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Kayla Panacui receives Caring Canadian Award
We’ve all heard about the Me
Generation – that’s the Boomers,
and in the 1970s, Tom Wolfe coined
the phrase to describe the attitude
among many that what counts in
life is self-realization, not social
responsibility.
Fast-forward to today, and the
image we have is of adolescents
absorbed in the virtual world of
the iPhone and XBOX, seemingly
oblivious to what’s going on around
them.
Both are clichés, and last month
we caught up with more than a
dozen local students, who, through
personal initiative and hard work,
strive to make the world a better
place as part of the We Generation.
In recognition of the burgeoning
volunteer sector among youth, 12
young Quebecers, 8 to 17, received the
Governor General’s Caring Canadian
Award March 23, given since 1985 to
exceptional effort in volunteering to
help others and building “a smarter
and more caring nation.”
Building a Cure, are to be given to
fight cancer and build the school in
India. Students at John Paul I High
School in St. Léonard are involved
and expect to raise $50,000!
The school-in-India campaign is
coordinated with Free the Children,
the organization co-founded by
Craig Kielburger and his brother
Marc who also promote WE Day
to encourage similar philanthropic
efforts. Craig Kielburger was there
as some 2,000 students gathered
at Théâtre St. Denis to cheer such
initiatives and enjoy entertainment
in their honour.
Kayla, who received her Caring
Laurier-MacDonald students (L to R): Canadian Awards at an Evening
Alessia Collaci, Francesca Varrone, animator Vince Lacroce, Kayla Panacui of Champions, says she’s looking
forward to travelling to India next
Among them was Kayla Panacui, students Alessia Collacci, 16, and year with other students and being
16, a grade 10 student in the Francesca Varrone, 16, joined her as involved hands-on in building
International Baccalaureate program assistant captains. A total of $5,000 the school, part of her Grade 11
at Laurier-Macdonald High of the was raised at a spaghetti dinner, personal project.
English Montreal School Board in and another $5,000 is expected
“Everyone should have the right to
St. Léonard.
at a second event May 8, with the education, and a lot of kids around
Kayla sparked a campaign at her support of teachers and spiritual and the world don’t. Raising the money
school to raise $10,000 to help build community animator Vince Lacroce. to build this school really touched
a school in rural India, and fellow The proceeds of the event, called me,” she said.
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École Rudolf Steiner in Notre
Dame de Grâce, heard about Free
the Children from their mom,
and first helped clean up garbage
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“Coach” enters battle for NDP in Mount-Royal
An epic battle is set to unfold in Mount
Royal riding as the three major parties seek to
replace Irwin Cotler, retiring after 15 years as
its Member of Parliament.
Côte St. Luc Mayor Anthony Housefather is
working hard to retain the seat for the Liberals,
while three strong candidates are vying to
represent the Conservatives. Conservative
hopeful Robert Libman ran a full-page ad
in the Canadian Jewish News last month to
recruit members and outvote his rivals. Pascale
Déry had supporter Sen. Jacques Demers
on board when she held a “hockey night” at
Roasters in the Marché Centrale, March 30.
Also seeking the Conservative nomination
is Beryl Wajsman, editor of The Suburban
weekly newspaper. The nomination meeting
is expected at the end of April.
Where does that leave the New Democratic
Party, a distant third in the 2011 election, when
its candidate, Jeff Itcush won almost 7,000
votes – the NDP’s best score in the riding since
Charles Taylor’s 15,000-votes in 1965 against a
victorious Pierre Trudeau?
That gap is at the heart of the challenge facing
NDP candidate Mario Jacinto Rimbao, 36,
a relative unknown when it comes to public
affairs, who’s determined to turn the campaign
into a three-way race.
Party. He started somewhere. Anthony Housefather
started somewhere. I’m confident, and convinced
there is a chance I can stage an upset.”
“One thing I’m good at throughout my life is
dealing with people, touching their emotions,
their passions, issues and problems. “I
understand people, I grew up around different
nationalities and backgrounds, and I know
how to deal with all of them. I don’t have the
celebrity status or the experience politically, but
I know how people feel and think.”
In the Filipino community, comprising some
10 per cent of the riding, Rimbao is known as
“coach” because, for most of the past 20 years,
he has volunteered in the Philippines Basketball
Association of Montreal.
Affable and easy-going, the 36-year-old has
deep links to the West End. Born in Montreal,
he was raised in Côte des Neiges, on Dupuis,
and later in NDG, on Fielding, by Philippinesborn parents. His father is a retired medical
technologist and his late mother, a registered
nurse. He lives in Brossard with his wife
Roanne, a registered nurse, and their year-old
Mario Rimbao daughter, Miya Alyanne, and father.
“I’m the underdog, without a doubt, but I
Rimbao was educated at Loyola High School,
always like a challenge,” he says with a confident where he played basketball, volleyball, and
smile.
competed in track and field. He completed
“I have to introduce myself to the people, but CEGEP at Dawson College, and earned his B.A.
everyone started somewhere. Robert Libman was in political science and history at Concordia, the
completely unknown when he ran for the Equality
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last five courses while working in the shipping
industry. He works for Fednav International,
where he sets schedules for deep-sea cargo ships.
A longtime and committed social democrat,
Rimbao says he decided to run because,
following the birth of his first child, he realized
how hard it is to find subsidized daycare even
in Quebec, which uniquely in Canada has a
limited number of spaces at $7.30 a day. (Under
a new sliding scale, families earning more than
$55,000 will pay more, up to $20 a day.)
“The NDP plan of $15-a-day daycare, which
is based on the Quebec model, has really
touched a lot of people who are having a hard
time finding child care. It’s a provincial issue,
but Thomas Mulcair’s offer of assistance to the
provinces is a great idea.”
Rimbao is proud of Mulcair and the NDP’s
opposition to Conservative anti-terrorism
legislation, which would give police and
Canada’s spy agency much broader powers and
allow the detention of terror suspects.
“It’s creating an aura of George Orwell’s 1984.
I read that book in high school and Big Brother
was always watching. That’s not Canadian values.
“We understand protection, but we also have
our freedoms. That’s how we define ourselves
as Canadians. It sets up something that is very
vague and could lead to something dangerous.”
He says he’s upset about the dispatch of
Canadian Forces to Iraq and the fact their
mandate is “very vague,” noting the tragic
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fire from Kurdish forces, returning from
a mission in a zone of fighting against the
Islamic State forces.
“This touches me personally. I have a cousin
who went to Afghanistan, who was with the
Canadian Forces fighting there. I don’t think
the Canadian government is doing enough to
support the soldiers when they come back.”
The corruption charges against senators Mike
Duffy, Pamela Wallin, and Patrick Brazeau only
accentuates the timeliness of NDP policy on the
Senate, he said.
“I’m really supportive of the NDP idea to
abolish the Senate,” he says. It was estimated
four years ago to cost more than $106 million a
year, excluding pension-plan contributions.
Rimbao was acclaimed at a riding association
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Letters to the Editor
Harper’s policies detrimental to our rights and freedoms
If Stephen Harper weren’t such a hawk for
Israel, would you vote for him?
We are electing a Canadian Prime Minister for
Canada. His policies for Canada are detrimental to
our democratic rights and freedoms. His politics
are those of fear, division, obfuscation, and lack of
honesty or transparency. He brooks no discussion
or openness. He lacks respect for our democratic
and social institutions. He sees enemies
everywhere and sends tax auditors to investigate
charities that disagree with his environmental
policies, muzzles Canadian scientists to the degree
that, internationally, scientists have garnered over
800 signatures protesting their treatment and our
lack of evidence-based policies.
With the indefensible cancelling of the longform census, how can we plan long-term for
anything, what will these decisions be based
on? Harper didn’t plan for diversification of our
resource industry and we are now held hostage
economically by the Saudis, our friends and
allies. Oil is prime. With prices down and the
economy at risk, can he still retain the claim as
the only person who can direct our economy
through troubled times? Where was his foresight
in developing alternate fuel sources as well?
