CTV outlines the changes in pandemic measures coming on Monday.
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Kate
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Kate
The Centre des mémoires montréalaises has an interesting bit Sunday about a 19th‑century restaurant owner who wasn’t Joe Beef. Philip “Dolly” Isaacson had a resto on St‑François‑Xavier in the days when the Canadian parliament was on Place d’Youville. Isaacson was also invited to open a buvette in the parliament building, but so much drinking went on there that he lost the contract.
CBC looks briefly into a historical heist of 1980, in which a set of rare misprinted stamps was made off with. They’ve never turned up.
Radio-Canada has a piece on Chinatown, and how it’s had to defend itself for 120 years. In the 1950s, 5000 people from China are said to have lived in the area, by the mid‑1980s it was down to 500, and now I would be surprised if more than a few dozen Chinese folks lived nearby.
DeWolf
The 2021 census data isn’t available yet, but in 2016 there were 1,120 people of Chinese descent living in and immediately adjacent to Chinatown, out of a total of 3,513 people. The biggest concentration of Chinese people in Chinatown is in the Guy Favreau complex, which is home to 544 people, 58% of whom are Chinese.
Kate
I tend to forget the GF complex has residential space as well as government offices. Thanks, DeWolf.
MarcG
Lots of old folks we probably don’t see much of are living in the https://www.montrealchinesehospital.ca/home_en.html as well.
Kate
A few years ago I realized that one kind of retail still vigorous there were Chinese herbalists, most of whose clientele would be on the elderly side. A lot of their stock is liniments of various kinds for creaky limbs. I don’t know how many are still in business.
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Kate
Michel C. Auger, always worth reading on any topic, looks at the proposed route change for the REM de l’est and sees a glaring problem: the REM will no longer link up with Honoré-Beaugrand metro station. Since the Caisse de dépôt makes money for every passenger-kilometer, it’s in its interest to force people to stay aboard its trains. As Auger says, “the metro, the backbone of public transport in Montreal, is treated as a competitor from whom the REM wants to wrest market share.” An excellent analysis.
ant6n
The REM 2 is indeed running approx parallel to the green line for much of it’s length…
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Kate
A pregnant, unvaccinated woman critically ill with Covid had her baby induced early and is now on life support at the MUHC hospital. Her body, her choice I guess.
jeather
Birth at 30 weeks has a surprisingly high survival rate, which is good news. Sure, pregnant women shouldn’t be forcibly vaccinated. I understand, also, why pregnant women would be exceptionally wary of this vaccine — it was tested on women, and I think even pregnant women, but there was little to no discussion of the effect on, say, periods (a real, temporary, effect), and I’d put money on the previous research in mRNA vaccines more generally not looking at how it affects women, or pregnant women, just like every other drug test. There’s a history — think Thalidomide — here.
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Kate
It’s been a real classic cold January, but we’ll get a brief break from the cold on Tuesday.
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