In a pragmatic response to global warming, Sud‑Ouest borough is extending its terrasse season – opening two weeks earlier and closing two weeks later than in previous years.
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Kate
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Kate
The annual anti-police brutality march took place Friday evening, starting in the Village and moving westward. Some bank windows were broken and there was one arrest. La Presse’s photo shows quite a good turnout.
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Kate
The money that Just For Laughs owes to the Duceppe theatre is a
sizablechunk of their budget and is likely never to be paid, and they have stiffed several other businesses and cultural entities around town.So you want to ask, what happened to all that cultural grant money, and how long did the honchos in charge know that bankruptcy was looming, and how many rooms do their houses have?
Global has some bulleted information about money owing to individuals, production companies and – strangely – a single dépanneur owed more than $78,000.
Joey
The $250K JFL owes Duceppe represents 3.5% of their annual budget – not peanuts but not enough to threaten the sustainability of the theatre IMO. Maybe SODEC, which is a more substantial creditor, can redirect some of the funds it will recover to the smaller creditors who won’t see a penny.
thomas
Certainly, I can’t be the only one curious about whether the disappearance of the funds is related to the multiple sexual assault allegations over the past years. Could it be possible that the money was used as a coverup to settle with the victims?
Kate
I don’t think Gilbert Rozon has been directly involved in running the festival for some years now, but I agree, it’s difficult not to wonder whether there’s any connection.
Joey, that’s good, 3.5% is not nothing but JfL should not pull down that theatre company with it.
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Kate
Weekend notes from CityCrunch, La Presse, CultMTL.
The Île-aux-Tourtes bridge will be closed all weekend, so there’s no way to leave the island, we’re all trapped. Traffic notes from Radio‑Canada.
Sunday, part of de Maisonneuve will be closed for the 199th St Patrick’s parade, being held on the proper day for once, and going west to east, unlike the street’s usual direction. Starts at noon at Fort and de Maisonneuve. Notes on street closures for the parade.
Ian
I guess they can’t hold it on Ste Kitty anymore because of construction … when was the last time the parade was on Ste Kitty? Will it ever be reopened?
Kate
In 2019 it was on Ste‑Catherine.
That was counted as the 196th annual parade, but then 2020 and 2021 were cancelled because Covid. (2022’s was scaled down, with people walking but no floats, and last year’s was billed as being “back to normal” with floats.) So I’m not sure why this one counts as 199th since no parade was held for two years.
Ian
I had wondered about that too. I suspect that it might have something to do with the longstanding claim that Montreal’s is the longest consecutively-running St Paddy’s parade in N. America.
Jim
It was also on Ste-Catherine last year.
Kate
Jim, you’re right. But it only extended from Fort to Metcalfe, which I remember thinking was kind of pointless.
qatzelok
Thank goodness that Dorion’s St. Patrick’s day parade is so lackluster.
Missing nothing by not going.
CE
Cool story bro.
Kate
Weirdly, Hudson has had a parade, and a video report by CBC talks about how the closed Île‑aux‑Tourtes bridge may keep people away this year. CBC also has a piece on how Rawdon is planning three days of festivities for Saint Patrick.
I find it all a bit odd. I don’t think most of these people even realize Ireland is an actual modern‑day country – I think for a lot of them it might as well be Middle-earth.
Ian
Why don’t you think there would be Irish people outside the city?
Kate
Me? It’s not a matter of whether its inside or outside the city. But Hudson and Rawdon are small, and does anyone know what they’re celebrating?
I haven’t been to the parade in a few years but I’ve had the oddest conversations with people attending it. The parade marshals wear the United Irish Societies logo with the “Faith and Fatherland” motto, and I asked a couple of them which faith and which fatherland, and they had no idea. Likewise, I talked to one young woman who told me she was Irish. She didn’t sound Irish, so I asked her which part of Ireland she was from, and she seemed to find the question – pointless? Annoying? Completely irrelevant?
I suppose I find it odd that we have this parade to celebrate a nationality most people here don’t share, and if you asked them who the president of Ireland is, and who their prime minister is, and what issues the country is currently facing, they would look at you as if you were trying to make them talk about the rural economy of Narnia.
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Kate
Robots will be administering CPR in Urgences‑Santé ambulances. The fire department refused to keep doing it, saying it was too risky for workers to get thrown around and injured while trying to administer it themselves as the ambulance moves at high speeds.
su
Will firefighters soon not be fighting fires due to the high risk of injury? Also, I don’t understand why paramedics cannot perform CPR in ambulances.
Kate
It’s because they get thrown around inside the speeding vehicle. The patient is strapped down, but the paramedic is not.
su
But there are 2 paramedics
Kevin
In the Eastern Townships they’re trying out harnesses to give paramedics some mobility while being attached https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2049257/ceinture-vehicule-urgence-attacher
PatrickC
Thrown around? Does this happen in other cities? You’d think that if this was a widespread problem, it would have been reported before–or dramatized on one of the many TV medical dramas
Kate
I don’t know, but this is what the item says: “Un pompier de Montréal avait été grièvement blessé en 2020. En novembre 2023, une infirmière avait été éjectée d’une ambulance en Estrie dans des circonstances similaires.”
MarcG
There are tons of results if you search the internet for “cpr in ambulance dangerous”.
Joey
Tough call for the EMTs – do you do CPR, even if it poses a risk (to you, not the patient) or do you usher in your own obsolescence by automating this aspect of your work?
MarcG
I imagine someone would still have to operate the CPR robot.
Blork
Yeah, it’s not like CPRing is the only job a paramedic does. Somebody’s got to stabilize the patient on-site, load them into the ambulance, monitor vitals and whatnot during transit to the hospital, watch TikTok videos for 30 minutes while waiting for a slot at the ER, unload the patient, do the paperwork, etc. And that’s just for cardiac events. Plenty of paramedic interventions (most, in fact) don’t even involve CPR.
bob
If you can decrease workload by automating something, then it should be automated. For example, pilot workload has been decreased by all kinds of systems so that you can fly a massive plane with a crew of two because navigation and engine management are handled by automated systems. Plain old cars have automated systems so you don’t need to worry about stalling when shifting gears, or need to fight with the steering wheel when parallel parking. EMTs have an extremely complicated job, keeping track of too much information delivered too quickly, so if they don’t have to worry about CPR, which is simple but takes attention, all the better for them and their patients.
A CPR robot doe not need to be operated, which is the point of it being a robot. And calling it a robot is a little like saying there is AI in your thermostat. It is a belt with a piston that does the compressions.
We have already automated defibrillators to the point where literally anyone can use them.
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Kate
Some local hospitals are back to making masks obligatory on the premises, but this time it’s for measles.
Meezly 10:39 on 2024-03-16 Permalink
It’d be nice if BIXI could extend its annual membership too by adding two weeks at either end. April 15 seems a long way off.
bumper carz 19:16 on 2024-03-16 Permalink
I just parked my Bixi a few minutes ago, Meezly.
What do mean by “extend the season?”
Meezly 22:33 on 2024-03-16 Permalink
I guess you’re doing the monthly membership that’s new as of this winter? I was referring to the annual membership that normally goes from April 15 to Nov 15.