Harper’s regressive law-and-order bills are
meant to distract the public from well-known
facts that our crime rates have been going down
for decades and we don’t need to institute more
punitive and regressive laws. Instead of funding
CSIS to be able to do their anti-terrorist work,
funding has been cut to the bone. Where is the
sense in all this, the evidence-based material
on which Harper declaims and proclaims?
This is not what Canada is, not my country of
compassion and social justice.
Does Harper even speak up for human rights
anymore? What about Mr. Fahmy, a Canadian
journalist imprisoned in Egypt on trumped up
charges and being defended by an internationally
respected human rights lawyer with whom
Harper will not communicate? What about
prisoner of conscience Mr. Raif Badawi in Saudi
Arabia, sentenced to 1000 lashes and years of
incarceration for defending human rights and
freedom of speech, whose family was given
refugee status and live here in Quebec?
While the rest of the world was campaigning
for his release, we signed a $15 billion dollar
military equipment contract with the Saudis,
and our former Foreign Minister praised their
human rights record. Is this my Canada?
If we get the government we deserve, what does
that say about us if we re-elect Harper? Do not
be fooled by his appeal to our baser natures. We
are better than that. We are Canadians. — Sandra Brown
Feature on Pascale Déry should have avoided labels
I have to take issue with a couple of points
in your article featuring Pascale Déry. Why
does it matter what mother tongue she was
educated in? All three candidates are fluently
bilingual and Ms. Déry’s opponents have more
than demonstrated such in many publications
as well as in the Quebec National Assembly:
Robert Libman as an MNA and Beryl Wajsman
at numerous sub-committee meetings there.
It’s bad enough when nationalists castigate
Anglophone or Allophone citizens for not
being “pure laine” enough, no matter what they
do or say. For a writer in an English newspaper
to brand Ms. Déry’s opponents as “Ashkenazic
Jewish” so as to perpetuate an unnecessary (and
often wrong) stereotype about them and their
community is shameful. Second, Ms. Déry must have almost put a hole
in her tongue from the bite when talking about
memberships.
Political parties are joined by various means
other than papers gathered by candidates
and supporters and sent to a Party’s national
headquarters in Ottawa (on-line for example).
There is absolutely nothing on a form to
indicate support for any specific candidate and
no roll kept as to whether a membership was
sent by a candidate or his/her support team.
Ms. Déry and the writer obviously also ignore
the fact that riding associations have preexisting members who may vastly outnumber
any memberships a candidate has solicited.
Ultimately any number or subtle hint of a
number is useless as the only number that
matters is the number of votes the candidate
gets at the riding nomination meeting.
In fact, it would suggest to me that between
that statement and Ms. Déry’s recent musings on
social media, that she’s actually struggling to gain
traction in the riding and hoping that enough
people either not join the party or, if in it, give up
the idea of voting at the nomination meeting by
presenting this kind of invincible aura.
— Robert Gauvin
Langlois family receives title
Righteous Among the Nations
Néret, France — August 1942,
Eugène and Alexandrine Langlois,
and their daughter, Suzanne,
received little Léon. They were
honoured March 17 for their
courage.
Léon Rucker, now 77, lives
in Canada with his wife, three
children, and six grandchildren.
Yet, in Néret, he was among family:
His other family – the one that
sheltered him from the Nazis when
he was only 4. “Suzanne Langlois
came to fetch me from my parents
in Nice. They received me here, at
their home, as if I were one of their
six children. I stayed here for two
years, far from my parents, but in
safety and surrounded by love…
“For them it was normal.”
Thanks to him, more than 71
years after these tragic events,
the Langlois Family is honoured
posthumously, with a medal
accorded to persons deemed
Righteous Among the Nations.
François Guguenheim, vicepresident of the French Committee
of Yad Vashem, was present,
alongside Elad Ratson, Public
Relations Director of the Israeli
Embassy in Paris, and Alain
Espinasse, Prefect of Indre District,
to confer the highest Israeli
distinction to Josianne Luizy, the
niece of Suzanne Langlois, who
had passed away in 1996. “My
grandparents and my aunt spoke
rarely about that episode of their
lives,” Josianne explained. “For
them, what they did was just
normal. They weren’t puffed with
pride about it. They were simple
people…” Léon Rucker remembers,
“hunting for mushrooms with
Alexandrine, and the courage of
Eugène at work.”
The emotion was palpable and
reached home, when during the
speeches and singing the national
hymns of France and Israel,
everyone present remembered
the Jews killed during the attacks
which occurred in Januar y
in France and Denmark. “It
behooves each of us to contribute
to reinforcing the foundations of
our Republic and to not remain
indifferent to these threats,” said
Alain Espinasse. “Being united
means also extending a hand, the
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Commentary on Netanyahu’s
“No” to a Palestinian state
Here is a selection of comments and opinions
on Benjamin Netanyahu’s pre-election “no” to a
Palestinian state under his watch in the current
climate of regional chaos and violence, and
his Likud Party winning the largest number of
Knesset seats:
Netanyahu, in a post-election interview with
NBC, insisted he remains committed to Palestinian
statehood – if conditions in the region improve –
and to the two-state solution first enunciated in
a 2009 speech at Bar Ilan University: “I haven’t
changed my policy, I never retracted my speech.”
Marie Hart, State Department spokeswoman in
Washington, commented that Netanyahu is hard
to read:
“He said diametrically opposing things in the
matter of a week. When you say things, words
matter. And if you say something different two
days later, which do we believe?
“What we’re looking for now is action and
policies.”
Ari Shavit, Politico Magazine:
“…In the last four years: all around the Arab
world crumbled into chaos… and the Gaza Strip,
from which they had withdrawn, became the
heavily armed and hostile base of Hamas, raining
down a barrage of missiles on Tel Aviv for 50 days
in the summer of 2014. The aggregate result of
these traumas is an understandable but dangerous
shift to the right.
“Because the old peace-idea was not replaced
by a new peace-idea, many Israelis fear for their
future and are no longer willing to embrace
American and European peace initiatives… At
the same time, some Israelis have developed
xenophobic tendencies, that do not stem from
inherent racism but from a deep fear the centerleft in Israel and the international community
cannot assuage.” politico.com
Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post:
“The fundamental reality remains: This
generation of Palestinian leadership – from Yasser
Arafat to Mahmoud Abbas – has never and will
never sign its name to a final peace settlement
dividing the land with a Jewish state. And without
that, no Israeli government of any kind will agree
to a Palestinian state.
“Today, however, there is a second reason a peace
agreement is impossible: the supreme instability
of the entire Middle East… Amid this mayhem,
by what magic would the West Bank, driven
by a bitter Fatah-Hamas rivalry, be an island of
stability? What would give any Israeli-Palestinian
peace agreement even a modicum of durability?
“…With or without elections, the West Bank
could fall to Hamas overnight at which point fire
rains down on Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion Airport and
the entire urban heartland…”
“Any Arab-Israeli peace settlement would
require Israel to make dangerous and inherently
irreversible territorial concessions on the West
Bank in return for promises and guarantees. Under
current conditions, these would be written on sand.
“Peace awaits three things — eventual Palestinian
acceptance of a Jewish state, a Palestinian leader
willing to sign a deal based on that premise, and a
modicum of regional stability that allows Israel to
risk the potentially fatal withdrawals such a deal
would entail.”
“…That’s essentially what Netanyahu
said in explaining – and softening –
his
no-Palestinian-state
statement.”
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David Shulman, New York Review of Books:
“The notion that there will someday be two
states in historic Palestine has been savagely
undermined. We have Netanyahu’s word for
it. If he has his way – and why shouldn’t he? –
Palestinians are destined for the foreseeable future
to remain subject to a regime of state terror,
including the remorseless loss of their lands and
homes and, in many cases, their very lives, they will
continue to be, as they are now, disenfranchised,
without even minimal legal recourse, hemmed
into small discontinuous enclaves, and deprived
of elementary human rights.
“Secondly, we may see the emergence in the West
Bank of a situation like that in Gaza, with Hamas
or other extremist organizations assuming power
… there is no way a privileged collective can sit
forever on top of a disenfranchised, systematically
victimized minority of millions.
