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Steve Faguy
@fagstein
Blogger, media analyst, copy editor at the Montreal Gazette.
Nov 17, 2022 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
Je vois plein de discussion de ce reportage. Certains voient une attaque contre Le Devoir. Ou une trahison contre le mouvement « Moi aussi ». Ou une preuve que ce mouvement va trop loin contre les hommes. Ou une preuve du "cancel culture." Permettez-moi quelques nuances... Parce que c'est ça, la nuance. C'est inconvénient. Ce n'est pas bonne comme arme rhétorique, la nuance. Pas une preuve ni une contre-preuve. Ça déradicalise les propos.
Nov 16, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Alert test successful. Listening to my Android do English text-to-speech of the French part of the message was hilarious. Did you get the alert? Did you not? You can fill out a survey here: peasi.com/emergency-aler…
Sep 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Broadcasting tonight’s French leaders’ debate on television:
- Radio-Canada
- Noovo
- APTN HD
- RDI
- AMItélé

With English translation:
- CTV News Channel
- CBC News Network
- CPAC In Punjabi:
- OMNI BC
- News Only TV
- Sanjha TV

- In Innu on APTN East
- In East Cree on APTN North
- In Ojibway on APTN West

- In Arabic on ICI
- In Mandarin on OMNI Calgary
- In Cantonese on OMNI Edmonton
- In Italian on OMNI.1 Toronto
- In Tagalog on OMNI.2 Toronto
#Elxn44
Sep 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Today’s update. An even 600 new cases. Hospitalizations have now more than tripled in the past month and are up 30% in the past week. The statistical risk difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated people keeps increasing. Now if you’re unvaccinated, you’re 33 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than someone your age who’s vaccinated.
Sep 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Today’s update. A double-digit increase in hospitalizations. There are now twice as many in hospital as three weeks ago. Image Yesterday, there were fewer than 15,000 vaccine doses administered for the first time since February, and fewer than 10,000 second doses for the first time since May. ImageImageImageImage
Mar 14, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Today’s update. Relatively good news, with under 700 new cases, active cases dropping again and only 5 new deaths (lowest net increase since Oct. 3). Another 31,000+ vaccines administered yesterday, setting another new high. Quebec has passed 8% of the population given at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Mar 13, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Today’s update. Status quo all around. 31,527 vaccines administered yesterday, a new one-day record.

Also Quebec did indeed receive its Moderna shipment this week, for a total of 310,120 doses received this week, which has allowed the government to accelerate administration, particularly outside Montreal.
Mar 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Today’s update. New cases still in the 700-range, but hospitalizations are continuing to drop. Image The vaccine ramp-up has begun, with 28,910 administered yesterday. The increase is mainly from more vaccines being administered outside Montreal. ImageImage
Mar 11, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Today’s update. The purgatory continues. Active cases climb back above 7,000, but hospitalizations lowest since Nov. 9. Image Now more than 2,000 confirmed and probable variant cases in Quebec, with 6 new cases being confirmed by sequencing. Image
Dec 6, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Today, Dec. 6, we copy-paste a list of 14 names of women killed because they were women, and we say "never forget" as if we can save their memories even though we don't actually remember anything about them. But besides fighting for gun control, better mental health care, and an end to sexism and misogyny, there isn't much we can do. We can't bring them back to life. The best we can do is prevent the next woman from having her life taken away.
Sep 27, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Today’s update. It’s getting worse. Big jumps today in:
Mauricie (35)
Estrie (37)
Montreal (375)
Lanaudière (40)
Sep 25, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Quebec has set a new record for COVID-19 testing with 36,060 tests taken on Wednesday (21% more than the previous record set the previous Wednesday), and 31,521 tests analyzed (9% above previous record). Image Jumps in new cases today in Capitale-Nationale (132) and Montérégie (83) regions.
Sep 24, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Today’s update. Second-largest increase in cases since May. Number of active cases increases 9% in one day. Hospitalizations continue to increase. Image One clarification about this chart, because I’ve seen many people look at the column on the right, see the numbers add up and assume it means that of 582 new cases, only 324 are active. That’s not how the math works.
Sep 23, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
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 ethique.gouv.qc.ca/media/1372/ces… In August, Quebec’s National Assembly held three days of parliamentary hearings into tracing apps, hearing from a bunch of experts. The takeaway seemed negative because of mostly unfounded privacy concerns. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/17262…
Sep 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Today’s update. Hospitalizations are up 36% in four days. Number of active cases is up 59% in a week. Image Regions where COVID-19 is getting worse in the past week:
Capitale-Nationale (Quebec City)
Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Chaudière-Appalaches
Laurentides
Montérégie
Sep 22, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Today’s update. Number of new cases has dropped from yesterday’s spike, but hospitalizations increase 14% in one day, with 20 being the biggest net increase since May 5. Image The increase in hospitalizations wipes out six weeks of progress bringing those numbers down. But we’re still at less than 1/10 the peak of 1,876 in hospital on May 13. (Peak of ICU patients was 230 on April 14.) ImageImage
Sep 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Global has officially replaced Jamie Orchard with … nobody. Global Montreal’s local evening newscast will now be anchored out of Toronto. More on Global’s decision to anchor Montreal’s local news out of Toronto, and clips of two rather glaring first-day gaffes blog.fagstein.com/2020/09/22/glo…
Sep 21, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
COVID-19 in Quebec: 586 new cases, hospitalizations increase by 10. The second wave is accelerating. After reaching a low of 94 on Sept. 4, the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 in Quebec is creeping upwards. The increase of 10 announced today is the largest increase since the 18 announced on July 30, and the second-largest since May. Image
Sep 18, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Today’s update. 297 new cases, the situation is mostly the same as it has been in the past week. Image Quebec set new records for tests taken (29,726) and analyzed (26,290) on Wednesday. Image
Sep 17, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Today’s update. The 499 new cases include 248 cases that Montreal public health hadn’t yet counted from previous days. Image Average cases per million over the past four days, with newly corrected numbers:
Bas St-Laurent: 44
Capitale-Nationale: 31
Montreal: 26
Chaudière-Appalaches: 23
Laval: 22
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Outaouais: 18
Lanaudière: 14
Montérégie: 11
Estrie: 10
Laurentides: 10

Quebec average: 18
Sep 14, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Time to tune in to those New Brunswick election results … and CTV has already declared a Progressive Conservative “win” (plurality) CBC now also projecting a “Progressive Conservative Government” (also plurality)