“Booing the American anthem is literally the least you can do right now. It is your constitutional right. Is it disrespectful? Sure. So is threatening annexation.” – Taylor C. Noakes on CultMTL.
The NHL’s Four Nations Face‑Off starts Wednesday evening at the Bell Centre with Canada facing Sweden. No boos there, except possibly from people who can’t assemble Ikea furniture.
TVA is listing out the expected time frame for the heaviest snowfall moments Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
Emilie Brassard has such a great accent! up to 40, wow… even 20 would be impressive. Attache tes tuques!
The EMSB has already officially cancelled all classes tomorrow.
And I see that the CSSDM has, as well.
Is that really lots of snow? I guess I`ll recalibrate my judgement by thursday noon, but in my mind anything less than 50cm isn`t worth the drama.
You’re one of those people that goes on a dep run in shorts when it’s -25, aren’t you.
Anything under 30cm has always felt like a light storm to me. I feel like the weather forecasts have gotten a lot more sensationalist over the years and issue warnings for almost any amount of snow.
I was curious to know when the last time Montreal had a really big snowstorm and it’s been awhile. We haven’t had more than 23cm in a single day since 2018.
And the record snowfall in a single day was 46.5cm in 1889. The legendary storm of 1971 dumped 47cm over three days (43 on just one of those days).
If Steph thinks anything under 50 isn’t worth the drama then we’ve never actually had a storm worth fussing about
The moment the chenillettes can’t pass anymore it goes fast. It makes for very homey situations the day after the storm when you and your neighbours dig out the sidewalk, and not cars. It’s been a while since that has happened.
The CSDM announced school closures yesterday around 7 before the snow even started!
The media hype and the institutional reflex to that hype is just getting worse and worse. Early still, but so far not tons of accumulation and from what I can tell from the radar the system is already half way across Montreal.
DeWolf, the 1971 storm was the grand finale to a season of heavy snow, so that it piled onto to an already massive snowpack. It was also very windy.
I moved to Villeray in 2005. I’ve had to excavate my front steps a few times since then. I think it was in 2012 that we had a snowfall that exceeded 43 cm, but it didn’t have the other features of the 1971 storm so it hasn’t gone down in history.
…Yes! This was the late December 2012 storm. Various media cited 45 to 50 cm in that one.
December 27, 2012 was 45.6 cm in one calendar day. And a record setting season.
Nicholas, I think we both posted here (I updated my comment and you added one) at the same time.
What I mostly remember from that 2012 storm was that the sidewalks on my block were neglected until well after the new year. They were like goat tracks for days. (They’ve never been overlooked like that since.)
Kate, yes the update I did not see when I posted. I remember the storm because I went to work (easy five minute walk) and basically no one showed up, employees or the public, and also I was flying out that night on an eventful trip and was on the bus to the airport when I realized I forgot my passport (but the flight was so delayed I still made it with plenty of time). I remember media saying we had beaten the single day record, but maybe that was revised once they got the official number.
Mitchell Arnott, who killed his parents in their home on Île Bizard in 2022, has been found not criminally responsible and will be living at Pinel indefinitely.
Branches of the REM toward Deux‑Montagnes and Anse‑à‑l’Orme should open this October if all goes well.
Snow is coming, and the Children’s Hospital is warning parents to be very cautious about letting kids play in snow. There’s some serious, detailed stuff about safe tobogganing in this piece, and warnings about snow forts.
I know it’s not safe to toboggan right into traffic but boy do I have great memories of flying down Murray Hill onto Cote St Antoine as a teenager.
jeather, that they fenced off the steepest section of Murray Hill is a travesty. But even after putting up the boards and bags at the bottom, that moment when you keep the speed up and could make the zig zag past them and onto the sidewalk was perfection.
Not to be that guy but I actually have a friend who was tobogganing with his kid sister. He has a cool forehead scar, she died.
That said I had a blast with my kids going down the hill on Mont Royal but starting at the upper path so you catch air on the main descent 😀
She died?
Once on Mount Royal some other kids thought it was funny to place their toboggan right across the path of ours as we descended. I got a minor slash down my cheek, but no scar worth mentioning.
I didn’t think you could die on a toboggan unless the hill was iced up and you went full tilt into a tree.
They went full tilt into a partially buried fence and then some trees, yeah. Just sayin, that’s why they put up storm fences & bales.
ONe a cheerier (though still hilariously hazardous) note, all the kids in my neighbourhood are treating the giant snowhills accumulated at the mouths of the alleys as toboggan hills
Covid numbers are down: Quebec only noted four Covid deaths over the last week, while influenza is surging. I’ve had a box with Covid numbers in the sidebar since numbers were made available in 2020, but I’m taking it down this week, hoping it won’t be needed again (but I’m saving the code, in case).
Still might be time for a mask. Anecdotally, a friend who’d had a flu shot caught flu last week and has been quite ill, so maybe keeping the face wrapped would be good policy on transit and so on for now.
