Google has been ordered to pay $500,000 to a Montreal man after it reinstated a link accusing him of being a pedophile.
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Kate
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Kate
Linda Gyulai reveals how the city made a deal that might be technically illegal to help Devimco get bank financing for part of the Square Children project by taking on a long lease for the Sanaaq community centre and municipal library.
Part 2, Thursday, Gyulai explains why the unusual arrangement is not a lease in the normal sense.
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Kate
The promise was made late last year, and it’s being kept: if you’re 65 or older you’ll be able to ride buses, metro, commuter trains and (eventually) REM in zone A for free as of July. Till then, a monthly pass for people in that age group costs $28.25.
I admit, after news about budget shortfalls at the STM, I thought they might roll this back.
Thursday, the Journal points out how deals for seniors are a confusing patchwork outside of zone A.
Blork
I wish they would extend this into zone B. Geezers in Laval and Longueuil need free transit too!
Margaret
They are going to need more ‘Zones de control’ exit personnel at the Brossard end of the REM if Zone B is not included. 🙁
Spi
Has it been determined what the fare collection mechanism will be on the REM? The skytrain in Vancouver which the REM is based on requires users to tap out.
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Kate
It’s a theme of unsatisfactory buildings and structures today.
The city’s going to have to modify the Plaza St‑Hubert awnings, put up three years ago, to make them less dangerous when snow piles up.
I don’t like to carp, but shouldn’t this problem have been foreseeable by the original designers?
Daniel
Well, I don’t mind carping! This problem should have been foreseeable. The idea was that they were sloped enough to allow snow to eventually slide off. And now it seems like the problem is that snow is, uh, sliding off. (Meanwhile we’re paying for workers to get up there and clear the snow.)
Ephraim
So, I guess I need to be the rationalist… who designed them? Did the city pay for the design? Who’s paying for the failure and the redesign. It’s our tax money, we should at least know who’s responsible for the waste of it… or who got to pocket money
Kate
The only rational excuse might be that the designers were constrained by budget, but if so, was it magical thinking that assumed no snow would ever pile up? Designers and engineers in this climate have got to understand the factors of weight and risk from unusually snowy winters.
Ian
Why, it’s almost as if our genius city admin with their focus on urban planning has no actual expertise in urban planning, let alone understanding the importance of engineering evaluations.
Lest we forget brain trusts like Rabouin are gleeful about putting things into effect without doing studies as “locals know best”.
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Kate
Nearly 200 residents have been forced to move from long-term care homes by the health authorities after their operations were discovered to be abusive last year.
Uatu
Another win for the private sector!/s
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Kate
La Presse reports on two 19th‑century structures: a handsome row of greystones at St‑Hubert and Viger, but which inspection has shown is unstable, which the city wants to demolish, and a building on Ste‑Catherine, already at risk of collapse, which it wants to try to save.
I notice it isn’t just age that makes buildings unstable. Radio‑Canada has a story about condos in Boisbriand built barely 15 years ago, which have been condemned because the construction was fatally flawed.
Ephraim
That building/hotel was in fact put on sale online about a year ago. As I have said before, there are two types of hotel owners… those who constantly do work and move the level of service up and those who run them into the ground. In the case of those who run them into the ground, we sometimes find that McGill buys them for dorms or sometimes they get made into private dorms or in one case that I know of, a Residence Soleil
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Kate
Federal public service workers are on strike Wednesday. CTV has a list of where picketing is happening around town.
Ephraim
I should buy a 6/49… I got my refund paid yesterday!
Ephraim 10:10 on 2023-04-20 Permalink
Google claimed they didn’t have to respect Quebec law… Quebec judge ruled… they did! Important ruling as this will also come into play as we soon will have the world’s strictest privacy laws