The police have posted their policy on Bill 78 (now sometimes being called Law 12) as the question of going back to school comes closer. Bit of rewording from Radio-Canada but essentially the cops won’t come unless the school calls for them.
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A young man was killed in a workplace accident at Trudeau Airport Friday when a vehicle used to tow aircraft ran over him.
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Good, clear account of the progression of the attempt to revive asbestos mining in Quebec and why it’s a lost cause. In La Presse, Patrick Lagacé also eyes Quebec’s inability to face the music on asbestos with a beady eye.
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Jean Naimard
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Kate
It wasn’t just here, Jean. The discovery of toxicity section of the Wikipedia’s article on asbestos briefly describes similar responses in the U.S. and Australia, and I wouldn’t call it hysteria. The medical world knew about the correlation with mesothelioma earlier, but government and industry tried to stifle the knowledge till it was too overwhelming to be denied. Quebec is the last holdout where efforts are still being made to mine and export the stuff. It’s not smart – even so-called third world countries are clued in by now.
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cheese
The timing of the nationalization and the knowledge of the harmful affects of asbestos are likley not coincidence. I expect the mine owners were bailed out by their politician buddies (or they duped the government) so they would get a big pay out and not be left with very expensive but useless assets. I don’t have any facts/details to back this up but this is perhaps another case of the rich getting richer off the backs of the greater population?
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There’s been a shooting at Galeries d’Anjou and two people are injured. Not much detail yet.
Later, a but more from Radio-Canada including the news that one of the victims has died.
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Steve Quilliam
Please, let’s not do any profiling here. Let’s remember that it is more important to be politically correct than to make sure our city is safe. We should all let these good young people browse around our streets with deadly weapons !!!
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Matt
Steve, does seeing black people cross the street remind you to lock your car doors when you’re waiting at a red light?
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Kate
Little hysterical there, Steve boy.
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Robert J
Yeah, what is this, America’s Most Wanted 1991 edition? The Canoe.ca article describes the shooters only as “deux noirs”. They could have just said “deux individus”. This kind of shit makes me furious.
A certain kind of person loves to hear that every criminal is black or any race than white. Racism is in its essence the identification of people principally by their race.
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Item on Concordia’s new president emphasizes his optimism, doesn’t mention whether he’s tired of being asked if he misses space.
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No\Deli
Oh, but I doubt he’ll quit aeronautics anyway. After all, Concordia has its special metallic parachute research programme.
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john
This is a tough month to start your tenure at Concordia. If I remember correctly this month marks the 20th anniversary of Fabrikant shooting five people.
Regardless of what one thinks of Con U., best of luck to the new President and his partner in their new city.
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Strange angst Friday over how economically right-wing CAQ actually is – two different edits of the same CP piece on how the party’s campaign promises are at odds with its pro-business, anti-tax stance.
Two academics write in the Toronto Star about Quebec’s stubbornness on the social welfare issue, which they suggest sets it apart, even more than language politics.
Québec solidaire presents its vision of a very different Quebec economy. They’re holding at 6% of the vote according to that Léger poll.
Pauline Marois tried cosying up to anglos this week, saying the election is not a referendum.
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Adam
Pro-business and pro-free market are two totally different things. Successful business hate the free market and love regulations and subsidies that handicap their competitors. The CAQ’s platform is nakedly corporatist. Dirigisme at its worst.
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qatzelok
@ Adam: “Successful business hate the free market”
Yes, but not nearly as much as they hate free people.
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Thursday evening’s demo ended with one arrest.
La Presse says Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois resigned against a background of tensions within CLASSE, where he was regarded not as the radical hothead portrayed in most local media, but as too moderate.
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sam i
It’s quite interesting to see La Presse refer to his “image médiatique” in a sort of weird third-person, as if they had nothing to do with it.
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Anto
@sam: It’s always funny to see media comment on politicians’s image in the media, as if they had nothing to do with it.
“Where is Québec Solidaire in this campaign?” I don’t know but I’d like to! Why won’t you tell me?
I guess that’s what Twitter’s for.
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Radio-Canada broke a story on L’Enquête about how an SQ surveillance of a Liberal fund-raiser was cut short minutes after the man met with Jean Charest at a motel in Dorval, back in 2009. Charest spent Thursday saying this kind of journalism wasn’t ethical; the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes hit back with a cutting statement: Il n’appartient pas au premier ministre, ni à aucun autre politicien, de dicter aux médias leurs choix rédactionnels.
Le Devoir has released results of a Léger poll showing the PQ at 32%, the Liberals at 31% and the CAQ at 27% – full details in this PDF file.
Radio-Canada finds the PQ is ahead in Facebook activity but Québec solidaire excels at Twitter.
You know, I would really love to read a straight-up account from Jean Charest about how he got entangled with the Mafia, from the first glance across the room, to the moment when he realized he was in too deep to get out, and examining the various stages as it sank in that he was simply going to have to keep telling bigger and bigger lies to keep himself and his party afloat. Could make a good movie.
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walkerp
Even if his meeting with Charest did not actually trigger intervention from the Premier’s office, the web of associations between known mafia figures and the Liberal party is just too apparent. We really need a major purging across the board here. Let’s hope the people vote accordingly.
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Alanah
ooh, yes, and then after his tell-all confession he can go into witness protection
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Jack
Look I am no fan of Charest, but when I saw this story I wondered why Radio Canada chose this moment to air it. It is a story they had been working on for three year, why now?
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Bill Binns
Has any legitimate political activity ever occurred in a motel? Attending a meeting in a motel should be grounds for impeachment of any politician.
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Marc
This election, like the previous ones, RadCan will do whatever it can to help elect the PQ.
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Kate
Jack, you’ve got to admit it’s newsworthy now, though, although I wouldn’t entirely absolve Radio-Canada of bias.
Bill Binns: exactly! When I heard “motel in Dorval” on the radio I laughed out loud.
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Jack
I cannot believe I am defending Jean, but here goes. The meeting was held in a motel in Dorval because that’s where Makivik Corporation (Inuit landholding organization) always holds its meetings. The man Charest spoke to was the V.P. of FTQ construction, the most powerful union in Quebec. The man in question also had direct ties to the FTQ’s “Fondes des solidarites” the second biggest public equity fund in Quebec. He also supported Charest when he ran for the Tory leadership. He gets two minutes with Charest, you and I don’t.
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Kate
Jack, that’s interesting background.
Either Radio-Canada just heard about this incident (odd, because it happened in 2009) or else they’ve held onto it to use as a time bomb during an election campaign.
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Jack
I love Alain Gravel’s work for Rad Can, but the political nature of the timing leaves me befuddled.By the way I just saw a TVA reporter asking Legault if he was in favor of Astral’s sale to Bell, a question that PKP obviously ordered.Legault of course sang for his supper and said it was terrible for all Quebecker’s (especially PKP and Quebecor).I get this sinking feeling that we might replace Charest by an even more right wing Legault.Get your casseroles out!
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Not to say that asbestos is always totally harmless, but it’s funny that the hysteria against it started right after Québec nationalized asbestos mines some 30 years ago…