Pierre Bruneau, who’s been TVA’s news anchor for 46 years, has announced he will be retiring in June.
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Kate
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Kate
People who bought into a Lachine condo development have been put off for two years now as the project has stalled. Global somewhat buries the lede here, but there it is: “The person behind the project was Paolo Catania…”
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Kate
While the Supreme Court wrestles with the question whether consecutive life sentences are cruel and unusual punishment, another killer has been denied escorted outings from prison. Gilles Pimparé and another man were convicted of the 1969 killing of two teenagers, whose bodies they threw off the Jacques-Cartier bridge. This 2017 Radio‑Canada piece gives a bit more of the background but I can’t see any account of whether Normand Guérin has ever been granted any freedom from prison, which he was seeking that year.
Ephraim
Makes me wonder if they have psychopathy and if that is a consideration. Society’s chance of reforming anyone in prison is almost nil if they have psychopathy. There are many effective members of society with psychopathy; car salesmen come to mind, but it’s a lot more difficult to tell if the reform is working because they can switch off their empathy.
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Kate
François Legault has caught Covid.
DeWolf
The second Omicron wave is here. Anyone who didn’t get it the first time around will probably get it now.
I got it a couple of weeks ago, almost exactly two months after my third dose. For me, it was a pretty run-of-the-mill cold that cleared up in a few days, but it seems to affect everyone differently. I know vaxxed-and-boosted people who had more severe symptoms that lasted for 10 days or more.
My advice for everyone right now: get your monthly quota of rapid tests and make sure you always have five day’s worth of food in the fridge just in case you get sick and need to isolate. And if you feel the slightest cold symptoms, even if it’s just a scratchy throat, take a test and stay home – even if the test result is negative. I tested negative on the first day of my symptoms but then positive a day later.
Chris
>I tested negative on the first day of my symptoms but then positive a day later.
Which is typical, because the false negative rate for home tests is very high until day 3 of symptoms.
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Kate
Gilbert Rozon – no, he hasn’t gone away yet – is claiming to be the victim of premeditated character assassination by Julie Snyder and Pénélope McQuade. He’s suing them for defamation.
And he still thinks he’s quite the charmer. “J’aime beaucoup la gent féminine, j’ai toujours été entourée dans mes bureaux de femmes, énormément de femmes.”
Update: Snyder and McQuade won’t be able to appeal their case claiming that Rozon is trying to hush them up.
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Kate
The Gazette helpfully lists the Montreal-area neighbourhoods with a sizable anglophone population – and what houses cost there.
DeWolf
It’s not in Montreal, but I’ve always been curious about Shawville, which is the most anglophone place in Quebec: 88% of the population speaks English as a first language and 67% are unilingual – ie, unable to speak French. The OQLF’s nightmare.
John B
I had a renoviction scare a few months ago, (now resolved, or at least delayed for a while), and was looking at homes pretty much anywhere in Quebec. There are some beautiful homes in Shawville for less than the price of a 1-bedroom condo in Montreal.
CE
I know a couple people from Shawville. My impression of the town is that the border between Quebec and Ontario was drawn a little too far east in that area. Although, it’s a weird part of the country because nearby, there are some majority francophone towns on the Ontario side.
An OQLF inspector was famously run out of Shawville back in the 90s. I think many residents are still proud of the incident.
carswell
Had heard of Shawville but it had never really registered. Thank dawg for Wikipedia.
Located about 75 km (50 mi) west of Gatineau on the north shore of the Outaouais River. Named after James Shaw, who promised to donate 0.8 ha to the community, a bargain ticket to semi-immortality. One of the only Quebec municipalities without a Catholic church.
DeWolf
Wakefield is another place that is surprisingly anglo, to the point where shopkeepers weren’t able to serve francophone customers in French. Chelsea is just down the road but more bilingual in a kind of west end Montreal or Brome County way.
Kevin
DeWolf
When did that happen?
I was in Chelsea/Wakefield last Labour Day and found the vast majority of restaurant and store staff were francophones — even the guy who had set up a kiosk for jewelry on a sidewalk near the river.DeWolf
Last time I was there was in February 2019, so it’s been a few years. Chelsea was definitely more francophone, but bilingual in the sense that there seemed to be a pretty even split among customers in the various cafés and restaurants I visited. In Wakefield, I was in three different businesses that were run by unilingual anglos, which I found surprising. And most places greeted me in English right off the bat, no “Bonjour hi” or anything.
