Easter Monday is such a weird relic of a holiday. Radio‑Canada lists what’s open and closed.
It’s also a slow news day locally. Have you taken down your tempo yet?
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Kate
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Kate
Quebecers turn up among the happiest people on the planet, and Josh Freed asks how we do it.
But at the same time, a lot more of us choose medical aid in dying than most places. La Presse asks why.
MarcG
Anyone know how to find all of the provincial data?
Michael Slinn
When medical treatment is scarce and wait times stretch into months and years, people who are suffering will choose death over interminable pain.
bob
People always have, but they have done it themselves, often if not usually without the medical assistance. I think we’d be surprised if someone figured out how to identify all the cases of “so and so died peacefully in their sleep (after taking all the medication they had secretly hoarded)” and such like. MAID removes risk and adds some dignity.
Perhaps in some strange way the foregrounding of quality of life will make it (quality of life) more of a political issue.
Ian
Lots of people are just handed the morphine button when it’s clear they are far enough gone.
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Kate
Quebec politics was featured this week as François Legault addressed his last supper, CAQ MNAs bailed from the plane and Bernard Drainville gave Christine Fréchette a poisson d’avril.Ygreck created a grotesque easter basket and Côté caught Legault leaving the world of editorial cartooning.
Quebec’s version of laïcité is neatly speared by Godin.
Michael Rousseau was bidden goodbye with envious nods toward his pension while the fate of Gilbert Rozon was also noted by our satirical pens.
The price of gasoline is a reliable, relatable subject.
Although he’s more concerned with Quebec City, Côté’s Tendance mode, printemps 2026 could apply here as well.
Joey
You won’t find a better summary of the disastrous Legault era than this: https://avezvousvotepourca.substack.com/p/je-ne-rendrai-pas-hommage-a-francois
Kate
Excellent piece – thanks, Joey!
bob
So good. I love the “J’accuse!”-like format.
Kate
Also an English version.
Ian 17:03 on 2026-04-06 Permalink
I didn’t even know about the tempo frame. My landlord leaves his up in the backyard all year. Does the rule only apply to streetside tempos or alley tempos too?
Kate 17:16 on 2026-04-06 Permalink
I think it might depend on the whim of the borough. But it might be difficult to find anyone who cares, since the rules come from the aesthetics of property values, and that mostly applies to the street façade and not the back yards and alleys.
Doesn’t he get weed vines growing up the frame during the summer?
Ian 22:01 on 2026-04-06 Permalink
Nah he’s too uptight, pulls up everything he didn’t plant himself pretty much every day in the summer.
Ian 21:18 on 2026-04-07 Permalink
*except the stakes he drove to secure his tempo