A large crowd held yet another demonstration Saturday for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Kate
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Kate
There’s a demonstration planned Sunday at 11:00 at Victoria Square to demand support for public transit.
Update: The demo took place but it wasn’t a big one.
Tim S.
I sympathize, but there at just so many demos to choose from these days.
EmilyG
I would’ve liked to go to it if I’d had the time.
dhomas
I would have gone, but the bus service is terrible on Sundays! 😉
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Kate
A vacant building was the site of a four‑alarm fire overnight, a hundred firefighters called to the scene. The lede says it was criminally set.
Looks like this was the building. The Google Streetview photo shows it’s been abandoned for some time – a building that could’ve been occupied all this time, during a housing crunch. How many more of them are there around town?
BobR
There was also a small fire last night at Copie 2000 on Avenue du Parc near Laurier, which I haven’t seen elsewhere reported. It caused a neighborhood power outage. The building is stone, and the only evidence of the fire I could see from across the street was plywood in the place of the front door (which perhaps was knocked down by firefighters, to gain entry).
Kevin
I used to live on that block!
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Kate
Users who don’t manually lock cars at the end of their trip are leaving a moment for thieves to steal cars from Communauto.
Ian
I guess it’s just joyriders?
Or maybe communauto users trying to score a freebie on someone else’s account?
With all the built in tracking and connectivity I’m surprised they can’t disable the car or set off à 911 call.
I mean, I can do that to my phone from my laptop using free software…
MarcG
Seems like joyriders since the cars are easily found – probably young people who found a cheap way to have some fun. Disabling a car that’s currently being used seems dangerous (unless they could detect that it’s in a safe place, but how complicated would that be?), and calling 911 automatically is overkill when there’s no way to tell if it’s legit usage or not. Needing to ‘sign-in’ every single time the engine is started would be a way to add a layer against this but they would have to make it painless for the user.
Blork
MarCG is correct that disabling a car that’s in use is dangerous. Even the services like OnStar won’t do it until they detect that the car isn’t moving (and I think the engine needs to be shut off).
Ian
That is what I meant but to be fair it would be hilariously awful if the brakes just stopped working or something.
I was thinking of how typically you can’t activate a Communauto without using your pass, and how sometimes it doesn’t work if the satellite signal is compromised by, for instance, freezing rain on the windshield.
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