Here are the hot topics that marked the week.
Professional order for teachers: “Not a good idea”, according to Drainville
Bernard Drainville has slammed the door on the creation of a professional order for teachers, despite recent cases of violence by teachers brought to light in the media, in particular that of a first-grade teacher who shouted at his students.
Interruption on the green line due to cracks: the omen of “major works” in the metro
PHOTO MARTIN CHAMBERLAND, THE PRESS
Employees were inspecting the green line platform at the Berri-UQAM station on Monday, shortly after the announcement of the partial service interruption.
Expect construction in the metro. The long interruption on the green line, in the middle of rush hour on Monday due to the deterioration of the concrete in the vault of the tunnel between the Berri-UQAM and Saint-Laurent stations, is the omen of “major work” in the metro during coming years, admits the Société de transport de Montréal.
US Presidential: Joe Biden will run for a second term
US President Joe Biden has announced that he will seek a second term in the 2024 campaign. If re-elected, he will complete his term at the age of 86. Never had a candidate asked his citizens to leave him the keys to the White House until this age.
Abandonment of the third motorway link: “I will not apologize”, says Legault
PHOTO EDOUARD PLANTE-FRÉCHETTE, THE PRESS
It was the first media outing since the official announcement of the abandonment of the CAQ promise.
François Legault will not apologize for breaking his election promise to build a third highway link. Citizens who wait on the bridges at rush hour will have to “admit that the delay is shorter” today and that it is no longer justified to invest billions in this project, he said Tuesday.
Half a million homes were without electricity in Quebec
PHOTO JOSIE DESMARAIS, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
The outage came less than a month after the major multi-day blackouts that affected southern Quebec in early April after an episode of freezing rain.
A loss of production during a maintenance operation at the Churchill Falls power plant in Labrador left nearly half a million homes without power on Tuesday noon.
The delicate return of Éric Lapointe
PHOTO DAVID BOILY, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
Eric Lapointe in 2018
Red carpet, TV appearance, concerts, new song, album release…Three years after pleading guilty to assaulting a woman and slipping away from the big circuits, Éric Lapointe is slowly but surely returning to the spotlight in 2023 A fragile operation and not without possible pitfalls.