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It was estimated Rimbao says he decided to run because, who went to Afghanistan, who was with the four years ago to cost more than $106 million a following the birth of his first child, he realized Canadian Forces fighting there. I don’t think year, excluding pension-plan contributions. how hard it is to find subsidized daycare even the Canadian government is doing enough to Rimbao was acclaimed at a riding association in Quebec, which uniquely in Canada has a support the soldiers when they come back.” meeting at the YM-YWHA on Westbury. limited number of spaces at $7.30 a day. (Under The corruption charges against senators Mike [email protected] a new sliding scale, families earning more than $55,000 will pay more, up to $20 a day.) Ltret e s to the Editor “The NDP plan of $15-a-day daycare, which is based on the Quebec model, has really touched a lot of people who are having a hard Harper’s policies detrimental to our rights and freedoms time finding child care. It’s a provincial issue, If Stephen Harper weren’t such a hawk for for decades and we don’t need to institute more but Thomas Mulcair’s offer of assistance to the Israel, would you vote for him? punitive and regressive laws. Instead of funding provinces is a great idea.” We are electing a Canadian Prime Minister for CSIS to be able to do their anti-terrorist work, Rimbao is proud of Mulcair and the NDP’s Canada. His policies for Canada are detrimental to funding has been cut to the bone. Where is the opposition to Conservative anti-terrorism our democratic rights and freedoms. His politics sense in all this, the evidence-based material legislation, which would give police and are those of fear, division, obfuscation, and lack of on which Harper declaims and proclaims? Canada’s spy agency much broader powers and honesty or transparency. He brooks no discussion This is not what Canada is, not my country of allow the detention of terror suspects. or openness. He lacks respect for our democratic compassion and social justice. “It’s creating an aura of George Orwell’s 1984. and social institutions. He sees enemies Does Harper even speak up for human rights I read that book in high school and Big Brother everywhere and sends tax auditors to investigate anymore? What about Mr. Fahmy, a Canadian was always watching. That’s not Canadian values. charities that disagree with his environmental journalist imprisoned in Egypt on trumped up “We understand protection, but we also have policies, muzzles Canadian scientists to the degree charges and being defended by an internationally our freedoms. That’s how we define ourselves that, internationally, scientists have garnered over respected human rights lawyer with whom as Canadians. It sets up something that is very 800 signatures protesting their treatment and our Harper will not communicate? What about vague and could lead to something dangerous.” lack of evidence-based policies. prisoner of conscience Mr. Raif Badawi in Saudi He says he’s upset about the dispatch of With the indefensible cancelling of the long- Arabia, sentenced to 1000 lashes and years of Canadian Forces to Iraq and the fact their form census, how can we plan long-term for incarceration for defending human rights and mandate is “very vague,” noting the tragic anything, what will these decisions be based freedom of speech, whose family was given on? Harper didn’t plan for diversification of our refugee status and live here in Quebec? Erratum resource industry and we are now held hostage While the rest of the world was campaigning This should have appeared in the economically by the Saudis, our friends and for his release, we signed a $15 billion dollar March 2015 Housing Issue. allies. Oil is prime. With prices down and the military equipment contract with the Saudis, The Senior Times regrets the error. economy at risk, can he still retain the claim as and our former Foreign Minister praised their Place du Fort the only person who can direct our economy human rights record. Is this my Canada? 1411 du Fort, Montreal through troubled times? Where was his foresight If we get the government we deserve, what does Phone: 514-932-4895 in developing alternate fuel sources as well? that say about us if we re-elect Harper? Do not Fax: 514-931-5203 Harper’s regressive law-and-order bills are be fooled by his appeal to our baser natures. We Email: [email protected] Website: www.placedufort.com meant to distract the public from well-known are better than that. We are Canadians. Contact: Lorraine Forrest facts that our crime rates have been going down — Sandra Brown Size: 1½ to 6½ Included: heat, hot water, electricity, fridge, stove, A/C, indoor pool and Feature on Pascale Déry should have avoided labels indoor parking I have to take issue with a couple of points and supporters and sent to a Party’s national Nearby: 2 métro stations, Provigo and PA, mall in your article featuring Pascale Déry. Why headquarters in Ottawa (on-line for example). does it matter what mother tongue she was There is absolutely nothing on a form to educated in? All three candidates are fluently indicate support for any specific candidate and bilingual and Ms. Déry’s opponents have more no roll kept as to whether a membership was than demonstrated such in many publications sent by a candidate or his/her support team. as well as in the Quebec National Assembly: Ms. Déry and the writer obviously also ignore Robert Libman as an MNA and Beryl Wajsman the fact that riding associations have pre- at numerous sub-committee meetings there. existing members who may vastly outnumber It’s bad enough when nationalists castigate any memberships a candidate has solicited. Anglophone or Allophone citizens for not Ultimately any number or subtle hint of a being “pure laine” enough, no matter what they number is useless as the only number that do or say. For a writer in an English newspaper matters is the number of votes the candidate to brand Ms. Déry’s opponents as “Ashkenazic gets at the riding nomination meeting. 