
The total Covid deaths in Montreal – a figure not released on weekends – was reported Monday at 5022. More than five thousand Montrealers lost to this thing.
At the same time, cumulative reported and official cases since the start of the pandemic in Quebec have broken 800,000, reported as 801,153. But rapid-testing is not being reported, so the actual count of infections is probably considerably higher.
Update: François Legault is asking government employees to work in hospitals to replace nurses, doing the less skilled parts of nursing work.
Mark Côté
Early on in the pandemic there were estimates that the actual real case numbers were probably 3-4x higher than reported in many places. If that’s true, we’re looking at 25% of the population of Quebec having caught covid by now
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Kate
The Lachine recycling centre has sent thousand of tons of material from recycling bins straight into the trash since it opened in 2019, because of problems with its machinery.
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