January 29 th edition of the Free Press

NDG: Will it stay, or go?
Do you want the service counter at the post office on Sherbrooke St.
n NDG to close? See story, p. 4.
Twice monthly
v5.2 (1D)
Jan. 29, 2013
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Editorial p. 6
Nancy Snipper p. 11
Station 9 police report p. 14
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Hampstead: Park upgrade
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Côte St. Luc: Courage for kids
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Côte St. Luc
Language police target Austrian
Ski Shop, CDEC sticker
By Isaac Olson
A four-year-old sticker that is five-byfive
inches in size has created a stir with
Quebec’s language police, according to a
January 15 news report by Global
Montreal. Although the governmentfunded
organization that created the
sticker has yet to receive any sort of warning
from the provincial watchdog, Paul
Brodeur, owner of the Austrian Ski Shop
on Monkland Ave., has.
Brodeur said he noticed last summer
an inspector taking photos of the small
sticker and when he confronted the man,
he learned the photographer could barely
speak French or English.
In November, Brodeur removed the
sticker while cleaning his windows
and didn’t think much of it until he
received a letter from Office québécois de
la langue française (OQLF) dated January
4. The letter, written in French and
signed by complaint specialist Vanessa
Rozié, stated Brodeur must modify the
sign and contact the office by February 6
to verify the appropriate measures were
taken or face a fine.
“Most of my customers were surprised
by this waste of tax dollars,” said Brodeur.
continued on p. 3
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Silver celebration
Greg Kataroyan is gearing up for the 25th anniversary of Automotion Collision, which he officially
pened in July of 1989 when he took over his father's already seven-year-old auto-repair garage.
ataroyan said his dad helped out around the shop after he retired in 89. The business has become
lmost 95 percent bodywork and only a small amount of mechanical repair. The shop is located at 5349
e Maisonneuve Blvd., near Prud'homme Ave.
Language police continued from p.1
“Every time the OQLF comes up, people
just laugh.”
The sticker in question reads: “I’m
active in NDG. Je m’active à NDG”, an iniiative
of the Corporation de développeent
économique communautaire
CDEC), which works to promote local
usiness and active transportation in colaboration
with Equiterre. The size of the
English and French lettering is the same
instead of conforming to the law that
states English lettering must be half the
size of the French.
CDEC CDN-NDG’s director, Claude
auzon, said similar promotions are
ound throughout the city under different
istrict names. Coincidentally, the man
ehind the sticker’s creation, a former
mployee of the CDEC CDN-NDG, Paul
oy, resigned from his position to go
work for OQLF back in July, said Lauzon.
oy managed the buy-local campaign for
everal years before taking the provincial
ob as a language-law enforcer.
Lauzon learned of the sticker controvery
when he watched the news report.
hen he spoke with an OQLF agent, he
as told there was no complaint anyhere
on record about the sticker.
owever, without getting into the
pecifics of this case, Martin Bergeron,
spokesperson for the OQLF, said there
Photo: Isaac Olson
Former CDEC CDN-NDG employee Paul Roy
holds up promotional material for the “I'm Active
in NDG” campaign that has recently caused a stir
with language police — the agency that Roy now
works for.
Photo; Isaac Olson
may not have been a complaint about
CDEC in the system because the complaint
is against the store’s owner for displaying
the sign.
Meanwhile, Lauzon said the OQLF will
send a written notice to the CDEC about
the sign and, in the coming weeks, his
staff will take photocopies of the notice to
all the stores in NDG that still have the
stickers in their windows, notifying them
that they could become the subject of a
language-police investigation if they don’t
take them down.
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4 – THE FREE PRESS – January 29, 2013 NDG NEWS
Public’s input could affect outcome
Canada Post may close NDG service desk
By Isaac Olson
Canada Post will close the customerservice
desk at the corner of Sherbrooke
St. and Wilson Ave. unless people speak
p.
Canada Post has been affected by the
odern age, with its letter circulation
ropping by 113 million between 2011 and
012, said spokesperson Anick Losier.
he said a rise in e-commerce is helping
o balance the scales as package circulaion
increases, but it’s not enough. Letter
irculation, she said, has always been the
eart of the operation, but modern techology
means Canadians are using other
eans to communicate the written word.
Canada Post is looking to cut back on
osts and because studies indicate there
re some 31 service access points within a
ve-kilometre radius of this particular
ffice, officials said closing it wouldn’t
ake away from area residents.
At this point, said Losier, the plan is to
nly close the customer service desk
hile the rest of the facility and its 147
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post office boxes will
remain operational. The
fact that the PO boxes are
staying is a relief for people
like Roger Cloutier, owner
of RJL International
Courrier on Sherbrooke
St., as he said the service is
vital to his business.