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Although every caution is taken by Publications Newborn Inc. to monitor­ advertising acceptance of a Jewish state, a Palestinian leader Rucker, from an article by Christophe Gervais in THE SENIOR TIMES, claims made by advertisers are not necessarily endorsed by Publications Newborn. willing to sign a deal based on that premise, and a that appeared in La Nouvelle République, March modicum of regional stability that allows Israel to 18, 2015. 8 The Senior Times April 2015 www.theseniortimes.com Israeli journalist decries “excuses” that prevent peace IRWIN BLOCK piece of land, one people has all the rights in the world, the other has no rights whatsoever. “It’s the end of the masquerade.” “If this is not apartheid, what is apartheid? That’s how Israeli journalist Gideon Levy “Israeli society is in total denial, but will the characterized the pre-election musing by Likud world tolerate another apartheid state in the 21st leader Benjamin Netanyahu that he would not century, with democracy for some people and agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state apartheid for the others?” he asked rhetorically. alongside Israel. “Can someone be half-pregnant, half- It was something less than a full statement, democratic? Can Israel continue to find excuses more like an answer to questions from a not- with the only excuse, the unofficial religion of unfriendly journalist, but it angered the Obama Israel, namely security? administration, with one official saying the U.S. “What about the security of Palestinians?” he will “re-assess our options.” asked. None of the estimated 2.65 million West It also fit Levy’s argument that no Israeli leaders Bank Palestinians had the right to vote in the had ever intended to agree to a Palestinian state. Israeli election. Meanwhile, the occupation and “For 24 years at least, Israeli politicians, one peace and two states or one were not discussed in after another, misled the Israelis, the world and the campaign, he noted. Palestinians in claiming that the occupation (of Although Netanyahu is neither loved nor land captured in 1967) is about to end,” he told appreciated, he wins elections. “He understood that some 300 at Concordia University last month. Photo: Irwin Block fear is the best way to be elected and re-elected. Levy, a columnist and editorial board member Gideon Levy “Everything in Israel is an existential threat,” he at Ha’aretz newspaper, was kicking off a speaking built all the time on lands occupied since 1967. said, in a mocking tone. The Tel-Aviv-born son of tour of Canada, sponsored by Canadians for Expansionism “has only one purpose – to Holocaust survivors, and an aide for four years to Justice and Peace in the Middle East. prevent any kind of peace settlement.” Shimon Peres, Levy said it was in the late 1980s For the record, here is what Netanyahu actually Can Israel continue to flaunt international law when he visited the Occupied Territories that he said in the interview: “I think that anyone who and “the majority of public opinion in the world” started to realize that “this is the biggest story of is going to establish a Palestinian state today and or will it be “a wake-up call for changing the Israel and there is almost no one to tell this story.” evacuate lands is giving attack grounds to the international discourse,” he asked? This has not won him many friends in Israel, radical Islam against the State of Israel.” “For people like me, the only hope is from the though he has received many awards for his “Anyone who ignores this is sticking his head in outside… We are now getting the most nationalist, journalism, and this past year he had to hire the sand.” religious, right-wing government that Israel has bodyguards to protect him and his family. Asked whether he meant that a Palestinian state ever had. Levy continued for some 90 minutes, including would not be established if he were re-elected “It is on the world’s shoulders to decide if this a question-and-answer period, but one of his prime minister, Netanyahu replied “Correct.” is acceptable in the 21st century, if this reality is harshest judgments was this: Though it was hardly a formal statement, and legitimate, and could continue to be supported, “Israelis don’t perceive the Palestinians as equal Netanyahu has backtracked after his party won financed and encouraged by the free world.” human beings like them – that’s the core of most seats in the election, Levy argued that the With 600,000 Israelis living in the West Bank everything. facts speak for themselves. and East Jerusalem, the chances for realizing a “As long as this will not change, nothing will First the alleged obstacle was Yasser Arafat, Palestinian state are “really very, very low.” change.” founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization, The alternative is a “one-state solution,” which who was seen as “too strong;” then his successor, has been functioning since June 1967, with three Mahmoud Abbas, was seen as “too weak.” regimes, he argued. 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10 The Senior Times April 2015 www.theseniortimes.com Until recently,Taking it was a crime in stock of end-of-lifepalliative care, which he requires in with careothers if he so wishes. As Canada to assist others in ending Legal Ease order to make an informed decision. further protection to the patient, their lives. Those grievously and Joyce In Quebec, to be eligible to obtain an eleven-member Commission on irremediably ill and in pain could not medical aid in dying, the patient end-of-life care has been created to seek a physician’s assistance in dying. Blond Frank must be capable of consenting, be at examine all matters relating to end- A person facing this prospect had two B.A., B.C.L., LL.M. the end of life, suffer from a serious of-life care, to advise and report to options: take his own life prematurely, and incurable illness, suffer from the