CBC: National news anchor
CTV: National news anchor
Global: National news anchor
Star: Ottawa bureau chief
HuffPost: Ottawa bureau chief
It’s a real mystery how these moderators were chosen.
So I have some ~personal news~.
As of this week I am no longer a part-time copy editor at the Montreal Gazette.
Instead, I have accepted a new position as a full-time copy editor at the Montreal Gazette.
Here's an emotional
@JayOnrait
addressing the cuts at TSN — three of whom are from the Jay and Dan show, including
@notontvotoole
— in the first episode of the now renamed
@JayOnSC
No better way to celebrate healthcare workers than to invite hundreds of them to witness one guy sending another to a hospital because he lost a hockey game.
When my country asked me to do the bare minimum, I stepped up (and then waited in lines, then sat down, then sat down again).
I've never been a soldier in a war before, but I know we're going to win this one.
After weeks of steady decline, Ottawa’s wastewater signal — considered the most accurate reading of how much COVID-19 is in the community — took a sharp turn upward last weekend as thousands of vaccine mandate protesters came to the city.
Unilingual national anthem at Habs-Jets game in Winnipeg. Crank up the outrage machine!
#GoHabsGo
(But seriously, would it have killed you to do the bilingual version?)
TVA Nouvelles deletes a Facebook post about a fire in Halifax that killed seven Syrian refugee children because it couldn’t handle the deluge of comments from people celebrating the deaths of those children. (But no, there’s no islamophobia in Quebec.)
Quebec is headed to a "total" lockdown of 3-4 weeks, including shutting schools, manufacturing and construction, plus a curfew, all starting Saturday, reports La Presse
Can we please stop with the "government messaging is confusing" opinions?
Stay home. Don't gather. Wash your hands. Wear a mask.
It's only confusing for people desperate to find loopholes to violate those guidelines and not feel guilty about it.
CTV News at Noon is being cut everywhere except Toronto. Weekend news being cut except Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. No news on holidays. And W5 is being cancelled, though the brand will be integrated into CTV National News.
To me, Michel Louvain will always be the guy who learned not only the choreography but also the Korean lyrics to Gangnam Style just so he could perform it once at a Juste Pour Rire gala.
In his 70s.
Just because.
What a professional.
Richard Gray, who is (temporarily?) replacing Michael Melling, is the executive who fired people like Jon Pole last year through a conference call that said "Your services are no longer required. I've muted your microphones. Don't go on social media. I'm ending the call now."
This story is nine paragraphs long. Paragraphs 8 and 9 explain that Paragraphs 1, 4, 5 and 6, the headline, deck, photo caption and statements made in the video are total bullshit
Now that Montreal has infiltrated the White House, Operation Smoked Meat has entered Stage 3. A caravan of cheese curds is en route. The password is “Bonjour-Hi”.
It continues to surprise me how, when anything bad happens in Quebec or its government does something wrong, so many people jump to the conclusion that Quebec as a whole is either innately stupid or evil or both.
Often the same people who would abhor racist stereotypes.
A reminder that Quebec gets more than 80% of its oil from Canada and the United States, thanks largely to the Enbridge Line 9 pipeline, and that Saudi Arabia, Russia, Angola and Azerbaijan are not significant sources of oil in Quebec, according to the National Energy Board.
Tonight, Jean Charest will be wondering what the rest of us have been wondering for the past six months: Why did he subject himself to this humiliation of entering a race he had no hope of winning?
#LePanel
Le scandale du « blackface » de Justin Trudeau
«Lui qui est tellement connu sur la planète comme une espèce de symbole de progressisme, cette photo-là va rester et va coller sans égards aux résultats des élections au mois d’octobre.» -
@ChantalHbert
#polcan
I’m hearing the Bell Media bloodbath, having gone through senior executives and mid-level managers, is now reaching the front lines.
Lots of people losing their jobs. And since Bell won’t say who, we’ll have to rely on who disappears from websites or announces on social media.
Les gens qui profitent des tribunes pour dire qu'ils souffrent et ne sont plus capables avec la situation au Québec devraient quitter, dit un chroniqueur qui profite de ses tribunes pour dire qu'il souffre et n'est plus capable avec la situation au Québec.
Yves Boisvert points out that the Quebec government is more tolerant of teachers who are literally unqualified for their jobs than teachers who wear scarves on their heads.
