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2 THE SENIOR TIMES June 2015 www.theseniortimes.com Duddy comes home for musical apprenticeship Irwin Block with director Ted Kotcheff, went off to Hollywood but returned to Montreal Duddy’s back and it looks like, to act and direct in her own films. finally, he will make the Kravitz Duddy, the Jew-boy anti-hero, family proud. is raised in the densely populated, With a revised script, a fresh set crab-appled St. Urbain-Fairmount of Broadway-style songs, first-class neighbourhood where most of the production staff, and some of Cana- city’s Jews lived, prayed, studied, and da’s leading actors, the latest version of dreamed of bigger and better – a bet- Mordecai Richler’s most famous novel ter world here through socialism, a has “hit potential” written all over it. better world for Jews in Palestine, or The Apprenticeship of Duddy a better world by making big bucks. Kravitz opens June 7 for a three- Duddy’s brother was the proverbial week run at the Segal Centre, 5170 good boy, a medical student, the pride Côte Ste. Catherine. of the family. Duddy wanted to be “a Expectations are high for this somebody” — to own a piece of land. version, with new songs by eight-time “A man without land is nobody!” his Academy Award-winning American grandfather famously said. composer Alan Menken and lyrics Working as a waiter in Ste. Agathe by David Spencer. It is directed by — those of us who summered there Austin Pendleton (featured on our will recognize the Castle des Monts as cover), who worked on a 1987 musi- the hotel where Duddy served tables cal version with Richler. It collapsed — Duddy meets Yvette and, through in Philadelphia when the main her, discovers a pristine lake. investor withdrew his support. He serves scrap dealer Samuel The storyline remains the same as in Cohen who came to Canada with the book that awakened Canada, and nothing and finagled his way to the world, to Richler’s talent. wealth. Duddy is hired to produce In the movie version, Richard Drey- the bar mitzvah movie for Cohen’s fuss made Duddy come alive. son Bernie, which is among the We also met Micheline Lanctôt, funniest sections of the script. Cohen who portrayed Duddy’s love interest, is the teacher, Duddy the apprentice. Yvette. She had a love relationship Continued on page 4 Photo: Barbara Moser Max (George Masswohl) gives the what-for to son Duddy (Ken James Stewart).

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www.theseniortimes.com June 2015 THE SENIOR TIMES 3 “He has dreams ... he wants people not to think of him as a shmuck” Continued from page 3 1950s Montreal live on. I was privi- “Where else better to do this pre- him for who he is, which makes it so Duddy then uses Yvette, and leged to have played Mr. Cohen in mier production than in Montreal, tragic at the end.” money that he grabs from his best the Yiddish version of the play, based where it’s all based? We’re standing George Masswohl, who plays Dud- friend Virgil, to acquire the property. on the screenplay, produced by the in Wilensky’s where the diner scenes dy’s dad Max, says, “It’s great to be He famously tells Jerry Dingleman, Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre in the movie were shot. immersed in this city and its culture, the wheeler-dealer known in the and directed by Bryna Wasserman in “We’re very happy, there’s a buzz to be doing this play, and it’s a really hood as The Boy Wonder, to “get off 2001. I love the story – so evocative in the room every day about this great adaptation of the novel. my land.” Montreal’s Michael Rudder of a time and place, with characters production.” “The music is unbelievable. With plays Dingleman. that bring it to life, with a wink and The story of Duddy “is something Alan Menken, you can’t miss. Fans It was written as satire, but the a smile, of course. that many people can relate to, and of Menken will recognize his style organized Jewish community at the “The jaundice in his eye is all- why this story has stood the test of time. for sure. time hated it because it exposed the inclusive,” says Pendleton of Richler’s “He’s somebody who has huge “David Spencer’s lyrics are very seamier sides of ghetto life. It was, slant on the human condition. dreams, feels he’s not appreciated true to the novel as well, very evoca- as the Yiddish expression goes, “a We met Toronto-based Ken James by his family. He wants land, he tive of the time and the place.” shandeh far di goyim” – an embar- Stewart, who plays the impish wants people not to think of him as Tickets start at $50. 514-739-7944 rassment in front of gentiles. Duddy, at Wilensky’s Light Lunch a shmuck anymore.” or visit segalcentre.org/buy-tickets. But the characters and images of on Fairmount and Clark. Ironically girlfriend Yvette, “loves [email protected]

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4 THE SENIOR TIMES June 2015 www.theseniortimes.com Poet faces down Pinocchio, other ghosts in new book Irwin Block “Presumed, indeed!” he responds, and noting a nearby “brace of passenger pigeons,” equally Montreal’s fascinating history, ethno-cultural extinct, hears the duck contrast its caged and mix, older neighbourhoods, architecture, and stuffed condition with that of the poet/observer. geographical setting make it a city for poets. So here I stand: preserved, and catalogued, and Mark Abley, best known as a language columnist webbed, for The Montreal Gazette, non-fiction author, and a trophy of your deadly skill, while you – acquisitions editor at McGill-Queen’s University still free to taste the wind and weather, Press, should be much better known and celebrated peering in at me as though I had the answer as a poet. to some query on the tip of your tongue – His latest work, The Tongues of Earth (Coteau recede into the growing past. Books, 115 pp) is a collection of poems in which Mark Abley read these and other poems at The Abley reflects with alternating wonderment, irony, Word bookstore last month. and, in varying moods, on the world around him, and our place in it, with word choice and imagery Mark Abley’s poetry is full of wonderment and irony. that combine a unique cadence. ST. PATRICK SQUARE In As If, he observes a moment at pre-dusk when In a bitter reflection, Hard on You, the poet is a cat brushes by and a bird “tentative, explorative” savouring the delights of a Vermont cottage vaca- begins to sing “as if/any god worth its salt/would tion when he hears a neighbour lecturing his son, create/music before light.” “almost 12” but misbehaving and deserving to be As a child, Abley was terrified of the Pinocchio labeled “asshole.” story ­— the one before Disney doctored it. He “You know I’m only being hard on you because I 1 wrote a seven-part reflection, a series of haikus love you” concludes the mountain moment. 2 layouts for ⁄3 2 Starting at $835 ending with how he’d rework the tale: Abley is not only troubled by the inexorable Includes heat, hydro & locker! Allow him his raucous innocence, demise of languages — 600 of the 6,000 languages his rude brand of fun. still spoken will not survive by the end of the GREAT VALUE Allow him to keep his father century, he writes in Spoken Here: Travels Among Enjoying an affordable active lifestyle If Geppetto accepts a son Threatened Languages — he’s saddened by the in a unique apartment community. who may not follow orders disappearance of species. 514-481-9609 and won’t be whittled away At the Redpath Museum, he sees a preserved 6767 Cote St. Luc Road by anyone who sees pleasure Labrador Duck, with the inscription, “Not seen as the herald of decay since 1875. Presumed to be extinct.” www.spsquare.ca

