Heavy rain from the remnants of tropical storm Debby are expected in this area Friday and Saturday, but Environment Canada is being more than usually cagey: “The scenario remains complex. Uncertainty remains with regard to the highest expected amounts and the hardest hit areas.”
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Kate
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Kate
A man shot in Verdun on July 29 has died, making him the 22nd homicide of the year.
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Kate
A man has been charged with attempted murder in that shooting in DDO. Nickael Hickey, 26, is in hospital with bullet wounds, and appeared in court by video.
CTV adds that Hickey is known to police, while the Journal says it’s likely that the father and son who sustained shooting injuries were shot by police.
bob
Let’s start a pool for the disciplinary measures that will be taken. I’ll go first and put $10 on “none”.
Kate
I’d like to see some explanation why the cops were chasing Hickey.
What happened that night is an object lesson in why a gun is often a bad solution. The editing of movie shootouts makes people imagine that in the crunch, they would know who to shoot at. But in the event, two men got shot who had nothing to do with the suspect.
Was Hickey suspected of doing something that justified a potentially lethal response? As with car chases by cops, they should have to explain why catching a suspect made risky actions an inevitable choice.
Ephraim
@bob The normal reward for shooting a PoC, a week off, with pay and called “discipline”
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Kate
Global expands on a report late last month in Le Devoir: SPVM police management interfered with a study being conducted by academics on random street checks by police. This is a good piece on the implications of the story, and the shiftiness of hero police chief Fady Dagher on the issue.
Ian
Senior cops & administrators being shifty around accusations of systemic racism? That’s unpossible! /s
Dagher is just making stuff up as a misdirection, this whole “cop on the street” routine is his core schtick and he has no intention of changing that. It’s a large part of how he justifies the bloated police budget.A moratorium on randomly harassing citizens going about their day, er, “random street checks” would be a good start. I’m still waiting for the big, big conversation about re-investing a good chunk of the police budget in social services, though.
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Kate
People have had cottages on Île Ste-Thérèse for decades without formally owning the land, but these are going to be demolished starting this summer, with the intention to have them all gone by 2028 as the city turns the island into a public park.
Not all the habitual summer residents are happy, even though it sounds like they always knew their rights were provisional at best.
walkerp
That’s quite a tough situation for those people. I feel for them and at the same time, it is nice to see that they accept their fate and one of them even recognizing and appreciating the privilege they had. None of this nonsense anger against the government we get so much of these days. Ultimately, making it a park for everyone to appreciate is the right choice.
Kate
I’m also of two minds. It’s a big island, although it’s difficult to judge how much is marshy and uninhabitable via Google. Some of those folks might have been able to be grandfathered in as residents, but it’s probably fairer to clear the whole place.
Editing to add: It was mentioned on CBC radio that the issue of the cottage people has been through the courts, so it isn’t as if some of them didn’t fight the park plan, which has been in the works in the background longer than this blog has existed.
H. John
Concordia researchers took a look at the issue:
The article includes a lin to their study “An Island Is More Than a Park”.
Kate
Thank you, H. John. I can see from the tone of current reports that the presence of people on the island is already being blown off as unimportant.
Major Annoyance
I wonder if there’s a ferry or a water taxi you can hire to get over there. Looks positively bucolic from the air.
Ian
Hypothetically once it’s fully rehabilitated as a park, there will be. https://forum.agoramtl.com/t/parc-metropolitain-de-l-ile-sainte-therese/6630
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Kate
The exodus from the city that accompanied the pandemic has fizzled out, meaning there’s even more pressure on living space in town. Or, from a real estate agent’s point of view, a more vigorous and profitable market.
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Kate
More is coming out about the shootings in Dollard‑des‑Ormeaux on Sunday evening, which it turns out was a shootout between police and a suspect in which two members of a family were also injured.
jeather 21:20 on 2024-08-07 Permalink
Hurricane paths coming from the south seem to be a lot more variable in how much they track east/west and how much rain they bring than the normal weather coming from the west tracking north/south.