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He sug - go about reducing the annoyance it has gested that a builder’s respect for the been generating? neighbours should be laid out as part of a This is one of the more challenging is - permit. sues now on the docket of the city’s Urban Lulham replied that the hours of con - Planning department and Planning Advi - struction were to be discussed at a Plan - sory Committee (PAC) following a num - ning meeting the next week and that his ber of complaints from residents, complaints, and those of others, “haven’t Councillor Cynthia Lulham revealed at the fallen on deaf ears.” She also said that pub - council meeting August 6. lic consultation would precede any by-law Timothy Slonosky, of 216 Redfern, told changes. Some Westmount Dolphins swimmers who participated in the finals at Lakeside Pool in Pointe Claire the meeting that the city had a noise by- Westmount’s noise by- continued on p. 9 pose with the Montreal West Trophy, the consolations prize. 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Concern over controver - the official ballot come election day, the “Those of us who aren’t part of the pure sial Bill 101 was also a re - Parti Québécois went unrepresented at the laine Quebecers are very concerned about curring theme throughout meeting after candidate Marc-André Bahl separatism,” said Gary Ikeman, a West - the evening, and though cancelled hours before the debate due to a mount resident and city councillor. “That evenly split into three fran - scheduling conflict, according to West - is the looming question behind all of the cophones and three anglo - mount Municipal Association (WMA) issues we face.” phones, all six candidates president Peter Starr. The WMA and the The issue drew a split reaction from the presented a common front Westmount Independent hosted the event. candidates. Of the six candidates, only against added restrictions With the election less than two weeks away, some of the assembled The familiar face of Jacques Chagnon Desjardins and Guérin spoke out as pro - to the bill. audience members expressed skepticism about the platforms of the six was also missing from the debate. The ponents of Quebec separation, though “With regards to French parties in attendance, including physician David Morris, who bluntly long-time Liberal incumbent is barred both acknowledge their opinion was in the students not being able to told Coalition Avenir Québec candidate Johnny Kairouz that “I'm from taking part in partisan electioneering minority in a riding that voted almost 85 go to English schools, I puzzled by the somewhat magical thinking of the CAQ about funding, organization and other areas of the health system. I don't because of his role as speaker of the percent “No” in the 1995 referendum. don’t think that is the right believe a word of it.” Need a drink? 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