MONTREAL A monument honouring one of the leaders of the Patriotes Rebellion has retaken its place in Viger Square on the national holiday held in that historic event s honour. On Monday, the City of Montreal s executive committee announced that following a major restoration by the city s Bureau of Fine Arts, the statue of Jean-Olivier Chenier has been restored to its usual place in front of the Universite de Montreal Hospital Centre s research centre. Chenier was among the leaders of the rebellion, which took place between 1837 and 1838. In a statement, the city called the return of the statue “an important milestone” in the square s redevelopment.
At the Jewish General Hospital, where under normal circumstances there are 24 intensive care beds, capacity has been increased to 30, with 20 of those occupied by COVID-19 patients, according to ICU chief Paul Warshawsky. All the ICUs in Montreal in particular are working to increase their capacity, he said. There are plans to go up to 32 to 34, depending on how we decide to do it. Then we have to open a second ICU, which we did in the first wave in what was the cardiology department. But in the first wave, that was a little easier to do because for reasons we still don t understand, there were less cardiac patients.