Around 9:45 p.m., Sûreté du Québec police officers and paramedics were called to the scene of the accident across from 548 Route 255. A car and a moose were involved in the accident. confirmed Sergeant Stéphane Tremblay, spokesman for the Sûreté du Québec in an interview with Vingt55.

The driver, who was alone in the vehicle, called 911 himself after hitting the moose head-on says Sergeant Tremblay He was unable to get out of the damaged vehicle as the animal had done extensive damage and was using part of its carcass to block the door. The driver eventually managed to exit through the vehicle’s rear door, the SQ spokesman confirmed.

According to a witness, the young moose partially cleared the windshield before being ejected and thrown to the ground. It’s scary and deals significant damage. The driver was very lucky to see a citizen.

The driver was taken to the Drummondville Hospital Center with non-life-threatening injuries. confirmed Sergeant Stephane Tremblay. Despite the severity of the collision and the significant damage to the vehicle, the driver was treated for minor injuries and preventive care, the spokesman added.

The smugglers and authorities had to move the carcass aside while awaiting recovery by the Department of Transportation to clear Route 255.

Advice and information in the event of a collision with a moose

Unfortunately, being vigilant doesn’t rule out the possibility of an unfortunate encounter or collision with a moose or large animal, the CAA notes.

If a collision seems unavoidable, sound the horn and hold onto the steering wheel to stay on the road. After firmly applying the brakes, bring your vehicle to a safe stop.

The first thing to do is determine if anyone is injured and call emergency services if necessary. Even if all passengers are unharmed, contacting the police is imperative as the Highway Code dictates that any collision with an animal weighing more than 25 kg must be reported.

Responsible for the accident… despite you

In the event of a collision with an animal, the driver of the vehicle is automatically considered responsible. In the event of bodily injury, SAAQ is responsible for compensating the injured party, regardless of the driver’s liability.

However, the situation is completely different in the case of property damage that may have occurred to the vehicle. The latter are the responsibility of your private insurer, who will determine the compensation to be paid according to the insurance you have taken out.

Better to prevent

After a collision with an animal, drivers should contact their car insurance company as soon as possible. Insureds who only have liability insurance must pay all costs related to repairs. On the other hand, those who have collision protection insurance are better off as the insurer will pay for the repair or replacement of the damaged vehicle. However, you still have to pay the deductible specified in your insurance contract.

In order to avoid complications or a delay in the processing of your claim, it is essential that you send your insurer the number of the police report drawn up after the accident as well as the summary report (if available) and the contact details of your preferred workshop or bodybuilder, if any. Remember that your insurer must approve all repair costs before any mechanic or body shop will begin work.

Brasília was created in the 1950s by architect Oscar Niemeyer as an avant-garde city of the future. Built in just four years (1956-1960), the hotels stand together, there is a hospital area, an embassy area, residential areas (almost no shops)…all connected by majestic avenues. Motorists don’t suffer the congestion that plagues their compatriots, but few cities are so hostile to pedestrians. The distances are so great that nobody thinks of walking or even cycling. The capital of Brazil was planned for the greater glory of the automobile. Despite its undeniable beauty and uniqueness, the Brasilia model became obsolete.

But Brazil has a city of the future. It’s called Curitiba. The inauguration of Brasilia was still fresh when this city, 1,400 kilometers south of the capital, introduced an innovative public transport system – the metro on wheels – with futuristic stops in the form of a transparent tube, thanks to the courage of a mayor appointed by the dictatorship, Jaime Lerner (Curitiba, 1937–2021), architect and urban planner. A revolution began. High impact and low cost.

In that half-century, the population has tripled to 1.8 million residents, while public policies have made Curitiba a green icon, a sustainable capital, a pedestrian-friendly place, and the envy of the entire country for its immaculate streets. A city with 48 parks and 13 million square meters of native vegetation. Quite unknown abroad, apart from environmental circles, where he collects awards, or among those who follow in detail the legal adventures of the current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was imprisoned in a police station in Curitiban.