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6 THE SENIOR TIMES June 2015 www.theseniortimes.com Legal status would safeguard family caregivers There are those among us with team and be given relevant informa- situation where their own physical chronic illnesses, special health Legal Ease tion as to the state of health of the or mental health is at risk. needs, reduced functionality, Joyce Blond person he is helping. Many caregivers suffer financially. dependence and lack of autonomy. For purposes of security, he must The proposed law would recognize Current government policy Frank be taught the techniques he will need that they are entitled to a reasonable requires such people to remain in B.A., B.C.L., LL.M. to administer the help, and carry out standard of living. their own homes as long as possible the duties required in all situations, Those who are not working should and many prefer to do so. Such The hours and amount of care which may arise including emergen- be provided with financial support, people require help that is often required may be exorbitant. cies. He must receive training and be their expenses should be paid and provided by a non-professional care- The caregiver is often left out of the evaluated on a regular basis. they should benefit from certain giver, namely someone close to the treatment plan established by the He must receive the equipment and tax credits, a pension fund and person who provides continuous professionals and may have no idea materials necessary to carry out his insurance. full- or part-time care in the home. of the full extent of the needs of the duties safely. Where they have another job, their Caregivers have no legal status as person he is helping. There is often employers should be required to employees, professionals or paid nowhere to turn for help. accommodate their hours, and retain help and no specific laws exist to L’Institut de planification des soins There is presently no law all benefits and social advantages to protect them. (The Institute of Care Planning) and to guarantee a minimum which they are entitled Their needs are not recognized, le Regroupement des aidantes et Government policy to maintain their obligations are not defined and aidants naturels de Montréal quality of life for caregivers. people in their homes will reduce their rights are not protected. RAANM (the Caregiver Coalition of the costs for health care and social The services carried out by a natural caregivers of Montreal) are and shelter services while increasing caregiver may be numerous, varied, non-profit organizations that work Caregivers must also have access to the burden on caregivers and those complex and often exercised under to defend the rights of caregivers and support and assistance. Their need in need of assistance. difficult conditions. improve the conditions of their work for relief must be recognized and Some of these savings should It is important that caregivers rights and lives. they must have time for themselves. be used to benefit caregivers in be recognized and that they are able Their������������������������������ joint report, “Vers la recon- The health system should not expect recognition of their indispensable to exercise their functions with naissance d’un statut légal pour them to do everything and limits support and to avoid their unjusti- competence in an environmentthat les proches aidants” describes the should be imposed on what they can fied impoverishment. is secure for themselves and those problems faced by non-professional do, depending on their training and The proposed law attempts to see they are helping. caregivers. They emphasize the the risks involved. that this is done. It is to be hoped our There is presently no law to necessity of alleviating some of the They should not be placed in a legislators agree. guarantee the personal security or a problems and offer some suggestions minimum quality of life for caregivers. on how to do so. Many are worn out physically and They are proposing a law to protect psychologically. the health and wellbeing of caregivers, Their health may deteriorate. They ensure their burden is not excessive, may have problems at work, often provide training, ensure they work in have no social life, and may become an environment adapted to their needs impoverished. and duties, recognize their rights and Society must recognize its own alleviate any excessive negative obligations to take whatever measures economic effect. may be necessary to prevent this They suggest the creation of situation for those who are rendering government and employer pro- a necessary service, benefiting the grams to accomplish these goals and recipient of care and society in general. that legal recourse and complaint Although the position of caregiver procedures be provided to caregivers must be undertaken voluntarily, should any of their rights under the there is often no choice. It becomes proposed law be violated. a family duty rather than a job The proposed law would recog- willingly undertaken. nize the right of a person to be fully Moreover those who become care- informed prior to deciding whether givers often do not realize what the job or not to become a caregiver, entails. There may be a heavy physical determine what tasks he can requirement from lifting and turning. perform, become a part of the health

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Harper’s of $10,000 to $15,000 for having supported a stamp is on everything his government does, or demolition permit. Three other charges against fails to do, and he must bear ultimate responsibil- Zajdel were stayed. ity for candidates he actively supported, promoted Since the leader must approve all official and trusted. He also must answer for the electoral candidates, Harper’s judgment can be questioned. Senators Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick If Duffy can be charged for accepting Brazeau, all appointed by Harper, who built part of his political career on a pledge to reform the the money, why has Wright Upper House, have been suspended without pay not been charged for providing it? for what was termed “inappropriate expenses.” Duffy, the former popular CBC and CTV television reporter and host, was a star cam- machine and database used to mislead voters in paigner and fundraiser for the party. He faces the 2011 election. Harper’s judgment is as much 31 charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery on the line in this election as is Trudeau’s. related