24Hrs went to visit the SQ’s autopsy lab where bodies are examined to figure out whether people died naturally or were victims of accidents or homicide. Slightly odd photo with the team of five people all smiling happily over a dissection table. Don’t read this while you’re eating.
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Kate
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Kate
After the police chief’s recent statement that four murders in a week is a lot, Quebec public security minister François Bonnardel now steps up to say that seven murders makes for a difficult week.
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Kate
Vermont’s Seven Days site looks at art venues in Griffintown, irritatingly writing “Montréal” and “Québec” while writing in English.
Chris
From a woke / intersectionalist American vantage, spelling it that way is siding with a historically oppressed minority. It shows they are allies by spelling it the way those people spell it. Like spelling “Black” with a capital B.
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Kate
Bon Appétit’s headline suggests it will name the best poutine in Montreal, but in fact it lists ten places, most of them well known.
Ian
Well at least they got Chez Clau and Paul Patates in there.
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Kate
UQÀM is said to be getting antsy over the presence of the pro‑Palestinian encampment in its courtyard after a clash with police on the weekend, and it may be trying for an injunction.
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Kate
The STM rates its metro stations based on how badly they need repairs, with de l’Église, Peel and Papineau topping that list.
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Kate
TVA has more on the fatal triple stabbing Tuesday at dinnertime in a Plateau alley, including that twenty young men were involved. This piece also reveals the names of the deceased – Ahmed Oualil, 15, described as possibly sparking the brawl, Alexandre Vatamanu, 23, and Ulrick Peterson Célestin, 25. (The last‑named is not related to mobster Jean‑Philippe Célestin, according to this report.)
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Kate
Seems every summer a journalist rediscovers the story of the Montreal melon including claims that someone has revived it – but it never appears at the market or anywhere else.
At this point, nobody can remember how the original tasted – it’s a bit like fantasizing over pre‑phylloxera wines, when all you have to go by is verbal descriptions, which are notoriously subjective and vague.
Ian
There are still some pre-phylloxera wines, though nothing as well known as, say, Bordeaux…
vigne vecchie wines still available in some regions, particuloarly around Etna, Sicily.
https://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2018/09/the-prestige-of-pre-phylloxera-vinesThis blog post is a fun read, too:
https://ubriaco.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/pre-phylloxera-vines-rare-but-not-extinct/But the fabled Montreal Melom? Yeah, whatevs.
MarcG
The seeds are easy to find online if anyone wants to try growing them.
John B
I’ve grown them from seed, (I think I got the seed from Ecoumene), I wasn’t super impressed, given the way they are raved about in the press. It was kind of bland and not that sweet. Maybe I should try again.
carswell
Oddly not mentioned in either of the linked-to articles but Chile has no phylloxera. It was so remote in the 1800s that word of the problem arrived before North American vines and rootstocks did, leading to the latter being banned. Phylloxera did make it to Argentina and Brazil but hasn’t crossed the natural barrier that are the Andes.
carswell
IOW, most Chilean vines are ungrafted descendants of original European rootstock.
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Kate
Garlands of artificial flowers can be seen decorating the façades of several Old Montreal enterprises these days, apparently a trend borrowed from Europe, where efforts are being made to stamp it out.
maggie rose
There’s a communal veggie garden at the back of my apt bldg, as well as a gorgeous crab apple tree. Last summer a tenant plonked a 5 foot tall artificial ‘tree’ with ‘perennial’ blue blooms near the tree. Wot! I pick my battles here, but finally wrote a short note for the suggestion box, adorned with some native flowers and pollinators in watercolour.
CE
Im in Old Montreal right now and had kinda noticed the fake flowers but now I’m seeing them everywhere and yeah, they’re kind of tacky.
Ian 19:24 on 2024-05-22 Permalink
I’m sure you get used to it, and really they look like any other medical team that likes their job.
I used to work at a slaughterhouse and still ate baloney sandwiches on my break.
Major Annoyance 23:44 on 2024-05-22 Permalink
Fascinating. They’re a busy bunch apparently, the coroners.
https://www.coroner.gouv.qc.ca/en.html
It must take a special kind of person to study all that medicine, only to deal exclusively with the dead.
Ephraim 15:06 on 2024-05-23 Permalink
But you can write books to supplement your income (at least if you are forensic anthropologist)… or maybe have them make it into a TV show. Then again, I think she’s like 75 now… maybe we hired a new one?
Ian 15:27 on 2024-05-24 Permalink
Putting the “ew gross” in gross anatomy 😀
I was seriously considering forensic dentistry for a while, but I’m probably happier doing what I do now.