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2 0028_20170305_MANOIR THE SENIOR TIMES KIRKLAND_LE March WELLESLEY_The 2017 Senior theseniortimes.com Times_10x7_Laura_OH.indd 1 17-02-16 09:44 October crisis sets the scene in this novel of lost love and youth Most of the narrative is set in Irwin Block midtown Montreal, and read- Where were you during the Octo- ers will enjoy walking with the ber Crisis of 1970? protagonist as she navigates the It was a period that no Montrealer streets that are still there, and back can easily forget. to the times when Guillaume, a tal- After a cell of the terrorist Front ented cellist from a poor east-end de Libération du Québec (FLQ) family, was part of Kate’s life. had kidnapped British trade What actually happened to commissioner James Earl Cross, Guillaume and their love remains Prime Minister Pierre Elliott a mystery. There was a letter. What Trudeau invoked the War Measures did it say? Act, suspending civil liberties, and This is at the heart of the story, enabling the arrest and confine- and it makes for a good — at times ment of 497 Canadians. Most were compelling — read as we slowly get never charged. to know Kate and her times, flash- The government said it was ing back and forth in time until past responding to an apprehended and present collide. insurrection. People were terrified. But beyond the dramatic devel- For several Montreal writers, the opment is that yearning for our lost period provides a ripe setting for youth, and what could have been, their creative imagination, the latest that will stir memories in all of us. being The House on Selkirk Avenue The House on Selkirk Avenue, by Montreal-based Irena Karafilly. Guernica Editions, 301 pages, $20, In the opening chapters, the is available in Montreal bookstores. central character, Kate Thuringer, [email protected] recalls her youth and, a one-night Photo: Monique Dykstra Interview with Irena Karafilly stand on a train to Paris. Irena Karafilly walks us through local history She has a university degree in Irena Karafilly talks about the English and music, speaks three As the narrative unfolds, we pher at the Edmonton Journal, genesis of her novel, including languages, and is hoping to improve follow Kate through the twists that almost 50, and is married to a memories of her own experience in her French with a stay in the French her life takes as a result of encoun- doctor, whom we never meet but October, 1970, when her neighbour capital. She is thinking about a ters that seem to be innocuous. only hear about in her thoughts. was arrested. See page 4. medical intern’s marriage proposal. This is not a political book. The Does she love him? Kate doesn’t October crisis comes into play even pose the question. because of Kate’s relationship with a Like many of us at that time, ending Québécois whose involvement lead- Selling a Property or our teen years, Kate is floating in a ing to his arrest, like most of those sea of uncertainty. What happens on detained in real life, turns out to be Downsizing? the train is a portent of events she is peripheral. unable to control. But it had a profound effect on his And always, ever-present in this relationship with Kate. His name It’s important to review your financial picture to see how selling your carefully crafted and engaging is Guillaume. He reappears when property can impact your financial goals, including retirement and your story, are regrets, the what-if’s that Kate returns to Montreal to visit income needs. Knowing how busy life gets, I can provide you with can overtake one’s thoughts during her daughter Megan, studying advice when and where it’s convenient for you. Our office is your life. mid-life reflections. at McGill. Kate is a photogra- Find out how a customized financial plan can help take care of today and your future.

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theseniortimes.com March 2017 THE SENIOR TIMES 3 McGill student days sparks themes in novel Irwin Block the sense that all writing is ultimately autobiographical. “I am dissatisfied Born in the Russian Urals, Irena with having only one destiny, and Karafilly received her post-second- fiction writing provides the illusion ary education at McGill and was a of correcting this sadly irrefutable student there in October 1970. Her fact.” Karafilly says she has always neighbour was the nationalist singer been propelled by a vivid imagina- Pauline Julien. tion and the need to write about “I happened to be living on Mon- her observations. treal’s Selkirk Avenue … and I was “As far back as I can remember, I’ve awakened in the middle of the night felt the need to inhabit other people’s when the police arrived to arrest her,” skins. Even as a child, encountering a Karafilly wrote in an email. blind person, or an amputee, or just “Many years later, I chanced to be someone with a facial twitch, I would Atlantic City • May 15-19 back on the street with an out-of-town go around trying to imitate the hap- 4 nights at Tropicana friend and the memory of that distant, $45 casino credit 4 dinner buffets less stranger. My mother did her best tumultuous autumn was unexpect- $525 dbl $725 single to beat it out of me. I did not like to be edly stirred up. I shared it with my Mohegan Sun Earth Towers & Foxwoods spanked, so I became a writer.” friend and we ended up discussing the June 12-15 Karafilly, who divides her time 3 nights at Mohegan Sun New Earth Towers October Crisis, and then anglophone- between her home in Montreal and Visit to Foxwoods Casino 3 buffet vouchers 1000 Islands Tour $99 francophone relations. $305 dbl $435 single Greece, sold her first short story to Bob Cruising with Shania & Kenny “The story’s premise was simply Enjoy country music classics with the renowned Weaver at the CBC while still a student Chicago, Illinois Your Kind of Town!! triggered by the recent gentrification Cliff Edwards band in a and has gone on to write six books. June 18-24 of Selkirk Avenue and the temptation 2 nights at the Windsor Casino tribute to Shania Twain and Kenny Rogers Her short stories and poems have been 3-hour lunch cruise to ring a stranger’s bell in the hope of 4 nights lodging in Chicago broadcast, anthologized, and published 6 breakfasts Quebec City & the Tall Ships Regatta July 22-23 seeing my old student digs converted in commercial and literary magazines, 4 dinners, including dinner in Greek Town 1 night at the Château Mont-Sainte-Anne Hotel into an upscale condo.” Her original Architectural Cruise on Lake Michigan 1 breakfast, 1 supper cruise on the Louis Jolliet in Canada and abroad. plan was to write a short story but the $1225 dbl $1680 single Fireworks $325 dbl $399 single Karafilly’s book reviews and other story developed and grew. articles have appeared in newspapers “I had no idea, when I started, where including the New York Times and it was going. I am, when I write, some- the International Herald Tribune. what like the pilot of a hijacked plane: To devote herself to her writing and I am at the controls but someone else “trying to survive as a single mother,” tells me where to go. she has worked as a secretary, “I am interested in photography, administrator, editor, and in business. so I made Kate Thuringer a photo- She has an M.A. in English from grapher; I was also, at the time, trying McGill and M.F.A. in Creative Writ- my hand at writing a stage play, so one ing from UBC. of the protagonists became an aging Karafilly has won several literary Canadian actress. prizes including the National Mag- “What transpired between them azine Award and CBC Literary was entirely the product of my imagi- Award. Her published books include nation. Like many people, I am given The Stranger in the Plumed Hat, to nostalgia for my student days but a memoir; Ashes and Miracles: A probably spend more time than most Polish Journey; and The Captive Sun, dwelling on the past. a bestseller in Greece, set on a Greek “I certainly spend an inordinate island and describing an extraor- amount of time imagining myself in dinary woman’s struggles against Would you hire a mechanic for driving exceptional situations. My fiction is social and political tyranny. lessons? Then why hire a technician seldom autobiographical, except in for computer lessons? Receive private technology tutorials, at your own pace from qualified university students. No commitments required. Service en français disponible au www.tuteurs-pour-aines.com