Two words are enough to sum up the secret of the formula that has made Curitiba a model of sustainability: orderly growth, an anomaly in the country that gave the world the word favela, that neighborhood that emerges amidst the disorder of the peripheries of Cities housing poor workers. The weakest flank in the face of extreme weather events such as torrential rains that kill hundreds of Brazilians in their precarious homes every year.

Japan Square in Curitiba where the Monument to Japanese Immigration is located. Daniel Castellano

Curitiba — 100 kilometers from the coast, almost 700 kilometers from the Iguazú Falls and the state capital of Paraná — listened to city planners to decide how it wanted to grow. And even more striking was that the politicians complied with the recommendations.

You will never see trees for a moment while strolling through this town, founded at the end of the 17th century as a town of prospectors and which grew thanks to the muleteers who brought mules into the mines. Although the first park dates back to 1886, the rest have been laid out over the last 50 years. Green spaces total 60 square meters per inhabitant, five times more than the 12 square meters recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a minimum.

The people of Curitiban are proud of their environmental awareness and are definitely asking for more to strengthen the greener formula. “Ideas that made waves in the 1970s haven’t been improved,” said Grasiela Azevedo, a 41-year-old process analyst. He is among the first generation of students to become environmentalists at school, teaching and supervising their parents. “Public transport is so chaotic at rush hour that I ride my bike,” he says on a walk. The cycle path network has a length of 250 kilometers and it is planned to reach 400 kilometers in two years.

After several years in which the mayors no longer prioritized sustainable growth and environmental issues, the municipality is again led by a city planner. Rafael Greca (Curitiba, 67), a student of Lerner (the man who planted the seeds of transformation), begins updating the legacy through an ambitious plan for Curitiba to adapt to and mitigate climate change. “Global warming is a trend, not humanity’s destiny. we can change it We have to convince people. AND [actuar] not only in the jungle, but also in our cities. “Here we plant 100,000 trees a year,” proclaims the city council in his office, where four decades ago it was decided that it was important to bring recycling to every corner of the community.

Environmental education has become such a big part of the school that the neighbors recycle 22% of their rubbish. The national average? 3%. The people of Curitiban diligently separate their rubbish and are careful not to throw a piece of paper on the floor. To encourage recycling among the poorest, they can trade cardboard and other recyclable waste for fruit and vegetables. This collective success story was born with the first pedestrian street in Brazil. Let’s go back to 1972. Businessmen are furious at the mayor’s crazy idea of ​​banning cars on a busy commercial street, XV Street. Lerner uses his ingenuity: Work starts on a Friday evening, making Monday morning a reality. And when it’s time to open the shops, he’ll place some kids in the middle of the street to draw, neutralizing any boycott.

This was not an isolated case, but part of a carefully crafted roadmap by a team of brave young men. By multiplying parks, they reduced the risk of flooding and squats suitable for slums that would soon become favelas. They expropriated private forests from extended families; they became a general amusement. The Curitiba beaches that the locals joke about.

The change germinated in a public institution, under what at first sight were unfavorable conditions given that it is a conservative city and Brazil was still ruled by the military. But even in the place where the first Brazilian university was founded in 1912, the global boom of the late 1960s could be felt. “Curitiba experienced an explosion of ideas, of the master plan [urbanístico] “It was the result of a very broad public discussion, the first architects had just graduated and Mayor Lerner had the courage to apply it,” explains Rosane Popp, architect and urban planner at the Curitiba Institute for Urban Research and Planning (Ippuc). Acronym in Portuguese). ). An organization that has produced three mayors, including the mythical Lerner and the current one, who came to Ippuc on a scholarship at the age of 17.