Minister and to oversee that the often by violent or dangerous means, an advanced state of irreversible provisions of the law are carried out. or suffer until death occurred from care that is respectful of their dignity decline in capability and “experience The Act provides for the creation of natural causes. and their autonomy.” The care is to constant and unbearable physical or a special register of advance medical But a woman with a neuro- be administered with compassion, psychological suffering which cannot directives prepared by individuals in degenerative disease wanted to die understanding, courtesy, respect and be relieved in a manner the patient the event that they become incapable in dignity and challenged certain fairness. Under the terms of this new deems tolerable.” If the patient does of giving consent to treatment at a sections of the Canadian Criminal law, every person whose condition not meet these criteria, the aid cannot future time. When a patient becomes Code before the courts. The Supreme requires it has the right to receive be obtained. The request must be incapable of providing consent, the Court of Canada held that provisions end-of-life care, subject to the specific made by the patient on a special form physician can consult the register of the Criminal Code unjustifiably requirements contained in the Act. signed by him and countersigned by a and act accordingly. It is to be noted infringed upon the Charter of Rights For those living with incurable health or social services professional. that health-care instructions already and should be voided to the extent pain, this may be a dream come true. It may be withdrawn at any time. provided in a Mandate in the Event of that they prohibit physician‑assisted But for others, especially seniors, it Before administering the medical Incapacity do not constitute advance death for a competent adult person has caused much concern over the aid requested, the physician must medical directives under this Act who (1) clearly consents to the creation of a “slippery slope” leading assure himself that the patient is and those who wish to have advance termination of life and (2) has a to removal of protection of those who eligible for the aid and must consult medical directives should see their grievous and irremediable medical are vulnerable. The court felt that a second independent physician to lawyer or notary. condition (including an illness, a permissive regime with properly confirm that the eligibility criteria The Quebec Act respecting end-of- disease, or disability) that causes designed and administered safeguards have been met. He must also make life care was approved last June and is enduring suffering, intolerable to the is capable of protecting vulnerable sure that the request has been scheduled to become law in December individual in the circumstances of his people from abuse and error. The made voluntarily and without any 2015. Although healthy people often or her condition. It further held that care to be administered under the external pressure, that the patient don’t like to think about end-of-life an individual’s response to a grievous Quebec legislation will only result understands what options are issues or pain, palliative care and and irremediable medical condition where there exists “freely and clearly available 2015.04to him [Senior and has Times] had AGI the Lindsay aggressive Lecture treatment,Series MtlWI perhaps v3.2 v3.pdf now is 1 2015-03-26 10:20 AM is a matter critical to their dignity expressed wishes with respect to opportunity to discuss his request a good time to start. and autonomy; The prohibition care, in particular by establishing an denied such persons the right to advance medical directives regime.” make decisions concerning their The physician must make sure that bodily integrity and medical care thus the request is being made freely; i.e., infringing on their liberty and leaving by ascertaining that it is not being them to endure intolerable suffering. made as a result of external pressure. Even before this Supreme Court Consent to continuous palliative judgment had been rendered, Quebec sedation must be given in writing on had drafted a new law scheduled the form prescribed by the Minister to take effect in December of this and be filed in the patient’s record. year. The title of this law is “An Act This law regulates in detail how end- respecting end-of-life care”. End-of- of-life care is to be carried out. life care is defined as “palliative care Those who request terminal provided to end-of-life patients and palliative sedation must “be informed medical aid in dying”. Medical aid of the prognosis, the irreversible andC in dying means “care consisting in terminal nature of the sedation and Mthe the administration by a physician anticipated duration of the sedation.Y of medications or substances to an It obliges the physician to inform the CM end-of-life patient, at the patient’s patient and his close relations of the request, in order to relieve their policy of the institution with respectMY suffering by hastening death”. The to end-of-life care and provide CYthe purpose of this law is “to ensure that patient with all the informationCMY end-of-life patients are provided regarding therapeutic possibilities and K

