A man was stabbed Monday afternoon at the corner of Milton and Park. CTV cautiously calls it a possible stabbing while TVA shows us the guy with blood all over his shirt. The victim is not expected to die; there have been no arrests.
And there was another stabbing, this one in St‑Laurent on Monday evening.
A 47-unit building in Lachine hasn’t had heating or hot water for two months. The borough finally asserted itself and started making repairs. Like the owner of that decrepit South Shore mall, the landlord here has been ignoring fines, but the item explains how this man will lose his building if he doesn’t reimburse the borough for necessary repairs or pay his fines.
There’s a big difference of course between an unoccupied commercial building and a building with people living in it. You can literally die of cold. No such problems for that decrepit mall.
I’m surprised some of the pipes haven’t frozen and popped. Maybe it hasn’t been cold enough for a long enough stretch.
A driver died on the Met on Monday morning after driving the wrong way on the highway. He hit another car and a truck but the drivers of those vehicles were fortunate enough to walk away. The police theory is deliberate suicide by traffic.
Wow, that car got messed up. Glad to hear the other car driver was ok.
I have never seen the phrase”qui a effectué une mise en portefeuille”, I guess that’s French for jacknifed? Is that a Quebecois expression specifically?
The wiktionnaire has the expression with examples both from Canada and France.
Anyone got an appliance repair person to recommend? My oven stopped working and I need help.
I went through just about every company in the book 2 years ago without finding one willing to work on mine, and ended up replacing the oven instead.
What’s wrong with it exactly?
At first, it would start up and then stop after about 10 seconds. Now it won’t start at all.
One of the burners on my stove has been broken for a while. I went to the appliance repair shop down the street from me and was told that they’re not even considering new jobs until February. Generally, appliances cost as much to fix as they do to replace unfortunately.
The top burners are fine, it’s just the oven that doesn’t heat up? It’s probably just a burnt out bake element like this. I wonder if you could buy one that matches your oven, try it out, and if it doesn’t fix the problem, return it. I guess your landlord is useless?
MarcG: the top burners are fine. I have a feeling it’s something in the controls rather than the element. Anyway, it belongs to me, not to the landlord. This place is rented non equipped, so all the appliances are mine.
So a regular reader sent me a name and phone number, and his guy answered, directed me to push some buttons, and it’s working again. Thanks all.
Wow, true magic! Does he do plumbing too? 🙂
Depends, does your plumbing have LED controls?
Call Alex at 514-996-7904. He’s the best.
I’ve had excellent luck with réparation Flash but on the two separate occasions I called them it was for a fridge and a dryer repair. Very efficient, excellent availability, good price, and the repairs lasted. They have a basic fee for a home visit but the repairs are very fast and reasonable.
p.s. @Kate glad to hear your stove problem was just buttons!
This was a used stove when I bought it, so trouble is not unlikely. I’m hoping this button magic holds, but in case not – thanks, Joey and Ian, it’s good to have options.
I know Flash. When I called them saying I needed a new thermocouple, they assured me they had one for my oven in stock.
So they sent over a guy who looked at my oven, said yup, the thermocouple needs replacement, and that no, they didn’t have that model but would happily order it as soon as I paid the $175 bill for the service be rendered by coming into my house for 5 minutes to confirm that what I had said over the phone and via email was accurate.
A few months later and with Flash unable to tell me when said part would arrive, I bought a new oven.
Dear readers, guess who called me the day my oven was installed?
Well that sucks…
They saved me a lot of money fixing my dryer (replacing a bearing) and fridge (uncloggin gher de-icer), but they didn’t have to order any parts.
I second Joey’s recommendation.
Does that guy do other stuff or just stoves? Filing the number away “just in case”.
He’s done my freezer (saved) and washing machine (replaced, after exhaustive explanation of various options).
Awesome, thanks!
Justin Trudeau has announced that he’s stepping down as leader of the federal Liberal party but will stay on as prime minister until the party elects a new chief.
Funniest thing about this is a YouTube video nicknaming Poilievre “fascist Milhouse” lol
OMG I’m so using that (even though I generally disagree with name-calling in politics). That said, I have been known to refer to him as “PeePee the Trump Puppet.”
L’il PP is a schmuck plain and simple, but “fascist Milhouse” made me G-LOL.
Any bets on the nex leader of the Liberals? I’m thinking probs Joly or Carney but this late in the game it will be a sacrificial role. It’s really too bad Trudeau insisted on clinging to power instead of strategically transitioning back in the summer so the Liberals would at least have a chance. It’s pretty funny seeing the Trudeau fanbois blaming Singh for all this when basically it’s only Singh that allowed Trudeau to prevent a non-confidence vote for this long. When PP kills the NDP gains the Lberals and NDP will be able to use that politically… but at this point the best we can hope for is a conservtive minority IMO.