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4 THE SENIOR TIMES March 2017 theseniortimes.com Retired teacher makes a difference for Mexican children Irwin Block “Driscoll and BerryWorld own all the land. (The bitter and long- Salinas, Ec. – Growing up as a standing labour dispute involving middle child in Calgary with three attempts to organize farmworkers sisters, two brothers and commu- who say they are being exploited by nity-involved parents, sharing Sakuma Bros., that supplies Driscoll, and caring became part of Joyce which distributes the fruit, appears Wright’s identity. not to be connected with operations Still, the recently retired mother in the Baja peninsula.) of two never expected to end up “About two and a half years ago, building actual structures for others my sister and members of The – with her own hands. Rotary Club built a house for a berry Wright, now 62, her sister Lou- picker. The only requirement is ise, and 14 other volunteers con- that the person has to have bought tributed cash and their own labour the land and started making two-and-a-half years ago to add payments – they buy the land quite two rooms to a school for im- reasonably, but can never afford to poverished berry pickers in Mex- buy it outright.” ico’s Baja California peninsula,

Photo: Irwin Block “Because they’re constantly mak- through a program run by Live Joyce Wright is building a future for children ing payments, it takes a huge chunk Different, based in Hamilton, Ont. out of their meagre wages. They live Mexico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, school teacher who lives in Parksville And as we chatted in a café here, in houses made of flotsam off the and soon Thailand, to build schools, on Vancouver Island, and whose where she was on vacation, Wright beach – tin, plastic, whatever they houses, and other facilities. husband is a Rotary Club member. was preparing to take part in a can find. The Canadian volunteers pay their “She and her husband and other second “build” in the same area, “The Canadian group built the own way, raise funds to finance Rotarians built a house for a family along with her sister and a Live house and my sister thought it was a their trips and purchase of materi- in Vincente Guerrero, an agriculture Different group. great experience. Then she emailed als, and do the actual work, with the area in Mexico’s San Quintín Val- “We help people who want to help all of us and said she thought cooperation and assistance of local ley of Baja, Mexico, 280 kilometers themselves,” Wright said. another build would be a great sis- activists. And you don’t have to be south of Tijuana. Similar to the better-known Habi- ters’ activity. We always get together a Ms. Fix-It to take part, she noted: “That’s where the people who tat for Humanity, Live Different is every year, so why not a sisters’ week you will be coached and supervised. pick the raspberries, strawberries, a non-denominational and apoliti- instead of just a weekend?” Wright first heard about the group and blackberries that we eat in the cal recognized charity that partners “I said, ‘I’m in!” with grass-roots organizations in from her sister Louise, a retired winter live. Continued on page 6

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theseniortimes.com March 2017 THE SENIOR TIMES 5 ward at Nanaimo Hospital, from my The Mexican staff vet the families three classrooms as part of a seniors’ Builders 55 to 80 sister Louise’s clothing scraps.” that have applied for housing to en- community centre in the Las Aves Continued from page 5 For that first project, two years sure that everything is above board. area of the Baja peninsula. ago, the sisters were asked to build “We worked every day, for eight or Another group had started work- She had never built a house, or a classroom addition to the elemen- nine days, from 9 am to about 4 pm. ing on it, and the base per person done any fancy carpentry, but the tary school in Vincente Guerrero, We used high-pressure nail guns cost this year was $1,550, which whole family worked in their father’s and they joined 15 other volunteers, to drive nails into the concrete. We qualifies as a charitable donation. garage when they were young. most of them Rotary Club members learned to cut and measure drywall, More than half of that amount came “We all know our way around or spouses to do the actual work. and did a lot of painting. from contributions from friends and tools, we’re not afraid of tools, and I They varied in age from 55 to 80, “We were the gofers. They took 16 supporters. was willing to learn.” paid their own airfare, hotel in San people, many of whom didn’t know “I’ve written cheques, but it’s not “I saw this a good chance to give Diego, room and board, and build- each other, and turned them into a the same as watching the look on back to somebody in another coun- ing supplies. team – best team building exercise their faces, and the joy of the children try, and for the four of us to spend “There was one classroom, 30 by on the face of the earth.” when they help you,” Wright said. time together. 20 feet, for 50 three, four, and five- “When the teachers came by and “As I’ve gotten older I’ve begun to Caring for others was part of the year-olds, and they needed another saw the inside of that classroom, and realize that some of these old adages family’s nurturing environment, classroom. The three-year-olds go tears were running down their faces really are true, like “give a man a fish she explained. to school in the morning so the – that was the most heartwarming you feed him for a day, teach him how Her father, who worked for 30 years moms can go out and pick berries in experience of my life.” to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” as a cabinet maker for T. Eaton Co, the morning.” The return on investment was “They want for their children “would give away the shirt off his back A concrete platform was poured so deep that Wright and her sister everything we want, but they don’t if he thought someone needed it more.” and ready when the Canadians got Louise decided to do it again. They have the means to get it. Some of And her mother cared for neighbour- there, and they erected a classroom were to fly to San Diego last month these people have grade-one edu- hood children so their mothers could and adjoining teacher’s room. with a Rotary Club group, which this cation, they want their children to go to work outside the home. The project hired a local person, year is contributing funds. have a better life and by giving these The Wright children carried those Saul Machado, to act as construction Last year it cost each participant children an education we are giving values in their adult lives. foreman. Canadians Dawn and An- about $2,400 or $2,500 each, but them that opportunity.” “Whenever we get together we drew Bernardi, who work for Live this year the per person cost was For more information, or to always do projects. One year we Different in Mexico, acted as coor- expected to increase, because of a contribute or participate, go to made baby clothes for the neo-natal dinators for this and other projects. more ambitious project – building livedifferent.com “Change the world — and yourself in the process.” based in Hamilton, Ont., the focus Most of the overseas projects are ate change by building hope that will Irwin Block shifted with the setting up of hands-on organized by Live Different. It also transform