La Presse and TVA have reports on the ongoing trial of Ali Ngarukiye, accused of attacking policeman Sanjay Vig and stealing his gun in 2021. TVA mentions a witness and the evidence that Ngarukiye planned the attack by baiting police with stolen cars, and La Presse gets into his motives to kill police because Canada is a country of nonbelievers.
The trial has already taken three months but seems to be drawing to a close.
The Gazette cites a Chamber of Commerce poll that says nearly 9 out of 10 workers anchored at downtown offices are going physically to the office at least once a week.
I don’t understand the claim that “problems with accessibility to downtown Montreal is the main issue keeping employees from returning to the office.” Downtown Montreal is as accessible as it has always been. Also the stuff about how unsafe downtown is – what? I mean, what?
Updating to add: the Léger survey also said that half of downtown workers feel unsafe.
Nearly or merely? Does accessibility include a workplace that won’t make you sick?
Sorry, typo.
They don’t seem concerned with workplaces as likely sources of contagion.
I think the accessibility thing is linked to this other CCM study on construction: https://montrealgazette.com/business/lack-of-coordination-perpetual-construction-hurting-downtown-chamber-of-commerce
Downtown is, as always, easy to get to by public transit and not easy to get to by car. But our public transit system makes occasional but regular use much more expensive than daily use.
I think it’s true to say that we have more homeless downtown than before the pandemic. Many people see that as a safety issue.
Ah, yes, the Chamber of Commerce, who changed their name from the BOTOMM (Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal). The same people who run Tourisme Montreal and used to run Stationnement Montreal is a deal that gave them 70% of the parking fees. They gave a 3/4 of a million dollar golden parachute when the head of Tourisme Montreal when he left and collect a “tax” of 3.5% on all accommodations in Montreal, even though they aren’t really a government organization and run as a “not-for-profit” which means they dole out all the extra money to management rather than actually spend it to promote Montreal for the businesses that collect the 3.5% tax for them.
Colour me jaded on anything they have to say. They called me during the pandemic offering to help me fill out the paperwork for a CEBA loan for a commission! I count my fingers after talking to them, even if it’s on the phone or via email.
Downtown workers feel *unsafe* going downtown at a time where the word can mean “unsafe from being misgendered or dead-named.”
It’s important to not change the meanings of words too much or else communication becomes very inefficient, rhetoric becomes empty, and differing generations lose the ability to communicate with one another.
Cool story bro.
I’m not your brother, that wasn’t a story, and you don’t get to determine who or what is cool.
So many word definitions to respect…
At least you’re not blaming “Westmount Rhodesians” for the ills of society anymore.
It does seem like you are inventing scenarios though. How many people do you know that when they say “downtown feels unsafe” mean ““unsafe from being misgendered or dead-named.”? It sounds remarkably like a straw man argument that has little to do with what is actually being discussed.
‘Sayin, bro.
@Ian: “How many people do you know that when they say “downtown feels unsafe” …?
I don’t know anyone who says that. From where I am, this is just an empty media meme, thus, it is interpreted as “reality” ONLY by people who seldom leave home or the comfort of their hermetically-sealed travelling devices.
Well THAT is totally reasonable, and I completely agree. Why didn’t you just say so in the first place?
Four people are in custody in connection with the killing of Daniel Langlois in Dominica.
Update: Two people have been charged in the killings.
Emergency wards in Quebec are over capacity with cases of respiratory viruses – respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), flu and Covid together.
carswell, your guy who waved a finger at you over your mask – that man is deluded, and also a snob. Maybe he can stay safely isolated in his Outremont digs and not have to mix with the hoi polloi, but not everyone can do that. With so many bugs around, a mask still makes sense.
After failing to get people to believe the teachers are in the wrong for their strikes, they move to blame the nurses for this problem.
@Kate there are apartment blocks in Outremont too, some even cheaper than adjacent Mile End.
That said, I have noticed a lot of similarities in the type of people that wag fingers at others for wearing a mask.
It’s that they are assholes.
Point taken, Ian, but this guy was definitely not an apartment block resident. Looked like he had just ambled out of brunch at Leméac and, while dressed casually, was in Burberry-type rags that could easily have cost several thousands of dollars.
My wife and I spent all of Sunday and Monday at the Royal Vic emerg and it’s not pretty. The halls are filled with people on stretchers and the waits are very long (11hrs to see a doctor on Sunday, around 8 yesterday when we were promised 2-3). Obviously this varies depending on your case but we weren’t there for a stubbed toe.
A nurse came over to the man we’d been sitting next to for a few hours and said “Hey what are you doing here, you’re supposed to be in the isolation room!”. Wish us and our N95s luck.
@carswell Leméac is overrated and Burberry is SO 2014. Clearly just an asshole 😉
@MarcG Yikes, good luck!
There are some school closures, but the charm of a snow day may be lost on the kids who are home anyway because of the strike.
Power is out in some areas, although mostly off‑island.
The REM had problems Monday morning.
Snow clearance is to begin on Tuesday.
Off island and NDG, as always.
Looking at the Hydro outage map it looks like the south shore really suffered the most in the Montreal region.
On CBC this morning they mentioend that the REM train doors wouldn’t open so they had to run it back to the Brossard station to reset it.
Must be fake news, because if there are outages on the South Shore and I’m not affected? Didn’t happen.
The Hydro map is currently reporting an outage in NDG that started on July 19 😀
We’re in NDG and we never lost power but we have underground entry for hydro so we rarely go out. All streetlights along Sherbrooke were out when I went to work this morning. There was also a fallen tree blocking our street this morning. It had been cleared by the time I got home but another larger tree had fallen about 20m down the block.
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