The TAL, which replaced the old Régie du logement too long ago, is described as an eviction machine by Cédric Dussault of the RCLALQ (Regroupement de comités logement et associations de locataires du Québec).
Updates from January, 2025 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
-
Kate
-
Kate
Quebec’s chief coroner wants a better tally of the deaths of homeless people, a statistic that hasn’t been tracked properly till now. But we do know there were 72 such deaths in 2023, compared to only 20 between 2019 and 2021. And we can be pretty sure the number isn’t declining.
-
Kate
A major real estate report says that office tower occupancy continues to fall in the Montreal and Quebec City areas, while other Canadian cities are seeing their offices fill up again as employers crack the whip.
-
Kate
The Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal by the Mohawk Mothers for close archaeological surveillance of any excavations done by McGill at the old Royal Vic site as it refurbishes it for the university’s use.
-
Kate
Quebec has cut 1,000 health-care jobs over the last month.
Where does it think those workers will go? Surely they’ll apply for employment in the private sector?
I foresee a cycle where the public system finds itself short of hands, and is forced to hire more people from private agencies – essentially hiring back the people they laid off, but at a higher rate, sieving more public cash into private hands. Am I mistaken?
steph
It`s not a bug, it`s a feature! The only thing the private sector brings to the table, is the `profit tax`.
carswell
I absolutely think that’s the plan, Kate, and it’s the main reason why Dubé put private-sector darling Brion in charge of Santé Québec.
Tee Owe
Kate, I think it’s not that the public system will hire back these workers, as much as the public system will find itself unable to provide services and will contract them out to the private sector – paid for by the taxpayer of course. This also happens in other public healthcare systems, not just Quebec – doctors and nurses work extra hours in private hospitals/clinics where they provide what should have been provided in the public system.
Joey
I think the cynical (also correct) interpretation is that the public system is losing public sector jobs, which include all kinds of union-won salary and other conditions, so that these jobs can be outsourced to private sector agencies that don’t have to provide the same compensation. The theory is that the savings will make it worthwhile to the public purse (remember, this is a right-wing theory); in practice, we’ll just wind up passing on the savings to private-sector healthcare employment agencies – the ‘profit tax,’ as steph put it. But at least we’ll get administrative headaches and worse health outcomes!
Uatu
The new positions would have to be permanent part time because full time evening and weekend would mean getting premiums for those shifts. But that’s moot because nobody wants to work them because the hours suck and if someone is bumped into them then they will have no problem calling in sick whenever they want just out of contempt and that means overtime for whoever wants it. What savings! (Just like when they cut housekeeping positions and then paid crazy overtime when they had to control the MRSA outbreak. Save now, pay later!) They aren’t supposed to be using private agencies anymore too so we’ll see how that works out. I think we should just abolish the Health Minister position since he’s basically an overpaid mouthpiece now and the real work is done by Top Guns! Lol What a load of crap.
-
Kate
A bullet shattered the window of a supervised injection centre on Ste‑Catherine East on Wednesday evening. There have been two arrests.
-
Kate
It wasn’t a big story when the Alliance française closed up shop here in 2002, but it’s back.
Ian
And to think Goethe-Institut has been here the whole time. https://www.goethe.de/ins/ca/en/sta/mon/kur.html
Kate
Casa d’Italia too!
-
Kate
I know some readers are unimpressed with the Gazette’s examination of the OQLF’s processes, but for the sake of completion I’m adding the next one, a study on whether the perceived ethnicity of secret shoppers influenced how store workers addressed them.
jeather
“Far from introducing bias, having a diverse team of observers reflects the actual composition of Montreal’s commercial clientele,” it said in 2019.
This is true, but I am suspicious of the fact that they didn’t report on the differences, though I agree it would have mostly been not statistically valid.
Is this deep, hard-hitting investigative journalism? No. Did this need to be portioned out over 5 short articles? No. Is this interesting info that is not easy to get — or to know to get — for the reader? I think so.
GC
I’m with you, jeather. It’s definitely not deeply investigative journalism, but that doesn’t mean it’s not newsworthy. And it’s been interesting, at least to me.
CE
I’m one of the people who doesn’t like the series of articles but do believe that it’s interesting and useful information. I just don’t like the way the Gazette is presenting it. This isn’t the huge scoop they seem to want us to think it is.
-
Kate
A widely praised app developed at the MUHC to help patients manage their treatment has stopped working from lack of funding.
MarcG
The IBD clinic also offered the Opal app to patients and it was a very helpful tool for people with chronic illness (who end up knowing their disease as well as or better than their doctors). It kept a log of all of your test results and graphed them so you could see the patterns.
MarcG
Also the “ran out of funding” phrasing in the article is a bit like the “pedestrian was hit by a car” problem. The hospital/government stopped funding the app. If you stopped paying your Hydro bill would you say “my electricity became unavailable after running out of funding”?
su 09:24 on 2025-01-17 Permalink
What year did this tribunal thing replace the Regie?
MarcG 09:29 on 2025-01-17 Permalink
31 août 2020
Ian 15:05 on 2025-01-17 Permalink
As long as France-Élaine Duranceau, a known property speculator with ties to the real estate industry is Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, the fix is in. That Legault even thought this was ok and nobody would care lets you know just how deep the corruption goes.