MONTREAL Military insignia, a soldier’s notebook, and a naval flag emblazoned with a swastika are some of more than 100 Nazi artifacts up for auction online in Montreal. Champagne Auctions, which hosted the Thursday evening auction, expects most of the buyers to be private collectors interested in military history. “We are selling historical pieces for military collectors,” said Claude Champagne of Champagne Auctions. But members of Montreal’s Jewish community are concerned about the sale, with some wondering who will buy the artifacts. “Unfortunately, the sale of Nazi artifacts is not something new,” said Sarah Fogg, spokesperson for the Montreal Holocaust Museum. “It’s something we see frequently, actually.”
Benoit Cardinal veut une « dernière chance » après 15 ans de prison
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Stéfanie Trudeau, the former Montreal police officer with the famous badge number 728, was formally dismissed by the police ethics commission for actions she took in 2012.
In a decision dated Feb. 25 and published Wednesday, the commission found that “the only sanction that can be imposed is dismissal.”
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It says the “bond of trust, essential in the case of Agent Trudeau in her dealings with the public, is irredeemably broken by the actions of the officer.”
Today in Music History - Dec. 21
The Canadian Press 2020-12-21
Today in Music History for Dec. 21:
In 1672, Benjamin Schmolck, German Lutheran clergyman and prolific hymn writer, was born. Though a busy pastor, he found time to pen 900 hymns, the best remembered of them being My Jesus, As Thou Wilt.
In 1934, jazz saxophonist Hank Crawford was born in Memphis, Tenn. He was the musical director for Ray Charles in the late 1950s and early 60s before embarking on a solo career. He died Jan. 29, 2009.
In 1940, rock singer and composer Frank Zappa was born in Baltimore. The oldest of four children, Zappa and his family moved to California while he was still in his teens. After graduation in 1958, he played with various lounge bands and began composing songs, one of which, Memories of El Monte, was recorded by The Penguins of “Earth Angel” fame. In 1964, Zappa took over a R&B band called The Soul Giants and turned them into The Mothers of Invention. Their irreveren