“...there is an ongoing, intimate, many-layered
relationship between Israelis and Palestinians,
and what one side chooses to do always has a very
direct impact on the other side…If we Israelis fail
to cut a deal with the Palestinian moderates, or at
least to strive in earnest for an agreement, we will
by our own actions bring their extremists to power.
“Thirdly, Palestinians will rightly turn to the
International Criminal Court in the Hague … and
to international forums such as the UN Security
Council, where Israel may soon no longer enjoy
the protection of an automatic American veto.
The international boycott will intensify to a level
far beyond what we have seen.
“Fourthly, and most important, the moral fibre
of the country will continue to unravel…there
will be more hyper-nationalist, anti-democratic
legislation, more deliberate and consistent
attempts to undermine the authority of the courts,
more rampant racism, more thugs in high office,
more acts of cruelty inflicted on innocents, more
attacks on moderates perceived as enemies of the
state, more paranoid indoctrination in the schools
… more war-mongering, and quite possibly more
needless war…” nybooks.com/blogs
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Continued from page 7
same hand that the Langlois Family extended
to the Rucker Family by welcoming Léon.
By their selfless act, during one of the most
somber periods of our country’s history, all the
Righteous are permanent examples and give us
hope and confidence in humanity.”
Translated by Gisèle Rucker, sister of Léon
Rucker, from an article by Christophe Gervais
that appeared in La Nouvelle République, March
18, 2015.
Israeli journalist decries “excuses” that prevent peace
“It’s the end of the masquerade.”
That’s how Israeli journalist Gideon Levy
characterized the pre-election musing by Likud
leader Benjamin Netanyahu that he would not
agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state
alongside Israel.
It was something less than a full statement,
more like an answer to questions from a notunfriendly journalist, but it angered the Obama
administration, with one official saying the U.S.
will “re-assess our options.”
It also fit Levy’s argument that no Israeli leaders
had ever intended to agree to a Palestinian state.
“For 24 years at least, Israeli politicians, one
after another, misled the Israelis, the world and
Palestinians in claiming that the occupation (of
land captured in 1967) is about to end,” he told
some 300 at Concordia University last month.
Levy, a columnist and editorial board member
at Ha’aretz newspaper, was kicking off a speaking
tour of Canada, sponsored by Canadians for
Justice and Peace in the Middle East.
For the record, here is what Netanyahu actually
said in the interview: “I think that anyone who
is going to establish a Palestinian state today and
evacuate lands is giving attack grounds to the
radical Islam against the State of Israel.”
“Anyone who ignores this is sticking his head in
the sand.”
Asked whether he meant that a Palestinian state
would not be established if he were re-elected
prime minister, Netanyahu replied “Correct.”
Though it was hardly a formal statement, and
Netanyahu has backtracked after his party won
most seats in the election, Levy argued that the
facts speak for themselves.
First the alleged obstacle was Yasser Arafat,
founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization,
who was seen as “too strong;” then his successor,
Mahmoud Abbas, was seen as “too weak.”
“In between there was terror, and when there is
terror you don’t expect Israel to negotiate,” he said.
Then came Hamas and Gaza. “You can’t expect us
to talk to those Islamists, those fundamentalists.”
“Now there is ISIS, and here we have another
excuse because ISIS is on the border.”
Meanwhile, the so-called “status quo” persists,
which is not because more settlements are being
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built all the time on lands occupied since 1967.
Expansionism “has only one purpose – to
prevent any kind of peace settlement.”
Can Israel continue to flaunt international law
and “the majority of public opinion in the world”
or will it be “a wake-up call for changing the
international discourse,” he asked?
“For people like me, the only hope is from the
outside… We are now getting the most nationalist,
religious, right-wing government that Israel has
ever had.
“It is on the world’s shoulders to decide if this
is acceptable in the 21st century, if this reality is
legitimate, and could continue to be supported,
financed and encouraged by the free world.”
With 600,000 Israelis living in the West Bank
and East Jerusalem, the chances for realizing a
Palestinian state are “really very, very low.”
The alternative is a “one-state solution,” which
has been functioning since June 1967, with three
regimes, he argued.
“One is the façade of a liberal democracy for
its citizens, the second is one that discriminates
against its Arab citizens, with some rules of
democracy, and the third is half an hour away
from our homes, one of the most brutal and cruel
regimes in the world today.”
“It looks like an apartheid regime, it behaves like
an apartheid. When two peoples are sharing one
piece of land, one people has all the rights in the
world, the other has no rights whatsoever.
“If this is not apartheid, what is apartheid?
“Israeli society is in total denial, but will the
world tolerate another apartheid state in the 21st
century, with democracy for some people and
apartheid for the others?” he asked rhetorically.
“Can someone be half-pregnant, halfdemocratic? Can Israel continue to find excuses
with the only excuse, the unofficial religion of
Israel, namely security?
“What about the security of Palestinians?” he
asked. None of the estimated 2.65 million West
Bank Palestinians had the right to vote in the
Israeli election. Meanwhile, the occupation and
peace and two states or one were not discussed in
the campaign, he noted.
Although Netanyahu is neither loved nor
appreciated, he wins elections. “He understood that
fear is the best way to be elected and re-elected.
“Everything in Israel is an existential threat,” he
said, in a mocking tone. The Tel-Aviv-born son of
Holocaust survivors, and an aide for four years to
Shimon Peres, Levy said it was in the late 1980s
when he visited the Occupied Territories that he
started to realize that “this is the biggest story of
Israel and there is almost no one to tell this story.”
This has not won him many friends in Israel,
though he has received many awards for his
journalism, and this past year he had to hire
bodyguards to protect him and his family.
Levy continued for some 90 minutes, including
a question-and-answer period, but one of his
harshest judgments was this:
“Israelis don’t perceive the Palestinians as equal
human beings like them – that’s the core of
everything.
“As long as this will not change, nothing will
change.”
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her and us just fine. Likewise, kids, when they
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And that is a good thing too.
So now, we have a guest room. Sarah moved
out. Not too far. She is within laundry-walking
distance. But all of a sudden we have a spare room.
It took time to actually realize this. Part of me was
saying, well, she might need to spend the night
here. I mean she is almost a whole metro stop away
and our weather is iffy... but that hasn’t happened.
So after two months of stalling, the wunder-phoria
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and shopped around for a double-bed-sized futon.
I let her know that we had made the transition. I
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“how come it took you so long?”
Our first houseguests visited us for a long
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Taking stock of end-of-life care
Until recently, it was a crime in
Canada to assist others in ending
their lives. Those grievously and
irremediably ill and in pain could not
seek a physician’s assistance in dying.
A person facing this prospect had two
options: take his own life prematurely,
often by violent or dangerous means,
or suffer until death occurred from
natural causes.
But a woman with a neurodegenerative disease wanted to die
in dignity and challenged certain
sections of the Canadian Criminal
Code before the courts. The Supreme
Court of Canada held that provisions
of the Criminal Code unjustifiably
infringed upon the Charter of Rights
and should be voided to the extent
that they prohibit physician‑assisted
death for a competent adult person
who (1) clearly consents to the
termination of life and (2) has a
grievous and irremediable medical
condition (including an illness,
disease, or disability) that causes
enduring suffering, intolerable to the
individual in the circumstances of his
or her condition. It further held that
an individual’s response to a grievous
and irremediable medical condition
is a matter critical to their dignity
and autonomy; The prohibition
denied such persons the right to
make decisions concerning their
bodily integrity and medical care thus
infringing on their liberty and leaving
them to endure intolerable suffering.
Even before this Supreme Court
judgment had been rendered, Quebec
had drafted a new law scheduled
to take effect in December of this
year. The title of this law is “An Act
respecting end-of-life care”. End-oflife care is defined as “palliative care
provided to end-of-life patients and
medical aid in dying”. Medical aid
in dying means “care consisting in
the administration by a physician
of medications or substances to an
end-of-life patient, at the patient’s
request, in order to relieve their
suffering by hastening death”. The
purpose of this law is “to ensure that
end-of-life patients are provided
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care that is respectful of their dignity
and their autonomy.” The care is to
be administered with compassion,
understanding, courtesy, respect and
fairness. Under the terms of this new
law, every person whose condition
requires it has the right to receive
end-of-life care, subject to the specific
requirements contained in the Act.