I’m still annoyed Mulcair let Trudeau scuttle him as he would have been way more electable than Singh but to be fair he’s also way too centrist for an NDP leader. Centre left is Liberal turf, even if they govern more right. Not as right as the Conservatives, but PP is even right of trad Cons. I dread to learn what horrors L’il PP has in mind for when he actually has to do something and not just snipe at real power.
I’m afraid we’re headed right for Convoy Canada now.
Calling PP a fascist feels a bit like when I hear right wingers refer to Biden or Trudeau using terms like “radical socialists”.
CE: yup, exactly. Things are very polarized these days. And it’s a vicious circle I think. It makes a lot of normies and centrists think the Left is crazy with these exaggerated “fascist” claims, and that the Right is crazy with these exaggerated “communist” claims. Then they stay home and don’t vote. 🙁
What do you call someone who has spent several years saying that his political opponents are “unleashing crime and chaos in your neighbourhood” when crime is at the level it was in 2006?
Although I do roll my eyes every time the guy who has had his federal pension “protected” since he was 31 years old claim that all his political opponents are only in it to “protect” their own pensions…
You could call him an ideologue, a populist, or what I usually call him, a fucking idiot. I just think “fascist” goes too far and isn’t particularly accurate.
>What do you call someone who has spent several years saying that his political opponents are “unleashing crime and chaos in your neighbourhood” when crime is at the level it was in 2006?
A blowhard, a liar, an exaggerator. What do you call him?
Chris (19:37 comment): that doesn’t really square with my memory of past politics. Centrists have always been happy to see themselves as the “sensible” people in contrast to the “crazy ideologues” further out in either direction. (It’s not like centrists don’t exaggerate to themselves how extreme Canadian right and left views are.) And back in the day, the left was commonly painted as “pinko-commies” by “normies.” It was only with the fall of the Soviet Union and the left turning away from even lip service to socialism that only the right continued to reflexively tar them as communists. Things were polarized back in the day but the whole spectrum was further left (economically speaking) so exaggerated lefty rhetoric was against capitalists not fascists. In the days of the Progressive Conservatives, there wasn’t much talk of the right as fascists. That became more widespread with Reform and the decline of Red Tories. It’s true that it wasn’t centrists referring to the new right as fascists, but politically informed centrists understood that it was further to the right. There were certainly people who had switched between voting Liberal and PC who wouldn’t countenance voting Reform even after it renamed itself back to Conservative. It didn’t stop them from voting however, and I doubt that it’s just the “fascist” and “communist” insults that keep people from voting. On the one hand, people don’t vote because they think their interests are never served, and on the other because they’re turned off by negative ad campaigns which are run by all parties in all parts of the political spectrum (and at least in some cases are run with the intent to depress the vote.)
I don’t know if Pollievre is actually a Fascist, but he certainly hasn’t done anything or set any boundaries to reassure people that he isn’t one. He’s left the question of “how far would he go” very deliberately open.
Is L’il PP a fascist? Probably not. Would he cozy up to fascists and deliver fascist-friendly policies if he thought it would help him secure power? Probably yes. I’m not convinced he has any real political convictions, he’s just a career politician looking to climb the ladder.
To draw a parallel, Rebel Media doesn’t have to be Der Sturmer to be bad for Canada… but then again even CTV covered the Jordan Peterson “interview” with L’il PP as if it was real news.
nau, I broadly agree with your recollection. But my 19:37 comment was about the present, not about the past.
What’s a fascist, Wikipedia says: “characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy”
Is PP dictatorial, well, he dictates to his party what they can and cannot say. He’s never collaborated with others in gov’t.
Centralized autocracy: In that he’d prefer if a small handful of corporations ran everything, yes?
Militarism: He wants to “change the culture of the Canadian armed forces from Woke to Warrior” so, that’s a thing.
Forcible suppression of opposition: Just wait! Protests in Canada will get more violent under the conservatives, mark my words. Agents provocateurs to make protests look like ‘riots’ or just the police newly hopped up on self-importance with a conservative gov’t in place.
Belief in a natural social hierarchy: Well, he pretty clearly hates queer people and women.
Subordination of individual interests: Yes, to corporate interests.
Strong regimentation of society and the economy: His policy ideas are all about cutting funding to gov’t programs and cutting taxes for the rich. His economic plans seem likely to exacerbate income inequality, furthering the divide between the rich and the poor in Canada. Get ready to feel lucky just to have a gigging app job with no benefits.
So is PP a fascist? If he isn’t he sure walks and talks like one.
It’s only fascism if it comes from the fascist region of Southern Europe, otherwise it’s jsut sparkling alt-right populism /s
I once had a German history prof who asked us to define Fascism, and after we’d all spent quite some time discussing it quite firmly gave us Ian’s answer, slightly rephrased. With all due respect to his expertise, I still think a broader definition is possible – basically, “might is right” as an end.
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Thank you, jeather
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