By Murray Sherriffs
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A number of Montrealers who thought they knew how to drive in winter conditions, have learned the we all have to learn all over again, regardless of experience, as police investigate hundreds of road crashes caused by black ice, snow, ice pellets and rain.
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A major crash involving at least 20 vehicles on the Papineau-Leblanc Bridge has hurt a number of people.
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The SAAQ is urging motorists to adapt to winter conditions: slow down, put more distance between you and the vehicle that you’re following, give snowplows a wide berth, check road conditions before heading out and clean your car off.
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Environment Canada has adjusted its forecast from 20 centimetres of snow to 2-4 centimetres of freezing rain, ice pellets and rain.
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An estimated 10,000 people gathered yesterday at the Bell Centre to denounce Bill 2 and demand suspension of the legislation because the law threatens their profession and patient care. One doctor says that in 40 years of practice, of all the reforms introduced, Bill 2 is the worst. A surgeon at the rally says the government has put in place the “…slow death for medicine in Quebec”. One medical student says that restrictions on collective action by doctors and students is oppressing the right to protest, to express opinion, the right of association, basically the rights of Canadians. A doctor’s union, the FMOQ, says that it will begin talking to the government’s people only if it follows the recommendations of the College of Physicians and fully suspends Bill 2, removes performance indicators that encourage “fast-food medicine”, eliminates patient colour-coding and guarantees sufficient staffing to improve access to care.
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Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is willing to work with the CAQ government and get striking public transit workers back to their jobs.
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Pro-Palestinian groups have won the day and Quebec’s Premier Tech has decided to no longer co-sponsor the Israel professional cycling team.
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Police say that video from neighbourhood security cameras has allowed officers to locate the car in which four suspects (three of them minors) were driving were driving when they fired five rounds from a 9mm handgun at a home in Mascouche, yesterday.
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A study out of Concordia University has determined that partitions which separate workers in open-concept offices disrupt the work environment by forcing people to speak louder to be heard.
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A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that there are great benefits for adults who go to be early. Researchers analyzed the sleep and exercise habits of nearly 20,000 adults who wore wrist biomedical devices to track their activities. The devices recorded nearly six million “person-nights,” which allowed researchers to figure out the benefits of going to be early. “9-o’clockers” outdid adults who went to bed at 11 p.m., getting about 15 more minutes of physical activity in than the night owls, leading to a more healthy lifestyle.
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Frank Cavallaro is no longer waking up early, driving on unploughed roads in driving snowstorms in the wee hours to toil on the morning show at 106.7 Radio, deciding it would be better to spend the Winter months down south.
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Snow (2 cm) / 1 today
Flurries / 1 tomorrow