But before shutting
down a service desk, Losier
said there is a process
called the “Service Charter”
where officials survey customers
for 30 days, asking
them what they think
about losing the access
point to buy stamps and
send packages. Customers
have until February 15 to
share why they think they
need the post office to stay
open. Losier said if enough people
protest, there is a chance Canada Post
change its mind.
Next door, Co-op la Maison verte’s
Canada Post may close its customer-service desk at the corner of Sherbrooke St.
and Wilson Ave. unless people write in to contest the action.
Jason Hughes said closing the post office
service desk could have a serious impact
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the post office is affordable, he
said, but having to detour further
could mean extra costs and a
need to restructure that aspect of
the business.
“I think it’s terrible, said Keira
Constable after mailing a letter
outside the post office. “Until the
day you can email packages to
someone, I think you need to
have neighbourhood post offices.
I really hope it doesn’t close.”
NDG-resident Paul Shore said
the closure wouldn’t really affect
his life as long as he can get the
service elsewhere.
“It’s a really beautiful, big
building,” he said. “I just don’t
want to see it turned into a pharmacy
or condos.”
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6 – THE FREE PRESS – January 29, 2013 NDG NEWS
Editorial
Linguistic harmony —
in a song?
On January 17, Jean-François Lisée, the
Quebec minister responsible for
Montreal and relations with the anglophone
community, and the Quebec
Community Groups Network (QCGN)
announced a province-wide school tour of
a bilingual video called “Notre Home,”
created by musician David Hodges.
Funded by the QCGN and $20,000
from the provincial government, the
video’s message, aimed at students, is
supposed to be one of inclusion.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHLP8ej8f4)
The three-minute-plus video begins
with the sound of laughter and children
laying. Cue lyrics, which ironically, are
ostly in English. It is colourful, catchy
nd cute, but in reality, the sappy singlong
is a sad attempt to avoid addressing
he real issues at hand and assuage the
oncerns of a community fatigued by
ontinued legislative efforts to curtail its
xistence, expression and growth.
Lisée, and by extension the Parti
uébécois, needs to do more than waste
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time on window dressing, and come up
with something more concrete in the
form of positive actions to convince
anglophones that their future in Quebec
is secure.
As long as we continue to experience
small petty annoyances such as official
complaints about the size of lettering on
a bilingual sign (see language police in
NDG, story on p. 1), to potential laws that
would take away the bilingual status of
towns and municipalities (see
Hampstead mayor William Steinberg’s
column on Bill 14, p. 15), there will have
to be more than a video of dancing and
singing children and teens to placate a
nervous constituency that is dealing with
such realities as declining enrolment in
English schools, the recent proposal to
transfer the management of the Lachine
Hospital from the English-based McGill
University Health Centre (MUHC) to the
francophone CSSS de Dorval-Lachine-
LaSalle, and exodus of our youth from the
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Letters to the Editor
You article on Livre-service, which has a
box on the corner of Marcil and
Monkland avenues, brought to mind
what I saw in Britain this summer.
The widespread use of cell phones is
making the iconic red telephone boxes
obsolete. The cost of removing them is
hefty so rural municipalities resort to creative
ways of reinventing them. Hence
the healthy-looking telephone box library
I photographed in Little Shelford.
Thea Pawlikowska
Marcil Ave.
Cat concerns: response
In response to the letter from Leah
Socran, “Concern for cats continues in
the winter” (January 15, p. 6) regarding
the cats that were released in December, I
truly understand your dismay and
heartache when you learned of these cats
being released in December until they
can be relocated in the spring.
I too, experience this distress each time
I have to let a cat back outside. Where are
they to go? We were able to place or foster
four out of the 10 cats we caught in this
particular instance, but we do not have a
place for all of them.
We don’t have a shelter. We are continuously
looking for foster homes and
adoptive parents.
I know that some people feel these cats
are better off dead than outside in our
merciless climate, but we are not going
that route. We provide cat shelters for
them and food. We can only relocate
them (the ones in this particular instance)
in the spring, as it is a long process that
requires many hours outside, so it must
be done in the warmer weather.
People have to sterilize their cats if they
let them out. People must be prohibited
from and fined for abandoning their cat.
More municipalities have to have programs
to sterilize homeless cats and
implement and enforce laws against people
who discard their cat into the street
and those who allow their cats out unneutered.
We are little more than a handful
of people in the Côte St. Luc Cat
Committee. We are trying, but we cannot
do it alone. We need everyone’s help.
Shelley Schecter
Educhat
Editor’s note: For more on CSL cat
news, see p. 14.