a community.” An Ontario couple, Vaden and building programs in which older Ca- coordinated so-called private builds, “Don’t know a thing about construc- Christal Earle, founded Live Dif- nadians also participate, to erect struc- where established groups, whose tion? We’ll teach you what you need to ferent, formerly ABSOLUTE, as tures in impoverished communities. members are older, such as the Ro- know! … You will come to realize that an empowerment vehicle, with In the past 12 years, according to tary Club in Parksville, Vancouver life is about people, not stuff.” speeches and videos part of hour- spokesperson Ashley Smart in Ham- Island, recruit volunteers, raise the There are no specific projects out long presentations, to encourage ilton, some 5,000 Canadian volun- funds, and participate in carrying of Quebec, but Smart says Quebec- those in the 18-24 demographic teers have helped finance and erect out the actual work. ers have participated in builds and to “live a life of purpose based on with their own muscle 500 “builds” As its website says: “Volunteering on encourages anyone who is interested positive values.” – mainly homes, about a dozen a Live Different Build is about chang- to contact the group. Incorporated as a federally recog- schools and a dozen clinics, in Mex- ing the world and allowing yourself Call 1-866-432-4464 or visit nized charity in 2000, and since 2004 ico, Dominican Republic, and Haiti. to be changed in the process…Cre- livedifferent.com

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6 THE SENIOR TIMES March 2017 theseniortimes.com theseniortimes.com March 2017 THE SENIOR TIMES 7 New Quebec Bill seeks to combat elder abuse Abuse continues to be a concern for bad faith. He was ordered to pay his sons in vulnerable situations. all seniors. The abuse can be physical, Legal Ease mother’s estate an amount equivalent A “person in a vulnerable situa- mental or financial. The Quebec Joyce Blond to the value of the house as material, tion” means a person of full age whose Charter of Human Rights and moral and punitive damages. ability to request or obtain assistance Freedoms specifically prohibits Frank In another case, a man was devas- is temporarily or permanently limited such abuse, stating: “Every aged per- B.A., B.C.L., LL.M. tated following the death of his wife because of factors such as a physical, son and every handicapped person and relied completely on friends to cognitive or psychological limitation, has a right to protection against any wind up the estate of his late wife and illness, injury, or handicap. form of exploitation.” tails of her son’s behaviour. In June to manage his personal affairs. They, The Act also contains measures to We recently read in the newspaper 2011 the mother made a mandate in in turn, exercised total influence protect the identity of persons who of the precarious situation of one of the event of her incapacity in which upon him and isolated him from his report maltreatment, protect them the surviving Dionne quintuplets as a she appointed her elder daughter her family. They took almost all of his against reprisals, and grant them result of her son absconding with all representative. money by way of advances, expenses immunity from legal proceedings, her savings. Unfortunately hers is not The mandate took effect in Novem- and other means. suspension, or loss of their jobs. The the only case. ber of that year. The mother died in It was learned that between the government will also be able to make A woman lived in the basement of a 2013 at the age of 83. The house was years 2004 and 2009 the value of his regulations governing the use of mon- building she owned. In 2006 her son sold in September 2014. assets had tumbled from over a mil- itoring mechanisms, such as cameras moved into the ground floor. In 2010 The son had lived in the building lion dollars to less that five thousand or any other technological means, on she gave him the property after which since 2006 without paying rent. He dollars. The Human Rights Commis- the premises of these institutions. her health deteriorated, she stopped had not made any effort to collect sion found the victim was a vulnerable The Act also allows for sanctions, taking her medications, and there was rent from the tenant on the second senior who had the right to protection in particular, disciplinary sanctions no medical follow-up. Her daugh- floor but had charged his mother but whose dignity had been violated that could be applied in cases of ters noticed that bills had not been $400 a month. over several years as a result of the ex- maltreatment. paid and that there were unexplained Considering these facts and the ploitation he had been subjected to by The anti-maltreatment policy must amounts regularly withdrawn from bank withdrawals, The Human Rights the defendants. be implemented by any operator of her bank account that far exceeded Commission found the son had acted He had suffered emotionally when a public or private seniors’ residence her needs. in violation of the Quebec Charter he realized that those he had thought governed by the Act respecting health In March the mother moved in with and that the transfer of the house had to be his friends had profited from services and social services. her daughter. At this time she met been made under duress. The mother him, to his detriment. He was awarded The Act gives the government the with an inspector from the Human had been a victim of her son’s exploi- material, moral, and punitive dam- power to require any group it des- Rights Commission and provided de- tation and the son had been acting in ages in excess of $1 million. ignates to adopt a policy to combat There are numerous cases involving maltreatment of persons in vulnerable financial abuse of the vulnerable by situations. The minister responsible The Council for Black Aging Community of Montreal Inc. children, relatives, and friends. Now for seniors is to be accountable for the COMMUNITY EVENTS the Quebec government is tackling carrying out of the Act. Institutions institutional abuse. governed by the Act will be given 18 Niagara Falls 1000 Islands Change of Leaves & On October 15, 2016 the Quebec months from the time it becomes law June 22-25 August 11 Casino at Mont-Tremblant government tabled Bill 115, An Act to adopt the required anti-maltreat- October 13 to combat maltreatment of seniors ment policy. Quad: $275 $65 and other persons of full age in vul- We hope this projected legislation Triple: $310 (2 ½ hour Price $60 (dinner included). nerable situations. It does that “by will help protect seniors and vulner- Double: $385 cruise) Reserve by September 29 enacting measures to facilitate the Single: $475 Reserve able persons from institutional abuse. (hotel incl.) by Bus leaves from reporting of maltreatment and to It is however still a bill and not yet law. Reserve by July 14th, Super C Plaza, promote the establishment of an As of this writing the bill has passed April 15, 2017 2017. 7401 Newman intervention process with respect to first reading and public hearings were at 9 am sharp. (50% deposit.) maltreatment of seniors.” scheduled in Quebec City in January. Info: 514-935-4951, 514-637-9993, 514-363-8595, 438-871-8687 Institutions providing health and We will be watching with great social services will be required to interest as this bill progresses through adopt and implement a policy to the national assembly and eventually counteract the maltreatment of per- becomes law. 