The Quebec government is calling for proposals to build residential units in the old Institut des Sourdes-Muettes on St‑Denis. As many as a thousand units could be created, at least some of them social and some affordable.
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Kate
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Kate
Although rental increases are expected to ease in the rest of Canada, Quebec rents will keep going up. Rents are often hiked a lot when a new tenant moves in, and the TAL isn’t motivated to rein in this tendency.
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Kate
With winter looming, two independent city councillors – Craig Sauvé and Serge Sasseville – have tabled a motion to declare a state of emergency on homelessness.
Other Canadian cities have declared states of emergency over homelessness in the past. It’s not an outrageous step.
Buried in the story is the fact that the Quebec health and social services ministry says that “discussions are still under way” over the $100 million supposedly pledged by Quebec and Ottawa to help out the homeless.
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Kate
The Children’s and Ste-Justine hospitals are begging parents not to bring their kids to the ER unless absolutely necessary. They’re both bogged down, and half the kids there don’t need to see a doctor.
steph
When you don’t have a family doctor, and the “Sans rendez-vous” clinics are all booked for the next month ahead – where do you go?
Kate
The suggestion is that you don’t go anywhere, and you look after the kid yourself. This supposes that parents have the knowledge to discern whether their kid has a harmless and self‑limiting virus rather than a life‑threatening condition. Some might. Many don’t.
MarcG
Some might be interested in looking at this dashboard and seeing which viruses are causing the greatest impact https://www.inspq.qc.ca/influenza.
Also, for those who missed the story in BC, the teenager presented at the ER with symptoms on November 2nd and was sent home, only to return a week later and be diagnosed with H5N1/bird flu.
jeather
But the pandemic is over.
Kevin
The govt needs to do a full court press on telling people when to go where for what treatment, because they’ve changed things without telling anyone.
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Kate
Operations at the port of Montreal are to resume Saturday on government orders.
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Kate
A 76-year-old cyclist died after being hit by an SUV in Rivière‑des‑Prairies on Friday afternoon. CTV phrases this as a “collision” with an SUV and assures us that the driver wasn’t injured. “The vehicle attempted to make a left turn to access the Highway 40 West ramp when the collision occurred.” Was that a collision, or was yet another non‑driver mowed down by a vehicle on the turn?
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Kate
Not only do firefighters face a cocktail of toxic smoke while doing their jobs, their own equipment is found to be full of PFAS known to be dangerous to health.
JP
And they’re exposed to 400 criminally set fires in town (per the below), fires that they wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to were they not intentionally started in the first place. . .
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Kate
Radio-Canada journalists spent a shift with the Éclipse crime squad and collected some dramatic stories and photos.
Orr 21:11 on 2024-11-22 Permalink
So maybe the chain-link fence eyesore around their parking lots may go away… in my lifetime.
It’s quite q building.
Historic buildings like this should have occasional public tours.