Summer promises to be another painful one in several Quebec hospital emergency rooms.

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The Minister of Health announced a few days ago that there will be business interruptions in several places. And the situation in western Montreal is likely to be particularly difficult.

The ER at Lakeshore General Hospital is under constant pressure.

“Today we start the day with 145%. It can be as high as 160-190,” said Dr. Robin Nathanson, deputy chief of emergency departments at Lakeshore General Hospital, told TVA Nouvelles.

A patient told our reporter that she had been waiting to be transferred upstairs for three days. The 187 beds available for a hospital stay are no longer sufficient.

This CIUSSS was the first a few months ago to call upon an IPS nurse who tends to many patients and relieves the ER doctors.

To ease the pressure on Lakeshore Hospital’s emergency rooms, we have established a rapid access clinic that treats approximately thirty patients per day.

Operating Monday through Friday with a small team of 5 including 3 nurses, this clinic allows patients to be discharged quickly from the ER with the peace of mind that they will be attended to by a medical team the next day.

It is estimated that approximately 10% of the 39,000 patients who arrive at the emergency department have medical conditions that require referral to this clinic.

To see the full report, watch the video above.

When the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion law in the United States by a six-to-three vote on June 24, 2022, it restored legislative power to each of the country’s 50 states. The ruling, which overturned the precedent of another Supreme Court decision half a century old, the landmark Roe v. Wade (1973) left a changing patchwork picture of women’s reproductive health rights. This mapping is also a true reflection of a polarized society.

At least 25 states, almost all of which are ruled by the Republican Party, have since decided to ban or severely limit abortion rights, while other Democratic-leaning states like Colorado and California have strengthened these protections. Meanwhile, the legality of mifepristone, a drug used in about half of all abortions performed in the United States, is in question following a ruling by a Texas federal judge.

In post-Roe America, more than 25 million women ages 15 to 44 live in states that have tightened abortion standards in the 12 months since the Supreme Court — the most conservative in eight decades — according to the Associated Press Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case that is also anchored in American legal history books. More than 5.5 million women live in places whose politicians have made decisions in the same restrictive direction but are being put on hold while they are supported by organizations like Planned Parenthood (PP), which runs about half of the country’s abortion clinics, be challenged in court. The PP is behind the complaint that paralyzed the enactment of a law in Utah that was pending the Supreme Court’s decision. The Utah case is just one of about 50 cases pending in court following Roe’s fall.

A pro-abortion protest in Washington, June 2022. Anna Moneymaker (Getty Images)

In the other half of the country, abortion remains legal for at least the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. In 20 states, from Kansas to Minnesota, these protections, suddenly called into question after half a century, have been consolidated into law or added to their constitutions after a ballot box vote.

Geographically, the ruling has shaped a map in which vast regions of the South and Midwest have become a “desert for women’s rights,” as defined by Isabel Guarneri of the Guttmacher Institute, a nonpartisan reference organization for the relationship between reproductive health and public policy.

This desert is poised to expand its silhouette to encompass most of the southeastern United States when two controversial laws that would lower abortion limits go into effect in Florida and the two Carolinas. In South Carolina there is a law with a six-week notice; It has been blocked by a judge and awaits review by a conservative state Supreme Court. In North Carolina, a regulation that prohibits layoffs after 12 weeks is to come into force on July 1.

In this desert there are oases like Illinois and Kansas, where in August a referendum protected women’s freedom of choice, but these are surrounded by states where abortion is not an option. One of the most immediate consequences of the Dobbs ruling was that it led to a brain drain, with hundreds of thousands or thousands of people having to travel to terminate their pregnancies, which meant that abortion was now also determined by geographic and economic factors.

Politically, the issue has turned out to be more complex than anti-abortion organizations have anticipated for the past 40 years. During that time, they used political and legal pressure to coerce the Supreme Court — with three justices appointed during the Donald Trump administration with the express mission of overthrowing Roe is to make a decision favorable to her fight meet.

Last November’s parliamentary elections demonstrated the political weight of abortion. Women’s reproductive health was a key voting argument to stem the “red wave” that Republicans were anticipating. President Joe Biden has highlighted the threats to reproductive health during his re-election campaign. Candidates for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election — a crowded, unfinished list conveniently headed by Trump — are showing in the early stages of the campaign that they’ve learned their lesson and generally avoided making themselves explicit about a highly controversial one to express topic.

The ambitions of Trump’s closest rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, are being hurt by the fact that in April he signed into law one of the country’s most restrictive laws, setting the deadline for abortions at six weeks, except for pregnancies linked to rape or incest. This is allowed up to 15 weeks of pregnancy provided supporting documents such as a restraining order or a police report can be presented.

