An Anti-ICE demonstration was held Sunday at the U.S. consulate. Canadian firms were also called out for being complicit.
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Kate
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Kate
A government weather expert says we can expect extra cold weather all month and well into March.
MarcG
Happy Imbolc? Not the news anyone needed, surely.
Nicholas
Meteorologists: the jesters of the modern age.
Kate
I remember when any comic could get a laugh by taking digs at weather forecasters, but that’s outdated now. They’re pretty accurate, although – as I was observing the other day – overly cautious.
Groundhogs, now…
Kevin
The only way out is through. Better to embrace it!
Nicholas
To be clear I meant that jesters were famously the person who could make fun of the powerful and, relevant here, deliver bad news and not get executed.
Bert
Fred la marmotte would like to add to the conversation.
MtlWeb
I need Bill Murray relaying the weather report with Sonny and Cher music in the background
CE
Im actually enjoying this cold snowy winter. The last few have been warmer but kind of depressing. If I’m going to live in a winter city, I want the real thing!
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Kate
There was no dominant theme this week in cartooning.This drawing by Côté about non‑standard Covid masks informed me about a recent ruling ordering a company to pay Quebec $46.4 million after supplying deficient masks.
Côté also had thoughts about children who changed history although I don’t think the death of Alan Kurdi on a Turkish beach changed many people’s attitudes toward refugees crossing the Med to Europe. Whether the fate of the nameless boy in the blue hat will soften any MAGA hearts also remains unlikely.
Chapleau has ICE vs. the groundhog and Godin has ICE agents goose‑stepping at the Olympics. Godin also sees Trump winning all the medals.
Côté’s drawing of Pierre Poilievre is trenchant without being mean.
Ygreck draws Doug Ford and Mark Carney at the Plains of Abraham but he also shows the relative unimportance of this bickering to families having trouble buying groceries, while Godin looks at a very small sublet and takes a mild‑mannered dig at the REM.
dwgs
Blue bunny hat boy is Liam Conejo Ramos. A judge ordered yesterday that he and his father should be released immediately. We’ll see if the bastards obey. The judge also said this,
“Observing human behaviour confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency,” he wrote of the detention of Ramos.Kate
Thank you for naming him. Good quote too from the judge, but language like that makes no dent in the kind of people it describes.
Joey
True, but it might help normal people understand the gravity of the situation.
Kevin
Dwgs
The boy and father are now back home. Or at least in MinneapolisAnton
I’m confused whether the image shows a kid or grown up peanut.
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Kate
The sale of fireworks will soon be illegal in Montreal, an initiative of the fire department.
Mozai
“l’obligation d’installer des gicleurs dans toutes les nouvelles constructions résidentielles” ooof.
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Kate
A year ago, the city decided to reduce its dependence on U.S. suppliers and has been successful in dropping the number from 54 to 15.
Chris
How did the journalist not ask for the dollar amount? The eliminated suppliers could have been tiny.
dhomas
@Chris: That was exactly my reaction when reading the article! They might have eliminated tiny little suppliers, but then still kept big suppliers like Amazon and Uline (Bezos just bribed the trump administration with the release of Melania. And the Uhleins are just terrible in general.).
The list of suppliers is public and you can see the latest version, updated 4 days ago, here:
https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/liste-des-fournisseurs
Unfortunately, the list only shows all suppliers that have had contracts of over 2000$ since 2014. It doesn’t show which are still in active use. There are “270” American companies out of 15194 entries. I put the number in quotes because they also list American companies with a “branch office” in Canada or other country as non-American companies. Ex: Uline, Amazon, HP, Dell, VMWare, FedEx, UPS, Ford, GM, Wal-Mart, McKesson, Costco, Microsoft, Home Depot, etc.
Joey
It would be interesting to see if unit costs have increased as a result.
Chris
What is the “greenwashing” equivalent for anti-americanism? 😉
Looking at their email server, they still use MS Outlook. ;(
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Kate
A car was in a head-on collision with a STM bus overnight. Nobody was killed. But it seems odd that this is reported as being on “autoroute 136” whereas wouldn’t most Montrealers call it the Ville‑Marie? And it’s not indicated where it happened on the highway either.
Ian
The km marker in the scene photo is 017 which puts that around the Glen Yards
Ian
… or right about here on Google Streetview, I think
MarcG
When I hear Ville-Marie I think of the tunnel.
My guess is that the car driver got on the highway here, thinking that the right-side reserved bus lane was an entrance in their direction. It would have led them on a single-lane isolated road with no other vehicles to indicate they’re going the wrong way (although there must be a ton of “wrong way” signs), and when the reserved bus lane merged back into the main branch around Glen Rd they hit the oncoming bus head-on.
MarcG
When they were doing the Turcot construction that lane was going the other way, I wonder if they had an out of date GPS system or were flying blind and didn’t see the no-entry signs.
Nicholas
Good sleuthing. I’d add this may technically be in Westmount, depending on the exact location.
Ian
I’m not sure if the VME is technically Westmount (though it does cut right through Lower Westmount) but that building by the retaining wall idefinitely is, it’s the public works building on Glen just in back of the Home Depot where it switchs frm being Courcelle.
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Kate
A man was stabbed in the “bas du corps” Friday night in Côte‑des‑Neiges and another man was stabbed in the “partie supérieure du corps” downtown early Sunday.
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