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www.theseniortimes.com April 2015 The Senior TimeS 13 Orange you glad it’s not called red? Dedicated readers of the Word Nerd column a or an in English, or une or uno in Romance might remember that five years ago I explained The Word Nerd languages, the “n” can disappear. The opposite that, lexicographically, at least, there is no debate process can also occur; an “n” can be added that the egg preceded the chicken. It arrived Howard Richler to a word that didn’t originally have one. For in the English language in the 9th century, example, a “newt” was originally in Middle whereas chicken only made its debut a century English rendered as “an eute” and a “nickname” later. Today I will address the equally weighty was an “eke name.” The Latin aurantium conundrum of whether the colour orange or the referenced before was probably also influenced fruit orange deserves the honour of being first. colour orange only appears more than 100 years by the word aurum, “gold”, since the fruit had a Whereas the earliest citation of orange the fruit later. Actually, there was no word for the colour golden colour. is from the beginning of the 15th century, the orange in Old English and a castle decorator Although we see a progression towards the would have had to say geolu-read, “yellow-red” spelling of “orange” in both English and French, $ $ INCOME TAX $ $ to describe a throne that was orange-coloured. this form of the word is due to a coincidence. AWAN BUSINESS CONSULTANTS INC. The orange has enjoyed an exotic etymological In the south of France, there once was a Roman Chartered professional accountants (CPA) odyssey over the millennia. 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Its journey, however, was just the 16th century, Philibert de Chalon of on its first leg because from India it travelled Orange was awarded a good chunk of the to Persia, where it was rendered as narang, and Netherlands by Emperor Charles V. When he to Arabia, where it was called naranj. In the died, his title passed to his German nephew, Middle Ages, Muslim merchants brought this William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, who bitter type of orange to Sicily and before long established the Dutch Republic and the House We speak your it was available throughout Europe. The sweet of Orange. 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www.theseniortimes.com April 2015 The Senior Times 15 Animaze features the man behind iconic heavy Metal KRIStINE BEREy in Keaton’s 87th fi lmTh e Railrodder (1965) and playwright Harold Pinter in Pinter’s People (1969). Critics have described the fi ve-decade career of Potterton admires Walt Disney’s Pinocchio as Gerald Potterton —animator, director, producer, “one of the greatest animated fi lms”. But he’s not writer, illustrator and painter—as “colourful” a fan of full animation, because “half the time, and “eclectic.” While one word can’t capture the it’s not very funny.” He aims to get to the point essence of his work, his irreverent, ironic sense of with the least amount of lines, to put a message humour is everpresent. “You’ve got to laugh, the across with humour. “It’s the diff erence between a world is too serious,” he says. Picasso sketch and John Constable landscape. It’s Known for the sci-fi cult fi lm Heavy Metal (1981) beautiful, but Picasso went to the essence and, in and Yellow Submarine (1968), Potterton could have Gerald Potterton, with his painting of a spitfi re his simplicity, infl uenced all those who came aft er.” fun even with fi lms bearing dreary titles such as Among Potterton’s current projects, one Fish Spoilage Control (1956). In this educational the day it was made, about travelling across Canada animated short has a very personal meaning for short, Potterton’s second produced at the National 100 years ago. It all seemed so fresh and clean. I’ve him. “Always in the wings” is High Flight, inspired Film Board, invading battalions of little red demons always had a thing about the environment, clean by a 1941 poem of the same name written by 19- demonstrate the dangers of mishandling fi sh — air, fossil fuels and all that stuff .” year old Royal Canadian Air Force pilot John without putting anyone to sleep. Hired by the National Film Board in 1954, Potterton Magee. Th e fi lm pays homage to the idealistic Now 84, working in Cowansville, Potterton completed My Financial Career (1962), based on a young men who lost their lives during the pivotal recalled leaving his native England, where he had text by Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock, and Battle of Britain in WWll. worked on Animal Farm (1954), the fi rst animated Christmas Cracker (1963), both animated shorts Gerald Potterton’s fi lm Heavy Metal will be feature made there. “We saw wonderful fi lms like earning him Academy Award nominations. Th e screened at Animaze, the Montreal International Norman McLaren’s Neighbours (1952) and Th e Selfi sh Giant (1971) produced through Potterton Animation Film Festival, April 16-19. Th e

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Adam Rozon, 14, a grade 9 student at Isabel Szollosy, 13, in grade 7 at Beaconsfield Léa Simic-Lachapelle, 16, in grade 11 at Académie Lafontaine in St. Jérome, helped High, and her sister Jane, 11, in grade 6 at Collège Mont Notre Dame, Sherbrooke, took organize a solidarity march and collect funds Dorset Elementary in Baie d’Urfé, collected part in various fund-raising efforts and helped for some 100 homeless in the city. He also set 30,000 aluminum cans over the past year, worth organize support for the release of Raïf Badawy, up a Fair Trade Sale at the school in cooperation $1,500, and sold dishcloths for $4 each, raised whose wife lives in Sherbrooke, as part of the with Oxfam. over $10,000, and turned over the money to help Amnesty International campaign. Badawy is the “I worked all last year to set this up and we’re feed impoverished Haitians in the Dominican Saudi Arabian blogger who’s been sentenced to selling coffee and chocolate this year, to help Republic. a decade in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting African farmers,” he said, with obvious pride. “Our biggest project is to raise $75 for the Islam. most impoverished students attending Collège Amélioration Jeunesse (in Puerto Plata) to attend summer camp,” Isabel explained. “It’s not really a school, it’s a three-bedroom apartment during the day, for 184 students,” Isabel said. The family visited the camp last summer and spent two weeks with the children, teaching English and sharing in “fun activities – a life-changing and family-changing experience,” said their mom, Rhiannon Sparkes of Notre Dame de l’Île Perrot.

