The ex-husband of Gisele Betondi, stabbed to death in front of her kids in 2022, was found guilty Thursday of murder in the first degree. Before he killed Betondi, Hosea Amorus Puhya already had a record of domestic violence.
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Kate
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Kate
Temperatures have been quite pleasant lately but if you take a peek at the weather forecast for next week, you’ll see a high of 36°C predicted for Tuesday. That could break records.
…Friday morning, next week’s highs were adjusted down to 33°. Still hot, though.
Some weather notes from CTV.
Kevin
Yeah, I’ll be setting up the AC Sunday…
jeather
I guess 36 is better than 33 but I’m going to melt.
Blork
jeather, I think you’re already melting because you said that backwards. 🙂
jeather
You’re quite right, whoops.
central dogma
time to hide in my gloomy chilly basement.
Ian
Sounds like a good day to catch up on my hanging out at the library.
Kate
Not a bad idea. I don’t have AC, and although my place tends to be tolerable with windows open and blinds closed, 33° is pushing it.
Mozai
I broke down and got a portable A/C unit — weird windows means no window-box. During a heat wave it pulls a litre of water every 1-2 hours out of the ambient air; can’t leave it running all night because I have to empty the bucket every few hours.
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Kate
The offer by McGill University to the people at the pro‑Palestine encampment has been called laughable. The university’s offer to “review its investments” was evidently seen as weaksauce by the encampment stalwarts.
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Kate
Golf courses have benefited from an exemption to the city’s pesticide ban, but that’s going to end next year.
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Kate
No one could read this piece without seeing it as the top boss of Formula One calling Mayor Plante on the carpet for perceived failures at this year’s event, notably the rain on Friday, and the track invasion at the end of the race by fans. No mention of terrasses in this piece, though.
More on the story in Global.
Friday, QMI is really wallowing in the deep disgrace to the city occasioned by the race, and even La Presse has a look at it. Ironically, if you look around Formula One sites, some people are calling the actual race the best and most exciting of the season.
A tweet from Taylor C. Noakes on Friday is good: “this is starting to look a lot less like a Valerie Plante problem, and more a rich entitled assholes problem.”
CE
They’re blaming Plante for the rain??
I had some guests stay at my place for the rain so I hung out with them and other race fans and everyone seemed to agree that it was an excellent race (although everyone had very muddy shoes).
jeather
I too had friends in for the race, and they said it was a good race. I even watched some of the Saturday stuff on tv. That said leaving the race was a huge fucking mess, I think it took them almost 2 hours in line on Saturday to get into the metro. I saw pictures of it, looked very unpleasant.
Bert
Without knowing specifics of the contracts and operations, I think it a bit unfair to directly blame the Mayor. Every time I have been, security is handled by private firms and thus I would guess is the responsibility of the actual organizer. But what do I know.
It was a great race!
As to the 2 hour wait for the Metro, that is to be expected, particularity if you leave immediately after the main event. That is one of the reasons that they have support races before and after most sessions. One time I went I actually walked the JC bridge, I think to the Pap Metro station. I was there a couple of years ago, and even on the Friday, after all the sessions (I am a big race fan) the wait was still like 2 hours. It is what it is. I don’t know if the STCUM allows alternate operation from Metro PJD, such as closer train spacing, etc.
Kate
So long as the race is being held on Île Notre‑Dame, there’s bound to be a bottleneck when everyone wants to leave at the same time. That’s been true since long before Valérie Plante was mayor, and there’s little or nothing she can do to fix it. But there are columnists and commentators who really want to bring her down, one of my favourite canards lately being that she caused the Peel Street terrasse fiasco on purpose because she “hates cars.”
jeather
I wasn’t blaming her for the metro issue — I know part of it was the Pit Bull concert cancellation too — though I do think they should try something else. A special shuttle bus? I also don’t know if they can do more trains on that line. On Sunday they took the river shuttle instead, where they did put on extra crossings, though that’s not a lot of people. I know to a certain extent this kind of thing is inevitable at the end of an event, but I suspect it could have been alleviated some. (And it wasn’t like they were the last people off the island, the two hour wait was longer for others.)
Other than her stance on the police, I’m generally happy with Plante as a mayor.
Ian
I blame PM for lots of stuff but it never once crossed my mind to blame them for the weather, let alone Plante individually. That’s some next level “old man yells at clouds” behaviour.
Kate
Ian, are you telling me that Valérie Plante couldn’t’ve put a big Tempo up over Île Notre‑Dame if she really wanted to?
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Kate
An elderly woman was run over twice in the interior parking lot of the CHUM on Thursday morning by her husband, and is in critical condition.
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Kate
Tent coverings for terrasses will once again be allowed on Peel Street after some compromise was made between restaurant owners and the fire department.
Tents for the homeless in parks, maybe not so much.
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Kate
Parts of the Metropolitan will be closed at night starting next week and continuing through the summer. I like “travaux de rajeunissement” because it sounds like something you’d have done at a spa.
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Kate
A prominent Montreal doctor is on trial in a case in which he and a female accomplice are accused of drugging and raping a woman.
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Kate
A number of taxi drivers were fined and some taxis were seized during Grand Prix weekend for illegal conditions, although the explanations feel a little vague. What is “l’accessoire que la SAAQ fournit aux propriétaires”?
Ephraim
It’s the taxi meter tracking system, like the one for restaurants, but it follows the fares they collect. They obviously want tax-free money and to cheat RQ.
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Kate
Dr Gilles Julien has often been portrayed in the media as a kind of saint, bringing health care to disadvantaged kids – viz – but it’s been revealed in La Presse for a second time that working for him is hell. Last week the paper had a detailed exposé in five pieces led by Isabelle Hachey.
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Kate
A new shelter for homeless Indigenous people has opened in Milton‑Parc. La Maison Annagiarvik will have only 14 residents at a time, and only if they’re trying to stay sober.
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