Do not go to Maisonneuve Rosemont Hospital ER. Instead, call your nonexistent family doctor, go to a walk-in clinic that requires an appointment and has no appointments available, or call 811 and have them tell you no appointments are available for a month. Happy health care!
1/2
J’ai rencontré le PDG du CIUSSS ce soir qui a eu des discussions avec les infirmières. La situation aux urgences de HMR est intenable présentement, j’en suis conscient.
Thank you to everyone on Twitter today clarifying that being the wife of a hockey player might not be sufficient qualification to dispense proper medical advice.
Stories like this should do the math of what these changes mean in real numbers. If you take a cottage you bought for $250,000 and sell it for $1 million, i.e. it quadrupled in value, you're talking about an additional $38k in taxes. Is that worth a fire sale?
I don’t know— we were told capital gains taxes outrage is it punishes entrepreneurs working 15 hours a day, doctors slaving away in the practice for retirement but turns out the real chaos is in for cottageland?
#cdnpoli
Prof qui dit le mot en N: Il faut une loi pour protéger la liberté académique! C'est inacceptable!
Prof qui dit que le Québec n'est pas accueillant envers les immigrants: Il faut lui mettre à la porte! C'est inacceptable!
A lot of people saying “Omicron may be peaking in the UK” are missing one key fact:
The UK has maxed out it’s testing capacity.
It you can’t run anymore tests per day, you can’t confirm any more cases - and the graph will plateau.
You can’t measure what you can’t see.
@funnierhandle
@seungminkim
How are people more at risk from the presence of professional journalists than they are from the presence of strangers who can just post whatever on social media afterward?
Leading causes of death in Quebec on an average day:
10. Suicide (3)
9. Diabetes (4)
8. Flu/pneumonia (4)
7. Accidents (6)
6. Alzheimer’s (6)
5. Brain clot/stroke (8)
4. Lung disease (8)
3. Heart disease (30)
2. Cancer (52)
1. COVID-19 (89)*
*Average from past 5 days
Stephan Bureau calling this a "coup d'état" isn't the biggest issue here. He doesn't understand why a politician would quit after saying he won't quit, and he doesn't understand why a campaign message wouldn't be on White House letterhead. Why is he a political analyst?
Le complotiste Stephan Bureau affirme sur les ondes de TVA que Kamela Harris est en train de faire un coup d'État...
Et TVA et Radio Canada continue de l'inviter.
@pmartin_UdeM
@ProfPolitiqueUS
Why is Quebec against a tracing app? Here’s a clue: In a 77-page report, its science and technology ethics commission studied the issue in detail but failed to recommend that the government should use such an app
Wow, that sounds very undemocratic. Perhaps the Liberals should look into changing the electoral system so that people could vote for who they want to vote for and votes don’t get wasted. I’m sure if you promised reform you’d get a lot of votes.
#Elxn44
“A vote for the NDP is a vote for the Conservatives” has never been more true.
Singh won’t publicly deny his willingness to prop up a Conservative Gov’t that will take us backwards on women’s rights, health care, climate action & more.
#Elxn44
#cdnpoli
Les anglophones représentent 9% de la population au Québec.
Les cégeps anglophones ont 17% des places au Québec.
La CAQ propose, avec la loi 96, de geler le nombre de places dans les cégeps anglophones.
Le PLQ de Dominique Anglade s'y oppose
Remember those pictures of the Canadian and American sightseeing boats at Niagara Falls that we used to show our moral superiority?
These are photos of those boats taken Friday.
Here’s a crazy idea: Let’s not blame politicians for doing photo ops and press conferences during disasters when the alternative is us angrily demanding where they were during the crisis because we didn’t see them getting their hands dirty on TV.
To the Twitter commentariat out there: You can make valid criticisms of the decline of quality of CTV News or the management of Bell Media without shitting all over the work that hundreds of professionals do on a daily basis.
How whitewashing racism works:
Rebel Media publishes garbage.
Right-wing newspaper columnists write columns based on said garbage.
Politician says legitimate newspapers reported the garbage and he's just asking questions.
« Les articles en question étaient en fait des textes de chroniqueurs qui s’appuyaient sur des allégations sans fondement véhiculées par Rebel News, un site internet proche de l’extrême droite au pays qui est souvent alimenté par les complotistes. »
Statistics I’d like to see from the Quebec government:
- Deaths by vaccination status
- Number of appointments for third doses (by age group preferably)
- COVID-19 Hospitalizations by reason for admission
- Total number of people in hospital per day (COVID and not)
Here, the man who says we should stop francophones from going to English post-secondary schools details how he went to an English post-secondary school and that's OK.