Simon Goyetche, 11, a grade 6 student at Olivia Page, 17, also at Collège Mont Notre- St. Jude Elementary in Two Mountains, was Dame, worked with Amnesty International to inspired by a YouTube pep talk and created support Badawy. She teaches Sunday School at St. Sock’tober, asking schoolmates for donations Barnabas Anglican Church in North Hatley, and of socks for the homeless. for over two years has helped collect 160 shoe “We donated just over 300 pairs of socks to boxes that donors fill with items that children Dans la Rue. There are people who are less need, in a project called Samaritan’s Purse. fortunate than us, and in the harsh winters that we have here they need protection.” Craig Kielburger, co-founder of Free the Children Photos by Barbara Moser

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Courtney Murdoch, 16, in grade 11 at Laurentian Regional High in Lachute, started Romy Suliteanu, 17, in grade 11 at St. her own campaign “to erase stigma regarding Cassandra Gillen, 12, in grade 6 at St. John George’s School, raised funds with others for mental-health issues.” Diagnosed in grade 10 Fisher School in Pointe Claire, has been doing scholarships to enable students to study at the with acute anxiety, she “got labeled because volunteer work for more than half her life, and Sheela Bal Bhavan girl’s school in Jaipur, India. people don’t understand what mental health is.” at school raised enough money for surgery on Last year, she participated with the Costa Rican After attending Take Action Camp sponsored two children needing to correct cleft palates. Humanitarian Foundation to help clean up by Free the Children, Courtney decided to This year she’s working to raise $10,000 to a school, build a house for a poor family, and make people understand: “We aren’t weak, build a school in rural Kenya. She’s already clean up beaches. She plans on studying to we’re so powerful we’ve overcome so much raised $1,020 by cashing in bottles and cans become a psychiatrist. to still be around.” She collected money for a and from assorted donations. At the age of five, turkey dinner for the town’s women’s shelter, Cassandra gave her birthday money to help her “Everyone should have the right to and organized a scavenger hunt for necessities cousin Tova, who needed surgery for cancer. education, and a lot of kids around the world to give to the shelter. She and her friends helped don’t. Raising the money to build this school organize and participated in a 24-hour fast at If I was poor, other kids would take care of really touched me.” school, which raised over $3,000 for a village in me, and that’s what I like to do for other kids.” — Kayla Panacui Kenya. The goal is to help the village become — Jasmine Gadbois sustainable.

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24 The Senior Times April 2015 www.theseniortimes.com He thinks he can win one for Harper in Lac-Saint-Louis IRWIN BLOCK Should Girard be nominated, he’ll face off against Scarpaleggia and NDP candidate Ryan Young, 43, As a senior manager at the National Bank for a John Abbott College teacher in his second term some 20 years, risk assessment and management as a Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue city councilor. have been at the heart of Éric Girard’s work. The bank gave him a leave of absence until the Trained in economics and finance at McGill and end of the year and Girard has begun meeting Université du Québec à Montréal, Girard says he people involved in community affairs to better looked at the numbers and figured the time was understand their concerns. right to leap into politics. Living in Mount Royal with his wife, Sherbrooke- Girard has taken a nine-month leave from the born Chantale Landry, an interior designer, bank, where for the past three years he has been daughter Félicité and son Louis-Charles, Girard its treasurer, to seek the Conservative nomination said he chose Lac-Saint-Louis because “I think I in Lac-Saint-Louis riding. can win there.” “There is not one Conservative MP in the whole Apart from the fact his daughter plays hockey in region of Montreal, and that is unacceptable. the West Island – Girard coaches the team, and son Montreal needs to be represented in the plays baseball there, he sees broad affinities between government,” he says. his own lifestyle in Mount Royal, his outlook and He rates Mount Royal and Lac-Saint-Louis as having the area’s culture: He’s a staunch federalist, an avid the best chances for the Tories to stage an upset, and skier and tennis player. He says a robust economy he opted for the latter because “good candidates” are is his main focus politically. already vying for the Mount Royal nomination. In his first contacts, he noted West Island It is far from a slam dunk, however, since he’s residents would like what he has in Mount Royal competing with a well-entrenched local figure, – a ten-minute walk to the Canora AMT station Peter Fletcher – a financial consultant with where, since 1999, he boards the morning train expertise in risk management, the outgoing Photo: Irwin Block at 6:21 am and is downtown by 6:30. “People in president of the Conservative riding association, the West Island are not happy with train service,” and Baie d’Urfé town councilor. high marks and his English improved in debates he notes, stopping short of saying he can promise Lac-Saint-Louis – Beaconsfield, Pointe Claire, as a member of the student Liberal club. federal aid to improve the