A man died in Point St Charles on Sunday, CTV saying he fell off a balcony, Radio‑Canada that he was pushed down some stairs. Whether the incident was criminal remains to be determined.
Update: There’s been an arrest, but police have not yet declared a homicide.
Montreal Weather Records says this is the muggiest August 7 since records began in 1953.
Sunday’s Pride parade has been abruptly cancelled by the organizers because of a lack of security personnel. It was supposed to start at 1 pm.
Update: People are posting about a spontaneous event taking place at Émilie‑Gamelin instead.
Another update: A parade happened anyway.
There was a single truck representing Afro Pride slowly making it’s way down Ste. Catherine wih a few hundred people dancing / marching behind it with a police escort. They were having a great time.
Interesting, since the original parade was supposed to go along René‑Lévesque.
Experts expect an eighth wave of Covid this fall, but this time it will be different because we’ve learned to “live with the virus.”
Ventilate
Inform
Vaccinate
Relax when cases drop
Encourage mask use
You could run a political campaign on 1 and 2.
Why the hospitals so busy? We’re not doing one and two
Why can’t I get a doctor? One and two
Why do we have a curfew/lockdown/whatever? We’re not doing one and two
There won’t be any new restrictions until after the election. Then papa Legault will come down hard in the name of protecting the health care system.
It was, as Radio-Canada says wryly, a busy night: near midnight, a car was shot at in Rivière‑des‑Prairies, although the driver wasn’t hit. Later, around 4, three men were injured in two separate stabbing incidents near the corner of Crescent and Ste‑Catherine.
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