When Roe was tipped, polls showed that two-thirds of the US public opposed tightening abortion standards. A poll commissioned by NBC News this week found that the percentage of Americans who disapproved of the Supreme Court’s decision a year ago stands at 61%. According to a poll published Friday by the New York Times, a majority of Americans think abortion is “morally acceptable” for the first time and that the new abortion laws that went into effect this year are “too strict.”

A demonstration in Tallahassee to protest Florida’s abortion law last April. Alicia Devine (AP)

Perhaps the best example of how women’s suffrage has become one of the most contentious issues in the US for half a century comes from one of the most extreme: Alabama Congressman Tommy Tuberville blocked the promotion of about 200 senior US military officials in 2016 -Defense Regions for the Pentagon’s permissive abortion policy, which allows its staff to take a few days off to perform an abortion and guarantees reimbursement for those who have to travel. Both are pipe dreams for most low-skilled female workers in the US. In states like Texas, these financial obstacles are compounded by criminal penalties: a person who consents to an abortion faces up to five years in prison under a law passed in September 2021.

This cascade of prohibition regulations has reduced the number of abortions performed: In April 2023, 25,650 fewer abortions were performed in the United States than in the same month a year earlier, according to the monthly estimate by the #WeCount survey, which collects data from clinics across the country year before, when Roe was still in office.

The next target of the US anti-abortion movement is a ban on mifepristone, the most popular abortion drug, in combination with another pill, misoprostol. The former terminates the pregnancy; The latter empties the uterus.

In January, a change in regulations from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed these pills to be sold in retail pharmacies. Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump-appointed federal judge, temporarily suspended the former’s term in April. In practice, this decision was never put into effect. The same nine Supreme Court justices who overthrew Roe last June disagreed with a New Orleans appeals court, whose judges set restrictions on mifepristone administration while reviewing ultraconservative Kacsmaryk’s ruling.

This US Supreme Court ruling was a rare victory for pro-abortion advocates in the country, although it did not dispel the specter that these drugs would eventually be banned nationwide. The verdict that overturned Roe vs. Wade a year ago also had ramifications for the Supreme Court. The publication of the draft in May 2022 plunged the institution into an unprecedented crisis which – as the source is not yet known – is far from over. The credibility of the Supreme Court, whose members are elected for life, has also been undermined in the eyes of US citizens. According to a recent Gallup poll, nearly 60% of Americans disapprove of their ruling, believing it is biased and overly conservative. This represents an all-time high.

The text of the leaked draft Supreme Court Opinion states that the Roe precedent “was egregiously wrong from the start” because abortion is not a right under the US Constitution. In one of the concurrent opinions, Judge Clarence Thomas wrote that the court “should reconsider all previous rulings” relating to cases brought under the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects, among other things, the right to privacy. These include Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), who legalized same-sex marriage; Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which ended the ban on same-sex relationships (2003), and Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), which allowed married couples to use contraceptives.

Progressive activists’ fears that the path set by the court a year ago will continue have not materialized so far. Instead, conservatives in Republican-dominated locations in at least 19 states have made strides in passing legislation restricting transgender rights. In many cases, this new crusade (there was no such law as of early 2021, but it already promises to be one of the main battlegrounds of next year’s presidential election) is being presented as a complement to restricting women’s reproductive rights.

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Less than two weeks after the Philadelphia collapse, a section of US Freeway I-95, one of the busiest in the east of the country, will reopen Friday after non-stop work.

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After the June 11 incident, which was sparked by a fire in a tanker truck just below the highway, authorities estimated it would take several months for traffic to be restored on this vital axis.

But teams worked day and night, in all weathers, to build a temporary road, made mostly of recycled glass, in 12 days.

Authorities have also resorted to iconoclastic solutions, such as using a vehicle normally used to dry the track of a car race after rain, to speed up drying.

Those who were curious could follow the work live thanks to a streaming video.

Faced with questions about the speed of the work, Pennsylvania State Transportation Official Mike Caroll told a news conference, “The road is reopening because it is finished, safe and open to traffic.”

The materials used to construct the track “have been rigorously tested and have been used multiple times,” he noted minutes before the first official vehicles entered the track.

The street will be open to the general public from midday.

Cars and trucks will travel in six lanes instead of the usual eight and at limited speeds as work continues on both sides to rebuild a permanent carriageway.

The I-95 Freeway is a major highway on the East Coast of the United States. The closure at the northeast entrance to Philadelphia, a city of about 1.5 million people, has severely impacted traffic to and from New York.

US President Joe Biden, who flew over the site last Saturday, welcomed this quick reopening, which he says was facilitated by the necessary resources and permits quickly provided by his administration.