situation. Baie-d’Urfé, Kirkland, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, He got his Honours B.Com. Degree but People also want government policies so that Senneville and the western part of Pierrefonds- remembers disagreeing with major Liberal “when our kids graduate, they stay here. Roxboro borough – is considered a safe Liberal policies at the time: Girard supported Brian “I offer my experience, my competence as seat, but the Liberal share of the vote has Mulroney’s push for free trade with the U.S. and a manager. I offer my stewardship – careful, diminished since ex-MP Clifford Lincoln won the doomed Meech Lake Accord. responsible management of our country. massive majorities there. “I always found myself on the Conservative “Canada has outperformed all the countries in We met Girard for the first time at a Monkland side,” he recalled. the G7 group since 2007, when it comes to growth Ave. café and, careful manager that he is, Girard His first job was with Trizec Corp, the real estate and employment. That is an undeniable sign of began by querying me on my journalistic holding company, but with the real estate crisis positive management.” background. We then turned to his biography, of 1989, his bosses enabled him to study three He likes the fact that Canada receives about and his move to set aside a successful career to days a week for a master’s degree at Université du 250,000 immigrants a year and that free trade risk it in “retail” politics. Québec à Montréal. deals are expanding beyond the Americas. Girard was raised in Ste. Foy, now part of After a year at the Bank of Canada, he joined the Girard looked at the results of the last election Quebec City. His father, born to a large working National Bank and rose to its highest executive and noted that Liberal Scarpaleggia won his fourth class family in Lac St. Jean, is a corporate lawyer; level. He’s been responsible for the bank’s term with 34 per cent of the vote, 2,000 more than his mother, born in St. Félicien, is a Special Ed structural interest-rate risk and liquidity funding. the NDP candidate and 3,000 votes more than the professional. Last year he told his employers he was eager for a third-placed Conservative, Larry Smith. Knowing little English, Girard moved to stab at politics. “My kids are older, 14 and 13. I’ve “On the level of statistics, a margin of less Montreal to study in an honours program at made some money, I have more independence, than 5,000 votes can be reversed, in any riding McGill. He says his talent in mathematics earned and I am ready.” in Canada.” At the bank, he has never heard any bank economists complain when the Harper government scrapped the compulsory long-form census. It has been much criticized by statisticians Filling empty bowls to fight hunger because most consider data from voluntary Empty bowls will be filled at three locations Emard, Les cuisines collective du Grand Plateau, responses less valid. this year: Congregation Dorshei Emet, Unitarian and Bread Basket Lac St. Louis for St. Columba As for the Harper government scrapping the Church of Montreal, and a new location, St. By The Lake Church. long-gun registry and refusing to turn over Columba By The Lake Church. Places and times data to Quebec, Girard says, “it seems it was an The event aims to fight hunger and to address Congregation Dorshei Emet, 18 Cleve Rd, exceptional waste of public funds. That’s why it issues related to food insecurity and food justice. Hampstead, Sunday, April 19, 11am-2pm was cancelled.” He had no opinion on its refusal Quebec artisans generously donate their ceramic Unitarian Church of Montreal, 5035 de to turn over the data to Quebec. bowls for the cause. Maisonneuve W. (metro Vendome), Saturday, When it comes to the Conservative “tough-on- Tickets are $25 for a hand-made ceramic bowl May 3, 11am-2pm crime” policies at a time when violent crime donated by a potter, along with one serving St. Columba By The Lake Church, 11 Rodney is decreasing steadily in Canada, Girard says, of soup and bread. Tickets for children are $5 Ave, Pointe-Claire. Saturday, April 18, 11:30am- “The Conservative government has promised to (under age 12 for the meal only). 1:30pm and 5pm-7pm. An evening concert for improve the security of Canadians and I believe The beneficiaries for 2015 are Hanukah Baskets $12 at 7:30pm will be held and all funds collected sincerely this is what Canadians, and voters in program for Congregation Dorshei Emet, the will be donated to Action Réfugiés. Contact Joan Lac-Saint-Louis, want.” NDG Food Co-op for Unitarian Church of Simand at [email protected] and to volunteer, No date has been set for the nomination meeting. 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Baraarb the Moser childrenopinion, excellent diagnosticians. Thisof is probably Cuba? because they don’t have a lot of fancy equipment Now that Cuba and the United States are engaged for testing, nor do they have the variety of drugs in talks aimed at normalizing relations, what available to us. This is in good part the result of the changes are in store for the socialist experience American economic boycott imposed in 1960 and there? In particular, how will possible changes extended in 1962. affect Cuba’s children? So what does the future hold for the children of This March, I visited Havana for the first time in Cuba? I worry, not that the return of capitalism will three years and looked for some answers. I have bring back private business to Cuba, but that this will been visiting Havana and nearby Santa Clara and