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8 THE SENIOR TIMES March 2017 theseniortimes.com EDITORIAL Draconian U.S. border tactics threaten all of us For many of us, the U.S. - Canada is then transferred to the Immigra- order of Jan. 27 barring people from border officers to hand over their border was never more than a tion and Refugee Board for deter- seven Muslim majority countries electronic devices and passwords formality. In spite of customs mination. If judged illegitimate, the from entering the U.S. for 90 days, for vetting. inspections, there was little doubt person may be deported. which upheld the earlier decision of Refuse, and they can be that Maine resorts, Vermont We urge the Canadian govern- a federal court judge in Seattle. denied entry, or under new rules skiing, NYC culture, were ours to ment to enforce this policy. The The order, to keep, in Trump’s about to take effect, Canadians can frequent — an extension of our Conservative critic, Tony Clem- words, “radical Islamic terrorists” be detained by US officials on our Canadian lives. ent, petulantly hung up the phone out of the U.S., targeted visitors soil for further questioning. Since the Trump ascendancy, during a live interview with Mike from Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Libya, This presents a host of civil rights there are signs that a new virtual Finnerty of CBC Radio’s Daybreak Somalia, and Yemen. issues, since, as Esha Bhandari, wall is being erected on what used last month, when asked what the Aber’s is not an isolated case. It is staff attorney for the speech privacy to be called one of the longest RCMP should do. All Clement an example of ethno-racial profiling, and technology project at the undefended borders in the world, would say was “apply the law.” and of guilt by association, which is American Civil Liberties Union and access to the U.S. can no longer He hung up when asked to elabo- emerging as part of the extreme vet- has pointed out. “Our mobile de- be taken for granted. rate. ting of visitors to the U.S., and even vices contain many details of our If you’re Muslim or your name The petition to suspend the Third its own citizens, that Trump had lives — finances, health, relation- sounds Islamic, you stand a strong Country Agreement with the U.S. is threatened for Muslims. ships. If you’re a doctor or a lawyer, chance of being subjected to search supported by more than 200 Cana- This climate recalls the Red Scare you might have attorney-client or and interrogation by U.S. customs dian law professors and refugee law paranoia of the 1950’s in the U.S. doctor-patient privileged material and border protection officers, who experts and sponsored by Liberal and Canada that led to people being on there. have the power to deny you access MP Darshan Kang. barred from visiting the U.S. as well “Some people who travel for busi- to the U.S. A suspension is permitted under as being fired and smeared in both ness have very sensitive business More compelling is the plight the agreement and can be renewed countries for alleged ties to the Com- information, trade secret informa- of hundreds of refugees and other for an additional three months by munist Party. tion,” she says. Ultimately, if U.S. migrants in the U.S. who, fearing either party. Things could change Other cases: Last month, Klaus Customs officers want your data the crackdown underway will lead to and there is every reason for the gov- Lang, a composer of international and ask for it, they will either get it their detention, are walking across ernment to suspend the agreement repute and professor of composi- or keep you out of the country. the loosely patrolled borders of with the U.S. while the situation is in tion at the University of Graz in Since U.S. Customs operates in Quebec and Manitoba, risking a state of flux and confusion. So far, Austria, was denied a U.S. visa to at- Canada to offer pre-clearance at frostbite and arrest, to seek asylum. the government has refused, but we tend a Los Angeles performance of many Canadian airports, our own These are extraordinary times, believe they should reconsider. his work. No reason was given, but charter rights and freedoms may be and it is time for an extraordinary Meanwhile, Canadians seeking to Lang believes it is linked to a non- at risk. response, as Rabble correspon- visit the U.S. can no longer take any- governmental award he received Under an agreement inherited dent in Ottawa, Karl Nerenberg, thing for granted. Case in point: Last four years ago in Iran. by the current government, intro- points out. We urge Canadians month Yassine Aber, a 19-year-old Henry Rousso, a pre-eminent duced as Bill C-23 and now before to support a national petition University of Sherbrooke student French scholar and public intellec- the House or Commons, U.S. cus- launched last month by a Calgary in Kinesiology, was questioned for tual, was detained for more than toms would have the right to detain, lawyer that calls on the federal five hours and fingerprinted at the 10 hours at Houston’s George Bush question and strip-search people in government to temporarily sus- Stanstead, Que. border crossing, be- Intercontinental Airport after an Canada trying to enter the U.S. pend the Safe Third Country fore being denied entry to the U.S. 11-hour flight from Paris. He had It is under review by the Canadian Agreement with the U.S. Born in Canada and holding a valid been invited to speak at Texas A&M Civil Liberties Association, which is According to that arrangement, Canadian passport, he was en route University, and did, but only after concerned that a Canadian traveller signed in 2004, refugees are required to Boston with his college colleagues the university intervened. facing such an inquisition would not to make an asylum claim in the first for a track and field competition. His Non-Americans have few options. be allowed to simply change their possible country they reach. parents were born in Morocco. They can be faced with a dilemma mind, disengage from the process, That means Canada is prevented He was detained and his phone when asked by US customs and and return home. from considering an asylum request was searched. He was shown a Face- from anyone who enters in the usual book photo of himself and six others way from the U.S., presently consid- including Samir Halilovic, a former THOMAS MORE INSTITUTE ered a safe country in which to apply Sherbrooke university student who Over 70 years of Lifelong Learning in the Liberal Arts for sanctuary. left for Syria in 2014 with two others. 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theseniortimes.com March 2017 THE SENIOR TIMES 11 Keith Jarrett’s improv: melodies or sheer funkalero Long, rambling, multi-styled, often ure crowned with an Afro hairdo, who beautiful examples of this approach. cathartic solo piano excursions — en- Musical stood half curled at the piano as if mak- Now 71, his neatly trimmed hair compassing a myriad of moods and views ing love to it. Village Voice critic Gary more salt than pepper and wearing touchstones within a single improvi- Giddens described him “levitating from spectacles and a thin mustache, the sational piece — have been the domain Juan Rodriguez the bench like beer foam, gyrating his former “enfant terrible” of jazz looks of Keith Jarrett, most notably in 1975 hips and swiveling towards the audi- like a trusted country doctor. A doctor, with The Köln Concert, which is said to and was followed by a number of in- ence with a grimace indistinguishable that is, of improvisation and deep feel- be the best selling solo piano album of defatigable efforts recorded in Paris, from a grin.” He also had heavy ‘at- ing. “Music is an emotional experience, all time. The album is often mistaken as London, Tokyo, and other cities over titude’ — lecturing audiences not to and it also has the ability to be a spiri- his first such improv effort. the last few decades. cough or take photos, as such activity tual experience,” he told Nate Chinen, Actually, his three-record set, Solo Jarrett burst on the scene after eye- impinged on the moment. He exuded a the New York Times critic writing in Concerts: Bremen & Lausanne, re- opening stints with Charles Lloyd and high-pitched hum and cries of ecstasy a recent Jazz Times. “I’m not trying to leased two years earlier, put him on the Miles Davis, with Davis’ breakthrough that some