We’ve had 30° days in May before, but this is the earliest three‑day heatwave since records started being compiled in 1893. There’s some promise – why do they always say “risk”? – of a thunderstorm overnight, but no scare warnings on the Environment Canada page.
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Kate
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Kate
A man was found dead under his own car in the Plateau on Saturday, but how the situation came about is unknown. Metro’s version is a little different. Photos of the aftermath (no gore) in the Journal; CTV specifies the vehicle and the location.
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Kate
Radio-Canada says hundreds held a protest march Saturday against Bill 96, as pictured below in the traffic cam screenshot. CTV and La Presse say thousands. TVA makes it hundreds and says it was a protest at Dawson College.
Tim S.
It was thousands. Don’t think it was many thousands. At least there was coverage.
Ian
To be fair I only saw TVA at the Dawson end of things, the size of the crowd became much more evident when the march started.
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Kate
Captured by the Peel and Ste-Catherine traffic cam just after noon.
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Kate
Valérie Plante’s administration wants permanent residents to be able to vote in municipal elections, even run for municipal office, but it will mean getting the OK not only from Quebec and Ottawa but from the Union des municipalités du Québec. Somehow I think opening any election to allophones will not appeal to the CAQ.
Ian
Somehow I think it’s that PM want to run more candidates from France.
Kate
They also must know that they’d raise votes from French voters here, too.
Myles
It seems like a serious long shot. When I was going through the citizenship process, voting was always talked about in reverent tones as a privilege of citizenship. I can’t see the federal government changing its mind about that.
Kate
I agree, Myles. But it’s a pity. Turnout for city elections has been so low that it would be worth breaking this old principle to bring more people into the polling stations – besides the simple principle that anyone who’s living here long term should have a say in how the city is run. The trick is to make people see the benefits of taking an interest.
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Kate
Jean-François Lisée has exceeded himself Saturday, claiming to be a victim of cultural genocide.
La Presse’s Isabelle Hachey suggests looking at the real world, where she speaks to two teachers of French at an English CEGEP about the “improvised” quality of Bill 96.
It seems to be mostly anglos who have analyzed the bill piece by piece and are unsettled by items like how it unilaterally amends the Canadian constitution and the gives the OLF powers of warrantless search and seizure – a terrifying power that far exceeds the needs of a linguistic investigation.
I still don’t know how I’m going to prove I’m a “historic Anglo”. Yes, I was born here and went to school in two English school commissions, but both are defunct, and my father was born in England, which might qualify me as a first-generation Canadian and thus fair game.
I also still go on feeling that since I pay federal taxes, I should be protected by the whole Canadian constitution, and not only the bits the Quebec government cherrypicks for political advantage.
David Senik
“I also still go on feeling that since I pay federal taxes, I should be protected by the whole Canadian constitution, and not only the bits the Quebec government cherrypicks for political advantage.”
Where’s the Like button when you need one? 🙂
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Kate
Thursday Le Devoir’s Alexandre Shields reported that pleasure boaters were getting too close for safety to the minke whales in the river. He tweeted again Friday about this situation.
Friday, La Presse was still reporting on the whales. Warnings have been put out to boats on the river, but nobody has been fined yet, is the impression.
Kevin
Dept of Fisheries and Oceans said Friday that they were dispatching agents to the waters around the island to enforce the 100m distance law.
But the people I know who were whale-watching couldn’t tell if they saw any DFO boats.
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Kate
Ballistic evidence of repeated use of the same guns in incidents around town show that the weapons remain in circulation. In the past, often a weapon would be thrown away after an incident, but – like many other things – guns are now in short supply, and are said to be changing hands for as much as $8,000.
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Kate
A story that was in the news a few months back has been resolved with a ruling that the owners of 3485 Papineau – including Brandon Shiller – can’t evict its many tenants.
Meezly
Some rare good news and another small victory against Goliath Shiller-Kornbluth.
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Kate
Police are struggling with how crime is changing. They were probably trained to understand a kind of top‑down gang structure and now they’re dealing with “disorganized crime” in which no apparent hierarchy can be discerned, and threats are issued on social media and in schoolyards rather than in some old Godfather‑style formal understanding of authority. The only statement here by Longueuil police chief Fady Dagher that strikes me is in the callout, where he says police forces need to work together, but it won’t happen in the short term. But he was not asked why not.
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Kate
A firefighter was injured Thursday when an empty house in the Village went up in flames. The Journal discovers that neighbours had been concerned about the state of the building for years.
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Kate
La Presse went to the Sacré‑Cœur hospital trauma centre to see how shooting victims are handled even if they refuse treatment. A dramatic read.
Ted Rutland has, as usual, relevant things to say: “Apparently, no one thinks it’s a problem that police are sent to hospitals to interrogate gunshot victims – before they’ve contacted a lawyer, while a bullet is still lodged in their body, and while they’re high on painkillers.”
Kevin
Now I want to know how many crime victims get their own lawyers.
It’s common for families of mass shootings and the like to band together and get a lawyer to deal with the silent blue line, or if people want to file a civil suit, but otherwise?mare
The last time I was in the ER, two police officers barged in and started to talk with a patient. I was a bit too far to get the details, so I’ve no idea if they were a gunshot victim, but noticed the staff who dealt with me became very uncomfortable and tense. They didn’t like this intrusion at all.
I understand the police wants to interrogate people when their memories are still fresh, but doing so when patients get active treatment is stupid. People can’t remember shit at the best of times, let alone when they’re still full of adrenaline and drugs.
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