For those living with incurable
pain, this may be a dream come true.
But for others, especially seniors, it
has caused much concern over the
creation of a “slippery slope” leading
to removal of protection of those who
are vulnerable. The court felt that
a permissive regime with properly
designed and administered safeguards
is capable of protecting vulnerable
people from abuse and error. The
care to be administered under the
Quebec legislation will only result
where there exists “freely and clearly
expressed wishes with respect to
care, in particular by establishing an
advance medical directives regime.”
The physician must make sure that
the request is being made freely; i.e.,
by ascertaining that it is not being
made as a result of external pressure.
Consent to continuous palliative
sedation must be given in writing on
the form prescribed by the Minister
and be filed in the patient’s record.
This law regulates in detail how endof-life care is to be carried out.
Those who request terminal
palliative sedation must “be informed
of the prognosis, the irreversible and
terminal nature of the sedation and the
anticipated duration of the sedation.
It obliges the physician to inform the
patient and his close relations of the
policy of the institution with respect
to end-of-life care and provide the
patient with all the information
regarding therapeutic possibilities and
palliative care, which he requires in with others if he so wishes. As
order to make an informed decision. further protection to the patient,
In Quebec, to be eligible to obtain an eleven-member Commission on
medical aid in dying, the patient end-of-life care has been created to
must be capable of consenting, be at examine all matters relating to endthe end of life, suffer from a serious of-life care, to advise and report to
and incurable illness, suffer from the Minister and to oversee that the
an advanced state of irreversible provisions of the law are carried out.
decline in capability and “experience
The Act provides for the creation of
constant and unbearable physical or a special register of advance medical
psychological suffering which cannot directives prepared by individuals in
be relieved in a manner the patient the event that they become incapable
deems tolerable.” If the patient does of giving consent to treatment at a
not meet these criteria, the aid cannot future time. When a patient becomes
be obtained. The request must be incapable of providing consent, the
made by the patient on a special form physician can consult the register
signed by him and countersigned by a and act accordingly. It is to be noted
health or social services professional. that health-care instructions already
It may be withdrawn at any time.
provided in a Mandate in the Event of
Before administering the medical Incapacity do not constitute advance
aid requested, the physician must medical directives under this Act
assure himself that the patient is and those who wish to have advance
eligible for the aid and must consult medical directives should see their
a second independent physician to lawyer or notary.
confirm that the eligibility criteria
The Quebec Act respecting end-ofhave been met. He must also make life care was approved last June and is
sure that the request has been scheduled to become law in December
made voluntarily and without any 2015. Although healthy people often
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Created in 1999 and also known as Le
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seeks “to brighten the lives of seriously
ill children and families…through
respite care, variable length stays
at Maison André-Gratton (Mount
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to make life as healthy and happy as
possible.”
Booties, small and medium,
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“If grandparents did not exist, we
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Inspired by this idea, Sun Youth
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located in the Laurentians. This
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both the young campers and the
seniors, following an observation
made that many children attending
Sun Youth’s camp during the summer
had no grandparents in their lives.
As well, among seniors attending
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giving a bit of love and attention
would light up their lives. Our
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We have a perfect setting for our
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Orange you glad it’s not called red?
Dedicated readers of the Word Nerd column
might remember that five years ago I explained
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that, lexicographically, at least, there is no debate
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that the egg preceded the chicken. It arrived
in the English language in the 9th century,
whereas chicken only made its debut a century
later. Today I will address the equally weighty
conundrum of whether the colour orange or the
fruit orange deserves the honour of being first. colour orange only appears more than 100 years
Whereas the earliest citation of orange the fruit later. Actually, there was no word for the colour
is from the beginning of the 15th century, the orange in Old English and a castle decorator
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meant fragrant. Its journey, however, was just
on its first leg because from India it travelled
to Persia, where it was rendered as narang, and
to Arabia, where it was called naranj. In the
Middle Ages, Muslim merchants brought this
bitter type of orange to Sicily and before long
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a or an in English, or une or uno in Romance
languages, the “n” can disappear. The opposite
process can also occur; an “n” can be added
to a word that didn’t originally have one. For
example, a “newt” was originally in Middle
English rendered as “an eute” and a “nickname”
was an “eke name.” The Latin aurantium
referenced before was probably also influenced
by the word aurum, “gold”, since the fruit had a
golden colour.
Although we see a progression towards the
spelling of “orange” in both English and French,
this form of the word is due to a coincidence.
In the south of France, there once was a Roman
city named Arausio. In Provençal, a dialect of
the Romance language Occitan, the name of the
city morphed into Aurenja which was becoming
a centre of the orange trade and Aurenja was
nearly identical to the Provençal fruit word
auranja. From here it was a small step to orenge
and finally orange for both the city and the fruit.
And orange (or should I say Orange) was
not finished with its frequent travelling. In
the 16th century, Philibert de Chalon of
Orange was awarded a good chunk of the
Netherlands by Emperor Charles V. When he
died, his title passed to his German nephew,
William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, who
established the Dutch Republic and the House
of Orange. As William organized Protestants in
Holland to struggle against Catholic Spain for
independence, both the name and the colour
became associated with the Netherlands.
In a couple of generations, however,
orangeness would travel once again. William’s
grandson William III became King of England
in the late 17th century. Because he defended
the Protestant population of Ireland, the
Protestants there became known as the
Orangemen in his honour.
Incidentally, an orange’s colour has nothing to
do with its ripeness. Oranges turn orange only
as a result of cold weather, which breaks down
a membrane protecting their green chlorophyll.
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KRIStINE BEREy
Critics have described the five-decade career of
Gerald Potterton —animator, director, producer,
writer, illustrator and painter—as “colourful”
and “eclectic.” While one word can’t capture the
essence of his work, his irreverent, ironic sense of
humour is everpresent. “You’ve got to laugh, the
world is too serious,” he says.
Known for the sci-fi cult film Heavy Metal (1981)
and Yellow Submarine (1968), Potterton could have
fun even with films bearing dreary titles such as
Fish Spoilage Control (1956). In this educational
short, Potterton’s second produced at the National
Film Board, invading battalions of little red demons
demonstrate the dangers of mishandling fish —
without putting anyone to sleep.
Now 84, working in Cowansville, Potterton
recalled leaving his native England, where he had
worked on Animal Farm (1954), the first animated
feature made there. “We saw wonderful films like
Norman McLaren’s Neighbours (1952) and The
Romance of Transportation (1952), still as good as
Best wishes for
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Gerald Potterton, with his painting of a spitfire
the day it was made, about travelling across Canada
100 years ago. It all seemed so fresh and clean. I’ve
always had a thing about the environment, clean
air, fossil fuels and all that stuff.”
Hired by the National Film Board in 1954, Potterton
completed My Financial Career (1962), based on a
text by Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock, and
Christmas Cracker (1963), both animated shorts
earning him Academy Award nominations. The
Selfish Giant (1971) produced through Potterton
Productions was also nominated for an Oscar. His
animated and live action films number over 40,
including notable collaborations with Buster Keaton
in Keaton’s 87th film The Railrodder (1965) and
playwright Harold Pinter in Pinter’s People (1969).
Potterton admires Walt Disney’s Pinocchio as
“one of the greatest animated films”. But he’s not
a fan of full animation, because “half the time,
it’s not very funny.” He aims to get to the point
with the least amount of lines, to put a message
across with humour. “It’s the difference between a
Picasso sketch and John Constable landscape. It’s
beautiful, but Picasso went to the essence and, in
his simplicity, influenced all those who came after.”
Among Potterton’s current projects, one
animated short has a very personal meaning for
him. “Always in the wings” is High Flight, inspired
by a 1941 poem of the same name written by 19year old Royal Canadian Air Force pilot John
Magee. The film pays homage to the idealistic
young men who lost their lives during the pivotal
Battle of Britain in WWll.