to his housing and travel claims, contracts Harper’s communications advisers, meanwhile, not connected to the Senate, and using $90,000 have decided that he will not take part in what from Harper’s former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, has become, for better or for worse, an impor- to repay the claims. Duffy has pleaded not guilty tant segment of federal election campaigns — the to all charges. Many have asked, if Duffy can be five party leaders’ debate hosted by a consortium charged for accepting the money from Wright, of major broadcasters, including CBC/Radio- why has Wright not been charged for providing Canada, one in English and another in French, it? Wright has returned to his former employer, with simultaneous translation. They and the Toronto-based Onex Corp. NDP have agreed to four other debate formats, Wallin is under continued RCMP investigation hosted by Maclean’s Magazine and the Munk for possible fraud and breach of trust linked to Debates. The Liberals have yet to commit, but want her expense claims. Wallin repaid a total of one that includes a town-hall format, with a live $154,191 to the Senate for claims she attributes to audience that gives voters a chance to ask “administrative error.” direct questions. The NDP wants other debates, After being “punched out” by Trudeau in a including one that focuses on women’s issues. Modern Luxury Rentals fund-raising boxing match, Brazeau was charged All parties are pushing their leaders’ strengths, with fraud and breach of trust for falsely claiming and both the Conservatives and NDP believe that living expenses for a primary residence outside the with more experienced leaders in terms of handling Best of Downtown national capital region. This amounted to $45,000 the debating pressure, they can exploit Trudeau’s Neighbour to McGill, for Brazeau. (Former Liberal senator Mac Harb was relative inexperience. For the Liberals, lower McLennan Library similarly charged for false claims and has repaid all expectations may translate into Trudeau appearing $230,650). Brazeau also is on trial for assault and more likeable than either Harper or Mulcair. Magnificent views sexual assault charges, which he’s denied. Is performance in these debates a reasonable Units newly redone Dean Del Mastro, Harper’s former parliamen- yardstick for where we should place our X on the tary secretary, whose role during question period ballot? As Doug Howat has observed on Rabble. From 1 to 5 bedrooms was to defend the government against claims of ca, “What monster have we created when who Offices & parking dirty electoral tricks, has been found guilty of ‘won’ a televised debate is a topic of conversation? available having committed an electoral trick, namely Healthcare should be a conversation. Missing and exceeding spending limits in the 2008 election. murdered aboriginal women should be a conver- (Another of his roles was to rally support among sation. The direction of the economy, military Le Cartier Lebanese Canadians.) spending, climate change should be a conversa- 1115 Sherbrooke St W Michael Sona, the only person charged in the tion. These are important conversations. Who (corner Peel) Guelph voter-suppression scheme, was found ‘won’ a game of make believe should not factor 514-288-8000 guilty in August of attempting to prevent people into who leads our country.” from voting by sending a robocall to thousands Nevertheless, we will be watching. 8 THE SENIOR TIMES June 2015 www.theseniortimes.com Shelters not geared to special needs of older adults Irwin Block He isolated himself and was reluctant to seek out help. This is common in the 70-plus generation, We pass them, near métro stations, parks, or the result of shame.” downtown streets, but we don’t see them. Because of lack of resources, a lot of homecare They are the city’s homeless, part of the urban work that focused on prevention is no longer culture in North America and a living scar, a offered, she noted. “With more support, his relapse condemnation of our post-industrial society and could have been prevented.” its underside. Ten of the 15 had children, but preferred to go There has been a recent attempt to count the to a homeless shelter rather than become a “bur- homeless in Montreal, but that process revealed den” on their children, she noted. This seems to nothing about the issues behind the statistic. reflect a prevalent idea in our culture that being That is where social worker Victoria Burns dependent is a bad thing, a sign of weakness. entered the picture recently, with her decision to Many suggest that Old Age Security and carry out a qualitative study of homelessness in Guaranteed Income Supplement are no longer Montreal, with an emphasis on seniors and their sufficient to support seniors at the bottom of the first experience with being out on the street. The income scale. Victoria Burns research is part of her PhD thesis in social work, “The average waiting list for subsidized housing under review at McGill University. Her supervi- cent of residents were over 50 in 1993; that in Montreal is five years, and when you’re older sors are Tamara Sussman and Jean-Pierre Lavoie. number has more than quadrupled to 40 percent this is problematic,” she noted. It is an important piece of research because, as over 50. A lot of them were first-time users. The aim of a qualitative study based on 15 Burns notes, “it could happen to any of us.” The situation is similar in men’s shelters, she subjects is “depth, not breadth. The findings are She discovered and documented how the said, but statistics are not as available because of contextualized, but illustrate a phenomenon that shelters, with their focus on getting people back to much greater numbers. has been invisible.” work or into independent housing, are not geared The programs in place are important and useful, [email protected] to the special needs of older adults. They do, she but she found they do not necessarily meet the is quick to note, “provide a vital service.” needs of older adults, who may be losing auton- A New Brunswick native, Burns, 33, who has omy and are beyond a return-to-work potential. Suzanne Lamarre undergraduate degrees in psychology and social “The shelters don’t all have elevators. One person Nadia De Riggi work and a MSW from McGill, decided to focus I interviewed, who was discharged from hospital, her doctoral study on 15 homeless people in Mon- had to use a walker, being partially paralyzed. NOTAIRES • NOTARIES treal. Her subjects are first-time homeless older When sent to a shelter, this person could not use 3333 Cavendish Blvd. adults, who were using shelters during the study. the walker, and had to use a cane and had trouble Burns carried out in-depth interviews and made navigating the stairs to get to the cafeteria. Suite 198 observations starting in 2012. She also interviewed “In some shelters residents have to leave by shelter operators, staff and counselors. 