New York wants homeless people off the subway

Authorities in New York pledged on Friday to kick the massive subway system out of the countless homeless people who survive but are singled out in the recent surge in crime. • Read also: Record crime in Manhattan against people of Asian descent Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, rates of delinquency … Read more

Forest cutting: analyzes still incomplete on the North Shore

The Côte-Nord still does not know whether it will be possible to increase the volume of logging over the next year. The allowable cuts correspond to the maximum volume of annual harvest in public forests. The chief forester announced this week a 3% increase across Quebec, but the analyzes have still not been completed on … Read more

Public health wants to prioritize housing

The Montreal Public Health Department is reviewing its priorities and tackling the housing crisis, after spending a year and a half focusing entirely on the health crisis. • Read also: More cooperatives to fight poverty • Read also: Housing starts drop across the country • Read also: Real estate market: slight increase in average price … Read more

The big New York concert cut short under the threat of a hurricane

The concert organized in Central Park to mark the “reunion” of artists with the public of New York, a city heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, was stopped on Saturday, under the threat of Hurricane Henri. • Read also: A scorching end of August and a very hot beginning of September • Read also: Storm … Read more

The big New York concert cut short under the threat of a hurricane

The concert organized in Central Park to mark the “reunion” of artists with the public of New York, a city heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, was stopped on Saturday, under the threat of Hurricane Henri. • Read also: A scorching end of August and a very hot beginning of September • Read also: Storm … Read more

La Cité-de-la-Santé opens new COVID beds

The Cité-de-la-Santé hospital will make more room for patients with COVID-19 within its walls. The directive was issued earlier this week, we are told, by the Ministry of Health. The addition of beds, called “red beds”, will lead to a reorganization in some care units. • Read also: Valérie Plante is worried about the homelessness … Read more

COVID-19: 40% of Americans believe the virus comes from a Chinese laboratory

A growing number of Americans are adhering to conspiratorial theses rejected by credible news sources: 40% of them, for example, say they believe COVID-19 was created in a laboratory in China, even though the consensus current scientist believes that the virus would come from an animal to human transmission. The most recent NPR / Ipsos … Read more

1,924 new infections in Ontario

Ontario is reporting its worst COVID-19 numbers since the start of the pandemic with 1,924 new infections for a total of 127,309. • Read also: [EN DIRECT] The latest developments on COVID-19 The neighbor of Quebec carried out nearly 59,300 tests to arrive at its results, informs the Minister of Health of Ontario, Christine Elliott, … Read more

New York State crosses 10,000 death mark

The State of New York crossed the milestone of 10,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Monday, said Governor Andrew Cuomo, who nevertheless estimated that “the worst” of the crisis had “passed”. “The worst is over, if we continue to be smart” and to follow the containment measures, he nevertheless qualified. “If we do something stupid, you … Read more

160 companies call to action against New York’s decline

More than 160 New York business leaders and economic officials, including the bosses of Pfizer, Morgan Stanley and WeWork, on Thursday called on the city’s mayor to act against the decline in quality of life observed since the start of the pandemic . • Read also: New tech decline, Wall Street relapse • Read also: … Read more