By Murray Sherriffs
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The somberness enveloping New York’s LaGuardia Airport is all encompassing, as investigations are launched, the injured recover and families deal with their ultimate loss. Seneca College has identified the other pilot who died in the accident as Mackenzie Gunther, whom Air Canada Express carrier Jazz Aviation hired right after he graduated from the school’s aviation technology program, three years ago. Several passengers remain in hospital. The wreckage of Air Canada flight 8646 remains strewn across LaGuardia runway number four. United States National Transportation and Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy says Canadian Transportation Safety Board investigators will be part of the team that will piece together what went wrong. One of the biggest questions to be answered will be the workload that ground controllers are under: Was the man in place at the time well-rested? Did he have control of multiple ground movements and departure movements? A hole had to be cut in the roof of the aircraft to retrieve the cockpit and flight data recorders and are now being analysed in Washington.
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Montreal Mayor Martinez-Ferrada has widened financial support for businesses affected by major construction projects, to help them stay in business on Sainte Catherine West, Fleury, Berri, De Maisonneuve, de Lorimier and Notre-Dame.
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Véronique Proulx, president and CEO of the Quebec chamber of commerce, has unveiled its list of 55 economic priorities and policy recommendations that the government should aspire to, which include an increase in immigration, simplified bureaucracy and public procurement rules, and artificial intelligence policy to meet labour shortages, because business wants an environment that is more predictable, more agile and better suited to today’s economic realities.
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Quebec Finance Minister Éric Girard has endorsed former Economy Minister Christine Fréchette as the next leader of the CAQ.
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The Tribunal Administrative du Logement has ruled that “no-pets” lease clauses violate renters’ rights under Quebec’s Charter of Human of Rights and Freedoms. Administrative judge Suzane Guévremont ruled that a general prohibition on keeping an animal in a dwelling “constitutes an oppressive, unacceptable intrusion into a person’s family life, within the very place that is the centre of their private life—their home.”
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55,000+ Quebec cegep and university students are on a week-long strike to protest austerity measures in education.
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Scores of Montreal high school students took a major step last weekend, attending an event at Concordia that exposed them to thinking about a career in engineering.
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The Montreal Port Authority has been told to comply with a motion from the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, that calls on it to adhere to all municipal regulations and Quebec environmental laws, after it was determined that groundwater and soil on certain lots owned by the Port are contaminated with petroleum products and cadmium, copper, nickel, lead and zinc.
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Caroline vs Canadiens 7 p.m.
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Flurries / 3º today
Sun + cloud / 4º tomorrow