Telephone booth turned book box in England.
Photo: Thea Pawlikowska
Political words and will
The charming and fully bilingual Jean-
François Lisée assured all in attendance
at the Westmount Library that their
English language and rights would be
protected. Unfortunately, his government
has shown no signs it will deliver on this
promise and many signs it will restrict it
further in education, health, public transit
and the Bill 14 cocktail.
I told him that as a spokesperson for
the ABM (Advancement for a Better
Montreal) we can all work together. Most
parents, irrespective of their linguistic
background, desire a bilingual education
for their children to reach their full potential.
I offered him the following “creative”
captions to ignite Montreal’s economy,
employment, tourism and most important,
social peace for cultural harmony:
“Montreal, the bilingual city of French
flavour” and; “Montreal, come taste the
French flavour.”
I left regretting these lyrics were not
included in the song his ministry funded
to bridge the two solitudes. I can only
expect that if he became leader of his
party he could fulfill his promises or at
minimum, his rhetoric could direct the
Liberal or CAQ to fulfill mine.
Michael Shafter
Montreal
continued on p. 7

Letters continued from p.6
Snow clearing complaint
Absolutely half the streets tonight in
NDG (January 20) are marked off for
now removal and the only side that you
an park on has a no-parking sign for
tomorrow from 9 to 10 am.
I drove around for 40 minutes from
Girouard Ave. to Royal Ave. and from de
Maisonneuve Blvd. to Terrebonne Ave.
and every street was the same story.
I managed to find parking a 15-minute
walk away. This morning (January 22),
when I left for work there were no signs
stating that the snow would be cleared on
the side of the street I was parked on. I
got back home at 9 pm and the car had
been towed and signs had been put up.
The sign obviously went up after I left
so shouldn’t they give you a bit more
warning than 10 hours? I’m sure I’m not
the only one who came home to find their
car towed.
They conveniently placed my car on top
of a mountain of ice and it took me exactly
55 minutes to chip and shovel enough
ice from under the car to be able to have
it move. Underneath the car was literally
You’ re lucky,
Rex. At least you
have a fur coat!
packed from the ground to the floor of car
with hard snow and ice.
Sonny Hill
Sherbrooke St.
Declining enrolment
I am a grade 10 student who has been
in the English Montreal School Board
(EMSB) French immersion program
since primary school. I strongly believe
that there are public schools in Montreal
that offer an equivalent and/or superior
French program to that of the private
schools. Many courses such as geography,
history, math and science are taught in
French. Royal West Academy offers
an enriched academic program and is a
public school that has to refuse access to
hundreds of students every year. This
school is a prime example that public
schools can deliver. There is no reason for
such a drastic drop in enrolment in the
English public sector, especially since the
EMSB has such a high graduation success
rate of 84 percent (figures released
by MELS).
Anthony Laye
Monkland Ave.
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8 – THE FREE PRESS – January 29, 2013 NDG NEWS
Montreal says ‘no’ to keeping
pper Lachine open
By Isaac Olson
During a recent Good Neighbourly
Relations Committee meeting, NDG
ouncillor Peter McQueen asked
ontreal’s Alain Trudeau, who heads
unicipal infrastructure renovations
round the incoming super-hospital, to
ommit to keeping Upper Lachine Rd.
pen during the reconstruction of the St.
acques St. bridge.
The city planner said “no.”
McQueen then told Trudeau that over
,000 area residents had so far signed a
etition to keep Upper Lachine open
hile St. Jacques St. is closed between
rud’homme Ave. and Addington St., but
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Trudeau simply raised his palm to the air
and shrugged his shoulders.
This interaction took place during the
January 22 meeting — a regular information-sharing
gathering that includes
municipal, provincial and hospital officials
as well as residents, transportation
agency representatives and more.
McQueen’s questions were rooted in the
plan to close Upper Lachine Rd. between
Crowley Ave. and Decarie Blvd. while the
St. Jacques St. bridge over the highway 15
trench is being rebuilt by the province as
part of the Turcot interchange overhaul.
Westmount resident Roger Jochym
asked the McGill University Health
Centre’s Pierre Major if he supported the
building of a bicycle and pedestrian
bridge over the Decarie Blvd./de
Maisonneuve intersection. The bridge, he
said, would provide a fast, safe link for
people using the de Maisonneuve bike
path. Major said the MUHC instead supports
the city’s plan to build a small parklike
area on the closed section of Upper
Lachine and paint bike lanes on de
Maisonneuve.
Minh-Tam Nguyen, an engineer with
the city, said studies indicate there is not
enough space to build what would essentially
be two bridges next to the train
viaduct, over both Decarie Blvd. and
Upper Lachine. It would also, he said, be
too costly for the city.
