Says here that snow removal will begin Sunday morning but I’ve seen tweets suggesting some boroughs may be starting Saturday.
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Kate
Repair work on the pont‑tunnel Louis‑Hippolyte‑La Fontaine (in all these years, has no one ever thought of giving it a shorter, snappier nickname?) will be ramping up soon and continuing through the rest of 2022.
Mitchell
The Hippy Fountain bridge?
dhomas
Most people just call it the “LaFontaine Tunnel”, it maybe that’s just us Eastern Anglos. CTV even headlines with this moniker:
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/construction-to-intensify-in-eastern-montreal-s-la-fontaine-tunnel-1.5768474MarcG
I can hear a traffic reporter saying “The LaFontaine Tunnel is backed up” in my head – not just the Eastern Anglos, me thinks.
thomas
Francophones sometimes refer to it as simply “Louis‑Hippolyte”
Kate
I suppose one could just call it the tunnel. It’s not as if there are any others.
Tee Owe
I was going to say the same, but I thought I would get shot down for the Atwater tunnel
CE
Interestingly, my girlfriend mentioned taking “the tunnel” to someone driving us to PSC last night and I couldn’t figure out why she would suggest it considering we were staying on the island. She then clarified that she meant the Ville-Marie through downtown to Atwater.
Kate
Oh true, I don’t think of the Ville-Marie so much that way, but it really is.
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Kate
A woman taking the bus to work in St‑Michel last week was physically attacked and racially abused by another woman, who’s been arrested. It’s no joke to have your glasses stolen or broken either – too bad there’s no GoFundMe link here to help her pay for a new pair.
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Kate
CTV gives a platform to a guy from Evenko kvetching about the impact of pandemic measures on the entertainment industry: “No announcement has yet been made regarding rules that will eventually apply to summer shows and events. For the cultural industry, this announcement is wholly inadequate. After two years of uncertainty and ever-changing health measures, we are asking for a clear plan…”
Mr. Farkas, the uncertainty is not a game the government has been playing with you. The arrival of Covid, the subsequent waves of Covid variants, are not something over which the government, or indeed any human institution, has control or agency. The government is not obfuscating its plans. IT DOES NOT KNOW how things will go this summer. It cannot tell you.
IT IS NOT ABOUT YOU.
Sorry to be shouty, but god DAMN, people are stupid about this.
Take these little factoids home, Mr. Farkas: More little kids have been hospitalized here in this wave than in any other. Thousands of kids are home sick with Covid, or isolating because classmates are sick. Is your entertainment industry worth making people sick? Making kids sick?
Michael
The government doesn’t do things based on science. There is uncertainty in their actions while the rest of the world opens its doors.
We know from New York contact tracers that less than 1% of infections were happening in restaurants and gyms, yet gyms are the last to open up and the first to close. Meanwhile everyone is jam packed into Walmart / Cosco / shopping malls.
We can’t keep bankrupting our industries (turning them on / off) based on a virus that everyone will eventually get and are adequately protected with vaccines.
Kate
Michael – and I suspect you’re just Phil from Frelighsburg back again – a Quebec City gym became a hub of superspreading. Where people are exerting and exhaling a lot indoors it’s a hotbed of contagion. Please don’t come here with false information.
Kevin
We are not all going to get this virus.
There is a world of difference between being exposed to it and actually getting it.
Kevin
And there is also a world of difference in hospital capacity between Quebec/Canada and other regions.
We are currently coping with the end result of generations of mismanagement.DeWolf
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask for some coherent planning that is set against benchmarks instead of whatever random whim Legault has. Yes, the virus is unpredictable, but so is the CAQ. It’s an incompetent government that has by all measures done worse than almost anywhere else at managing this pandemic.
Tim S.
I generally agree, Kate, but I also think some things are predictable – that there’s stuff we can do outside in summer that we can’t do indoors in winter. I really wish the government would stop hoping that 2019 is just around the corner and put in place a structure, for say the next two years, that, for example, no indoor dining and shows November-March, but outdoor dining and festivals are OK.
I also wish they would publish, promote and stick to their priorities in terms of reopening. It seems to be 1) health care 2) non-essential retail 3) schools 4) activities for kids 5) restaurants 6) clubs shows, gyms. It drove me nuts that the week schools reopened the press conference questions were all about restaurants. Legault and co responded by talking about hospitals, as they should, but didn’t emphasize what a big deal schools were, both in terms of progress and risk.
MarcG
This kind of shoots a big hole in the idea that government is in the pocket of big business. Evenko is owned by the Molsons but the only way they can get the ear of the premier is to write an op-ed?
Nick D
I agree with Thomas here – I think, at this stage of the pandemic, the government should be able to offer a base from which promoters can plan, at least for the summer and early fall (i.e. these are the possible restrictions, but they may be less severe if the public health situation permits) and I think it’s fair for people to ask for that. Shows and cultural events are part of what make Montreal special, and we need to figure out a way for people who put on those shows and perform in them to make a living.
Meezly
For the Jan 31, Ontario gave businesses weeks of advance notice for reopening. I think it was less than a week for QC? Even the Ford administration seems to be more organized than the CAQ.
But to be fair, I haven’t heard of any provinces announcing summer reopening plans yet, at least BC and ON. I could be wrong.
ant6n
It’s not stupid to ask for government to come up with rules that define measures based on different scenarios (or kpi) defining the current status of the pandemic.
Chris
>The arrival of Covid, the subsequent waves of Covid variants, are not something over which the government, or indeed any human institution, has control or agency.
Correct of course. But they *do* have agency over how we react. That’s a choice. It’s not a law of nature that stores need to be closed as a reaction. Especially *after* 90% of us are vaccinated, and we have treatments, masks, distancing, and other mitigations.
qatzelok
**waits to see how Kate reacts to the convoy of pro-opening-up comments**
Kate
qatzelok, let them open up, let’s all get Covid, let’s have a big party. I don’t care, I’m old, I don’t have kids, let the health system collapse, what do I care.
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