Parti Quebecois leader
@PaulPlamondon
studied at McGill and Oxford, but says his education in English is “not an accurate reflection of what happened.”
#qcpoli
Across all platforms, CityNews will provide in-depth coverage of events commemorating the life of
#QueenElizabethII
, the Queen's funeral & the transition to
#KingCharleslll
🇬🇧
@LisaLaFlamme_
leads this coverage from London as a special correspondent💫
🔗
Montreal stations that participated in this included:
Radio Ville-Marie 91.3
Énergie 94.3
Radio-Canada 95.1
CKOI 96.9
CHMP 98.5
WKND 99.5
Rythme 105.7
Rouge 107.3
No anglo stations though.
Demain matin à 8 heures, plusieurs stations de radio diffuseront simultanément «Sur mon épaule» des
#CowboysFringants
en hommage à Karl Tremblay, une initiative initiée par Jean-Philippe Marcil, directeur de la programmation de 107,3 Rouge.
Just made the call that Conservative Party leadership winner won’t be on the front of tomorrow’s paper, because we’re too close to deadline now. Similar decisions probably being made from east to west across the country.
This seems like a textbook example of perfect being the enemy of good. The COVID Alert app isn’t perfect, therefore politicians of all four parties have apparently concluded we shouldn’t allow or facilitate its use. That kind of logic is going to get people killed.
Looks like TSN will be broadcasting PWHL women's hockey games. It has "Hockey: TBA" on its schedule coinciding with the first three PWHL games of the season. RDS2 has "TBA" for Montreal's first game on Jan. 2.
Catherine Dorion dresses casually, and the boomers say she disrespects her job.
She dresses like a business woman, and Denise Bombardier calls her a prostitute.
Imagine being a girl trying to figure out how to dress to be accepted in this society.
New plan: We convince the conspiracy theory crowd that they're safe from each other's 5G cellphone emissions if they keep a distance of two metres from each other at all times.
Today’s Montreal Gazette logo is black in honour of Guy Lafleur. I was tempted last night to take it a step further, but in the end we just kept it simple.
Quebec Bar reminds lawyers that posting videos of yourselves on Instagram at your client's murder trial with tags including "how to get away with murder" to the tune of Gangster's Paradise is ... inappropriate.
Eight years after Bell Media fired Kevin Crull for interfering in CTV News, the company now says executives can "offer ideas for news coverage to Bell Media News teams," which includes pushing a "positive spin" on coverage of BCE's financial reports to "help" the company.
1) Quebec’s premier has decided to unblock my colleague Aaron Derfel after a public backlash. But does François Legault really support freedom of the press? In this thread, I will try to explain why we should view this news with some skepticism. 😉
Good news, everyone!! Premier
@francoislegault
has just graciously unblocked me! I commend Premier Legault for listening to the people on this issue, and for supporting
#FreedomOfThePress
. You can expect my daily Twitter update on the
#pandemic
in Montreal later today.
It continues to baffle me how politicians in Quebec, and a lot of white francophones in the population, say there’s “no systemic racism” in this province, apparently oblivious to what “systemic racism” actually means.
Newspapers still publishing print editions seven days a week in Canada (after Postmedia changes next month):
- Toronto Sun
- Toronto Star
- Winnipeg Sun
- Journal de Montréal
- Journal de Québec
End of list.
Quebec MNA demands CBC apologize for a question she wasn’t asked by a journalist it doesn’t employ at an event it didn’t control criticizing a government she isn’t a part of.
If Bell Media had a soul, someone higher up might have volunteered to take the heat and publicly explain the decision to fire these people. But instead,
@JayOnrait
is left to do damage control for the bosses who thought his friends and colleagues were expendable.
(Hydro-Québec has literally explained this in every press conference since Wednesday. It prioritized things like Lakeshore Hospital and municipal facilities, which have power now.)
I'm troubled by the fact that Hydro Quebec has yet to provide support to the West Island. It's important that they address this and provide an an explanation.
#polqc
La Presse had a $13 million surplus last year, which means it was profitable even without the $7.8 million in donations from 56,000 donors. Donations and ad revenue are both up, allowing it to build up a reserve fund of $40 million.