Have you received services from one of the
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At the end of the meeting, McQueen
showed the media the original plan for
the area dating back to 2007 that clearly
shows Upper Lachine closed and many of
the other plans the city has been pursuing
in recent months. It also shows a bicycle
bridge going over the intersection and
behind the buildings on the south side of
de Maisonneuve.
“There it is — the green dotted line,”
said McQueen pointing at the bike path
running along de Maisonneuve Blvd. “It
runs all the way from Girouard to
Claremont, clearly going beside the tracks
and over Decarie Blvd. Not on the street,
but clearly beside the tracks and clearly
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10 – THE FREE PRESS – January 29, 2013 NDG NEWS
Depot needs new home
By Isaac Olson
Come March 31, the NDG Food Depot
ill have to move from its long-time locaion
at the corner of Oxford Ave. and de
aisonneuve Blvd. and now the board of
irectors is scrambling to find a new
ome for the food-relief organization.
Board president Lynda Porter knew the
ease was up at the end of March and she
alled the depot’s landlord earlier this
onth to negotiate a new lease. She was
old the building is for sale and the nonrofit
organization has to move out.
While she is hoping to bargain for a few
xtra months in the building, she said the
oard has hired a real estate agent and is
sking the community for help in scoutng
out a new, larger space to continue
erving the population.
“We’re in dire need of finding a new
lace, so we’re using all our forces out
here to get the word around,” said Porter.
According to a press release, the new
acility should be located within the area
efined by Monkland Ave., St. Jacques
t., Cavendish Blvd. and Decarie Blvd.
utdoor space and roof access would be
n asset.
Currently, the NDG Food Depot has
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the board would like 5,000 or more if
possible. Officials with the depot have
already been discussing the possibility of
joining up with another community partner
or two and expanding, allowing more
room for its range of educational programming
and community services.
If the depot does not find a space,
Porter said there is a plan in place for
storing its stock of food. She said there is
also a plan in place to continue distributing
emergency food baskets to some 600
residents weekly and operating the home
delivery services from various locations
around NDG if needed, but workshops
and other programs will stop if a new
space isn’t found.
Because the depot had a commercial
lease on its space, there is no legal obligation
on behalf of the landlord to advise its
tenant of its plans.
The space was shared, but the other
tenant has already left. This comes at a
time when community space is limited in
NDG and property prices are continuing
to rise, but Porter said board members
are keeping their hopes up.
“Everybody is quite optimistic,” said
Porter.
Couple offering helpinghand
steal wallet
Police Report
Station 11
The Police Report is intended to
inform readers of recent police activity
in the community. The articles are
written from information taken from
police reports and given to the reporter
by a Station 11 constable.
Just after 8 pm on January 21 a
Montclair Ave. resident decided to get
her two cars out of the driveway so she
could shovel the snow. One of her vehicles
was stuck and as she struggled, a
couple walking by offered to help.
The female suspect suggested she
drive while her male friend and the
owner push together, explained Station
11 constable Peter Mandelos.
The car owner agreed, allowing the
woman into the vehicle. The car was
freed and the victim thanked the couple
before they went on their way, said
Mandelos.
A short time later, the victim realized
her wallet was missing from her purse,
which had been in the car when the couple
helped get it unstuck.
The male suspect is described as having
dark skin, standing 6’ tall and in
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was about 170 pounds, 5’7” tall and
wearing a black winter coat.
Vandal caught spray painting
On January 18, just before 10 pm, an
officer patrolling near the intersection
of Prud’homme Ave. and Sherbrooke
St. noticed a man standing near a
garage in a back alley in an area that has
had complaints from neighbours about
graffiti, said Mandelos.
The officer approached the man slowly,
but when the suspect became aware
of the cop, he walked away. The officer
stopped the man, who smelled of alcohol,
and asked him why he was standing
near a garage that was covered in spray
paint.
The 18-year-old CDN resident claimed
he had just urinated, but the officer
found no evidence in the snow of such
an action.
The constable asked the young man to
put down a bag he was holding and
when he complied, there was an audible
hissing sound coming from the bag,
which gave the officer reason to look in
it. He discovered several cans of spray
paint in a colour matching that on the
garage.
The suspect was cited to appear in
court for the vandalism and released.
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Is it the end of the line for
the NDG post office?
roger Haughey
roger’s
neighbourhood
I was surprised to hear last week that
anada Post is in the midst of a monthong
public consultation about the future
f the post office located at 5751
herbrooke St. West. The NDG landark,
designed by T.W. Fuller and built in
he early 20th century, has served as
DG’s main post office for as long as
nyone can remember.
