Seems a bit late for this, but a vaccination clinic for the homeless has opened downtown.
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Kate
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Kate
CTV reports on Quebec adjusting the income limit for social housing but the photo at bottom isn’t an illustration of the story. It illustrates a different problem: a lot of residential buildings stand empty in Montreal, and it’s not just because of AirBnB. I saw so many empty flats and houses while doing census work last summer, all around Villeray and Petite-Patrie.
Ephraim
Which is why we need a registry and a tax on vacancy. A vacant apartment should be assumed to be commercially taxed if not rented, as it’s not residential.
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Kate
A dementia patient in her 90s was sent home barefoot, in a hospital gown from the Lakeshore General on Wednesday. Now blame will be assigned where the real answer is not enough staff, and those who are working are exhausted.
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Kate
Municipal tax payments are going back to pre-pandemic deadlines.
Patrick
Article forgets to mention that Montreal allows payment in 6 instalments : https://montreal.ca/en/how-to/pay-your-tax-account
Joey
Not sure that the newish “you are permitted to pay in installments with interest and penalties” is functionally different than the previous “if you don’t pay on time we’ll charge you interest and penalties.” Perhaps the new “flexibility” allows for better planning of what the extra amount might be, but the bottom line is the same, no? I suppose the odds they’ll auction your property if you’re behind on your taxes might be a little less likely.
Mark
As soon as I had the option to let the bank take care of my property taxes, I jumped all over that. It’s lumped together with my mortgage payments, so no big hit twice a year….and they handle everything. I guess if your house is paid off, you can’t benefit from this.
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Kate
The Université de Montréal is absolving professors of having to wear masks while lecturing.
The Lester B. Pearson board has taken it on itself to keep parents informed of Covid absences.
One of the first places to test wastewater for the Covid virus, Quebec stopped funding the research just as Omicron started to spread here. I can’t imagine this project used up so much research funding that it had to be shut down to save money. I don’t like feeling paranoid that the Quebec government found it desirable to surround the real evidence of contagion levels with a fog of ignorance, but the notion has been creeping up on me for awhile.
CTV reports on healthy children catching Covid.
Manon Massé is in the media Thursday with observations on how the ongoing pandemic is afflicting vulnerable people, especially with community organizations so short of staff. But some people are profiting by doing errands for the non-vaccinated.
Gyms plan to flout the law and open next week despite pandemic measures, and a huge convoy of trucks is converging on Ottawa, bellowing that they want freedom. I do not think these people know what freedom is. As Hegel said, freedom is the recognition of necessity.
Quebec’s new public health director, Luc Boileau, will be holding a presser at 3 pm.
Bob R
“I don’t like feeling….”
I cannot see any public-health directed argument to end wastewater sampling; it has helped in many other cities, and why it would have been stopped here, as a relatively inexpensive way to accurately monitor prevalence, I cannot see.
Dre
It strikes me that “a fog of ignorance” is an apt subtitle for the whole CAQ era.
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