A three-body bus operates in an exclusive lane of public transport. Daniel CastellanoCathedral of Our Lady of the Light of the Pines, spiritual center of a conservative city like Curitiba. Daniel Castellano

Extending the best of the original recipe to neighborhoods is part of the plan to stop the climate crisis. The main ingredient, seasoned with recycling, parks, etc., is the revolutionary public transport system that 250 cities around the world – including Bogotá, Istanbul, Marrakech or Seoul – have introduced. It’s called BRT (Bus Rapid Transit).

And it meant a radical redesign to decentralize bus routes. A north-south and an east-west axis as well as a ring network that connects the districts structure the transport system. About twenty terminals allow connections between the lines as they work like a subway, but on land. For six reais (just over a euro or a dollar) you can travel throughout the entire route network.

The great invention was to create a central and exclusive lane through which three-body articulated buses that move like worms circulate at full speed; they are more than 80 kilometers long; and on each side a road for cars and motorcycles with a speed limit of 30 kilometers per hour to allow pedestrians to cross the road without being overwhelmed.

Suely Hass, the planning director of Ippuc, where fifty architects are designing the city’s future, stresses that the main lines of the original plan are still being applied, with appropriate updates. They merely allowed more trade in residential areas to reduce travel. According to the urban planners’ script, the city gradually grew around these traffic axes without the infrastructure suffering as a result. The high-rise buildings are concentrated along the main axes and the further away you are from them, the fewer floors the buildings have.

Curitiba, the epicenter of the Lava Jato investigation, Brazil’s biggest corruption case, is a right-wing, wealthier, less unequal and much whiter society than the Brazilian average. Most of its neighbors are descendants of immigrant families who came from Poland, Italy, Germany, Japan or the Ukraine with little luggage and dreams of prosperity. Thanks to the land ceded by the authorities, they have created a future for themselves.

Niemeyer left his mark in Curitiba with a museum in the shape of an eye. The curving white building and botanical gardens—French-style and complete with a greenhouse—are Curitiba’s postcards. The subway stations also have the advantage of being easily accessible with strollers and those who need a walking stick or wheelchair. They allow travelers to board through multiple doors at lightning speed and protect them on winter days like this one in June, when the temperature drops to 10 degrees and it can rain for 48 hours at a time.

The museum known by Oscar Niemeyer as the Museum of the Eye: an architectural icon of Curitiba. Daniel Castellano

The challenge now is to make transport just as attractive as before and, of course, less polluting. The BRT carries around 600,000 passengers daily. “If the city continues with the current policy, emissions will increase, so we have to assume a disruptive scenario,” warns architect Popp.

Among the innovations, two stand out: the improvement of the connection between the districts and the fact that the buses that connect them also have an exclusive lane, so that private cars no longer present competition. The goal is for them to handle 85% of shifts by 2050 (about 50% today). Many neighbors complain about the overcrowding of the buses, some would like a subway. “What they don’t know is that every kilometer of subway is 1,000 times more expensive than GRT [el sistema actual]”They dream of it because São Paulo has a subway,” replies the mayor.

“My authority does not come from imposition, the true leader must develop an understanding of what is necessary and thus assume joint responsibility,” says the politician, who is in his third term in office. He cannot stand for re-election.

Nalyn Moriah, 26, a musician and leader of a children’s choir from the Periphery, embodies one of the dreams of Lerner, the pioneer mayor who said in a 2018 interview with El País Semanal, “Neighborhood life will save the city school.” , sports and shopping must be nearby. Culture, theater or museums can be the focus.”

While people in other parts of Brazil lose up to four hours a day commuting to and from work — hence the love of social media — Moriah has lived in the same neighborhood for most of her life. He teaches at the civic center where he learned to play the guitar as a teenager. Since he almost always travels by bus or on foot, he knows where he can improve: “It works better in the center than in the suburbs, there could be more buses, the fleet could be more modern, with more frequent schedules…” “, but she’s hooked. She never thought of leaving town.