Canada Post is proposing to close the
ervice counter at this location and two
thers in the West End, one in Snowdon
nd one in Westmount. Judging by the
risk business I witness every time I go
here, it seems that the customers’ needs
re being well served in the existing locaion(s).
However, the NDG post office is too
mall to support the “Poste Moderne”
oncept whereby letter carriers use trucks
nstead of walking on their routes, and
hey deliver both packages and letters. It
urns out that NDG is one of the few
eighbourhoods that gets its mail this
ay, and the closing of the retail counter
ould be the beginning of the end for our
ocal post office.
I for one greatly prefer the real post
ffice to the contract facilities in drug
tores and elsewhere, but the fact
emains that packages are becoming the
ain business of the post office.
However, Canada Post is only proposng
the closing the NDG, Snowdon and
ictoria post offices, and wants to hear
rom you.
The consultation continues until
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Science and medicine are turning its
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of the nature of life and our minds and
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that are healthy. Yoga on the Park is offering
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NDG NEWS
Eric Clement grew up experiencing art
through comic books. He loved Wolverine,
Spiderman, Tintin and Batman, and
unlike other young guys, he didn’t want
to be them; he wanted to draw them.
“I think I was about three when I started
drawing, and when I got older, it stuck
with me. It wasn’t the comic’s story that
piqued my interest; it was the visual that
captivated me,” said the 29-year-old
NDGer, noting an eye for art runs in his
family. His father painted as an amateur
artist.
“I didn’t set out to be an artist. In fact,
music was my thing. I’ve been writing
hip hop music since 1999, and doing
graffiti was just part of that culture.”
In 2004, he went to Concordia to pursue
a fine arts degree, but he took time off
to put out three hip hop albums. Now
he’s back at Concordia and he’s painting
like crazy.
“I’ve been working on my art there for
over a year now. I realized that I really
wanted to do art and that’s why I’m back.”
Clement now finds himself reflecting
on what excites him visually, and it is
comics and illustration. Bright colours
and powerful emotions showing exaggerated
expressions are all depicted simply
but boldly.
“My art is super strange; it’s a meeting
of pop art and neo-graffiti. It’s a mix of
the known with the unknown, the old
with the new.”
Clement revealed that when people see
how clean the lines are, they think they
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Clement’s art influenced
by comic books
Nancy Snipper
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snippets
Work by Eric Clement is influenced by comic book
characters.
are looking at a poster or digital prints,
but it’s all done with a brush in his hand.
His art is quizzical, fun and imaginative.
The colours are incredibly vibrant
and loud. The big images jump off the
canvas. His paintings can be as large as
30 feet long by 15 feet high.
Now, Clement is experimenting in high
realism, innovative objects that he calls
composites. He is working on a weapon
series that could well figure in a James
Bond or sci-fi flick.
His paintings and upcoming exhibitions
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12 – THE FREE PRESS – January 29, 2013 NDG NEWS
Morin back after battle
ith Bell’s palsy
By Isaac Olson
On November 27, New Democrat MP
sabelle Morin felt a strange tingling on
he right side of her face. When the tinling
turned to pain the next day, she
ecided to see the in-house nurse on
arliament Hill.
“During the day, I felt the pain was
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The nurse suspected Bell’s palsy and
sent Morin to the nearest hospital with a
neurological unit, said Morin. The condition
was confirmed and she was quickly
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the damage caused by Bell’s palsy, a form
of facial paralysis resulting from a dysfunction
of the cranial nerve, can be permanent.
Former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s
face was partially paralyzed for life when
he suffered an attack as a child.
It took six weeks to fully recover from
the condition, said Morin, but she still
has some pain if she makes a sudden
facial expression. The paralysis was only
on the right side of her face.
Despite the medical setback, Morin is
looking forward to the year ahead, continuing
the initiatives of last year.
COUNCIL MEETING
Lionel Perez, Borough Mayor, Helen Fotopulos, Councillor, Côte-des-Neiges
district, Peter McQueen, Councillor, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce district, Susan
Clarke, Councillor, Loyola district and Marvin Rotrand, Councillor, Snowdon
district, invite you to attend the next meeting of the Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-
Dame-de-Grâce borough council,
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at 5151, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine
At the meeting, you will have the opportunity to ask questions or submit
requests on any issue concerning your borough or the municipal
administration (30 minute period). A period of registration will be held
from 6:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. for that purpose.
The agenda is generally available (in French) in the Borough Hall section of the
Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough Website (ville.montreal.
qc.ca/cdn-ndg) as well as at the Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
Accès Montréal office, located at 5160, boulevard Décarie, ground floor (311 –
Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough), on the Friday before the
borough council meeting, in the afternoon.