Gerald Potterton’s film Heavy Metal will be
screened at Animaze, the Montreal International
Animation Film Festival, April 16-19. The
festival celebrates all forms of animation from
stop-motion to computer-generated images.
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Youth receive GG’s Caring Canadian Award
Adam Rozon, 14, a grade 9 student at
Académie Lafontaine in St. Jérome, helped
organize a solidarity march and collect funds
for some 100 homeless in the city. He also set
up a Fair Trade Sale at the school in cooperation
with Oxfam.
“I worked all last year to set this up and we’re
selling coffee and chocolate this year, to help
African farmers,” he said, with obvious pride.
Simon Goyetche, 11, a grade 6 student at
St. Jude Elementary in Two Mountains, was
inspired by a YouTube pep talk and created
Sock’tober, asking schoolmates for donations
of socks for the homeless.
“We donated just over 300 pairs of socks to
Dans la Rue. There are people who are less
fortunate than us, and in the harsh winters that
we have here they need protection.”
Isabel Szollosy, 13, in grade 7 at Beaconsfield
High, and her sister Jane, 11, in grade 6 at
Dorset Elementary in Baie d’Urfé, collected
30,000 aluminum cans over the past year, worth
$1,500, and sold dishcloths for $4 each, raised
over $10,000, and turned over the money to help
feed impoverished Haitians in the Dominican
Republic.
“Our biggest project is to raise $75 for the
most impoverished students attending Collège
Amélioration Jeunesse (in Puerto Plata) to
attend summer camp,” Isabel explained.
“It’s not really a school, it’s a three-bedroom
apartment during the day, for 184 students,”
Isabel said. The family visited the camp
last summer and spent two weeks with the
children, teaching English and sharing in “fun
activities – a life-changing and family-changing
experience,” said their mom, Rhiannon Sparkes
of Notre Dame de l’Île Perrot.
Léa Simic-Lachapelle, 16, in grade 11 at
Collège Mont Notre Dame, Sherbrooke, took
part in various fund-raising efforts and helped
organize support for the release of Raïf Badawy,
whose wife lives in Sherbrooke, as part of the
Amnesty International campaign. Badawy is the
Saudi Arabian blogger who’s been sentenced to
a decade in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting
Islam.
Olivia Page, 17, also at Collège Mont NotreDame, worked with Amnesty International to
support Badawy. She teaches Sunday School at St.
Barnabas Anglican Church in North Hatley, and
for over two years has helped collect 160 shoe
boxes that donors fill with items that children
need, in a project called Samaritan’s Purse.
Craig Kielburger, co-founder of Free the Children
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Quebec students who are changing the world
Romy Suliteanu, 17, in grade 11 at St.
George’s School, raised funds with others for
scholarships to enable students to study at the
Sheela Bal Bhavan girl’s school in Jaipur, India.
Last year, she participated with the Costa Rican
Humanitarian Foundation to help clean up
a school, build a house for a poor family, and
clean up beaches. She plans on studying to
become a psychiatrist.
“Everyone should have the right to
education, and a lot of kids around the world
don’t. Raising the money to build this school
really touched me.”
— Kayla Panacui
Courtney Murdoch, 16, in grade 11 at
Laurentian Regional High in Lachute, started
her own campaign “to erase stigma regarding
mental-health issues.” Diagnosed in grade 10
with acute anxiety, she “got labeled because
people don’t understand what mental health is.”
After attending Take Action Camp sponsored
by Free the Children, Courtney decided to
make people understand: “We aren’t weak,
we’re so powerful we’ve overcome so much
to still be around.” She collected money for a
turkey dinner for the town’s women’s shelter,
and organized a scavenger hunt for necessities
to give to the shelter. She and her friends helped
organize and participated in a 24-hour fast at
school, which raised over $3,000 for a village in
Kenya. The goal is to help the village become
sustainable.
Cassandra Gillen, 12, in grade 6 at St. John
Fisher School in Pointe Claire, has been doing
volunteer work for more than half her life, and
at school raised enough money for surgery on
two children needing to correct cleft palates.
This year she’s working to raise $10,000 to
build a school in rural Kenya. She’s already
raised $1,020 by cashing in bottles and cans
and from assorted donations. At the age of five,
Cassandra gave her birthday money to help her
cousin Tova, who needed surgery for cancer.
If I was poor, other kids would take care of
me, and that’s what I like to do for other kids.”
— Jasmine Gadbois
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children. Bringing in loving family members
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Certain situations bring up damaged parentchild relationships. One child was seen as the
favourite and another may have had a tumultuous
relationship with the parent leading to resistance
to helping care for the parent.
Siblings may not agree regarding their parent’s
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hospitals and were too afraid to ask, with family
physician Dr. Eugene Bereza; April 20, Screening
of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the
End, with discussion led by nurse Sue Britton and
social worker Zelda Freitas; April 27, Advocating for
Excellent Care, with nurse Joan Foster, 6-8pm,
395 Elm. [email protected]
St. James Literary Society • April 14
7pm. Photographer Linda Rutenberg Exotic
Gardens from Around the World, Segal Centre,
indoor parking available. 5170 Côte Ste. Catherine.
stjamesliterarysociety.com. $40 for five lectures.
514-484-0146
2pm. Author and broadcaster Elaine Kalman Naves
reviews The Innocents by Francesca Segal, a story of
love and temptation, part of library’s book review
series. $12, members and students $7.
7pm. Screening of documentary Of Many, on how
an Orthodox rabbi and an imam in New York City
developed a relationship against a background of
Middle East violence and tension between Jewish and
Muslim college students. Imam Khalid Latif and Rabbi
Yehuda Sarna will be present. Free but registration
required. 514-345-6416
7:30pm. Award-winning Israeli author Eshkol Nevo,
grandson of late Israeli prime minister Levi Eshkol,
speaks about venturing beyond Israel’s literary
borders, Zionism, leaving Israel following a personal
tragedy, and his novel Neuland. Free but registration
required. 514-345-6416
Helvetia Seniors Club • April 15
11am-2pm. Monkland Grill, 6151 Monkland.
Celebrating the club’s 7th anniversary. 450-687-5226
Krishnamurti Information Centre of Mtl • April 18
2-4pm. What is A Responsible Human Being
presented in English with French subtitles. Atwater
Library, 2nd floor, 1200 Atwater. $5. 514-937-8869
St. James Literary Society • April 28
7:30pm. McGill Principal Suzanne Fortier speaks
at University Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish.
stjamesliterarysociety.com $40 for five lectures.
514-484-0146
7:30pm. Jacques LaSalle discusses his new memoir,
Life in Four Acts, based on his volunteering to serve
Israel in 1967 and 1973, becoming a kibbutz member,
and returning home to become chief of staff to
Quebec Justice Minister Herbert Marx. He worked at
Cowansville Prison, where he counseled FLQ convict
Paul Rose. Members $15, students $10.
Women’s Canadian Club • May 4
12:30pm. Democracy and the Rule of Law in Latin
America, with Manual Balán, assistant professor,
McGill University, preceded by winners of highschool public speaking contest, Unitarian Church,
5035 de Maisonneuve Blvd. $10, free for members.
514-932-4005
Sandra Goldberg Lecture • May 5
6pm, Public Choices, Private Lives: An End-of-Life
Conversation, McGill University’s Leacock Building,
Rm. 132, with oncologist Dr. Harvey Schipper,
University of Toronto, MNA Véronique Hivon,
initiator of Quebec’s Act Respecting End-of-Life Care,
and moderator Daniel Jutras, Dean of Law at McGill.
Leacock Building, Rm 132.
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CDN Friends of Rabbis for Human Rights • April 8
6:30pm. Community Passover seder at Congregation
Dorshei Emet. Adults $10, students $5. 514-489-5651
Unitarian Church of Montreal • April 10
6pm. Family-friendly Passover celebration on
holiday’s last day. Please bring a dessert or Kosher
for Passover wine. Volunteers needed. Suggested
contribution $8 adults, $3 children, $20 families.