7 a.m. and come back at 4 p.m. This is difficult for 514-484-2788 It’s known in academic circles as a qualitative older people who have mobility and health issues.” study, or as Burns says, “trying to understand the Burns uncovered two profiles of the trajectory trajectory into homelessness. into homelessness: About half had what she “These are people who led conventional lives; describes as a history of “instability” over their Sing along people who worked as accountants, nurses, and lives when it came to housing and work. became homeless for the first time. “A typical example is someone who had a work with Gerry “I had one woman who was 80, a man who was injury while in his/her thirties and was living in Songs of 1930’s - 1970’s 70.” sub-standard housing. Suitable for As a social worker, Burns had worked in home “A second type was of a more rapid decline, a care for a CLSC and a community organization series of intense losses in later life that propelled • Private parties and was familiar with ‘ageing in place.’ them into homelessness with little warning.” • Birthdays “I wanted to find out what happens when some- She cites a man who at 70 had just left a well- • Reunions one is ageing ‘out of place’ – as an older person paying job, lost his mother, daughter and wife • Retirement homes becoming homeless.” over a five-month period, which led to a relapse Contact at Her initial research revealed a shifting demo- into alcoholism after 30 years of sobriety. graphic among the people who use homeless “Within a year he was on the street, in a [email protected] shelters. In one women’s shelter, only nine per homeless shelter,” she said. “It was very abrupt. Cell 438-934-3533

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www.theseniortimes.com June 2015 THE SENIOR TIMES 9 English language is flooded with words from away Alas, because language is in a constant state of months. For example, in December 2014 un-PC flux, a lexicographer’s work is never done. The Word Nerd was added; June 2014 introduced branzino as a The first edition of the Oxford English Dic- name for the European bass or sea bass, and also tionary (OED), replete with 414,825 words, was Howard Richler the verb Skype; in March 2014, bestie achieved completed in 1928 and ceremonial presentations OED validation. were made to President Calvin Coolidge and His Aside from cataloguing virtually every English Majesty King George V. Supplements ensued until word of the last 1000 years, the OED, in its online 1989, when a second edition comprised of twenty incarnation, offers a host of useful features for the volumes appeared. According to The Oxford every word is being revised. So, 120 years after the lexicographically-minded. Companion to the English Language, this edition first editor of the OED, James Murray, launched In graphic form, timelines highlight the year held “21,728 pages and contains some 290,500 an “appeal for Words for the OED”, John Simpson, when words first entered the OED. Hence, the main entries, within which there are a further then chief editor, invited “readers to contribute year I was born also featured the arrival of the 157,000 combinations and derivatives in bold to the development of the Dictionary by adding words cappuccino, cybernetics, and transistor, type (all defined) and a further 169,000 phrases to our record of English throughout the world. whereas 1616, the year Shakespeare expired, saw and undefined combinations in bold italic type, Everyone can play a part in recording the history of the birth of acquiescent, incidental and Kurd. totalling 615,500 word forms.” the language and in helping to enhance the OED.” If you guessed Shakespeare as the most frequent The pace of change is ever-quickening. In March I believe this project represents one of the great- quoted OED source, you’re not far wrong. The 2000, the 20-volume OED plus three volumes of est feats of scholarship ever undertaken and Bard, however, comes in second and is bested additions became available online, and since then, accomplishes for lexicography what the Human by the London Times (39,884 quotations versus Genome Project is doing for biology. 33,127). Rounding out the top five are #3, Walter Words, and new senses of existing words, are Scott; #4, the Philosophical Transactions of the flooding into the language from all corners of Royal Society of London; and #5, Encyclopaedia the world. Only a dictionary the size of the OED Britannica. The top North American source is the can adequately capture the true richness of the New York Times at #11 and the Globe and Mail English language throughout its history and its takes Canadian honours at #212. I don’t think too development across the globe. By the time the many people would guess the Canadian runner- revisions are completed, sometime between 2025 up —The Daily Colonist of Victoria, B.C. at #431. and 2030, the English vocabulary will most likely The feature that I find most useful in the OED have at least doubled. There may not even be a is the categories section, so, in my next two Se- print edition, as it would require close to fifty nior Times columns, I will explore some of its volumes to complete it. One reason so many dimensions. The Fraser Hickson Library words are being added is the lexicographic Richler’s next book Wordplay: Arranged & The Fraser Hickson runs its advancements in the non-British and non-Amer- Deranged Wit will be published in spring 2016 “special delivery” outreach service ican English languages, such as African and Asian by Ronsdale Press of Vancouver, B.C. to the homebound. We offer books in varieties, whose words are increasingly being large print and regular print; books on recorded in the OED. There is no longer only one tape and CD; and DVDs to customers English language but a variety of flavours. Letter to the editor within NDG and Montreal West. Interestingly, the revision in 2000 began not FOR MORE INFORMATION with the letter “A” but with the letter “M.” I asked Phone Isabel: 514-489-5301 John Simpson why this was done. He replied, Naming regimes a www.fraserhickson.ca “The OED editors wanted to start the revision at a point halfway through the dictionary where matter of semantics the style was largely consistent, and to return to In wondering whether this monument’s title the earlier, less consistent areas later.” In any case, should be changed to “Victims of I BUY WOMEN’S AND by 2010 all words from M to R had been revised Totalitarianism” or maybe “Totalitarian MEN’S FUR COATS and this alphabetical format was abandoned. Communism,” we are into semantics. Entries across the alphabet are revised every three Probably a better title would be “...of I PAY CASH AND PICK UP Communist Regimes.” But if you make a ANYWHERE IN CANADA commemoration too wide, it loses its power. The 20th century, with its unrivaled 514-996-0321 advances in the technology of killing, [email protected] Bringing you the issues since 1986 allowed the wicked to kill more people more st Publisher & Editor Office Manager often. Alas, the 21 seems to be continuing Barbara Moser Thelma Gearey the trend with the Jihadists outdoing the likes Assistant Editor Sales Manager of Hitler in sheer savagery, if not yet quantity. ELDER AIDE Kristine Berey Jacquie Soloway-Cons By far the most prolific butchers of the Copy Editor Advertising ASSOCIATES Gisele Rucker Jodie Alter, last century were Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. 