Please note that the FINAL agenda is the one adopted by the municipal
councillors at the beginning of each meeting.
The meeting will be preceded by a public consultation meeting, at 6 p.m.,
concerning the following proposal:
Draft by-law RCA13 17206 amending the By-law concerning fences and
hedges (R.B.C.M., c. C-5), so as to allow openwork fences in the front yard of
a corner lot.
Geneviève Reeves, avocate
Secrétaire d’arrondissement
Five residents came forward during the
January 14 borough council meeting to
discuss snow clearing efforts after the late
December storms. However, not all residents
were unhappy with the nine-day
cleanup.
While CDN resident Joseph Joncas
commended the borough for clearing the
streets and sidewalks, others like NDGers
Sharon Sweeney and Michael Simkin
asked for better sidewalk clearing.
Sweeney said she was forced to walk in
the street with her children when headed
down to the local park only to discover the
skating rink was still buried in snow.
Simkin wants at least one sidewalk
cleared per street as soon as possible after
a snow storm so people with reduced
mobility can get around.
Borough mayor Lionel Perez said the
winter storm created a domino effect as
crews were at first focused on clearing
snow around and on the way to the borough’s
hospitals.
Borough director Stéphane Plante said
the crews also contended with space
issues as the snow narrowed sidewalks
and streets between parked cars and
buildings, slowing the process by one day.
Residents can also call 311 to report problems,
said Perez.
Perez reiterated that the borough is relooking
at its strategy to be better prepared
the next time.
Borough Round-Up
Residents riled up
over snow clearing
Michael Simkin addresses the council.
Photo: Isaac Olson
McQueen silenced
When an NDG resident asked about
snow clearance operations, NDG councillor
Peter McQueen attempted to add his
two cents to the discussion as is normal
during a question and answer period.
But, Perez, who already had responded to
the questioner, would not allow McQueen
to speak, citing time constraints.
McQueen’s attempts to protest the ruling
were quashed.
Later in the meeting, Snowdon councillor
Marvin Rotrand added to a discussion
just as McQueen had tried to do earlier.
Rotrand was allowed to speak without
protest. This incident sparked a visual
reaction from both McQueen and Projet
Montréal party leader, Richard Bergeron,
who was in the audience. Bergeron raised
his arms in disgust as McQueen shook
his head and smiled in disbelief.
$1 million invested in traffic calming
The borough council approved a by-law
authorizing a loan of $1 million to implement
traffic calming measures in the borough.
In the past, those measures have
included speed bumps, bollards, solarpowered
radar signs and billboards
reminding drivers and cyclists to respect
the rules of the road.
Empress update
The council approved an agreement in
principle between the borough and
Cinéma NDG regarding the transfer of
ownership of the Empress Theatre on
Sherbrooke St.
Cinéma NDG has until December 31,
2013 to complete the financing package
for its project to rehabilitate the building,
but the ownership, according to borough
director Stéphane Plante, comes with
conditions and the borough will have a
lien on the building to ensure those stipulations
are met. Those stipulations for
the new owners include keeping 50 percent
of the building for cultural activities,
continuing to pay taxes and remaining a
non-profit organization.
—Isaac Olson

Panellists paint a picture of
CEGEP for future students
arianopolis College instructor Claudine Faucher addresses the audience during the Choices:
ducation Pathways panel at the library.
By Isaac Olson
Quebec teenagers who finish high
school and head off to CEGEP can have
difficulty adjusting.
On January 16, the Eleanor London
ôte St. Luc Public Library invited five
anellists from a range of backgrounds to
ive teens and their parents a few survival
ips.
Etienne Beaulieu talked about his expeience
of studying graphic design and
ater getting into video game developent,
using his academic background to
ursue his interests and get into a career
hat he enjoys. Marianopolis College
nstructor Claudine Faucher said CEGEP
s not high school as teachers often don’t
ake attendance or pester students about
omework. It’s important, she said, that
tudents know how to write well, not prorastinate
and get involved with extracuricular
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Geoffrey Pearce, a teacher from
Dawson College, said CEGEP is a good
time to explore subjects and discover
interests.
“You don’t need to think that you’re
making the final decision on your life
when you enrol,” said Pearce. “You don’t
have to think that, when you’re getting
into a program or when you’re trying a
new course, that you necessarily need to
stick with that or that it’s a race to finish.”
However, social worker Gabrielle
Arthurs said she had a predetermined
path when she enrolled in the program,
knowing where she wanted to go in academia
from the beginning.
The question of vocational schooling
came up when one of the parents talked
of her own experience as a hair dresser.