In his opinion, the fight against climate change insists too much on individual behavior, while the solution will only be collective. “Maybe plastic is the big cancer, we have to fight it from production,” he emphasizes.

Curitiba is a service city that also produces cars, a key sector for the emergence of a middle class in Brazil. President Lula, who unlike his predecessor has pledged to protect the Amazon, has just announced incentives to buy cars at popular prices to boost the industry and endear himself to the middle class. “It goes against the grain of history,” warns the mayor. “I want the President of the Republic to offer subsidies to promote electric urban public transport.”

The city’s mayor, Rafael Greca, urban planner, photographed in his city hall office. Daniel CastellanoArchitects and urban planners Roseane Popp (left) and Suely Hass of the Institute for Urban Planning and Research (IPPUC), the driving force behind Curitiba’s green revolution.Daniel Castellano

Curitiba’s first 70 electric buses are bought, the old landfill has been turned into a pyramid covered with thousands of solar panels that generate electricity. They are planting trees at breakneck speed. And the crown jewel: a new sustainable neighborhood that will replace the favela that sprung up a decade ago in an area that’s a nature reserve. The 1,700 families settled in this flooded area are being relocated next door to houses they are building themselves. It is a project worth almost 50 million euros, of which the French development agency is contributing 38 million euros.

Curitiba attracted international attention with its good environmental practices as early as the 1990s. That attracted the Inter-American Development Bank. Other organizations joined, so that capital and foreign loans made most of the projects possible. Mayor Greca highlights the tough fiscal adjustments he made when he returned to the mayor’s office in 2016 after a first term in the 1990s to keep accounts healthy and attract funding.

The streets look beautiful because their neighbors take care of them, as José Francisco Chaerki says: “If someone throws a can or a piece of paper, everyone will get their attention. “I’m sure it’s not from Curitiba,” says this man, who drives an Uber proudly to supplement his money with a car wash. He uses public transport to get to the other place of work because it takes less time than driving.

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dear Jane,

My father passed away a few years ago and his death broke the heart of all of us, especially my mother who was married to him for more than 40 years. Initially she was withdrawn into herself, didn’t want to spend time with friends, didn’t want to socialize — and my brother and I have worked really hard to encourage her to show up there and have supported her over the past few months, among other things suggested giving it a try a few dates.

To our surprise, she agreed. She joined a dating site and really got into it which is great. There’s just one big problem: she won’t stop talking to me about her sex life. She used to be pretty tight-lipped about things like this, but now every time I see her, it’s the only thing she wants to talk about. And in very vivid detail! Positions she’s enjoyed or wants to try, questions about technique, asking me for sex toy recommendations… it just keeps going.

I don’t want to sound prudish, but my 73-year-old mother’s talk to me about oral sex is just way too much for me. I don’t want to spoil her very sex-positive parade or make her feel like she has no right to have any fun, but I’ve gotten to the point where I’m so uncomfortable that I actually avoid taking her calls , so I’m not entitled to chat again about her latest bedroom adventure.

Any ideas how I can get her to stop without hurting her feelings?

Von, nervous daughter

Dear Jane, My widowed 73-year-old mother doesn’t stop talking too much about her sex life and it makes me incredibly uncomfortable

dear nervous daughter,

I am delighted that your mother is being given a second chance at life, especially after such a happy marriage and the tremendous loss that followed.

And I’m appalled that she shares it all with you. My god, there are lines that should never be crossed and I firmly believe that children don’t want or need to know anything about their parents’ sex lives.

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It’s over-sharing, crossing borders and, I think most kids will agree, totally inappropriate.

Your mother sounds fantastic and how brilliant she is to embark on a series of sexcapades thanks to your advice, but I shudder with horror that she would be asking you, her daughter, questions about technology. However, given how new this is to her, it does suggest to me that she needs someone to talk to, preferably someone she didn’t give birth to.