listeners found irritating. play religious music, and yet I hear so map as a boomer solo excursion hero. and controversial, “jazz-rock” band If Jarrett is incomparable in his many kinds of deep meditation, let’s Köln seemed to be the icing on the cake in the early 1970s. His was a slim fig- solo music, which he insists is never say. And deep joy.” thought-out in advance, then Whit- The reason for adopting shorter ney Balliett, the incomparable former pieces, he said, might be because he’s New Yorker magazine jazz critic (from “had enough” of the longer ones (been 1954 to 2001), was the first to itemize there, done that), but he also alludes his touchstones during a solo piece. He in his Angels liner notes to audience accurately describes Jarrett’s approach attention spans within our mobile- in the Köln Concert: device culture. “I know I’m sitting in “A Jarrett performance may reflect a room with other human beings who and refract Bill Evans, Indian ragas, Ray are trying to concentrate, if I’m lucky,” Bryant, Stephen Foster, Chopin, Dave he told Chinen. “But they might also Brubeck, Cecil Taylor, Beethoven, Art be human beings who have lost the Tatum, Debussy, Bud Powell, Brahms, ability to concentrate over any extended the blues, Rachmaninoff, Gospel music, period of time.” Bach, Horace Silver, Lennie Tristano, He often begins his recitals somewhat flamenco music, folk songs, the War- tentatively, as if he has no clear-cut saw Concerto, McCoy Tyner, George direction, which, of course, he doesn’t, Gershwin, the Bolero, boogie-woogie, but, like life itself, he keeps on going, and Liszt. These structures have grown and themes begin to evolve and soon encyclopedic …” Not to mention some- he is rapt in discovery and from then thing mystic, and mythic. on it’s like a hayride, with variations But was it ‘jazz’ or self-indulgent on occasionally familiar vamps and showboating? Jarrett had his share [unknown] tinkles (twinkle-twinkle of detractors before his eclectic mad little star), and he’s just carried away Enhancing the lives of everyone touched by Alzheimer’s and related dementias methodology became somewhat par with new inspirations and improvisa- All lectures AGI’s Lindsay Memorial Lecture Series for the course. tions that turn into melodies or sheer are given Just as Louis Armstrong, Char- funkalero. 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Our deepest gratitude to the Lindsay Memorial Foundation for their generous support Testament (2009) and Rio (2011) are 12 THE SENIOR TIMES March 2017 theseniortimes.com Art increases stability, autonomy for this special artist Alana Barrell is a diagnosed paranoid schizo- Barrell prefers oils phrenic who uses art to maintain her stability and but also works with increase her autonomy. acrylics, ink, and Her work is featured in her first solo exhibition, on mixed media, and has from March 7 to 31 at the Centre d’Aprentissage Par- learned how to weave, allèle, 4865 St. Laurent Blvd., the mental health clinic knit, make stained just south of St. Joseph Blvd. The vernissage is 5 to 8 glass, and other art pm and RSVPs are required. or craft techniques The exhibition is part of the Mental Health Ambas- from funded social

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theseniortimes.com March 2017 THE SENIOR TIMES 23 Maur opened doors, vouched for McLean’s tal- inventing marvelous, often hilarious stories about The last Canadian ents, and he was given a chance to prove himself. Dave and Morley, and their kids. And as he told us Continued from page 23 With a combination of trial and error and osmosis, in that interview, underneath it all is his love and writer/communicator of such uncommon skill, McLean rapidly showed he had the right stuff. appreciation of the small and wondrous things that had to repeat Grade 11.” By 1981, he succeeded Mark Starowicz as the Sun- makes this country what it is. It all comes back to His journalistic breakthrough came after he day Morning show’s executive producer, and stayed his growing up in Montreal, and spending sum- graduated from Sir George Williams, now Con- at the helm until 1984 – a testament to his judgment, mers in the Laurentians, he mused then. cordia University, and while working in student leadership ability and talent as a broadcaster/ “I have a visceral memory of autumn afternoons services at Dawson College in 1974 was asked by a writer. All this with no formal training or prior ex- in the mountains, in Montreal, of a winter night teacher who was running for city council to man- perience in journalism! walking west from Guy to Atwater, what Montreal age the campaign of journalist Nick Auf der Maur, Fast forward to his crowning achievement – looks like after a snowstorm at 5 in the afternoon, making his first foray into politics. for 22 years, he travelled the country as host of the glitter, and crunching through the snow, with McLean agreed, Auf der Maur defeated John The Vinyl Café, introducing live music, weaving snowbanks beside the road. Lynch Staunton in Côte des Neiges, and McLean wonderful stories about the highways and byways “Then spring in Montreal, the weather and shared in the credit for this “giant killing” exploit. and nooks and crannies of our country, and geography. All that has provided the lens through With the many contacts he had in CBC, Auf der which I look at Canada.” Montreal is “the cauldron in which French and English came together. I have a profound understanding of what the Canadian experiment is because of where I was raised. “Montreal is where the idea of Canada began, the heartbeat of Canada began in the coming to- Great Value Includes! gether of the English and French in Montreal. • Fridge & stove • Indoor swimming pool “I am very grateful for that upbringing because • Heat & Hydro • Dry heat sauna it has let me speak from the heart when I speak • Spacious locker • Exercise room about Canada, because I came from the heart.” • 12 foot long balcony • Billiards room The last Canadian indeed. • Award winning gardens • Library • Chapel Readers are invited to share their thoughts on • 9-hole putting green • Shuffleboard Stuart McLean by writing to [email protected] An active apartment community designed for autonomous individuals 55+ 514-481-9609 Residence Mont Royal 6767 Côte St. Luc Road On the South Shore entrance via King Edward Caring for autonomous and semi-autonomous View our video at spsquare.ca seniors since 1998 Call Magdalena 514-591-5582 or 450-656-5582 Gracious, affordable assisted living ResidenceMontRoyal.com in a historic setting. Come home to Fulford Two Neptune Drive, Toronto, ON M6A 3E6 1221 Guy St. [email protected] Luxury Rental www.fulfordresidence.com Tel: 514-933-7975 Suites Available Fax: 514-933-3773 For Independent Senior Living in Toronto