514-775-2034
Summerlea United Church • April 11
7pm. One-man play They Came From Away, featuring
Trevor McKinven, is a comedy about a reunion of
six people who stayed at the home of an 80-year-old
in Gander when aircraft were diverted from the 9-11
attacks. $15. 514-634-2651 or [email protected].
Unitarian Church of Montreal • April 12
12:30pm. Marking the centennial of the Armenian
genocide in Turkey with documentary on the
slaughter of one million by Ottoman Turks,
introduced by a descendent of genocide survivors.
5035 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. 514-485-9933
Westmount Historical Association • April 16
7pm. Sharon Azrieli discusses the preservation of a
building on The Boulevard. The team used archival
photographs, plans, and drawings to restore what
is the third-oldest house in Westmoun. It has been
designated a historic monument. Westmount Public
Library, 4574 Sherbrooke W. 514-989-5510
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8:30am-5pm. Conference on Bill
52, bringing together citizens,
health-care professionals, medical
students, caregivers, and community
organizations to examine religious
perspectives, medical, ethical, and
legal issues, and palliative care.
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[email protected]
Sun Youth Benefit Concert • April 18
7pm. Choral and orchestral music
ensembles perform at Mountainside
United Church, 4000 The Boulevard,
corner Lansdowne Mountainside choir,
junior chorale of the English Montreal
School Board, Montreal Chinese
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and young adults with cancer. Free.
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medical team. 514-695-2813
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the Fritz Farm, 20,477 Lakeshore, Baie
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West End Quilters Guild • May 2, 3
Saturday, 10-5pm. Sunday, 10-3pm. St.
Ignatius of Loyola Church, 4455 West
Broadway. Free. [email protected]
Art by the Water • April 24-26
Exhibit and sale of paintings at
Beaconsfield Yacht Club, 26 Lakeshore,
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dialectics (Cellar Live)
curtis nowosad
When five skilled and motivated musical friends
who love music get together for a recording
session, it can becoe something extraordinary.
That is precisely what happened when Winnipeg
drummer/composer Curtis Nowosad called in
teachers and fellow musicians, connected with
the University of Manitoba, to produce this
sparkling, varied, and engaging album that recalls
the finest days of the Blue Note label and its classic
recordings of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
They kick off with a bright reading of Wayne
Shorter’s 1964 piece Speak no Evil, punctuated by
Nowosad’s propulsive drumming and the harmonic
pairing of trumpeter Derrick Gardner and Jimmy
Greene on tenor sax.
Pianist Will Bonness leads the development into
Empirically Speaking, the resonant bass Steve Kirby
making the ballad breathe. It’s one of six originals
by Nowosad that gives the album its familiar yet
original sound: We know the format, we’ve heard
They’re on on two CDs – music from around the
world, beautifully recorded, varied, and a source of
continued pleasure. Call them folk, or roots; you don’t
have to understand the words to grasp the languages,
be they of love, or longing, celebration, an invitation
to dance, or a call to heal.
While this collection can serve as a primer for
further exploration, it can be enjoyed simply for what
it is. Disc 1 opens with vocalist Ana Alcaide singing El
Pozo Amargo (bitter pit), the bittersweet lament about
Sephardic Jews having to leave Toledo.
Gorgeous. André Hazz and his Lebanese
music ensemble with their Mah’Iqaa and Rossy’s
polyrhythmic Madigaskara will provide an
incredible lift.
Nour Eddine fascinates with the call-andresponse Bania, inspired by Gnawa traditions.
DISCOVER WORLD MUSIC (ARC Music) Finnish, Roma, Corsican, and Klezmer traditional
music are among other uplifting cuts.
Various artists
And there’s more on Disc 2, African, Tibetan,
For weeks now, I have been listening to and been Chinese, Klezmer, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese –
inspired by this extraordinary compilation of opening a few veins from what seems to be an endless
18 songs.
storehouse of gems – a truly remarkable primer.
the changes before, but the melodies are as fresh as
the energy the musicians pour into the ensemble
sound.
Dialectics is a funky number, built over a sixtone scale and carried forward by the horn
section, while 159 & St. Nick is the frenzy of New
York City, with high-energy improv from the
horns and the nimble pianism of pianist Bonness.
There’s a blues, a waltz, and a lovely ballad called
Reconciliation, its theme rendered by trumpeter
Gardner; an afro-Cuban take on Monk’s Bye-Ya;
and a respectful, hard- hitting if occasionally
playful rendition of I Remember You.
This is the sound, texture, and spirit of that
golden era alive and kicking today. Highly
recommended.
Fortunate Shipwreck screening: Today’s debate on the place of religion and the wearing of
clothing that has religious significance continues, even as the Liberal government considers a new
version of the failed Quebec Values legislation introduced by the Parti Québécois government.
The relationship of religion and society in Quebec is examined in the documentary L’Heureux
Neufrage/Fortunate Shipwreck, which is being shown April 13, 6:30 pm at St. Columba House,
2365 Grand Trunk, in Pointe St. Charles. $5. Special guest is Prof. Norman Cornett, religious studies
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Christ Church in Beaurepaire • April 21
7:30pm. Hato Piano duo with Zancao String Duo,
455 Church St. corner Fieldfare. $20, including aprèsconcert reception. 514-697-2204
Lakeshore Concert Band • April 25
8pm. Annual gala, Orchestra Classics – No Strings
Attached at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall,
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Flute, La Gazza Ladra, Overture from Candide, and
Poet and Peasant Overture. 7141 Sherbrooke W. $18
or $13 in advance. 514-428-0292
Stewart Hall Singers • May 2
45-voice community choir performs Beethoven’s
Mass in C, St. Joachim Church, 2 Ste. Anne’s, Pointe
Claire. $20. 514-630-0331
Ladies Morning Musical Club • May 3
3:30pm. Borodin String Quartet performs works by
Shostakovich and Beethoven at Pollack Hall, 555
Sherbrooke W. $40. 514-932-6796
He thinks he can win one for Harper in Lac-Saint-Louis
As a senior manager at the National Bank for
some 20 years, risk assessment and management
have been at the heart of Éric Girard’s work.
Trained in economics and finance at McGill and
Université du Québec à Montréal, Girard says he
looked at the numbers and figured the time was
right to leap into politics.
Girard has taken a nine-month leave from the
bank, where for the past three years he has been
its treasurer, to seek the Conservative nomination
in Lac-Saint-Louis riding.
“There is not one Conservative MP in the whole
region of Montreal, and that is unacceptable.
Montreal needs to be represented in the
government,” he says.
He rates Mount Royal and Lac-Saint-Louis as having
the best chances for the Tories to stage an upset, and
he opted for the latter because “good candidates” are
already vying for the Mount Royal nomination.
It is far from a slam dunk, however, since he’s
competing with a well-entrenched local figure,
Peter Fletcher – a financial consultant with
expertise in risk management, the outgoing
president of the Conservative riding association,
and Baie d’Urfé town councilor.
Lac-Saint-Louis – Beaconsfield, Pointe Claire,
Baie-d’Urfé, Kirkland, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue,
Senneville and the western part of PierrefondsRoxboro borough – is considered a safe Liberal
seat, but the Liberal share of the vote has
diminished since ex-MP Clifford Lincoln won
massive majorities there.
We met Girard for the first time at a Monkland
Ave. café and, careful manager that he is, Girard
began by querying me on my journalistic
background. We then turned to his biography,
and his move to set aside a successful career to
risk it in “retail” politics.
Girard was raised in Ste. Foy, now part of
Quebec City. His father, born to a large working
class family in Lac St. Jean, is a corporate lawyer;
his mother, born in St. Félicien, is a Special Ed
professional.
Knowing little English, Girard moved to
Montreal to study in an honours program at
McGill. He says his talent in mathematics earned
Should Girard be nominated, he’ll face off against
Scarpaleggia and NDP candidate Ryan Young, 43,
a John Abbott College teacher in his second term
as a Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue city councilor.
