A spokesman for the REM says it did well this winter except during ice storms.
…Aaand, another REM outage Saturday morning. Nice timing.
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Kate
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Kate
A sexual assault that took place after a drunken office party has been judged a work accident by the Tribunal administratif du travail. Nothing’s said here about reparations to the victim or punishment for the alleged assailant.
jeather
No, this is just about her trying to get the therapy and, presumably, paid time off she was entitled to for a work injury. I read the decision, it all makes sense to me.
Kate
Good. Thank you, jeather.
jeather
Essentially her argument is that this was caused by her company not taking proper care during a work event and it needs to be treated as a work injury
For what it’s worth, they let the contractor in question go shortly after she told them his name, it’s really about the amount of alcohol they provided and the lack of care in getting home afterwards. To note: the company was acquired and she was let go at that time, no one seems to claim that was retaliatory.
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Kate
Sad to report that photographer Gabor Szilasi has died. He was 98 years old, and had been in Canada since leaving Hungary in 1957.
J
There’s a nice documentary at the BAnQ about him called, well, Gabor. I caught it on Vermont PBS, of all places. RIP.
https://cap.banq.qc.ca/notice?id=p::usmarcdef_0006845872
Blork
Gabor was one of my teachers when I was studying photography at Concordia in the early 90s. He really was as kind and gentle as people say.
One day he was looking at a presentation of mine, which included a photograph of the Van Horne warehouse similar to the well-known panoramic one that he did in 1981. He admired mine, and said “we should exchange prints.” Ha ha ha, I sort of laughed it off thinking he couldn’t be serious and I never followed up. Probably in the top 10 of the stupidest things I’ve done.
Kate
I never met Gabor Szilasi, but the only instruction I’ve ever had on using a darkroom was from his wife Doreen Lindsay, at the old Graphia studio on the Main. She was a very good teacher, so I learned a lot in one or two short lessons, but I didn’t have extended access to the darkroom. But some of the concepts were applicable in Photoshop, so I picked up knowledge I’ve used ever since.
Ian
I worked in the Fine Arts store at Concordia in the early 90s, and had the opportunity to meet him a few times. He was always very polite and patient. All my friends in the Photography program spoke highly of him.
@Blork I feel like we might know each other IRL.
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Kate
24Hres asks how to make the Mile End track crossing safer, as it’s obvious people will continue to use the unofficial crossings no matter what – despite two deaths on the tracks in recent memory.
The obvious answer is an official level crossing under the Van Horne viaduct, as we’ve known for years, but which CP has always refused to accept.
Joey
Too bad the Liberal MP for Outremont didn’t have to explain why (apparently) her party voted against legislation that would allow Ottawa to create level crossings. My impression of the CP trains that use that track is that they are very big and very slow – I wonder whether how frequently a level crossing there would be closed due to train traffic.
bob
IIRC historically the most dangerous place in Montreal with respect to being killed by a train is the level crossing on Courcelle in St. Henri, despite the level crossing with the bells and the lights and the train horns and the two hundred meter visibility west and nine hundred east. The VIA trains go by at a jog, but the freight trains go by at a walking pace and back up traffic somewhat (though there is far less traffic than in Mile End).
It seems to me that not being hit by a train is one of life’s more achievable accomplishments. One way I have attained this achievement so far has been to not cross the tracks when there is a train going by. I feel this lifestyle choice has been for the best.
Kate
But trains just get hungrier if they don’t receive an occasional sacrifice.
jeather
I wonder if it’s the length of time? I don’t know how long the trains are when they pass in mile end but in St Henri if you’ve got a freight train you can be waiting a really long time.
Nicholas
I’ve very much a proponent of designing our systems around what people do, not what we want them to do. We can’t expect people not to cross mid block, so we should not let people drive at speeds on local streets such that death is likely to result from a mid block crossing.
But there are limits. We do not let people cross highways. We do not let them cross runways. And people shouldn’t cross train tracks except at approved crossings.
The solution, though, to a huge demand for crossing between official crossings is to increase the supply of crossings. If you build a giant road underpass for cars and everyone else that’ll cost tens of millions and take years. Here is a video of the Dutch installing a curved pre-built underpass for pedestrians and bikes under half of a six-lane highway in a weekend. Because it’s not for cars it’s much shallower, so faster and cheaper. Build a bunch of these halfway in between the current crossings and the problem will disappear.
Ephraim
I assume that being land that is for profit, that the city charges them a tax? Could we not get Quebec to change the tax rates? And give a lower rate if there is a way to safely cross within x metres? And a much lower rate if there is an underpass or overpass?
bob
@Nicholas – And why, pray, would that two day job take eighteen months in Montreal? What could possibly lead to a two day job that should cost $1 million going for month after month, no workers present, costing $1 million, per month? Are we stupid here? Do we not know how to dig holes and pour concrete?
If corruption were removed from Quebec’s economy, our GDP per capita would be third world.
DisgruntledGoat
They just put in a level crossing on the same tracks between Outremont and Parc Ex just east of the MIL Campus with little fanfare. Took a year since the announcement.
It’s wonderful to have and I don’t understand why it’d be difficult to do another.
MarcG
Here’s the crossing DisgruntledGoat is referring to (the news article I found didn’t mention the precise location, maybe I’ll save someone else the trouble looking for it on a map).
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Kate
A worker in a St-Michel factory was killed Friday morning when he was run over by a truck in the facility’s parking lot.
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Kate
The report issued this week after a census of the homeless a year ago estimates just over 5,000 people are living homeless in Montreal.
Later, Radio-Canada reports that the mayor is appealing for federal money to help with this crisis. She is also planning to lift the short‑term rental ban. Reconcile those items if you can.
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Kate
Montreal’s blue collar workers have been reprimanded by the Tribunal administratif du travail for various sly actions over the last few weeks.
The point about a strike is to put on pressure by causing some amount of inconvenience. We’ve totally hamstrung the public unions by making most of their strike options subject to Essential Services rules, which have expanded to include almost everything.
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Kate
Weekend notes from CityCrunch, Le Devoir, Journal de Montréal, La Presse, CultMTL, the Gazette.A few driving hazards.
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Kate
Reasons for the sacking of Julie Gascon as CEO of the Port of Montreal remain undisclosed, to the evident frustration of journalists.
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Kate
Cole Caufield scored his 50th goal of the season for the Canadiens Thursday night at the Bell Centre, making him the seventh player in the team’s history to do so, and the first in 36 years.
jeather
Shame you didn’t post that earlier so I would have understood the text I received saying just “#50”.
Kate
I’ll try to get to work earlier 🙂
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