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Contents copyright ©2015. All rights reserved. Group information sessions Legal Deposit: National Library of Canada No. D368087 Dépot légal Bibliothèque Nationale du to honour the victims of non-Communist mass Québec, 1993. Although every caution is taken by Publications Newborn Inc. to monitor­ advertising in THE SENIOR TIMES, claims made by advertisers are not necessarily endorsed by Publications murderers, that can be a separate matter. 438-390-3705 Newborn. Ken Frankel, NDG 10 THE SENIOR TIMES June 2015 www.theseniortimes.com NDP’s Young hopes to stage upset in Lac-St-Louis Irwin Block “The NDP is popular in dog park, and developing a commu- nity sustainability plan. Mount Royal isn’t the only Mon- Quebec; it’s not the same Young is honoured to have received treal riding that’s too close to call, Liberal Party as under the endorsement of environmental- and NDP candidate Ryan Young ist David Suzuki, who praises the in Lac-Saint-Louis believes he is Pierre Trudeau.” candidate as “a person of very high well-positioned to score an historic — Ryan Young ideals who has been willing to throw upset in that Liberal stronghold. himself into trying to make the Young, 43, has been an active city think that Pierre Trudeau is some- world a better place. We need young councillor in Ste-Anne-de Bellevue one who brought in our Charter of idealists like Ryan.” since 2009, with a solid track record Rights and Freedoms and his son, Young says he “respects Francis” on environmental protection. He when he doesn’t need to – the Con- Scarpaleggia for the stands he’s taken teaches creative arts at John Abbott. servatives are going to pass that bill on the environment. Young and Conservative candidate anyway – decides to vote in support “He’s on the green side of the Éric Girard — a “star” candidate on of that bill. Liberal party but he’s not a true leave from his position as senior “Many observers across Canada, progressive Liberal,” Young argued, vice-president of the National Bank legal experts, say it’s a bad law and since he was the only Quebec of Canada — regard the declining violates our Constitution and may Liberal to support a motion in 2006 numbers for Liberal MP Francis not even withstand a court challenge.” to re-open the same-sex marriage Scarpaleggia as an opportunity to He is proud of what he’s accom- debate, which was defeated. unseat him. plished with others in conserving “I am the only progressive candidate Young is happy, for strategic rea- and protecting the environment, in Lac-Saint-Louis. If voters want sons, that the Conservatives are including expanding the l’Anse à real change, they’ll elect me. What running a star candidate because “this l’Orme nature park, introducing just happened in Alberta creates the Ryan Young pulls votes away from the Liberals.” curbside compost pick-up, promoting climate for that to happen here.” “I think people are ready for some- seats in 2011, Young believes he can traffic-calming measures, creating a [email protected] body who is not connected to wealth win under leader Tom Mulcair. and power. I am the only candidate “The NDP is popular in Quebec; it’s who grew up in the riding.” not the same Liberal Party as under The riding is suburban, including Pierre Trudeau,” he said. “People are Beaconsfield, Pointe Claire, Baie- looking seriously at the NDP when d’Urfé, Kirkland, Ste-Anne-de- the Liberals are voting for something Bellevue, Senneville, and the west- like C51 (the anti-terrorist act). ern part of Pierrefonds-Roxboro. “I see my riding as a progressive Voters there gave Liberal Clifford riding and people see the NDP as Lincoln comfortable majorities, but having taken principled stands. Scarpaleggia, who succeeded him They also see Tom Mulcair as some- in 2004, won by only 2,204 votes in one who is a principled person, who 2011 against the NDP’s Alain Ackad. has experience in government, com- Beyond the Orange Wave under pared with young and inexperienced Jack Layton that helped the NDP Justin Trudeau. sweep Quebec, winning 58 of 75 “It’s a strange narrative when you

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The performance space at the Casa del Popolo on St. Laurent filled up quickly to standing- room-only overcapacity last month for a special premiere. It was the launch, not just of a new CD, but of the book describing how it came to be. Those who read his widely praised book The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece, already know Eric Siblin for his love of music and talent as a meticulous researcher and engaging writer. This story of how journalist Siblin morphed from rock critic at The Montreal Gazette to fasci- nation with Bach’s six incandescent Suites for solo cello, their creator and major interpreters, put him on the map internationally as a true original

in style and content. Photo: Irwin Block With the launch of Songs from Studio Grace, we Composer-author Eric Siblin performs in Montreal at the launch of Songs from Studio Grace in May. get to know Siblin as composer, guitarist and guiding spirit behind its fully-produced 12 songs. The book, readable, occasionally funny, and sometimes Siblin confesses he continues to create because the Studio Grace, The Making of a Record (Anansi, 295 gripping tale of the writer’s quest. His writing artist within him cannot be contained. pp, $29.95) chronicles the arduous but fascinating about music combines an artist’s sensitivity and “Ideas would come to me while I played the year-long process that resulted in the CD. musician’s familiarity with a mastery of words. guitar – emphasis on ‘play’ here – and some In many ways the genesis of both books is similar: He meets old friends, and new ones, those with notion of a complete and worthy song would Studio Grace begins with Siblin at home in Mon- home or more sophisticated recording facili- come to mind…The desire is simply there.” treal in the early 1970s acquiring a “cheap acoustic” ties, and the skills required to record, edit, mix, In the end, Jo Simonetti, Rebecca Campbell, guitar at age 12, and lessons from a teacher named fine tune the music so his lyrics have maximum Michael Jerome Browne, Sheharah, Michael Leon, Ted. A year later, he graduated to a $69 solid-body impact. and Hayley Richman sing lead on nine songs, electric guitar that he could plug into a stereo As the final cuts took shape, Siblin found him- Siblin on two, plus one remix of Grace of Love. system, both the results of Bar Mitzvah gifts. self “ever so slightly elbowed out” of a starring The styles vary from rhythm and blues to blues He then composed his first song and played role in his own project. The friends he drafts to and contemporary ballad, with lyrics that range in a couple of pickup bands. After an M.A. in produce the fully rich and professional sound he from the highly personal