We’ll be getting some mild days this week, but another cold snap should follow. We’ve escaped the wave of extreme cold that has enveloped the Canadian west and parts of the United States, and this piece says our January weather has been squarely within the usual norms.
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Kate
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Kate
A man from Blainville is facing charges of drunk driving in a hit‑and‑run early Friday on the Main near Beaubien, in which a woman was knocked down and injured. She is expected to recover.
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Kate
Two city councillors want Griffintown to have a second REM station in the Bridge Street area where the new Bridge‑Bonaventure development is expected to rise over the next few years.
Maybe they can name this one after Camille Laurin or some other prominent Quebec nationalist. My grandfather is still rotating from the naming of the planned Griffintown station after Bernard Landry, but we need to keep him spinning.
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Kate
Urbania has a good interview with Jacques Nadeau, recently retired from Le Devoir but clearly not from photography.
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Kate
The headline to this CTV piece says Montreal study describes COVID-19 health measures as ‘generally effective’ but it’s worth noting that the researchers are a business professor and his protégé, not medical people. CBC also has a look at the study, underlining how the researchers were hoping to counter misinformation from social media.
The researchers looked at the non-medical actions people were taking in the year before a vaccine was available – masks, social distancing, school and business closures and limits on travel – and concluded that, statistically, they helped reduce the number of Covid cases, not just here but worldwide.
…Looking again at pieces about this study, I wonder what they used for a control sample.
qatzelok
There’s no business like Covid business?
Kate
To be fair, chances are these two guys have as good a handle on statistical methods as anyone.
Also, the consequences of a pandemic are an economic concern as well as a social and medical one.
H. John
‘It’s the apathy that’s the concern’ A comment from one of the experts in this article:
MarcG
I think that the next part of the quote is important so that we know where to point the blame: “I think it’s the apathy that’s the concern. And I think it’s coming top-down, it’s coming very much from the government.”
jeather 19:21 on 2024-01-21 Permalink
I saw that -30 and was worried until I read more closely that it was going north.
Kate 20:27 on 2024-01-21 Permalink
Same here!
Joey 10:28 on 2024-01-22 Permalink
La Presse constantly writes these medium term forecasts stories and it always featurss the extreme conditions in remote/northern Quebec in the headline and lede. Five paragraphs later you find out that the coldest it will get in Montreal is something reasonable like minus-10.
Kate 10:56 on 2024-01-22 Permalink
Meantime, other media outlets often give the predicted windchill factor as if it’s the actual temperature.
It’s all clickbait.