In January, there were 3666 fewer restaurants in Quebec than two years previously. Le Devoir talks to a couple of Montreal restaurateurs who had to close up shop, and sees how they’re doing.
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Kate
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Kate
It’s going to be a bit of a mess. I have to abandon the old WordPress theme (the template on which the blog runs) and install a new one, because the old one was not updated for a long time and was causing errors. You’ll see some messy stuff as I get on with this.
There’s a problem, though: it seems no new theme carries through the links from my existing posts. So the posts will exist before a certain date, but not linked to any news stories. I don’t know why not but we may have to go on without them.
Think of this as orange cones in cyberspace.
MarcG
“it seems no new theme carries through the links from my existing posts” – this doesn’t really make sense and shouldn’t happen.
DisgruntledGoat
Shit! Hang in there
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Kate
Shots were fired Tuesday night in the north end, and two of the young men who were apparently targeted were friends of Thomas Trudel, the young man who was shot dead in the street in that part of town in November, and were with him when he was shot.
carswell
Oh noze! All of a sudden, JdM has stopped letting you view even linked articles in a browser with an ad blocker. At least the unblock-or-else message is good for a laugh: “Soutenez Le Journal et ses artisans…” (my emphasis).
MarcG
Works for me using uBlock Origin.
carswell
@MarcG I’m using the latest version of Opera on the latest version of Windows 10. Opera’s native ad blocker is turned off. The only add-ons (extensions) I have are LastPass, Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin. Even with Privacy Badger disabled, I’m still getting the unblock-or-scram message whenever I visit the JdeM site.
dhomas
I’m getting it, too. On both the JdM and TVA articles on mobile using a network-wide ad blocker (https://pi-hole.net/). Very annoying.
Joey
Reader view on mobile usually allows you to read the text without the nagging overlay imploring you to turn off your ad blocker. I use Mercury Reader on Chrome (desktop) to get text-only versions of websites, like most news sites, that fill your screen with junk; it renders JdeM pages just fine. Best part is that it sits in your toolbar so once you load a page with the nagging box, you just need to hit a button and it does its thing.
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Kate
A staunchly pro-Russian professor at the Université de Montréal is causing bad feeling at the university, which says he is not currently teaching. Questions of freedom of expression vs. teaching blatant falsehoods are being raised.
carswell
Not going to link to it, but the guy’s Twitter feed is something else. Delusional, propagandistic and nasty. He also has a French Wikipedia page, which unfortunately hasn’t been updated to reflect the
fact that he’s an offensive, misinformation-spewing Russian shillcontroversy.Raymond Lutz
“Questions of freedom of expression vs. teaching blatant falsehoods are being raised.”
??? Non, il n’y a pas de question à soulever: on ne doit pas enseigner de faits mensongers! Il faut renvoyer ce professeur, ou le sectionner sévèrement et rétablir les faits auprès de ses étudiants et de son auditoire. Je peux peut-être aider… Quel principal mensonge lui reproche-t-on?
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Kate
Quebec is asking its health service to prepare for a sixth wave of Covid, this time the BA.2 variant, and a fourth round of vaccine, at least for the elderly and vulnerable.
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Kate
The area being described here as the Bridge-Bonaventure sector will be developed to contain 4000 new housing units including 1270 described here as “social and affordable” units. I’m seeing this more often: not “social housing” but “social and affordable” which is weaselly. All it takes is a minor turn to the right at city hall, and those units become only affordable in the federal sense.
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