Issues with the new digital health record are not troubling the Quebec government and Christine Fréchette is unaware of any issues.
So it’s all fine, then.
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Kate
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Kate
Water consumption is slightly down since the city asked us to reduce our usage while the Atwater main is repaired.
It’s not a big drop and I suspect it’s mostly due to the city itself cutting back on watering trees, washing down streets and so forth.
Inconveniently, Environment Canada is predicting a summer that’s to be hotter and drier than average. Maybe the city should distribute kits of bottled water and deodorant.
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Kate
Early Friday, a building CTV describes as “a synagogue in Westmount on the Island of Montreal” and TVA as “un lieu de culte” (religion not specified) was the site of an attempted arson. CTV’s photo shows a broken back window and smoke damage to the outer wall.
CTV’s description of the building as being on Sherbrooke near Wood, in Westmount, makes it clear this was the Temple Emanu‑El‑Beth Sholom. The Gazette does name it in their report, and interviews the rabbi.
A man was arrested and charged Friday afternoon with arson and related items.
Meantime, Projet Montreal plans to present a motion to city council condemning Israel for its genocide in Gaza. No matter what the rabbi says about not importing foreign conflicts here, it’s already happened.
Later, TVA emphasizes that the synagogue building has a daycare in it. But like the report of a shooting in Villeray – which was near a play park but happened in the middle of the night – this incident also took place when no children were nearby. So I wonder, why mention kids to pull the heartstrings?
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Kate
La Presse doesn’t usually get clickbaity like this, but they’re headlining three homicides within 36 hours and emphasizing that one was in a park near a kids’ playground (at 10:30 pm mind you – not many kids out), asking should we worry – then backing off saying the answer is “nuancée”.
The journalists then go on to say that the Walmart stabbing and a shooting in a Villeray park happened in the same neighbourhood, which simply isn’t true.If anything, they should make a point of the park being right next door to a hospital, but I haven’t seen that mentioned anywhere.Nicholas
Is that what the story says? The quote is: “D’abord, quatre jeunes de 15 ans ont été arrêtés et trois ont été accusés en lien avec le meurtre d’un homme de 22 ans dans un Walmart de Montréal-Nord, mardi après-midi. Puis, mercredi soir, un jeune homme de 22 ans affilié à un gang de rue du quartier Villeray a été tué par balle au parc de Turin, dans le même quartier.” It seems to be that “dans le même quartier” is comparing the neighbourhood of the park to the neighbourhood of the street gang, both mentioned in the same sentence, though I agree you could interpret it as referring to the neighbourhood of the previous sentence.
Kate
You are right.
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Kate
Weekend notes from Le Devoir, CityCrunch, Journal de Montréal, CultMTL.Roadblocks and other driving crises of the moment.
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Kate
La Presse talks to the two women who were shot at the École privée nightclub a month ago about their experiences.
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Kate
A map posted by the STM showing various bus stops finds a stop at Beeshop between Guy and Drummond. The slip is being blamed on AI, but it could just as easily have been human error, or an internal joke that slipped into print.
Nicholas
I actually sent the STM an email about that map the other day. I counted nine errors. Also I agree with you about how it probably happened; AI tends to create weirder problems.
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Kate
Loïc Cordelle, CEO of Pulsar, which operates the REM, has been dismissed. Pulsar isn’t directly cited as saying it’s because of all the interruptions and slowdowns on the system, but the article certainly says so.
Uatu 17:11 on 2026-06-05 Permalink
As usual a human sacrifice must be made (aka somebody dying from an error) before anything happens.