Quebec is putting more millions into its rent supplement program, which sounds benevolent in a sense, but if the government does this instead of enforcing limits on rent increases (as the old Régie du logement used to do, at least up to a point), isn’t this just another means of moving public funds into private hands?
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Kate
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Kate
City blue collar workers have elected a new president just as the union tries to negotiate a new contract.
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Kate
Healthcare workers have been issued a list of things not to say to patients about the impending digital health record system.
Chris
How sad that all this data will be going to the USA.
Mozai
If they’re not allowed to say “the system is down” can they sing it? https://youtu.be/JwZwkk7q25I
Tim
@Chris: While the company is US based, this CBC article states that the data will be stored in Montreal with backups in Toronto (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-digital-records-9.7186436). The problem is that this no longer guarantees digital sovereignity, given that the US government can compell American companies to share data that is stored outside of the United States.
Consolidating from more than 400 different software products is totally worthwhile. The biggest question is can they execute on this successfully?
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Kate
A body was found Thursday morning by the Back River near Gouin and Saint‑Jean. There’s no identification yet, but mention is made of the teenager who fell through the ice nearby in March and whose body was not found at the time.
Friday it was confirmed that the body was indeed Hassoun Choui, a student at nearby Cégep Gérald‑Godin, who fell through the ice March 26.
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Kate
Sona Lakhoyan Olivier, MNA for Chomedey, is being turfed from the Quebec Liberal Party and fined $8,000 after findings that she contravened the National Assembly code of ethics by using her office’s resources for partisan purposes during Pablo Rodriguez’s leadership campaign.
Too late for Rodriguez, though.
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Kate
Montreal is one of four cities that will host final Olympic qualifiers for the Summer Games in Los Angeles, June 1‑4, 2028. The others are Tokyo, Shanghai and Orlando, Florida.
La Presse guy thinks this is a big deal.
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Kate
For the Walrus, Brendan Kelly writes about one of the the Canadiens’ high‑profile fans.
The Journal looks at how some French immigrants are becoming fans of the team.
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Kate
Le Nadia, the city’s first sports bar for women, which opened in December, has been forced to close after noise complaints about its Hochelaga premises. The owners hope to reopen somewhere else soon.
Friday, CTV reports that the reason for the closure is an insurance issue.
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Kate
Cities and towns in Quebec are all chronically short of the cash needed to cope with infrastructure, transit and housing costs over the next decade and more, according to a new forecast commissioned by the Union des municipalités du Québec. The UMQ wants Quebec to step up.
R T 21:28 on 2026-05-07 Permalink
In the absence of additional housing construction, yes, it’s a transfer to landlords overall.
There are other winners and losers. Some eligible tenants benefit, but most tenants just see their rent bid up, while if you’re not a renter, it may or may not increase your property value but it definitely increases your taxes.