to the historical. With so History from Concordia, Siblin began a career in wants begin to dominate, at least as vocalists. many different lead voices, the album can sound journalism that included work as a reporter with “I couldn’t have it both ways,” he observes in like a compilation, even as many of the tunes have Canadian Press, rock critic at The Gazette,magazine the book. “I couldn’t have those fabulous singers hooks that grab the listener and demand repeat writer and filmmaker. showcase my songs, and also have my own vocals spins. All the music is Siblin’s, who shares the What about the music? Though he contin- ‘authentic’ and ‘unpretentious,’ as (recording engi- credit on two songs. ued to perform his songs for friends at parties, neer and Grammy-nominated musician Howard) How he engaged with the musicians and the mission to record a full album finally took Bilerman once called them, remain in the tunes.” recording engineers to achieve his dream make shape. The book is a highly personal, immensely Justifiably proud of his original music and lyrics, for another great read. COMFORT, FASHION AND STYLE

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22 THE SENIOR TIMES June 2015 www.theseniortimes.com Guidebook tells history of anti-Semitism in Canada Irwin Block

As part of its educational mission, the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre has produced a Brief His- tory of Anti-Semitism in Canada. It’s a companion guide to its Brief History of the Holocaust handed out to 10,000 students coming annually to the centre. Sixty percent come from francophone schools. At the launch this spring, Uni- versity of Ottawa Professor Pierre Anctil, social anthropologist, outlined two streams of anti- Semitism: one involves words and ideas; the other, actions and organized movements. “In Canada, it was never a domi- Toronto, May, 1981 nant theme in political life… chang- ing contexts produced quite different “Nothing was done to reactions… some attacked the Jews, while others defended them. change the regulations, “Anglo British Canadians tended to which did not make it act in terms of social Darwinism— racial conceptions of Jews as inferior possible to come to the help on a racial scale. With human rights of Jewish immigrants.” legislation and with courts, this is difficult to maintain, though some southern Europe and Turkey had may still think in this way. to get special permits. In 1931, only “Among French Canadians, ob- wives and children of Canadian jections are doctrinal, based on residents and those who owned or religious dogma. Jews cannot be worked on farms were admissible, accepted in a Catholic milieu except for British immigrants and because, having rejected Christ, they those from “self-governing domin- are non-Christians, apostates.” ions” excluding India. “This was adopted in a democratic Anti-Semitism became antitheti- (Liberal) regime, without an overt cal to Church doctrine when Pope anti-Semitic program, without any Paul VI, in his 1965 encyclical, said specific mention of Jews in Parlia- the Church “decries hatred, perse- ment. cutions, displays of anti-Semitism, “When you’re appeasing Hitler, directed against Jews at any time and you’re not going to accept Jews from by any on e .” Germany.” Before 1900, there was some “anti-Semitism without Jews.” That From 1931-39, total immigra- changed with the great migra- tion dropped dramatically. Of some tion beginning in the 1900s and 150,000 from Europe, only 5,000 the numbers of Jews in Canada Jews came to Canada, another 3,000 swelled to 130,000 by 1931. With the via U.S. ports and, in 1940, Eng- Depression came restrictions on land sent 2,000 German and Aus- Images appear in Brief History of Anti-Semitism in Canada. immigration and racist editorials in trian Jews to be interned in camps Both signs were posted in 1939 at Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec. Le Devoir. as enemy aliens in Quebec and New As Hitler assumed power in Brunswick. About 500 refugees weigh on Canada, Canada is able to the anti-Semitic Le Goglu publisher 1933, Canada’s immigration policy, arrived from Portugal via the Serpa receive large numbers of Jews.” Adrien Arcand as marginal, Anctil adopted behind the scenes by Order- Pinto in 1944. failed to mention the hugely influ- in-Council, ignored the Jewish plight “Nothing was done to change the In his summary, Anctil failed to ential nationalist historian Lionel and exemplifies how anti-Semitism regulations, which did not make it mention the bloody six-hour riot at Groulx, who supported the Achat worked in Canada. possible to come to the help of Jew- Christy Pitts in Toronto on Aug. 16, chez Nous campaign. “You had to leave your country of ish immigrants,” he observed. 1933, after a baseball game involv- Anctil suggested that the moral birth in one continuous trip with a After the war, the “second wave” ing two teams in which Jews and issues raised by Canada’s record in valid passport within a year of issue of Jewish immigration to Canada some Italians battled another team immigration when it comes to Jews and a visa issued in the country began. Between 1945-50, 20,000 sponsored by the Catholic Church should be raised with respect to of birth, and a certain amount of arrived in Canada, 36,000 during after a Swastika was raised at the Syrians, Iraqis, and other refugees, money to be admitted to Canada,” the next decade, and then 7,000 game. suffering tremendous hardship and Anctil noted. Sephardic Jews fleeing North Africa There were isolated street battles seeking to rebuild shattered lives. Immigrants from eastern and and the Middle East. in Montreal where low-income Jews Both guidebooks are at mhmc.ca/ central Europe were among “non- “In a context where political and lived alongside Francophones and en/pages/resources-and-training preferred immigrants”; those from economic crises in Europe did not Italian Canadians. While dismissing [email protected] www.theseniortimes.com June 2015 THE SENIOR TIMES 23 Binney, Cary set for Dialogic sessions Get tested for glaucoma, Alto saxophonist David Binney has a large and growing following in the jazz community because of his unique style, total commitment, inspired and inspiring performances. CSL club members told What about the man behind the horn? Sid Burns people are affected and, by the year Professor Norman Cornett has scheduled two dialogic sessions with 2020, 3.3 million will have it. the artist where you can meet with Binney and discover more about his At a weekly Thursday meeting of Prevalence rates depend on age, motivation and vision. The two-hour sessions are scheduled for June 28 the Côte St. Luc Men’s Club, guest gender, ethnicity and type of Glau- & 29 at 2 pm, St. John the Evangelist or Red Roof Church, 137 President speaker Marc Renaud, Project Man- coma. For instance, rates are three Kennedy, just north of Place des Arts. 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www.theseniortimes.com June 2015 THE SENIOR TIMES 27 THANK YOU MR. BIKE MAN NO LESS THAN 90 BIKES DISTRIBUTED FOR MR. BIKE MAN’S 90TH BIRTHDAY!