have little benefit for most Cubans because they simply Cienfiegos for the past 15 years, sometimes twice do not have the means to open businesses themselves. a year. I have gone to visit friends I met on my And the government has no plans to subsidize private trips, some through the synagogues, neighbours enterprise, but does impose stiff taxes. of friends, and doctors I met because of knee Any Cuban with a relative in the US or who problems. works with tourists is far better off than one who I was curious to see if anything had changed, has no such connections. I have seen people lining especially for the children. The quick answer is “Not up outside ATMs to withdraw money sent monthly much!” What concerns me is that the expected from abroad. return of American cultural and economic forces As for those without connections: will lead to an erosion of the social safety net. The average monthly salary for a university I fear the American influence will grind down graduate is about 20CUC a month. (One CUC the two great benefits socialist Cuba bestows on is equal to 25 Cuban pesos. Although everyone its children: free health and dental care and free is paid in Cuban pesos, I have provided the education, including university for those who meet figures in CUC to simplify matters. One CUC is academic standards. approximately equal to $1 US. This is the currency Every Cuban child is entitled to attend school, used by tourists.) and they receive a uniform and pair of shoes. They A 22-year-old who has no university education are served one meal at school, albeit rice and beans, and works as a bookkeeper earns $12 a month. and not of the best quality as I have heard from my A lawyer earns $20 a month. Top: Boy at Centro Sephardi Purim party; young friends. A doctor earns $40 - $60 a month, depending ­Bottom: Lionel and Lianna strut their stuff; Infant mortality in Cuba – the number of deaths on the particular clinic or hospital he or she is Right: He won Best Costume at the Purim party. of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births associated with. – at 4.83 is marginally lower than Canada’s 4.85 An architect? $20. average Cuban, usually out of reach. score, according to the CIA World Factbook of These figures are based solely on conversations Retirees receive a pension of $8 a month and, January, 2012. This figure is frequently cited to with these professionals. from what I am told, do not eat well. indicate the effectiveness of a country’s healthcare So what do people live on? The government supplies A Cuban child can expect to grow up with a roof system. There are excellent facilities for mothers- a small monthly ration of oil, milk, and chicken, but over her head, often in crowded apartments, with to-be and post-natal care. Cuban doctors are, in my meat, fish, and vegetables are very expensive for the enough food, but not always of the best quality and 28 The Senior Times April 2015 www.theseniortimes.com From left: Kids nighbourhood party at Luyana, Havana; Paola, Emily and Carolina enjoying the day at the Riviera pool; Sisters, Sara Ana and Sofia Laura, on a Sunday pony ride; Patricia (left) and Rebecca at Purim party.

commanding influence, sugar cane became the main export for Cuba, and all other crops suffered. Fertile fields that used to grow a variety of crops were planted with sugar cane, and Cuba’s once- varied agriculture became a monoculture. Speaking of culture, Cuban children are exposed to the arts from an early age and lessons of every type are encouraged and inexpensive. Little girls in ballet tutus are seen everywhere in Havana, and piano music can be heard on the street wafting out of the studios. I have not seen children’s art classes but I know they exist and there are thousands of paintings for sale in the artisan markets in Old Havana and near the Parque Central, the central square. Are the children of Cuba happy? My opinion is that they are happier than children elsewhere. Families are very close, partly because they live in Pens are always much appreciated. (The cost of close quarters. You will often find children sharing one pen is equal to 1/20th of their salary.) Stickers a bedroom with their parents. are adored by children of all ages. School supplies Even though toys are expensive, imported from are always welcome, especially if you can make China and of the worst quality, children there contact with a teacher or a principal. Notebooks are not hooked on electronic devices. They play are in very short supply and expensive. Coloured outdoors in the pleasant weather. Since they have pencils make a wonderful gift. little to covet from their peers, bullying doesn’t How has Cuba changed? Many small businesses seem to exist. have opened up outside people’s homes. Cubans This is not to say that children don’t need better are selling whatever they can get their hands quality food, toys, clothes, etc. This is why I on –from second-hand pots and pans to Cuban encourage all visitors to Cuba to bring small new jewelry. Some have opened small coffee shops. The and used toys, dolls, new underwear to give out to government demands its share in taxes, but in the variety. Meat and fish are expensive —chicken is people in Havana. new, emerging Cuba, small private enterprise is $2.50 a kilo, which for most Cubans is a luxury, and I recommend my favourite community, Centro tolerated. vegetables at outdoor markets are also expensive Sephardi, at E and 17th streets in Vedado (central We can always hope that as the Americans