I still wear a mask on transit and in stores and other public places.
I still wear a mask on transit if it’s even remotely crowded. It didn’t stop me from getting clobbered by the flu the first week of January (although I don’t think I got it on transit). That was my first illness since my previous flu, which was two months before the pandemic started.
“Covid numbers are down” and yet they remain 12.5X higher compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic. In 2025, so far, 120 Quebeckers have died of COVID (provincial numbers no longer include people who died with COVID).
“Still might be time for a mask” a wise consideration given the flu numbers, and the fact that the current estimates of COVID infections remain at 81,000 – 125,000 new infections per week in Quebec.
I am not sure I had ever been more sick in my life as when I finally got Covid last month — except when I got an actual influenza about 15 years ago. (I am fully Covid vaccinated — I believe I have had 7 shots — and started getting flu shots shortly after that fun time and get them yearly.)
I know it’s mild because I never felt even close to needing to go to a hospital, but that packed a fucking wallop. Honestly don’t even know people who were as sick as I was from it. I appear to be fully recovered, though I guess I will see how things go for long Covid symptoms.
Oof. I was being blasé after the recent dip in deaths reported by Santé Québec.
Thank you both for your info and experience.
I see something like 1 mask per day out there. Apparently they are all readers of this blog!
This flu wave is a harsh one. My kids have been sick with high fever, rashes and cough for almost a week now, as half their groups at daycare.
Here’s an article that may provide some food for thought. https://thesicktimes.org/2025/01/30/the-pandemic-of-abandonment-navigating-friendships-five-years-into-covid-19/
I saw a show at Place des Arts on Saturday afternoon. I have never been in an audience with that much coughing, sneezing, and sniffling. It was coming from all sections of the audience, all around us, next to us, behind us, in front of us….luckily we were on the top most balcony and with no one directly beside me or my friend but a good proportion of that audience was sick.
“The Sick Times” that sure sounds like a nice, uplifting read.
TIL that everything must be nice and uplifting.
Denis Coderre has been excluded by the PLQ as a possible leader; some are reporting his statement that he won’t appeal his exclusion and claiming he was the victim of media leaks. He says he’s disgusted – and those grapes were sour anyway.
Haha what a buffoon. It’s a shame he wasted his powers on politics and ended up making a joke of himself. I’ve seen him in action and he’s very charismatic, he would have made a grreat pitch man, fundraiser, or sales exec.
The bus drivers’ union has launched a campaign to pressure the STM to cancel its plan to discontinue its adapted transit service. Users of the service are also outraged.
As one of my friends pointed out, “my mother is in a wheelchair, how is she supposed to get into a taxi”.
You can sign a petition to save adapted transit here (scroll down) :
https://notretransport.ca/
A car was torched in Anjou and a coyly unnamed downtown restaurant was shot at overnight. The restaurant was closed and no victims have turned up.
The 2025 incident map is filling up already.
Chase 11:08 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
It’s really annoying reading comments online about people saying, “boycotting US products is ignorant, etc..” or “you’re such hypocrites for shopping at Costco and Walmart”. When you dig deeper into these commentators you’ll find they are just Canadian MAGAs. They are all traitors to our country.
Anecdotally, the movement of boycotting US products seems successful and has a lot of people involved. I can’t wait for the boos on Saturday night when Canada takes on the US at the Bell Center in the Four Nations tournament.
Kate 11:48 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
Boycotting US products has other purposes besides sticking it to Trump. The US will soon be unable to inspect food products properly, so they will not be safe. I read somewhere that Trump would like to break our dairy supply system, but his country allows growth hormone in dairy cows while Canada does not, so it would be best to avoid those products if they’re forced on our grocery stores.
There are good reasons we don’t have the egg panic here that they do in the United States.
Higher standards. We have them. We will keep them.
MarcG 12:12 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
Got me thinking about Amir Khadir being attacked for supporting Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions of Israel in response to much more heinous crimes than breaking a trade agreement.
Tim S. 12:39 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
I see booing as first-level diplomacy. Even many “progressive” USians start their comments with some kind of “No disrespect to Canadians” and then proceed to some kind of elaborate fantasy about it would change their electoral map. They all need to hear the boos. Also, they need to understand that we would never actually get a vote and instead be turned into a massive West Bank, with everything that follows.
Clee 13:00 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
Going to the US-Finland game tonight. I’ll be booing.
Kevin 16:10 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
The only thing stupider than the idea of annexing our country is the people proposing it.
Does the USA really think it take over Canada, wiping out the border, give 40 million+ Canadians access to firearms, and not create the largest insurrection in the world?
At least when the US sailed into Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines – or the proposed takeover of Gaza – it was dealing with territory an ocean away, but we share the world’s largest land border.
Morons, the lot of them.
Mark 17:23 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
Yeah I think a lot of Americans would support this insurrection. It wouldn’t be a USA vs Canada, more like a MAGA vs rest of the world.