The Jewish National Fund Quebec Region held its Annual General Meeting last month at Prime Leasing on Côte de Liesse, generously hosted by the Bitton & Kakon families. Karen Aflalo,
I was born in Montreal and so I am fascinated by the amount of times the city comes up in Garrison documents. In the 1960s it was the largest city in Canada, but was soon overtaken by Toronto. But it was a glorious time to be a Montrealer - Expo 67 was an incredible world s fair; the Montreal Expos became Canada s first major league baseball team in 1969, and, of course, the Montreal Canadiens were perennial winners of the Stanley Cup.
A major part of the Garrison conspiracy story centers on Permindex/CMC - a failed attempt at building a world trade center that would make Rome a European trading hub. Clay Shaw was on the board of directors and, after this arrest, a communist-controlled newspaper,