The bank gave him a leave of absence until the
end of the year and Girard has begun meeting
people involved in community affairs to better
understand their concerns.
Living in Mount Royal with his wife, Sherbrookeborn Chantale Landry, an interior designer,
daughter Félicité and son Louis-Charles, Girard
said he chose Lac-Saint-Louis because “I think I
can win there.”
Apart from the fact his daughter plays hockey in
the West Island – Girard coaches the team, and son
plays baseball there, he sees broad affinities between
his own lifestyle in Mount Royal, his outlook and
the area’s culture: He’s a staunch federalist, an avid
skier and tennis player. He says a robust economy
is his main focus politically.
In his first contacts, he noted West Island
residents would like what he has in Mount Royal
– a ten-minute walk to the Canora AMT station
where, since 1999, he boards the morning train
at 6:21 am and is downtown by 6:30. “People in
the West Island are not happy with train service,”
high marks and his English improved in debates he notes, stopping short of saying he can promise
as a member of the student Liberal club.
federal aid to improve the situation.
He got his Honours B.Com. Degree but
People also want government policies so that
remembers disagreeing with major Liberal “when our kids graduate, they stay here.
policies at the time: Girard supported Brian
“I offer my experience, my competence as
Mulroney’s push for free trade with the U.S. and a manager. I offer my stewardship – careful,
the doomed Meech Lake Accord.
responsible management of our country.
“I always found myself on the Conservative
“Canada has outperformed all the countries in
side,” he recalled.
the G7 group since 2007, when it comes to growth
His first job was with Trizec Corp, the real estate and employment. That is an undeniable sign of
holding company, but with the real estate crisis positive management.”
of 1989, his bosses enabled him to study three
He likes the fact that Canada receives about
days a week for a master’s degree at Université du 250,000 immigrants a year and that free trade
Québec à Montréal.
deals are expanding beyond the Americas.
After a year at the Bank of Canada, he joined the
Girard looked at the results of the last election
National Bank and rose to its highest executive and noted that Liberal Scarpaleggia won his fourth
level. He’s been responsible for the bank’s term with 34 per cent of the vote, 2,000 more than
structural interest-rate risk and liquidity funding. the NDP candidate and 3,000 votes more than the
Last year he told his employers he was eager for a third-placed Conservative, Larry Smith.
stab at politics. “My kids are older, 14 and 13. I’ve
“On the level of statistics, a margin of less
made some money, I have more independence, than 5,000 votes can be reversed, in any riding
and I am ready.”
in Canada.”
At the bank, he has never heard any bank
economists complain when the Harper
government scrapped the compulsory long-form
census. It has been much criticized by statisticians
because most consider data from voluntary
Emard, Les cuisines collective du Grand Plateau, responses less valid.
As for the Harper government scrapping the
and Bread Basket Lac St. Louis for St. Columba
long-gun registry and refusing to turn over
By The Lake Church.
Places and times
data to Quebec, Girard says, “it seems it was an
Congregation Dorshei Emet, 18 Cleve Rd, exceptional waste of public funds. That’s why it
Hampstead, Sunday, April 19, 11am-2pm
was cancelled.” He had no opinion on its refusal
Unitarian Church of Montreal, 5035 de to turn over the data to Quebec.
Maisonneuve W. (metro Vendome), Saturday,
When it comes to the Conservative “tough-onMay 3, 11am-2pm
crime” policies at a time when violent crime
St. Columba By The Lake Church, 11 Rodney is decreasing steadily in Canada, Girard says,
Ave, Pointe-Claire. Saturday, April 18, 11:30am- “The Conservative government has promised to
1:30pm and 5pm-7pm. An evening concert for improve the security of Canadians and I believe
$12 at 7:30pm will be held and all funds collected sincerely this is what Canadians, and voters in
will be donated to Action Réfugiés. Contact Joan Lac-Saint-Louis, want.”
Simand at [email protected] and to volunteer,
No date has been set for the nomination meeting.
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Filling empty bowls to fight hunger
Empty bowls will be filled at three locations
this year: Congregation Dorshei Emet, Unitarian
Church of Montreal, and a new location, St.
Columba By The Lake Church.
The event aims to fight hunger and to address
issues related to food insecurity and food justice.
Quebec artisans generously donate their ceramic
bowls for the cause.
Tickets are $25 for a hand-made ceramic bowl
donated by a potter, along with one serving
of soup and bread. Tickets for children are $5
(under age 12 for the meal only).
The beneficiaries for 2015 are Hanukah Baskets
program for Congregation Dorshei Emet, the
NDG Food Co-op for Unitarian Church of
Montreal and La Maison d‘Entraide St. Paul/
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Positive impact on economy — When you spend
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to low oil prices. In fact, you may well want
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your individual situation. Yet there’s actually a
bigger lesson to be learned here. Don’t overreact
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impact, but no one can predict how long these
prices will stay low or what other factors may
arise that would affect the financial markets.
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based on particular events, whatever they may
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political squabbles at home, natural disasters in
faraway lands, and so on.
If you can keep from being overly influenced by
specific events, you may be able to gain at least
two key benefits: First, by not making trades
constantly in reaction to the headlines of the day,
you can avoid piling up fees and commissions,
which are costs that can reduce the return rate on
your investments. Second, you’ll find that if you
aren’t always thinking about what’s going on in
the world today, you can focus your investment
efforts more intensely on where you want to be
tomorrow.
The most successful investors set long-term
goals and don’t focus on factors they cannot
control such as oil prices, interest-rate changes or
other economic events. Instead, these investors
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changes in their goals as well as other changes,
such as revisions in tax laws — but they basically
stick to their same approach for the long-term.
So be aware of low oil prices, but don’t get so
“pumped” about them that you disrupt your
consistent investment strategy — because that
strategy has the energy to keep you moving
toward your important objectives.
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What’s in store for
the children of Cuba?
Barbara Moser
opinion, excellent diagnosticians. This is probably
because they don’t have a lot of fancy equipment
for testing, nor do they have the variety of drugs
available to us. This is in good part the result of the
American economic boycott imposed in 1960 and
extended in 1962.
So what does the future hold for the children of
Cuba? I worry, not that the return of capitalism will
bring back private business to Cuba, but that this will
have little benefit for most Cubans because they simply
do not have the means to open businesses themselves.
And the government has no plans to subsidize private
enterprise, but does impose stiff taxes.
Any Cuban with a relative in the US or who
works with tourists is far better off than one who
has no such connections. I have seen people lining
up outside ATMs to withdraw money sent monthly
from abroad.
As for those without connections:
The average monthly salary for a university
graduate is about 20CUC a month. (One CUC
is equal to 25 Cuban pesos. Although everyone
is paid in Cuban pesos, I have provided the
figures in CUC to simplify matters. One CUC is
approximately equal to $1 US. This is the currency
used by tourists.)
A 22-year-old who has no university education
and works as a bookkeeper earns $12 a month.
A lawyer earns $20 a month.
A doctor earns $40 - $60 a month, depending
on the particular clinic or hospital he or she is
associated with.
An architect? $20.
These figures are based solely on conversations
with these professionals.
So what do people live on? The government supplies
a small monthly ration of oil, milk, and chicken, but
meat, fish, and vegetables are very expensive for the
Now that Cuba and the United States are engaged
in talks aimed at normalizing relations, what
changes are in store for the socialist experience
there? In particular, how will possible changes
affect Cuba’s children?
This March, I visited Havana for the first time in
three years and looked for some answers. I have
been visiting Havana and nearby Santa Clara and
Cienfiegos for the past 15 years, sometimes twice
a year. I have gone to visit friends I met on my
trips, some through the synagogues, neighbours
of friends, and doctors I met because of knee
problems.
I was curious to see if anything had changed,
especially for the children. The quick answer is “Not
much!” What concerns me is that the expected
return of American cultural and economic forces
will lead to an erosion of the social safety net.
I fear the American influence will grind down
the two great benefits socialist Cuba bestows on
its children: free health and dental care and free
education, including university for those who meet
academic standards.