Ninety amazing young- new bicycle. The organ- sters whose courage and ization would like to ex- behavior had a positive press its gratitude to the impact in their com- Clown known as Fred- munity were rewarded olini for providing the on May 20th during Sun entertainment as well as Youth’s 31st Annual Bike Canadian Tire Verdun for Distribution. its outstanding contribu- tion. Every year Mr. Bike Man, an anonymous For the 2015 giveaway, benefactor, celebrates Sun Youth’s Bike Com- his birthday by giving mittee received 330 ap- Photo: Joseph Munro Nicolas Perez surrounded by members of the Bike Committee: Eric Kingsley, Tommy Kulczyk, away bicycles to deserv- plications, many of which Ann St Arnaud, and President Robert Sauvé. ing children through told wonderful stor- 2015 Excellence Award Sun Youth Organization. ies about outstanding was presented to former This year was a special youths. Amongst these, Sun Youth athlete Nicolas celebration as Mr. Bike more than 90 deserving Perez, and current volun- Man reached the ven- young people were select- teer football coach who erable age of 90 years. ed and rewarded with a also participated in the Sun Youth’s gymnasium new bike, a safety helmet humanitarian assistance was filled with a crowd and a bicycle lock. Wheth- in Sierra Leone with Doc- of 300 people, relatives er they saved the life of tors Without Borders to aid and friends of the young other people, overcame in the fight against Ebola recipients. To mark the disabilities, sickness or virus. occasion, a giant birth- other difficulties, helped day cake was served at others through volunteer For the last three dec- the event, thanks to Les work, prevented bullying ades more than 1,400 new Anges Gourmets bakery, or organized fundraisers, bikes have been distrib- while the generous an- these young ambassadors uted. On behalf of all the onymous donor received stand as an example for recipients rewarded, Sun the gift he wanted above their generation. For the Youth would like to thank all: the many smiles of past few years Sun Youth Mr. Bike Man for his com- exceptional youths, who has also honoured adults mitment and exceptional are role models for their for there outstanding generosity and wish him a peers, rewarded with a community work. The happy 90th birthday! Photo: Joseph Munro

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28 THE SENIOR TIMES June 2015 www.theseniortimes.com Senior Times file photo Senior Times The 20th Montreal Chamber Music Festival is curated by cellist Denis Brott. Virtuosi set to shine at chamber music festival Irwin Block she laces with anecdotes, June 15, 8 pm, Bourgie Hall, 1338 Ste. Cath- In its 20th season, Denis Brott’s erine W. Montreal Chamber Music Festival The Ariel Quartet (Israelis Alex- has become a much-anticipated andra Kazovsky and Gershon Ger- celebration of the finest in small chicov, violins; Jan Gruening, viola; ensemble music, including a bit of Amit Even-Tov, cello) plays Alexander traditional jazz and klezmer. Brott’s Ritual, Shostakovitch’s Cham- This year’s lineup, curated by cellist ber Symphony in C Minor, with a Brott, offers the same high quality string ensemble that includes cellist program, with variety in repertoire Dennis Brott, violinist Jonathan Crow, performed by established virtuosi bassist Ali Yazdanfar, and closes with and stars-to-be. Schubert’s Death and the Maiden The U.S.-based Dover Quartet Quartet, June 17, 8 pm, Bourgie Hall. (violinists Joel Link and Bryan Lee, The Ariel Quartet celebrates the violist Milena Pajero-van de Stadt, Human Spirit in two 20th century cellist Camden Shaw) opens with works, Argentina’s Oswaldo Golojov’s Viktor Ullmann’s Quartet No. 3, Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, composed in 1943 while he was with clarinetist David Krakauer, in the Theresienstadt concentra- pianist David Jalbert, violinist tion camp, where he died. Pianist Jonathan Crow and cellist Dennis Marc-André Hamelin then joins Brott, followed by Olivier Messiaen’s for Franck’s Quintet in F minor, moving Quartet for the End of Time, June 10, 8 pm, Pollack Hall, June 18, 8 pm, Bourgie Hall. 555 Sherbrooke W. Soprano Marie-Josée Lord pays Hamelin, famous for his mas- tribute to artists Leontyne Price, tery of modern repertoire, will play Billie Holiday, Shirley Bassey, Édith Schubert, Field, Debussy, and his Piaf, and Diane Dufresne, June 19, own compositions. June 11, 8 pm, 8 pm, Bourgie Hall. Pollack Hall. Clarinetist David Krakauer leads Israeli clarinetist Alexander Fiter- his fun-loving Klezmer Quartet, stein shares the spotlight with the June 20, 8 pm, Bourgie Hall. Dover Quartet playing the Brahms Australian Baroque violinist Eliza- clarinet quintet in B minor. He beth Wallfisch presents a Vivaldi opens with Bartók trios, followed by program, including seven con- the Dover playing the Dvořák String certos from the L’Estro Armonico Quartet in C major, June 12, 8 pm, series, and one of J.S. Bach’s Vivaldi Pollack Hall. arrangements for solo harpsichord, Acclaimed jazz trombonist with 2012 Canada Council musical Wycliffe Gordon leads a quintet in instrument bank winners, harpsi- a New Orleans themed program, chordist Hank Knox, cellist Denis June 13, 8 pm, Oscar Peterson Brott, and Sylvain Bergeron on Concert Hall, 7141 Shebrooke W. theorbo (bass lute), June 21, Violinist Rachel Barton Pine has made 3:30 pm, Bourgie Hall. Paganini’s challenging 24 Caprices a Info: 514-489-7444, highlight of her repertoire, which festivalmontreal.org www.theseniortimes.com June 2015 THE SENIOR TIMES 29 Rivers and valleys of colour in Riobamba Times and Places Barbara Moser