Looking at the census, Wakefield is about 75% anglo, about 35% unilingual anglo. I was there in the winter, so I’m sure in the summer businesses need more help and most of the people they’d hire would be francophones.
Mark
Lots of people from Ottawa and surrounding areas in Eastern Ontario have cottages in that part of Quebec, so many in fact that when they shut the interprovincial bridge at the start of the pandemic, it became a bit of an issue, as those folks who couldn’t go check on their places, make repairs, etc. So a fair bit of the English heard in that neck of the woods is from seasonal cottage owners.
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Kate
Someone has unofficially told La Presse that the shots heard Tuesday night in Ahuntsic had nothing to do with Thomas Trudel. The assumption was made because a couple of friends of the murdered teenager happened to be in the vicinity.
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Kate
The city is suing a firm called AECOM for allegedly making errors and omissions in the plans for the SRB-Pie-IX, problems which could cost the city upwards of $1.5 million.
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Kate
The blog’s going to go through a couple more adjustments, sorry about that.
Update: And here we are. Regular reader MarcG has been of inestimable help to me in sorting out the coding under the hood that was causing massive slowdowns yesterday. And thanks all for your patience.
MarcG
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Danger lies this way
walkerp
omg threaded comments the end is nigh!!!
Blork
Big thumbs up for MarcG!
Ian
Big thumbs up to both of you! Looks great. 🙂
walkerp
Great work! Thanks MarcG and thanks as always, Kate, for the site.
Kate
Unthreaded those comments : )
Tim
Am I the only one who has to rotate their phone to read this site? Any chance of a more convenient layout for mobile browsers?
MarcG
I could probably come up with a few quick and dirty CSS styles that would make it easier to use on phones.
dhomas
It seems to be working exactly as it was before. The downsides are that there is not really a mobile mode (as it was before), and it no longer remembers my name/email (like before). @Tim, I find that setting my mobile browser to “desktop mode” strangely gives me a better layout than leaving the default setting. This was the case before, as well.
dhomas
Oh, there’s a checkbox to remember my info! There’s one problem fixed!
qatzelok
Welcome back, Kate!
Meezly
Glad to see this back up!
dhomas
Today, the site is displaying much nicer on mobile, too! No need to set my mobile browser to “desktop mode” anymore. Great work! Not only did you get the site working again, but it’s better than ever!
Kate
That’s all down to MarcG, dhomas. He’s the hero of the hour around here!
MarcG
I’m happy to be able to contribute something besides snarky comments.
Tee Owe
Glad you’re back thanks to everyone who helped
Tim
Wow! What an improvement! Great job!
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Kate
The Victoria bridge is closed till Friday for an emergency inspection.
Update: The Jacques-Cartier bridge now says it’s back open already.
DeWolf
Good to know the bridges check up on one another.
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Kate
Thanks to reader MarcG the comments are now displaying, although I’m going to have to tighten up the whole display of this blog, as you can see.
But it’s working. Sort of.
Yeah. Not quite back yet. Thanks all for patience.
Daniel D
I can also confirm the RSS feed is still working (in case anyone aside from me still uses RSS!)
dhomas
RSS user here, too. Still working on my end.
The blog now also does a better job of remembering my name and email address. It also displays better on mobile, though the design is currently quite… minimalist. 🙂
Good work helping to get things working again, @MarcG!Blork
Well, at least it looks the same on mobile. 🙂
carswell
Whoa! What happened?! Happy days are here again? Gratitude and applause!
Kate
Not quite yet, carswell. I’m still tinkering and there may be a few crazy moments before I can say it’s done.
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Kate
The pandemic deficit of the Agence régionale de transport métropolitain (ARTM) – which includes the STM’s budget – will be paid off by Quebec and Ottawa.
steph
Anyone else impatiently waiting for a type of monthly transit pass for ‘hybrid workers’?
Ant6n
There’s the 10 trip offers, which last year was expanded to include a 10 trip zone 1+2 offer.
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