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on alto saxophone who leads the way tal de Villiers (tenor sax). It is Bolduc Rémi Bolduc Jazz Ensemble and drives the energy. American trans- who makes it all happen with his facil- plant Taurey Butler – a huge Peterson ity on the horn and remarkable ability – are gems recalling that amazing post- fan – is on piano, and his muscular to weave and develop ideas in and Second World War era when swing approach, ability to play the fast tempi, around the basic themes. Bolduc and was still the thing even as bebop was and ease with the stride style make him ensemble are on a six-stop Ontario stirring up major changes. The music a natural fit for the group, with the tour with this project, and are booked is simply gorgeous – from the uplift- always tuned in and energetic rhythm for more gigs into the next year. It ing opener, Noreen’s Nocturne, and his section of David Laing (drums) and deserves a broad audience. ever popular closer, Cakewalk, from the Fraser Hollins (bass), and guest Chan- — Irwin Block toe-tapping Bossa Béguine, the rootsy Riff Blues, and Frank Loesser’s uplift- ing I’ve Never Been in Love Before, these are pieces that stand the test of time. Peterson – OP to his pals – was a Quality of Life! phenomenal player who emerged from Swingin’ With Oscar Heritage Gardens is an ideal Montreal’s St. Henri ghetto to take the setting for your retirement Les Productions Art and Soul musical world by storm with his incom- The first time I played this CD – signa- parable technique and deep connection ture tunes by pianist Oscar Peterson, to the music’s churchy roots. Bolduc Jardins transcribed, arranged, and interpreted needs no introduction: He is a master by saxophone master Rémi Bolduc – saxophonist who combines a teaching HERI AGE the music simply lit up the room. The career at McGill with an active per- music itself – ten pieces, eight of which forming and recording career. In these Gardens were composed by Montreal’s late great selections we hear the Peterson tradi- piano giant, and two from his repertoire tion and legacy revived, but it is Bolduc Open Doors 2017 RQRA Where Location and Value Meet Sunday April 30 One Night Stay from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. for Our complex for retirees will open its doors for you! $ 95 plus tax 69 82 apartments of 1½, 3½ and 4½. Park & Fly Package 11 light-care units. Valid until May 1, 2017 Rooftop restaurant featuring contemporary cuisine with panoramic view. Cinema and exercise rooms. Indoor pool and spa. 24 h medical supervision (OIIQ and OIIAQ). Optimal security. Daily activities. Take the time and enjoy your retirement to the fullest! www.jardinsheritage.ca 450.812.2385 Call for details and reservations. 1389, Victoria avenue, Saint-Lambert, QC J4R 0A2 theseniortimes.com March 2017 THE SENIOR TIMES 25 2 INCREDIBLE OFFERS

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26 THE SENIOR TIMES March 2017 theseniortimes.com CD Review Quinsin Nachoff: Flux Montreal’s Résonance Café in the fall. Listening to the CD at home reinforced my conviction that these compositions, the individual impro- visational excursions and communi- cation among the players, constitute essential and nourishing food for mind and body. This is music that demands your attention and rewards with your full entry into its pathways. How could it be otherwise, with the crew – Americans Flux, Mythology Records all — that Nachoff has gathered on Canadian tenor saxophonist Quin- this project? They are pianist and sin Nachoff is the kind of musician keyboardist, Matt Mitchell, a discov- that stands out from the pack: His ery, aptly described by former New technical prowess and original mu- York Times critic Nate Chinen as sical vision make an immediate and “a pianist of burrowing focus;” alto sustained impact. The good news saxophonist, David Binney, always is that in the more than a dozen impressive with the intensity of his years since we first heard him at a playing and harmonic inventiveness; dark & cavernous bar on Ontario and percussionist Kenny Wollesen St. E., Nachoff, who divides his time who underscores and punctuates between Toronto and New York even as he adds varied rhythmic City, has grown and developed. dimensions to the musical flow. “High and mighty” comes to mind Yes, what we call “jazz” that once in summarizing Nachoff’s writing, was known as “jass” is in a state chops, and leadership in six pieces of flux: this superb outing – call it on his latest CD, Flux, four of them jazz-contemporary, or avant-jazz, or based on commissions. We heard musique actuelle – is all about discov- the group play from this album at ery and new horizons. — Irwin Block

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Les Residences Soleil Les Residences Soleil Les Residences Soleil Les Residences Soleil Les Residences Soleil Manoir Plaza Manoir Brossard Manoir Dollard-des-Ormeaux Pointe-aux-Trembles Manoir St-Léonard 505 Sherbrooke East, Montreal 8080 St-Laurent Blvd. Brossard 53 Hasting, D.D.O., Mtl 13900 Notre-Dame East, P.A.T., Mtl 7650 Lespinay, St-Léonard, Mtl Phone: 514-508-0708 Fax: 514-507-9508 Phone: 450-672-3737 Fax: 450-671-1661 Phone: 514-620-4522 Fax: 514-620-4114 Phone: 514-642-2234 Fax: 514-642-5115 Phone: 514-255-9298 Fax: 514-255-9986 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Contact: Michel Tremblay Capacity: 417 Contact: Serge Landry Capacity: 470 Contact: Michel Garnier Capacity: 178 Contact: Pierre Fortin Contact: Sylvie Simoneau Capacity: 621 Care: autonomous, assisted, light care, Care: autonomous, assisted, light care, Care: autonomous, assisted, light care, Capacity: 475 Care: autonomous, assisted, light care, respite, convalescence respite, convalescence respite, convalescence Care: autonomous, assisted, light care, respite, respite, convalescence Security: alarms, monitors, call bells, Security: alarms, monitors, call bells, Security: alarms, monitors, call bells, convalescence Security: alarms, monitors, call bells, receptionist on site 24/7 receptionist on site 24/7 receptionist on site 24/7 Security: alarms, monitors, call bells, receptionist on site 24/7 Medical: doctor visit, attendant or auxiliary Medical: doctor visit, attendant or auxiliary Medical: doctor visit, attendant or auxiliary receptionist on site 24/7 Medical: doctor visit, attendant or auxiliary 24/7, medical clinic, care and services 24/7, medical clinic, care and services 24/7, medical clinic, care and services Medical: doctor visit, attendant or auxiliary 24/7, medical clinic, care and services “à la carte” “à la carte” “à la carte” 24/7, medical clinic, care and services “à la carte” Nearby: on the St. Lawrence River, grocery, Nearby: private access Metro Sherbrooke, grocery, Nearby: grocery, CLSC, banks, mall, shuttle, “à la carte” Nearby: grocery, CLSC, banks, mall, shuttle, CLSC, banks, mall, shuttle, blvd de Rome, park CLSC, banks, mall, shuttle, downtown, park park blvd Saint-Jean Nearby: grocery, CLSC, banks, mall, shuttle, Indoor: hairdresser & beauty salon, Indoor: hairdresser & beauty salon, on the St. Laurent River, park Indoor: hairdresser & beauty salon, Indoor: hairdresser & beauty salon, coffee- convenience store coffee-bistro, convenience store bistro, convenience store convenience store Indoor: hairdresser & beauty salon, Activities: animation, outings, pool, spa, Activities: animation, outings, pool, spa, convenience store Activities: animation, outings, pool, spa, Activities: animation, outings, pool, spa, bingo, library, exercise, billiards, movie bingo, library, movie theater, mini-golf, bingo, library, movie theater, mini-golf, bingo, library, exercise, billiards, craft, Activities: animation, outings, pool, bingo, theater, craft bowling alley, craft bowling alley, craft petanque, piano library, exercise, billiards, cinema, petanque, piano Food: meal packages, 3-2-1 meals a day Food: meal packages, 3-2-1 meals a day Food: meal packages, 3-2-1 meals a day Food: meal packages, 3-2-1 meals a day Food: meal packages, 3-2-1 meals a day Housekeeping: bimonthly, weekly laundry Housekeeping: bimonthly, weekly laundry Housekeeping: bimonthly, weekly laundry Housekeeping: bimonthly, weekly laundry Housekeeping: bimonthly, weekly laundry Chapel: place of worship on site Chapel: place of worship on site Chapel: place of worship on site Chapel: place of worship on site Chapel: place of worship on site