Riobamba — the name itself suggests exotic, rhythmic dancing. For us, it was a place to cool down from the steamy coast of Ecuador, and our three beach towns: Sali- nas, Montañita, and Puerto Lopez. Getting there by bus was arduous! First we taxied to Guayaquil, Ecuador’s biggest port and city, spend- ing the night at a downtown hotel to break up the long trip into central Ecuador. The next day we went through a complicated maze at the huge, disorienting, multi-level bus station before we boarded what was supposed to be an air-conditioned “Executive” bus. The air conditioning never really worked. It was hotter inside than out- side and there was literally no air near our seats— reserved front row behind the driver. You get what you pay for and that was $4.50 each for a 5-hour ordeal. And seemingly there is no more luxurious public-transit option. The driver stopped every 10 or 15 minutes to pick up five to ten My Riobamba is a parade of smiling vendors at a time selling every- people and dancing children under thing from chicken-on-a-stick to blue skies — and don’t forget those fruit salad, mangoes, big and small, out-of-this-world strawberries. plantain patties, and drinks. There was even some kind of preacher but we didn’t understand either the Like Quito, there is a vista around message or the messenger. every corner, varied and interesting On the subject of drinks, para- neo-classical and Spanish colonial doxically the bus doesn’t do toilet architecture and city squares. stops. We discovered that after three Unfortunately, it was a bit depress- hours. It took an appeal from me, ing on Sunday when it rained all day actually demand, for the driver to and most everything was closed. But announce after 3-1/2 hours that due Monday morning, the city came to to a request from a lady, we were life. We loved the food market with stopping. There was a mad rush by its fresh and cheap produce and the elderly to get to the bathroom lovely women vendors of all ages. The before any accidents happened. We strawberries are out of this world! could barely fight our way out from But the cheese — forget about it! the front seats. The coffee for some reason is not the Eventually we arrived at the termi- We discovered that the colourful There is a charming train station greatest. It seems the best Ecuador- nal in Riobambo and marveled at the costumes represent different tribes, and old-fashioned train that trav- ian beans are exported. Trout is the cool air! We grabbed a taxi for $2 to but the women all wear fedoras and els to Devil’s gorge south of the city, fish of this central sierra because it’s a hotel that we had discovered in our capes of different colours and carry but we declined because we were found in the rivers. Rio, of course, guidebook. children and belongings wrapped still in recovery mode from the means river. Montecarlo is a charming, old around their backs. As far as we bus trip. Riobamba is the place to go to world, two-level hotel with the rooms could see, the women do all the The nice thing about Riobamba experience how the average Ecua- surrounding a courtyard. We took a schlepping. The men wear colourful is that it’s a genuine town, almost dorian lives. There’s nothing touristy second floor room with four beds, one capes, but do no heavy lifting. devoid of tourists, and the people about it! double bed, and paid $39 for the two There was a parade on when we are friendly and helpful, but some After three nights and two days, of us. For four people, it’s $60. We had arrived and we quickly took pictures Spanish is necessary. Even then you we hired Joel, known to the hotel a small balcony overlooking the main of the colourful costumes, mixing can be easily misunderstood. receptionist as a good driver, and street, excellent for people-watching Catholic and aboriginal traditions. There is a flourishing Chinese took off through the mountains to the in this city that seems to have more We basically did nothing for two presence, both in food and clothing fabled town of Baños, nestled among indigenous residents than any we had days, except search out restaurants, shops. We noticed this because the the hot springs and waterfalls and visited. This is expected because Rio- including Chinese/Ecuadorian fare newly-elected president of Ecuador surrounded by towering green, lush bamba is in the mountains where the and Andaluz where we had their was visiting Beijing. The buses are mountains. indigenous people live. $3.25 lunches and salads. manufactured in China. 30 THE SENIOR TIMES June 2015 www.theseniortimes.com www.theseniortimes.com June 2015 THE SENIOR TIMES 31 32 THE SENIOR TIMES June 2015 www.theseniortimes.com