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Councillor
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I cannot recall more beautiful weather
than what we enjoyed in the city of Côte
St. Luc during the summer of 2012. If
you had planted flowers or vegetables—or
both—you were well rewarded. I had my
best tomato crop ever and my begonias,
which I store in peat moss and re-grow
each year, were fantastic. District 5 gardens
captured seven awards at the Côte
St. Luc Maison Fleuries garden beautification
contest this fall.
The top elite award for single- and
semi-detached homes went to Mario
Polisena of Rand Ave. Visit
www.CoteSaintLuc.org/MaisonsFleuries
Contest for the complete list of winners
and runners-up.
Tennis also thrived thanks to the fine
weather. The newly renovated courts on
Caldwell Ave. were well used and hosted
a successful tennis camp. The Côte St.
Luc Tennis Club hosted both the Sam
Brumer Tournament and the Steve
Stevens Senior Nationals. Players from all
provinces across Canada competed to represent
our country at the world championships
in Turkey. Tennis Canada praised
our clay courts and staff. It expressed its
desire to return to our club again. The
club is looking for more members, in particular,
a group of young strong players to
shore up our interclub team. Visit
www.CoteSaintLuc.org/TennisClub for
information on how to join.
As the days are now shorter and colder,
we can focus on indoor activities, such as
our beloved public library, our seniors’
clubs, our teen lounge, indoor pools,
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gymnasium, arena and more.
Swimming, water polo, fitness, indoor
tennis for youngsters and a plethora of
other activities are available at the Aquatic
and Community Centre at 5794
Parkhaven Ave. Our hockey arena is just
two minutes away. Dedicated volunteers
help the city run its hockey program and
numerous champion teams.
I thoroughly enjoy serving you. I welcome
your suggestions, which I will
share with my hardworking staff and colleagues.
Together, and as independents,
your elected representatives put you, the
public, first. We have a bright and promising
vision for the future, and will continue
to make Côte St. Luc the city of
choice in which to live. It remains a pleasure
to serve District 5 as your city councillor.
I am as close as an e-mail or phone
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Allan J. Levine can be reached by e-mail at
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establishing a public high school in Côte St.
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14 – THE FREE PRESS – January 29, 2013 CSL NEWS
Woman’s wallet lifted from
purse at CSL Shopping Centre
Police Report
Station 9
The Police Report is intended to
inform readers of recent police activity
in the community. The articles are
written from information taken from
police reports and given to the reporter
by a Station 9 constable.
As she gave directions to three young
men, a woman’s cash-stuffed wallet vanished
from her purse at the Côte St. Luc
Shopping Centre.
Station 9’s Constable
Vincent DeAngelis said the 70-year-old
victim visited an automatic teller
machine (ATM) and withdrew several
hundred dollars in cash before shopping
in the mall’s Jean Coutu pharmacy on
ecember 20 around 12:30 pm. The
hopping centre is on Côte St. Luc Rd.
ear the Coronation Ave. intersection.
As she was leaving, she put her purse
n the ground to zip up her coat. It was at
hat moment that three men came beside
er. One asked for directions to the Jean
outu. The woman pointed to the pharacy
and said, “It’s just over there.”
Not long after, the victim realized her
Saving CSL cats
Volunteers with the Côte St. Luc Cat
Committee (CSLCC) have been caring
for 12 cats that became dependant on an
elderly resident of Eldridge Ave. who, up
until this fall, left cat food under her balcony
every night.
“We picked up, neutered, vaccinated
and dewormed 10 of those cats,”
explained the CSLCC’s Shelley Schecter.
wallet was missing and she believes one
of the three men lifted it while she was
distracted by the question, said
DeAngelis.
“We believe there are other victims in
the shopping centre and we would like
that they call or come down to the police
station to report it,” said DeAngelis
The first suspect is described as an
English-speaking, white male around 25
years old who stands about 177 centimetres
and weighs approximately 85 kilos.
The other two have similar descriptions
of being about 20 years old, 172 centimetres
and 70 kilos.
Police warn seniors to use caution in
snow
All too often, there are accidents involving
heavy machinery and senior citizens
this time a year, said DeAngelis. Police
are reminding older residents to use caution
in the winter.
DeAngelis said seniors should avoid
going outside during snowstorms and
clearance operations if possible. If necessary,
he said they should keep their distance
from heavy trucks and plows.
People should wear bright or reflective
clothing, use caution at crosswalks and
stay within the driver’s field of vision.
—Isaac Olson
Volunteers go to Eldridge Ave. daily to
feed the cats as the homeowner now
lives in an assisted-living residence.
The plan, said Schecter, is to re-trap
the six cats in the spring and relocate
them to an area where volunteers can
more easily feed them.
