Côte St. Luc
FLAGS AT HALF-MAST: The city flew its flags at half-mast last week in reaction to the discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former Kamloops residential school, and in honour of them and âall Indigenous children who never made it home, the survivors, and their families.â
BLANKETS FOR VETS: Former CSL councillor Allan Levine, now the head of Branch 97 of the Royal Canadian Legion, announced a donation of blankets for 100 veterans at Ste. Anneâs hospital for veterans in Ste. Anne de Bellevue on behalf of the branch. The idea came from Larry Rosenthal, who organizes memorial services for Jewish Canadian soldiers who fell in past wars. âAs servicemen, you sacrificed to shield us and protect us, so today we would like to give you a gift that symbolizes that protection,â Levine wrote in a letter. âWe have designed and specifically crafted for you special handmade blankets. Just as you covered and protected us all those years ago, we ho
QUEBEC CITY Veteran MNA Pierre Arcand is returning to the Quebec Liberal Party shadow cabinet. The Leader of the Official Opposition and of the party, Dominique Anglade, announced that the MNA for Mount Royal-Outremont will become the Energy and Natural Resources critic. In early January, Anglade announced that Arcand, a former minister and former interim leader of the Liberals, was demoted to the rank of simple MNA, without any responsibility within the official opposition. He had previously been a critic for transport and metropolitan issues. She wanted to send a message to the MNA that she disapproved of his choice to travel to Barbados during the holiday break, despite government instructions to discourage non-essential foreign travel.
Quebec remains one of the most punitive provinces in the country when it comes to fines for COVID-related behaviours, certainly in number but also likely in the total cost of fines as well.
Between April 2020 and August 2020 (first wave), the province reported giving out 3,756 fines, valued at $5.6 million.
Between September 2020 and March 2021 (second wave), the province reported giving out 7,445 fines, totalling $12.3 million in fines. Ticketing over this time period has increased exponentially: the province reported giving out 26 fines in October, 94 fines in November, 141 fines in December, 1,010 fines in January, 2,865 fines in February 2021, and 3,309 fines in March 2021.
The trend towards increasingly punitive measures has continued past the wave-two period we analyzed: in April, 2021, Quebec law enforcement officers gave a total of 5,060 fines, setting a new monthly record.
May 1, 2021
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by Guy Hewitt
I was contacted by a fellow citizen suggesting that she recently saw Gline Clarke in the vicinity of St. George Parish Church. I advised that it must be an apparition as our High Commissioner to Canada must be hard at work in Ottawa. How wrong I was.
When I perused the Government of Canada’s website on Foreign Representatives in Canada: Heads of Missions, I was shocked and dismayed to discover that Barbados has no representative listed, not even a chargé d’affaires.