A group of people connected with Mile End Memories have created a commemorative booklet (PDF) for S.W. Welch’s bookstore.
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Kate
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Kate
Special constables in the metro will be equipped with a gel form of pepper spray to subdue violent people in a manner less likely to disrupt services.
MarcG
“For me, pepper jelly, I put it on my eyeballs”
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Kate
The CHUM has brought back a mask mandate inside its hospital. The CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal has also brought it back for its establishments.
Nicholas
The CHUM is part of the UdeM RUISSS (the other three being McGill, Laval and Sherbrooke) and does not have an associated CIUSSS. The CIUSSS that also reinstated a mask mandate is Centre-Ouest, which has the Jewish and Mount Sinai hospitals and also some CLSCs and CHSLDs, among other facilities. Clear as mud, huh?
Kate
Thank you. I’ve rephrased my post a little to make it as clear as it can be in 2 sentences.
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Kate
There will be a march and other events to mark Truth and Reconciliation Day. People wear orange t‑shirts for the day.
I’m a little dubious about their slogan “every child matters” because it echoes the phrase “all lives matter” that was spawned to co‑opt and blunt the impact of “Black Lives Matter”. But the “every child” thing clearly has meaning in this new context. (But see comments below.)
Tim S.
Just because a slogan is used by people you don’t agree with doesn’t change the meaning of the words. The world (on social media, at least) is getting polarized enough at it is, we don’t need to surrender common vocabulary.
Meezly
Every Child Matters was established some months before BLM. Unlike “all lives matter”, “every child matters” is clear in its message and leaves little room for doubt.
Kate
Every Child Matters was established some months before BLM
I did not know that. Thank you, Meezly.
bob
“Every Child Matters” has been used for decades in program names, report titles, etc., in educational and social services programs especially.
Kate
bob: educational and social services programs…
Which would be why I’d never seen it, I guess. Not in that world and haven’t worked on material for it, either. Thanks.
Tim S.: I don’t disagree with anyone mentioned in the post. I was only thinking of the relative weight of words.
Meezly
“Every Child Matters” may have been used for decades in other initiatives for improving the welfare of vulnerable children, but around 2013, this also became the slogan for Orange Shirt Day as a way of saying First Nations and indigenous children matter too.
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Kate
Since 2000, more than 40 pedestrians have died because of truck blind spots. Most victims have been women. Technology could solve this problem, but authorities are hesitant to require trucking companies to install the expensive devices. Cheaper to kill a few women each year.
Stephen McCluskey
Even the newer STM buses have signs on them warning that the buses have blind spots.
https://www.stm.info/en/info/rules/travelling-safely/road
Surely with modern technology this could be remedied rather than just telling other road users ‘watch out! I’m driving a 15T vehicle and I might not be able to see you so stay out of the way’
Kate
It can’t hurt for pedestrians to be more cautious of the blind spots. Even people who drive all the time won’t necessarily know what it’s like in the cab of a big vehicle.
Upgrading big vehicles costs money, so the province is unwilling to write new laws into the highway code. They didn’t even want to mandate side flaps for big trucks, as I recall, when a kid got drawn under a snow removal vehicle a few years back.
Joey
How many trucks could be retrofitted with the $90 million we’re about spend redoing Camillien Houde?
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Kate
Shots were fired early Saturday at an Ahuntsic business, where three people were working. As usual, our media coyly refrain from telling us which business, while TVA’s video clearly show us that it’s Achtarout, a bakery on Charles-de-LaTour.
Nobody got hurt.
The bakery was the target of a firebombing in May.
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Kate
The Centre des mémoires montréalaises opened this week, picking up where the Centre d’histoire de Montréal, on Youville Square, left off in 2020.
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Kate
There’s little information here, but the BEI are seeking witnesses to a police incident in Ahuntsic on Tuesday. CBC mentions nonchalantly that “the BEI investigates when someone is injured or killed during a police operation.”
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Kate
A climate march filled Park Avenue near the Cartier monument on Friday afternoon. With no consciousness of irony, CTV headlines it as Climate protesters block traffic.
Update: There was one arrest.
marco
Not sure where the irony is. I’m sure drivers would just turn their cars off while idling like always.
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Kate
It wouldn’t have occurred to me that someone threatening suicide in the metro would have to be persuaded not to leap from a height, but this account tells about a man who climbed up a ventilation shaft and was coaxed down after hours of effort by two STM workers, who have since been honoured.
Tux
What caught my attention was “la trappe qui mène à l’extérieur est soudée, pour éviter les intrusions dans le métro” – aren’t ventilation shafts supposed to do double duty as emergency exits in case of fire? Surely welding their access doors closed would be dangerous / present liability issues?
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Kate
Weekend notes from CityCrunch, Montréal Secret, 24Heures, Sarah’s Weekend List, CultMTL.
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Kate
Although the writers’ strike is over in Hollywood, the production drought continues here, with technicians either leaving the trade, or accepting that they need to look elsewhere to make a living.
MB
Interesting article. But cites so many different views on the cause that I’m left confused about how so many people and organizations aren’t converging on a clear narrative about what’s going on and why.
The timing is interesting that the production workers union in Quebec, IATSE, is in negotiations with their counterparts among the employers. And that the anglo actors will soon be in negotiations for the Canadian equivalent of the US agreement that’s not being struck over.
Reducing jobs is one of the most effective tools the employers have in negotiations with the unions and the timing lines up…
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Kate
SPVM officer Sanjay Vig testified in court Thursday, giving his version of what happened in Park Extension in January 2021. Whether he was attacked while writing a ticket or afterwards may never be determined with certainty. His testimony continues Friday.
walkerp
So I do believe that he was attacked from behind and truly thought that it was Camara who attacked him (as that would be logical to assume it’s the guy you just ticketed and not someone else who came out of the blue). However, I suspect he is totally lying about Camara’s behaviour to defend his mistake.
And why is there zero mention of Ngarukiye’s motive? Was he just a psycho? I read rumours that Vig was a known tyrant and extorter of the people of that neighbourhood so you wonder if this was a planned revenge.
walkerp
And as to the timing of the attack, wouldn’t that be confirmed by whether or not Camara actually had the ticket in his possession?
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Kate
Managers with the City of Montreal were quietly paid a double bonus earlier this year, officially to make up for no bonus in the pandemic panic year of 2020, and also to keep them from deserting for plummer jobs on the private side.
The unions are not happy.
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Kate
Both Ottawa and Quebec are sinking billions into a Swedish‑owned battery plant to be opened near Montreal – across McMasterville and St‑Basile‑le‑Grand on the South Shore. As François Legault said (I also heard this on radio): C’est gros en tabarouette.
Faiz Imam
Whats interesting about this vs some of the other recent investments is this is reasonably close to the city as opposed to near remote towns which often is what happens with these big industrial sites. Example the copper foil factory being built in Granby, the VW plant in St-Thomas Ontario, or the battery plant in Becancour.
This place is basically 10 to 20 mins drive to most of the south shore, and its a 20 mins bus ride from Longeuil metro. (also 20 mins bus from the REM terminal)
So a lot of workers in the Montreal area can access these jobs.
Meezly
I wonder what kind of fumes and toxic waste a battery plant would generate.
Kate
C’est gros en tabarouette.
walkerp 21:21 on 2023-09-30 Permalink
That was very nice.
Meezly 10:51 on 2023-10-01 Permalink
Thanks for sharing that!
JP 13:52 on 2023-10-01 Permalink
Yes, I really enjoyed reading this.