Shots were fired from one vehicle to another and a man was shot in the head in western Verdun, Tuesday afternoon.
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Kate
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Kate
Cases of Covid and of hospitalizations for the virus rose in Quebec in July, a summer tendency noted previously. We’re so used to thinking of “flu season” that equating the hottest months with a rise in viral infections is a new thing.
More on the summer Covid surge.
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Kate
The Édifice Bourget is a handsome building dating from 1914 that stands on Mountain Street south of Ste‑Catherine in a part of town that has no public elementary school. Le Devoir is doing a series about vacant buildings, and now looks at the suspended renovations and uncertain future of the Bourget, even though the area badly needs a school.
I also missed last week blogging another in the series: the La Patrie building on Ste‑Catherine, bought by the Scientologists in 2007 and left to rot.
Both of these buildings were designed by architect Georges‑Alphonse Monette according to imtl.org
JaneyB
It was also the home of the great Quebecois cultural treasure Médiathèque littéraire Gaëtan-Dostie. Among other features and cultural events, it provided very remarkable snapshot of the images and artefacts of the Quiet Revolution which was easily accessible and here in Montreal (see: https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/481963/mediatheque-gaetan-dostie-le-piege-de-la-culture-des-normes and https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/805789/mediatheque-gaetan-dostie-eviction-csdm
Its old central location in this building on Montagne was ideal but the city shut the building down and now it is simply vacant, awaiting a fire and condo-ization, no doubt. Side note: After a short stint in a Mile End church, the Médiathèque is now in a very remote location in Sainte-Mélanie, north of Joliette – https://www.facebook.com/MLGDostie. Wouldn’t it be nice if some of the money involved in limiting Anglo services could be spent on the preservation of Quebec culture instead…grrr.
Kate
JaneyB, I missed this comment, sorry. Very informative, and thank you.
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Kate
Public health is warning against swimming off Promenade Bellerive park. The beach itself is contaminated, and the water may be tainted by sewer runoff or industrial spills. La Presse specifies that there won’t be safe swimming before the end of the decade.
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Kate
The death of a woman in a Lachine apartment Monday evening has been deemed a homicide, the 21st of the year. TVA notes that she is the 16th woman murdered in Quebec this year.
Gruesomely, further news coming out identifies her as Linda Salagan, 64, and that she was tied up and gagged.
Ian 21:11 on 2024-08-01 Permalink
Oh, good thing they specified “par balle”, I was worried it was going to be fireworks, /s