The cats are sterilized and will not
breed, which is a key part of controlling
the feral and homeless cat population.
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Bracelet campaign geared
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The bright colours and soft thread
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The experience, she said, gave her the
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and distributing the handmade bracelets
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Stacey Schlein, Shacter’s mother, said
her daughter started weaving the items
this summer and distributed them to
family and friends. When her rabbi suggested
she do something for the community
as part of her Bat Mitzvah — a Jewish
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She started a website
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bracelets with her friends and on
December 17, brought dozens to the
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kids feel less afraid.
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ing to with the centennial,” said
Steinberg, “but if we get the other grant
money, the Applewood renovation will be
a centennial project because it will be
done in that time frame.”
The plan drew criticism from council
regular Rachel Genziuk, who questioned
using city funds to renovate parks in general
and the choice of Applewood in particular,
suggesting that it was a ploy to
garner additional votes in the next city
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City to install water park as part of Applewood renovation
By Michael Moore
Hampstead city council is planning a
way to help kids cool off during the summer
with the construction of a new water
play area in Applewood Park.
Simple geography played an important
role in choosing Applewood for renovations,
said Mayor Bill Steinberg at the
January 14 council meeting, explaining
the city currently lacks a water play area
north of Fleet Rd.
“We’ve looked into and considered
doing something [in Applewood Park] as
far back as five, six, seven years ago,” he
aid. “We decided then that we didn’t
have money and we decided there were
other priorities. At this time our infrastructure
is in great shape and consequently
we are looking to build it.”
In Hampstead’s 2013 budget released
in December, the Applewood Park renovation
was allotted $250,000, a figure the
city will look to supplement with government
grant money.
The project will also add new flora to
the park and is expected to be completed
in time for Hampstead’s centennial celebration
in 2014, but Steinberg said they
would not tap into money specifically
reserved for centennial grants.
“The grant we are going for has noth-
Why everyone should be
concerned about Bill 14
bill steinberg
town with
a view
The Quebec government has proposed
passing Bill 14 in order to strengthen the
rench Language Charter.
Hearings on the bill will be held in
arch and hopefully, both the Liberals
nd CAQ will be opposed to the legislaion.
Virtually all Quebecers want franophones
to be able to live and work in
rench. However, in Quebec, that is
lready the case. The original Bill 101
ssured that and there are no credible
threats to French in Quebec.
Bill 14 is far more than just an expresion
of the desire of the government to
rotect the French language. It will have
eal and serious consequences that will
urt all Quebecers regardless of the lanuage
that they speak.
Health Care: At a time when we have a
hortage of doctors and nurses, Bill 14
ill toughen the language testing requireents,
making it harder to attract the
edical professionals that we so despertely
need. It will also add more regulaions
and documentation requirements
or health institutions (and all instituions)
so they will spend money and time
n paperwork instead of on patient care.
Business: With one of the highest debt
nd tax levels in North America, Quebec
eeds to encourage businesses that create
obs and wealth. Bill 14 will extend franization
requirements to businesses with
6 to 49 employees. This will discourage
businesses from locating or expanding in
Quebec. It will, however, mean that the
government will need more bureaucrats
and language police. This is no way to
grow our economy.
Towns: Bill 14 will make it possible for
bilingual status to be removed from those
towns where the percentage of mother
tongue English falls below 50 percent.
This will be possible even if far more than
50 percent of the residents speak English
at home and even if the town wants to
retain its bilingual status. Over half the
towns with bilingual status on the island
of Montreal will likely lose it within 10
years and just about all will lose it eventually.
Not having bilingual towns will make
Quebec and Montreal less attractive to the
people that we need to attract for the sake
of our economy and to have enough
health care professionals.
Education: French-speaking students
will go to the bottom of the application
list if they wish to attend an English
CEGEP. This will penalize them if they
wish to become more fully bilingual.
Students who wish to graduate from
English high schools will face tougher
French exams and so the dropout rate will
increase. This will apply even to special
needs students.
If you have any questions or comments
on this or anything related to Hampstead,
email me at
WSteinberg@Hampstead.QC.CA or call
me at my home/office number
514.483.6954 up until midnight, seven
days a week.
Dr. William Steinberg is the mayor of the
town of Hampstead.
“Why not wait until Centennial Park is
finished? Perhaps we need a water feature
there and we certainly don’t need two
water features on that side of Fleet,” said
Genziuk. “Or is it because it’s the year of
the election?”
Councillor Abe Gonshor, who heads
the city’s beautification portfolio, replied
that while the council had agreed on
Applewood as a starting point, he hoped
to re-do the city’s other parks “when the
money comes along.”
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