Bernard Drainville, who aspires to be crowned premier in April, has been in charge of the environment portfolio for the CAQ for four short months, in which time he has delayed the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions target by five years, and weakened or abandoned other environmental principles as listed in this piece.
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Kate
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Kate
Montreal wants an exception made for people suddenly orphaned by Quebec’s cancellation of the PEQ (Programme de l’expérience québécoise), both Ensemble and Projet unified on this point.
A coalition is proposing to take the government to court.
Toula Drimonis spells out how these CAQ decisions affect the Montreal area in particular.
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Kate
Some residents of NDG and Côte St‑Luc are still without power as Monday evening draws in, the areas clearly marked on Hydro’s outages map.
Mark Côté
Yep. 4 revised estimates since Saturday morning. Third night in the hotel. House is about 0 degrees now. Drained all the pipes, radiators, and hot-water tanks.
Ian
The numbers of plants and small pets dead from the cold must be through the roof.
jeather
Two women have also died
https://globalnews.ca/news/11638125/hudson-avenue-montreal-cold/
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Kate
Exo is being forced to cut 11% of its work force and some of its services as it’s forced to cut $100 million from its operating budget between now and 2028.
Ian
Aw no worries, the wonderful new REM is totally picking up the slack (lol)
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Kate
A recent Léger survey revealed than one out of four Montrealers has trouble keeping up with the rent. (La Presse says one out of four, CTV one out of five…)
GC
CTV says 1 in 5 for Quebec, La Presse 1 in 4 for Montreal. So, I think they are both right, based on the breakdown that La Presse gave. (25% for just Montreal, 21% for the rest of the province.)
Frightening stats either way, though.
azrhey
I have a an elementary school teacher who used to work in DDO and now works in VSL. He would love to move closer to work, but there are literaly zero apartments he can afford in VSL Cartierville Ahuntsic. Even studios are at the limit of what he an afford. I don’t think asking to afford something with a closed bedroom shouldn’t be too much for a full time teacher, ya know? Some places have said “oh, single income? I don’t think you will find anything, you need a couple for this 3 1/2. A couple because a roommate would need a second bedroom and that is out of the price range. The market is discussing…
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Kate
The northern spur of the REM suffered a ralentissement de service at morning rush hour Monday.
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Kate
Cold temperatures and snow continue, messing with the Monday commute and cancelling flights.jeather
Honestly, not that much snow hit us overnight — I think it tracked south after it walloped Toronto. I know more is coming today, but I don’t think we’re getting the threated 20 cm. Traffic was terrible, though.
Kate
The official Canada forecasts tend to overstate the predicted impact of any weather. If they say 15 to 20 cm and we get 10, we’re happier than if they say 10 and we get 25. Or, in summer, if they say sunny, and we go for a picnic and get rained on, we complain. It’s better if they say rain, and we stay home and it remains sunny. It’s a very cautious, Canadian approach to weather info.
Tee Owe
For what it’s worth, Danish forecasters do the same – it goes back to a lawsuit many years ago ‘you didn’t tell us this would happen’ – we’re having a ‘snowstorm’ at the moment, 1 mm snow – looks nice
Tee Owe
to be fair, maybe 1 cm
Tim S.
I find Environment Canada very accurate for temperature and very cagey about precipitation amounts. The Weather Network is willing to give precipitation forecasts, which from about 48 hours out I find usually accurate enough.
jeather
The guy who does youtube forecasts, Frankie, is usually pretty accurate and he also called for a lot of snow. Ottawa got a lot; it’s unusual that it missed us.
CE
Get your Pepsi, get your Chinese food!
MarcG
Does Frankie ever mention the east coast phenomenon of Storm chips?
CE
Any east coaster who’s trekked to the store to buy the requisite five cases of Pepsi and five cases of Coke is definitely going to pick up a bag or two of chips.
Ian 22:50 on 2026-01-26 Permalink
None of that matters, he has declared himself a right wing ethnonationalist with his focus on the “real” Quebec (the regions) so unless the general political climate shifts rather surprisingly its going to be him vs ol’ “no problem with pipelines” PSPP fighting the brave fight to defend Quebec’s honour in the whites-only culture wars.
Joey 10:59 on 2026-01-27 Permalink
The environment minister who is also the champion of the troisième lien… time for an election…
su 13:53 on 2026-01-27 Permalink
Oddly in sync with the Carney/Sabia feds.