Les Residences Soleil Les Residences Soleil Les Residences Soleil Les Residences Soleil Les Residences Soleil Manoir du Musée Manoir Granby Manoir Sainte-Julie Manoir Sorel Manoir Sherbrooke 245 Frontenac, Sherbrooke 235 Denison East, Granby 1975 du Fer-à-cheval, Sainte-Julie 71 George, Sorel-Tracy 1150 Quatre Saisons, Sherbrooke Phone: 819-822-1938 Fax: 819-348-9966 Phone: 450-378-4400 Fax: 450-378-8359 Phone: 450-922-9000 Fax: 450-922-9010 Phone: 450-742-3303 Phone: 819-822-1038 Fax: 819-822-1681 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Fax: 450-742-1668 Email: [email protected] Contact: Gilles Lavoie Contact: Jean-Yves Bergeron Contact: Annie Tremblay Email: [email protected] Contact: Gilles Lavoie Capacity: 197 Capacity: 322 Capacity: 500 Contact: Michèle Grondin Capacity: 456 Care: autonomous, assisted, light care, Care: autonomous, assisted, light care, Care: autonomous, assisted, light care, Capacity: 137 Care: autonomous, assisted, light care, respite, convalescence respite, convalescence respite, convalescence Care: autonomous, assisted, light care, respite, respite, convalescence Security: alarms, monitors, call bells, Security: alarms, monitors, call bells, Security: alarms, monitors, call bells, convalescence Security: alarms, monitors, call bells, receptionist on site 24/7 receptionist on site 24/7 receptionist on site 24/7 Security: alarms, monitors, call bells, receptionist on site 24/7 Medical: attendant or auxiliary 24/7, Medical: attendant or auxiliary 24/7, Medical: doctor visit, attendant or auxiliary receptionist on site 24/7 Medical: attendant or auxiliary 24/7, medical clinic, care and services “à la carte” medical clinic, care and services “à la carte” 24/7, medical clinic, care and services “à la Medical: attendant or auxiliary 24/7, medical clinic, care and services “à la carte” carte” Nearby: grocery, CLSC, banks, mall, Nearby: grocery, banks, mall, shuttle, park, Nearby: grocery, banks, mall, shuttle, park, medical clinic, care and services “à la carte” Nearby: grocery, CLSC, banks, mall, shuttle, park Magog River dam Boivin Lake, bike path shuttle, park Nearby: grocery, CLSC, banks, mall, shuttle, Indoor: hairdresser & beauty salon, Indoor: hairdresser & beauty salon, Indoor: hairdresser & beauty salon, Indoor: hairdresser & beauty salon, coffee- Royal Square convenience store convenience store convenience store bistro, convenience store Indoor: hairdresser & beauty salon Activities: animation, outings, pool, spa, Activities: animation, outings, pool, spa, Activities: animation, outings, pool, spa, Activities: animation, outings, pool, spa, Activities: animation, outings, pool, spa, bingo, library, exercise, billiards, petanque, bingo, library, exercise, billiards, petanque, bingo, library, movie theater, mini-golf, bingo, library, exercise, billiards, movie theatre, bingo, library, exercise, billiards, craft, piano, craft, shuffle board piano, craft, shuffleboard bowling alley, craft craft, shuffleboard petanque, piano Food: mealspackages, 3-2-1 meal a day Food: meals packages, 3-2-1 meals a day Food: meal packages, 3-2-1 meals a day Food: meal packages, 3-2-1 meals a day Food: meal packages, 3-2-1 meals a day Housekeeping: bimonthly, weekly laundry Housekeeping: bimonthly, weekly laundry Housekeeping: bimonthly, weekly laundry Housekeeping: bimonthly, weekly laundry Housekeeping: bimonthly, weekly laundry Chapel: place of worship on site Chapel: place of worship on site Chapel: place of worship on site Chapel: place of worship on site Chapel: place of worship on site

Les Residences Soleil Les Residences Soleil Les Residences Soleil Les Residences Soleil Manoir St-Laurent Manoir Mont St-Hilaire Manoir Laval Manoir Boucherville 115 Deguire, St. Laurent, Mtl 550 Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Mont-Saint-Hilaire 1455 de l’Avenir, Laval 549 de Verrazano, Boucherville Phone: 514-332-3434 Fax: 514-332-8343 Phone: 450-467-8209 Fax: 450-467-8964 Phone: 450-629-0019 Fax: 450-629-0119 Phone: 450-449-1516 Fax: 450-449-1978 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Contact: Jean Grenier Contact: Clodine Fortin Capacity: 327 Contact: Lynn Millette Capacity: 729 Contact: Odette Bérubé Capacity: 297 Care: autonomous, assisted, light care, Care: autonomous, assisted, light care, respite, Care: autonomous, assisted, light care, respite, Capacity: 194 Care: autonomous, assisted, light care, respite, convalescence Security: alarms, monitors, convalescence Security: alarms, monitors, call bells, convalescence Security: alarms, monitors, call bells, respite, convalescence Security: alarms, monitors, call bells, receptionist on site 24/7 receptionist on site 24/7 Medical: doctor visit, receptionist on site 24/7 Medical: doctor visit, call bells, receptionist on site 24/7 Medical: doctor visit, attendant or auxiliary 24/7, attendant or auxiliary 24/7, medical clinic, care and attendant or auxiliary 24/7, medical clinic, care and Medical: doctor visit, attendant or auxiliary 24/7, services “à la carte” Nearby: grocery, CLSC, banks, medical clinic, care and services “à la carte” services “à la carte” Nearby: grocery, CLSC, banks, medical clinic, care and services “à la carte” mall, shuttle, Metro Montmorency Nearby: grocery, CLSC, banks, mall, shuttle, park mall, shuttle, St-Hilaire Mountain Nearby: grocery, CLSC, banks, mall, shuttle, park Indoor: hairdresser & beauty salon, coffee-bistro, Indoor: hairdresser & beauty salon, convenience store Indoor: hairdresser & beauty salon, convenience store convenience store Indoor: hairdresser & beauty salon, convenience store Activities: animation, outings, pool, spa, bingo, library, Activities: animation, outings, pool, spa, bingo, library, Activities: animation, outings, pool, spa, bingo, Activities: animation, outings, pool, spa, bingo, exercise, billiards, craft, shuffleboard, piano exercise, billiards, craft, petanque, piano library, movie theater, mini-golf, bowling alley, craft library, exercise, billiards, craft, petanque, cards Food: meal packages, 3-2-1 meals a day Food: meal packages, 3-2-1 meals a day Food: meal packages, 3-2-1 meals a day Food: meal packages, 3-2-1 meals a day Housekeeping: bimonthly, weekly laundry Housekeeping: bimonthly, weekly laundry Housekeeping: bimonthly, weekly laundry Housekeeping: bimonthly, weekly laundry Chapel: place of worship on site Chapel: place of worship on site Chapel: place of worship on site Chapel: place of worship on site 28 THE SENIOR TIMES March 2017 theseniortimes.com GUIDE TO MONTREAL RESIDENCES DOWNTOWN LAVAL N.D.G.

Fulford Residence Villagia de L’Ile Paton Westhill Residence Montclair Residence 1221 Guy, Montreal 25 Promenade des Iles, Laval 6332 Sherbrooke W., Montreal 4413 Montclair Phone: 514-933-7975 Phone: 450-681-2600 Fax: 450-681-2641 Phone: 514-485-3030 Phone: 514-481-5638 Fax: 514-933-3773 Email: [email protected] Contact: Isabelle Marquis Fax: 514-485-2932 Fax: 514-481-2973 Email: [email protected] Capacity: 116 apts, 42 care units and 123 condos Contact: Mario Poliziani Email: [email protected] Website: www.fulfordresidence.com Care: autonomous, semi-autonomous, Capacity: 18-24 Contact: Vicky Stewart convalescence, assisted living Care: autonomous, semi-autonomous, assisted living, Contact: Marie-France Lacoste Capacity: 50 Care: assisted living Security: call bells, security alarms, 24hr care, convalescence, respite Capacity: 38 Security: alarms, call bells, monitors, staff 24/7 Security: alarms, call bells, camera surveillance, cameras Security: monitors, fire alarms, call bells, alarms Medical: care unit Provitalia, nurses, doctor (weekly) Medical: doctor monthly, nursing aides 24/7 Medical: doctor weekly, nurses 7 days Care: independent, assisted living Nearby: CLSC, pharmacy, hospital, mall Nearby: metro, bus, CLSC, pharmacy, pool, library, Nearby: metro, CLSC, library, shops Medical: doctor 2 days/wk & on call, nurse 7 days/wk Services: hairdresser, massage, manicure, pedicure mall, hospital Services: foot care clinic, hairdresser, pharmacist, Nearby: Guy-Concordia metro, CLSC, pharmacy Activities: animation, virtual golf, billiard, Services: physiotherapist, podiatrist, hairdresser, manicure, pedicure Services: hairdresser, manicure, foot care gardening spaces, cinema, internet, salt water pool, manicure/pedicure Activities: outings, exercise, speakers Activities: bingo, outings, music, exercise, speakers, exercise, wine cellar, exercise session, gym Activities: exercise, music, games Food: 3 meals a day painting, games, crafts Onsite: restaurant, bistro, private dining room, Food: 3 meals a day Housekeeping: weekly, laundry included Food: 3 meals a day, plus tea and snacks convenience store, place of worship Housekeeping: daily, (personal laundry service Chapel: Catholic & Protestant on site Housekeeping: daily, laundry included Housekeeping: available on site for a fee available), laundry included for bedding/towels only Price: $2,200-$2,900 Chapel: Catholic and Anglican on site Pets: small pets allowed A/C: included Price: $2,500 - $3,585 Price: rental from $1 570, purchase from $250 000 Price: $2,450-$3,850