There’s no point in spoiling her parade by telling her this has to stop. I encourage you to practice the words before you sit down with her, lest you wince in horror at such an uncomfortable subject.

When you’re ready, it’s best to tell her in person that you have something you want to talk about. Start by saying how excited you are about her embracing life and adventures again. Show how excited you are about her explorations and that it’s great that she’s experiencing a sexual awakening. However, as her daughter, you are deeply uncomfortable hearing about it. If she needs to talk about her sex life, she needs to find someone else to confide in.

Maybe she has a boyfriend, or if not, she could find a counselor. At least Dr. Google and now Chat GPT have tons of suggestions on technology.

If she refuses to stop, interrupt her and remind her that you are uncomfortable talking to her about it. It may take a few times for the message to get through, but if you take a deep breath and are brave enough to always interject with that phrase, she will stop sharing too much with you.

dear Jane,

My younger sister had a particularly bad divorce almost a year ago and was practically summarily kicked out of the home she shared with her horrible ex-husband.

At the time she asked if it would be okay to stay with me for a few weeks while she took care of everything – and of course I was more than happy to welcome her into my home. My kids love her, she gets along really well with my husband and I thought having her around for a while would actually be a wonderful way for us to spend some time together.

Thing is… it’s been ten months now. And she shows no signs of looking for a place or trying to move. I’ve made a few pointers about it and even tried to encourage her to sit down with me and go through online rental listings, but every time I do she just says it brings back too many horrible memories of her divorce, and she’s starting to cry .

I don’t want to be mean, but I want my personal space back! She works from home so she’s always there and I just feel like I don’t have time for myself or time for my husband. She’s a wonderful person, but I feel like I’ve had a third child!

Any advice on how to tell her she needs to move on?

From Stuck with a Squatter.

Dear Stuck with a Squatter,

As many of us know, after three days, most guests start to stink, just like fish. You lasted ten months and honestly you deserve a medal.

What a nice, generous offer you made by welcoming her into your home, but boy is she taking advantage of it now. The fact that she bursts into tears every time you mention her moving out tells me that she knows exactly how to manipulate you and that she has you pretty much where she wants you – around her little one fingers wrapped.

Dear Jane’s Sunday Service

The “drama triangle” of victim, rescuer and persecutor was created almost 40 years ago by Dr. Stephen Karpman, and many of us slip back into familiar roles we created in childhood to help us survive.

But this particular triangle is as unhealthy as it gets, and recognizing our role can help us break the cycle.

Victims feel helpless and strive to be saved or to be saved. Saviors can often be trailblazers, need to be needed, and can turn into martyrs, with smoldering grudges lurking beneath the surface. And when the rescuer stops saving, he is seen as a pursuer.

You must be with your husband and children, and she must go. Ignore the tears that come to you when you talk to her about this because tears have always gotten her exactly what she wants. So wait until she stops crying. Hell, maybe you’ll get a handy box of tissues from under the sofa and post the clues.

Tell her loud and clear that you are happy to act as a landing pad during this difficult time, but you all need your space back and it is time for her to go. Give her a date that gives her plenty of time to find something. Ignore tears and all the theatrics, keep calm and explain that by that date she must have found somewhere else.

It won’t be easy because she takes advantage of you. The rent-free living in your house is simply fabulous for them.

Ten months later, tears over finding another apartment reminding her of her divorce are manipulative, wrong, and victimizing her while everyone else tiptoes around her.

As long as this continues, she does not have to take responsibility for her life.

Please don’t let the tears fool you. Stay calm and clear and stick to the deadline she has to go by.

You can always rent a truck and help with the loading together with your husband. Either way, no further clues. You and your husband need your place back and if he doesn’t organize the moving company that day, you have to.

It may be difficult with her for a while, but I can imagine that once she stands on her own two feet and takes responsibility for her decisions, your relationship will find balance again. None of this will happen as long as you succumb to tears. Stay loving – and stay STRONG.