“I know how much [la route] is important to people’s quality of life, to the local economy and to the 150,000 vehicles that use it every day,” he said in a statement.

Could Inter Miami’s MLS season be over BEFORE Lionel Messi arrives? A horrific 4-1 loss to the Philadelphia Union ALREADY put the team a whopping 11 points off the playoffs

By Jack Bezants

Published: 2:37 AM, June 25, 2023 | Updated: 03:10, June 25, 2023

The only good thing about this humiliation for Inter Miami is that Lionel Messi was over 5,000 miles away playing a friendly in Argentina. If he sat down and watched this horror show in full, it would have ruined his 36th birthday.

It was a terrifying performance by Miami, who lost 4-1 to the Philadelphia Union to set a new low for the season as the last team in the Eastern Conference. They now face the real possibility of being ousted from the playoff spots before Messi even arrives in what would be a disaster for the whole of Major League Soccer.

Miami is now 11 points behind Wayne Rooney’s DC United, who take ninth and final play-in spot for the post-season playoffs. Miami have two games left but judging from their current form there is a risk that they will fall so far behind that Messi will be late to put them in the playoffs.

There are four more MLS games to go before Messi makes his League Cup debut against Cruz Azul on July 21. But opponents in Austin, Columbus, Rooney’s DC and St. Louis make the calendar look unforgiving.

Defensively, Miami were terrible on Saturday night – the second goal came after the ball went over defender Christopher McVey’s head in the penalty area – and in attack the game kept dropping out as players misunderstood the game and ran into space.

Philadelphia Union smashed Inter Miami in a stunning 4-1 win on Saturday night

Miami could depend on MLS playoff places before Lionel Messi joins the team

Leon Flach’s goal brought Union a 3-0 lead against Miami at half-time

Miami went 3-0 at halftime and still had 70 percent possession, which has been a recurring theme this season – lots of possession but no idea what to do with it.

When Messi arrives, the plan should be to just give it to him. But what worries Miami is even less the idea when they don’t have possession.

Union’s first goal came in the 14th minute from a Jakob Glesnes header. The 1.90m tall Norwegian was covered from a corner by David Ruiz, 1.70m tall, who didn’t get a chance to hit him in the air. For 19-year-old Ruiz, the night was only going to get worse.

The second mistake was McVey’s horrible error and Julian Carranza, a former Inter Miami player, pocketed the ball from close range with a simple finish.

Shortly before half-time, Leon Flach rounded off a great team move with a powerful left-footed shot on the edge of the penalty area, but had all the time in the world to position himself and find his place. He also managed to make it 3-0 for Union.

There was a glimmer of hope for Miami early in the second half when Robert Taylor’s long-range shot deflected heavily in the 50th minute. But Union was too good and too organized to let Miami back in.

Later, the battered Miami defense failed to parry a ball over Mikael Uhre. He held the ball up and looked for Carranza but Luiz, running back, accidentally deflected the ball past goalkeeper Drake Callender, resulting in an own goal and Union’s fourth goal.

Jack McGlynn then hit the post with a powerful left-footed shot.

It was a tough night for Miami midfielder David Ruiz, who scored an own goal in the big loss

Miami now has a week to put the pieces together. Will caretaker manager Javier Morales, who is stepping in after Phil Neville’s sacking, stay on?

Off the pitch, Inter Miami find themselves in an exciting situation. Sergio Busquets is set to follow Messi through the entrance as confirmed by another stunning move by Jorge Mas and David Beckham on Friday night.

According to reports from Spain on Saturday, the team will step up efforts to sign Barcelona left-back Jordi Alba in what would be another landmark signing.

But the way things are going, 2023 will be a bust for the team they’re fielding. Things must change quickly.

Former President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that Russia would not allow a mutiny led by mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin to turn into a coup or a global crisis, the state-run TASS news agency reported on Saturday.

Answering questions from journalists, Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, said the whole world would be on the brink of disaster if Russian nuclear weapons fell into the hands of “bandits”.

The “bandits” attempt the putsch

Prigozhin, a former convict and longtime Putin ally, leads Wagner, a private army that includes thousands of ex-convicts from Russian prisons.

His men fought the fiercest fighting of the 16-month Ukraine War, including the protracted battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut.

A supporter of private mercenary group Wagner holds flags near the headquarters of the Wagner militants-controlled Southern Military District in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24, 2023. (Source: STRINGER/ Portal)

For months he railed against the heads of the regular army, accusing the generals of incompetence and withholding ammunition from his fighters. That month he resisted orders to sign a treaty placing his troops under the command of the Department of Defense.

He launched the apparent mutiny on Friday after claiming the military had killed many of his fighters in an airstrike. The Ministry of Defense denied this.