move in for Cubans. Havana) – one of the three synagogues in Havana, and bilateral relations improve, the average Cuban Most children depend on a meager diet based led by Dr. Mayra Levy, who makes sure the children will benefit. But until the Cuban government raises on rice, beans, some eggs, and lots of sugar, which in her community and others in the neighbourhood the salaries of its citizens across the board, little will is in everything. Pastries are cheap. Cubans love receive gifts from the missions that arrive from change for the people of Cuba. their sugar. Of course, when the Russians were a Canada and the US. [email protected] www.theseniortimes.com April 2015 The Senior Times 29 Bathing body and soul in Baños For the first time on our many and varied travels, pools, and for $3 each we bathed in a series of I was crying because I didn’t want to leave. thermal pools: hot, warm, lukewarm, and cold. It We were in Baños de Aqua Santa, Ecuador, this T imes and Places was a first for both of us and we thoroughly enjoyed January, at the El Pedron, a peaceful, lush, well-run the stimulation. They say if you go from the hot to hotel. Our corner room had two windows with a Barbara Moser the cold, it adds ten years to your life. We’re eager view of the Virgin’s Falls, one of many waterfalls to see whether this is true. that pour down from the green mountains that This whole town is rejuvenating, from the friendly surround this town. locals and ex-pats who share their life stories to the The last morning we took Luca, a golden retriever, 360 degree vista of mountains covered with lush one of the six rescue dogs belonging to our hostel vegetation, to the cool, sometimes rainy weather lady, on a walk around the town, ending at Virgin’s that envelops your body and soul with well-being. Falls. More? There’s the fruit lady who makes fresh fruit Baños has more hostels than any town we’ve ever salads for $2 and serves you on tables and benches visited and no shortage of restaurants with quirky made of logs and slices of huge trees. names such as Blah Blah, Café Hood, Casa Hood, There’s the French retiree from Aix-La-Chapelle, and Eruption, the hostel and restaurant where we who rents an apartment for $300 a month, finds spent our first three days. everything affordable, the people friendly, and Robert Frost wrote: “Something there is that she’s not afraid of the 20-minute walk home from doesn’t love a wall,” and he was right, at least about downtown at night. Baños! There are no walls here: people are more There’s the cyclist, who spoke for two hours than neighbours, more than acquaintances, more at Illusiones one evening. He’s cycling from than friends. They share, they mentor, and they are Vancouver to Patagonia and is about halfway there. generous with their time and talents. He’s promoting alternative tourism. The centre of the ex-pat and local community We, however, see the need for all forms and levels is Libreria Vieira, Arte Illusiones, an art supply of tourism because without tourism, this town shop, new and used bookstore for students and would be a poor shell of itself. Now it’s a vibrant, travellers, excellent café featuring delicious espresso happy place where almost everyone seems to be concoctions, and a jewellery shop. living harmoniously and eking out a living. The Nynne Noe Vivanco Vieira, who is Danish, runs locals need us for our money, and we are happy the establishment with her husband Juan Diego spending it here, knowing that it goes a long way Vivanco Vieira who creates the jewellery in an in every sense. open workshop in one corner. Their children, Luca Her husband, a welder, returns to Canada now and If you’re planning on visiting, the only place to and Nova Luna, return from school to the café to then to work. Robin is a supremely talented portrait stay that we’ve discovered is our hotel, El Pedron, play and do their homework behind the counter artist who works in coloured pencils! Her portraits so silent you can almost hear the waterfall. featuring school and art supplies. On the way home are so powerful that they inspired me to purchase a from school at about 1pm, children enter and buy set of quality pencils and paper and begin exploring Clockwise from top: a homemade chocolate for 30 – 50 cents or ask for their artistic possibilities. Coloured pencils are Horses waiti for tourists below the volcano; a glass of fresh water. much more portable than the acrylic paints I have The scenery is majestic in every directoion. The community gathers to hear talks and partake used for more than 50 years. Barbara with Luca at the waterfall; in activities such as the Saturday afternoon Art It was a Dominican priest who encouraged the “Art Attack” at Ilusions Café; Attack, all of which are central to the spirit of this development of a spa culture here, a centre for Ilusions serves as a community centre for ex-pats; place. The theme for Art Attack on Saturday was therapeutic mineral baths fed by the many mineral Christmas tree in the main square; New Beginnings and speaking of new beginnings… sources coming from the once active volcanoes. Coloured pencil print by Robin (fish inset); One morning while lounging on the couch and Every second shop offers massages, facials, Nynne serves excellent latte while selling books and sipping our macchiatos, we met Robin, an ex-pat pedicures, and laundry services. art supplies and hosting speakers; from BC who has been living here for seven years. 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