Every Cuban child is entitled to attend school,
and they receive a uniform and pair of shoes. They
are served one meal at school, albeit rice and beans,
and not of the best quality as I have heard from my
young friends.
Infant mortality in Cuba – the number of deaths
of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births
– at 4.83 is marginally lower than Canada’s 4.85
score, according to the CIA World Factbook of
January, 2012. This figure is frequently cited to
indicate the effectiveness of a country’s healthcare
system. There are excellent facilities for mothersto-be and post-natal care. Cuban doctors are, in my
Top: Boy at Centro Sephardi Purim party;
Bottom: Lionel and Lianna strut their stuff;
Right: He won Best Costume at the Purim party.
average Cuban, usually out of reach.
Retirees receive a pension of $8 a month and,
from what I am told, do not eat well.
A Cuban child can expect to grow up with a roof
over her head, often in crowded apartments, with
enough food, but not always of the best quality and
From left: Kids nighbourhood party at Luyana,
Havana; Paola, Emily and Carolina enjoying the
day at the Riviera pool; Sisters, Sara Ana and
Sofia Laura, on a Sunday pony ride;
Patricia (left) and Rebecca at Purim party.
commanding influence, sugar cane became the
main export for Cuba, and all other crops suffered.
Fertile fields that used to grow a variety of crops
were planted with sugar cane, and Cuba’s oncevaried agriculture became a monoculture.
Speaking of culture, Cuban children are exposed
to the arts from an early age and lessons of every
type are encouraged and inexpensive.
Little girls in ballet tutus are seen everywhere in
Havana, and piano music can be heard on the street
wafting out of the studios.
I have not seen children’s art classes but I know
they exist and there are thousands of paintings for
sale in the artisan markets in Old Havana and near
the Parque Central, the central square.
Are the children of Cuba happy? My opinion
is that they are happier than children elsewhere.
Families are very close, partly because they live in
close quarters. You will often find children sharing
a bedroom with their parents.
Even though toys are expensive, imported from
China and of the worst quality, children there
are not hooked on electronic devices. They play
outdoors in the pleasant weather. Since they have
little to covet from their peers, bullying doesn’t
seem to exist.
This is not to say that children don’t need better
quality food, toys, clothes, etc. This is why I
encourage all visitors to Cuba to bring small new
and used toys, dolls, new underwear to give out to
variety. Meat and fish are expensive —chicken is people in Havana.
$2.50 a kilo, which for most Cubans is a luxury, and
I recommend my favourite community, Centro
vegetables at outdoor markets are also expensive Sephardi, at E and 17th streets in Vedado (central
for Cubans.
Havana) – one of the three synagogues in Havana,
Most children depend on a meager diet based led by Dr. Mayra Levy, who makes sure the children
on rice, beans, some eggs, and lots of sugar, which in her community and others in the neighbourhood
is in everything. Pastries are cheap. Cubans love receive gifts from the missions that arrive from
their sugar. Of course, when the Russians were a Canada and the US.
Pens are always much appreciated. (The cost of
one pen is equal to 1/20th of their salary.) Stickers
are adored by children of all ages. School supplies
are always welcome, especially if you can make
contact with a teacher or a principal. Notebooks
are in very short supply and expensive. Coloured
pencils make a wonderful gift.
How has Cuba changed? Many small businesses
have opened up outside people’s homes. Cubans
are selling whatever they can get their hands
on –from second-hand pots and pans to Cuban
jewelry. Some have opened small coffee shops. The
government demands its share in taxes, but in the
new, emerging Cuba, small private enterprise is
tolerated.
We can always hope that as the Americans move in
and bilateral relations improve, the average Cuban
will benefit. But until the Cuban government raises
the salaries of its citizens across the board, little will
change for the people of Cuba.
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Bathing body and soul in Baños
For the first time on our many and varied travels,
I was crying because I didn’t want to leave.
We were in Baños de Aqua Santa, Ecuador, this
January, at the El Pedron, a peaceful, lush, well-run
Barbara Moser
hotel. Our corner room had two windows with a
view of the Virgin’s Falls, one of many waterfalls
that pour down from the green mountains that
surround this town.
The last morning we took Luca, a golden retriever,
one of the six rescue dogs belonging to our hostel
lady, on a walk around the town, ending at Virgin’s
Falls.
Baños has more hostels than any town we’ve ever
visited and no shortage of restaurants with quirky
names such as Blah Blah, Café Hood, Casa Hood,
and Eruption, the hostel and restaurant where we
spent our first three days.
Robert Frost wrote: “Something there is that
doesn’t love a wall,” and he was right, at least about
Baños! There are no walls here: people are more
than neighbours, more than acquaintances, more
than friends. They share, they mentor, and they are
generous with their time and talents.
The centre of the ex-pat and local community
is Libreria Vieira, Arte Illusiones, an art supply
shop, new and used bookstore for students and
travellers, excellent café featuring delicious espresso
concoctions, and a jewellery shop.
Nynne Noe Vivanco Vieira, who is Danish, runs
the establishment with her husband Juan Diego
Vivanco Vieira who creates the jewellery in an
open workshop in one corner. Their children, Luca Her husband, a welder, returns to Canada now and
and Nova Luna, return from school to the café to then to work. Robin is a supremely talented portrait
play and do their homework behind the counter artist who works in coloured pencils! Her portraits
featuring school and art supplies. On the way home are so powerful that they inspired me to purchase a
from school at about 1pm, children enter and buy set of quality pencils and paper and begin exploring
a homemade chocolate for 30 – 50 cents or ask for their artistic possibilities. Coloured pencils are
a glass of fresh water.
much more portable than the acrylic paints I have
The community gathers to hear talks and partake used for more than 50 years.
in activities such as the Saturday afternoon Art
It was a Dominican priest who encouraged the
Attack, all of which are central to the spirit of this development of a spa culture here, a centre for
place. The theme for Art Attack on Saturday was therapeutic mineral baths fed by the many mineral
New Beginnings and speaking of new beginnings… sources coming from the once active volcanoes.
One morning while lounging on the couch and Every second shop offers massages, facials,
sipping our macchiatos, we met Robin, an ex-pat pedicures, and laundry services.
from BC who has been living here for seven years.
On the third day, we took a $1.50 taxi to Salados
Times and Places
pools, and for $3 each we bathed in a series of
thermal pools: hot, warm, lukewarm, and cold. It
was a first for both of us and we thoroughly enjoyed
the stimulation. They say if you go from the hot to
the cold, it adds ten years to your life. We’re eager
to see whether this is true.
This whole town is rejuvenating, from the friendly
locals and ex-pats who share their life stories to the
360 degree vista of mountains covered with lush
vegetation, to the cool, sometimes rainy weather
that envelops your body and soul with well-being.
More? There’s the fruit lady who makes fresh fruit
salads for $2 and serves you on tables and benches
made of logs and slices of huge trees.
There’s the French retiree from Aix-La-Chapelle,
who rents an apartment for $300 a month, finds
everything affordable, the people friendly, and
she’s not afraid of the 20-minute walk home from
downtown at night.
There’s the cyclist, who spoke for two hours
at Illusiones one evening. He’s cycling from
Vancouver to Patagonia and is about halfway there.
He’s promoting alternative tourism.
We, however, see the need for all forms and levels
of tourism because without tourism, this town
would be a poor shell of itself. Now it’s a vibrant,
happy place where almost everyone seems to be
living harmoniously and eking out a living. The
locals need us for our money, and we are happy
spending it here, knowing that it goes a long way
in every sense.
If you’re planning on visiting, the only place to
stay that we’ve discovered is our hotel, El Pedron,
so silent you can almost hear the waterfall.
Clockwise from top:
Horses waiti for tourists below the volcano;
The scenery is majestic in every directoion.
Barbara with Luca at the waterfall;
“Art Attack” at Ilusions Café;
Ilusions serves as a community centre for ex-pats;
Christmas tree in the main square;
Coloured pencil print by Robin (fish inset);
Nynne serves excellent latte while selling books and
art supplies and hosting speakers;
“This is the life!” says Irwin at the thermal baths.
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April 2015 - The Senior Times

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