2) I would add, if you care about social housing, respecting the will of the people following public consultations, making downtown attractive again, fiscal responsibility and the threat antisemitism poses to the city, then the choice is clear for who should lead Montreal.

1) Given the high number of undecided voters in this year's Montreal election, here's an innovative quiz you can take below prepared by the @mtlgazette's great young journalist @hsnorth_.

2) And for those of you who haven't read the story that may have partly inspired Terry's cartoon, here it is again below. 👇 https://t.co/QvHmhFYi3o

1) Legendary @mtlgazette cartoonist @TerryMosher1, AKA Aislin, hits it out of the park today with the image below, his take on the threatened exodus of physicians to the land of the @BlueJays. https://t.co/W8TofLxvzw

BREAKING: More Quebec doctors plan to flee the province over new pay law, this time from the Queen Elizabeth Family Medicine Group in central Montreal. Please click on my story below.👇 https://t.co/QvHmhFYPSW

We should all wish M. Legault a big fat Merci Beaucoup for having potentially and partially solved Ontario's physician crisis.

Wonder how Montreal’s Italian community will react to Projet Montréal leader Luc Rabouin joking about himself as a “Gino” while performing a blue-collar task. #ItalianStereotypes https://t.co/0fGriZeZeT

File under your tax dollars at work. Under the Projet Montréal administration, city crews re-did the bike path on Christophe-Colomb Ave. twice in three years. Because once was apparently not good enough. Great series by @CityHallReport. https://t.co/kp3okYr2px

BREAKING: Flu season comes early to Quebec as Jewish General Hospital reinstates mask mandate https://t.co/xzRrc0rm6T via @mtlgazette

7) The reason for this is simple: This reshuffling of the deck chairs on Quebec's Titanic medical system is being carried out with the same number of medical staff. The staff are just moving from the public to the private sector, creating more shortages in the public system. End.

6) Health Minister Christian Dubé's latest proposal is to shift backlogged surgeries like knee and hip replacements from the public system to the private sector at greater cost to taxpayers. But this transfer indirectly weakens the public system in the long run.

5) A growing number of orthopedic surgeons — fed up with the lack of resources in the public system — have opted out of medicare and are operating in the private-for-profit sector. This trend has been gaining momentum under Santé Québec. https://t.co/6ICPAihAo9

4) At present, 150 operating rooms in the public network are closed each weekday in Quebec for lack of staff. This has contributed to a ballooning of wait times for surgery. As of Sept. 20, 6,200 Quebecers were on wait lists of at least a year for their operation.

3) Astute political analyst @JoseeLegault has sometimes written about this phenomenon. She uses a great French word to describe it: "vampiriser." Below is one of her columns on the subject. https://t.co/udQ0Ba5RBx

2) Click below to read my original story on the subject in the @mtlgazette. The upshot is that more and more the Coalition Avenir Québec government is embracing private-sector options in health care — often to the detriment of the public system. https://t.co/R7Y1kAQvsN

1) How Quebec is playing musical chairs on the deck of the Titanic. Here is my interview earlier today with @aaronrand on the government's latest proposal to transfer heavily backlogged surgeries from the public system to the private-for-profit sector.

Under the Projet Montréal administration, the city's debt has soared by at least $1.36 billion to $6.86 billion, yet outgoing mayor Valérie Plante gives herself high marks for fiscal management. Excellent fact check below by @CityHallReport of The Gazette. https://t.co/xBkXF615O6

8) As the British poet John Keats once wrote: "The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." In that spirit, I urge people to read the text below. End of thread. https://t.co/7nZivayRmF

7) Earlier this week, a Université de Sherbrooke medical student blamed the "Zionist lobbies" — without providing any evidence — for allegations he made antisemitic and other racist remarks on a Discord channel he moderated for months. https://t.co/AXJe7t0id6

6) "I proposed hosting a single academic talk at my university...on the antisemitic genealogies of anti-Zionism, particularly on the Soviet roots of so much of today’s anti-Israel sloganeering...My request was denied without explanation."