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Sat. Apr. 8 & Sun. Apr. 9 BAZAARS Volunteer Opportunity with CLSC March 30–31 Marie Claret Church • March 10–11 West-Central CLSC is looking for volunteers Fri. 8am–5pm and Sat. 8am–3pm. 10,680 Larose, for its long-term senior care facilities to aid with near Henri Bourassa. Resto on premises. recreational activities, friendly visits, medical 450-978-4033 escorts, and meal assistance, as well as in the reception area. Vincent Marie Strambi Church French & English necessary, and interpersonal March 23–24–25 skills. Two information meetings; Thurs, March Thurs. 9am–5pm, Fri. 9am–6pm, and 30 at 1:00pm, and Fri, March 31 at 9:30. ELDER AIDE Sat. 9am–3pm. 10135 Armand-Lavergne St. 6484 Monkland Ave Tables for rent. 514-484-7878 ASSOCIATES 514-322-6746 A network of professionals providing St. Charles Church • March 31 St. Patrick’s Art Group Show services in social work, Fri. 9am–5pm. Sun. April 23 senior relocation, real estate, 2115 Centre St, Pointe St-Charles. 1:30pm – 4:30pm accounting, fi nancial planning Watercolours, Wine and Cheese served. and legal matters Tables for rent. at reasonable rates. 514-932-5335 6767 Côte St. Luc Rd. 514-481-9609 Group information sessions St. Zotique Church • April 1–2 Sat. 9am–5pm and Sun. 9am–4pm, 4565 Notre- MUSIC 438-390-3705 Dame W, in St-Henri. Restaurant. Tables for rent. 514-937-2843 Columbia Jazz Concert • March 18 Music by Duke Ellington, Dizzie Gillespie, Pat CLUBS Centre universitaire McGill University Metheny, and John Scofield. Original composi- tions written as tributes to great jazz guitarists. de santé McGill Health Centre Helvetia Seniors • March 14 St. Columba by the Lake, 11 Rodney Ave, Are you a healthy woman looking to give back? 11am – 2pm Pointe-Claire. Restaurant Portovino, 5475 Jockeys. Joseph Researchers at the Montreal General Hospital are $15 donation, free for children. conducting a year-long study to address recent Schmidt will speak on Joyful Forgetfulness, 514-364-3027 or 514-697-8015. conflicting reports regarding the effect of calcium followed by lunch. supplements on vascular health. 450-687-5256. Ladies Morning Musical Club • March 19 You may be eligible to participate if you are: Christian Blackshaw performs Mozart, • postmenopausal and a non-smoker EVENTS • not taking medication for high blood pressure, Schumann, and Liszt at 3:30pm at Pollack Hall, high cholesterol, or the management 25th Anniversary of Westmount Book Fair 555 Sherbrooke W. of osteoporosis Tickets available by phone or e-mail till 1pm on Need help? Sat. March 11 10am – 5pm You must be willing to: Friday preceding concert or at Pollack Hall box Referral Helpline for Seniors Eclectic selections of books, maps, prints, histori- • alter the amount of calcium in your diet office one hour before. $45. 514 527-0007 cal documents and ephemera of all kinds, in Eng- www.info-reference.qc.ca • take or abstain from taking calcium supplements Cash only at the concert hall. lish and French (and more!) Something for lovers For more information: 514-932-6796 8 :00 am – 6 :00 pm 514-934-1934 ext. 45742 of any genre. Free Centre Greene, 1090 Green near Dorchester. $3, Bilingual or [email protected] 7 days / 7 free for children under 10. THEATRE Logo en anglais 514-935-9581 Need help? Dawson Theatre Studio • March 8-11 West Island Community Fundraiser The Hands of its Enemy by Mark Medoff, di- Referral Helpline for Seniors Thurs. March 16 6pm – 10pm rected by Winston Sutton at 8pm at 2000 Atwater. West Island Wine, Beer and Spirits Show to No reservations necessary. 514 527-0007 benefit West Island Community Shares at The lobby will open one hour before show time. www.info-reference.qc.ca Holiday Inn Pointe-Claire, 6700 Trans Canada Admission is Pay What You Can (suggested do- Hwy. $20 in advance; $25 at the door. Info: nation $5.) westislandwineshow.com or 514-695-8694, #106 514-931-5000 8:00 am - 6:00 pm FREE BILINGUAL 7 DAYS/7 + the Annual Resource Directory

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theseniortimes.com March 2017 THE SENIOR TIMES 35 Shortage of medications reaches critical point collapse in 1989 of Cuba’s main Irwin Block benefactor, the Soviet Union, have Havana, Cuba – It was just after ushered in harder times, which New Year and I was walking down persist. Much of the remaining a broad avenue, observing and ideological zeal is being devoured by taking photos, when a man dressed a widespread desire for an easier life in a house painter’s uniform beyond subsistence-plus. approached me. This impression is based on con- This happens in Havana all the versations with friends of long time. Tourists stick out, and Cubans standing, and the fact that thousands want to talk and say hello. Some- of Cubans in the key 19-49 age times, rarely, they want something, bracket are moving to capitalist a handout, or even a date. Ricardo countries where they believe they was different. He was desperate, will live better and freer lives, with almost frantic. more food on the table and better He was clutching a small box con- prospects for their children. taining an inhaler for people with Propelled by overall dissatisfac- breathing issues. tion, change is happening in Cuba, “Please mister,” he said in reason- slowly, but while small shops now able English. “I need $5. I have to proliferate throughout Havana and go to the pharmacy and get a new travel restrictions have been eased, inhaler for my daughter,” he said, people in their most productive showing me the used item. years are voting with their feet. Usually, I try to slough off such Also, in the aftermath of Fidel appeals. On a previous day a man Castro’s death, Cubans are speaking started talking to me, gave me Photo: Irwin Block out with greater frankness, as Ricardo two cigars, then asked for $2 so he This father pleads for daughter’s medications was doing, across the street from could buy something at the cafete- water, and medication,” (affordable meant to diminish Cuba’s achieve- the former apartment building that ria nearby. I returned his cigars and and cheap – when the locally manu- ments. Among them are universal now houses Cuba’s Interior Minis- walked away. factured is available). access to quality health care and try, which tracks dissidents. But I could feel Ricardo’s despair. His daughter, seven, was born with education, and a culture of asking It turns out that Ricardo’s problem He spoke as a father protecting a a type of asthma apparently passed citizens to contribute to the best of is not an anomaly. vulnerable daughter. Then he asked on from her mother, and the child their ability, sharing, wealth distri- After inquiries with knowledgeable me to help him get to Canada so he cannot breathe without it. I gave him bution based on providing essential Cubans in the healthcare sector, and could work and support his family. the $5. Ricardo posed for pictures needs, and pride in a vibrant culture a friend who monitors the media for He said he earns $15 a month. with the old medication in hand, then and resisting American domination. an important client, it all goes back to “But you pay no rent,” I replied, insisted I quote him: “I am not a Cuban communism is hardly per- what he calls “a bureaucratic error” in playing the devil’s advocate. “You Communist. I am not a socialist.” fect, and as Fidel Castro has con- 2014, which resulted in Cuba failing get a ration of rice, beans, and small Of course, as someone who sup- ceded, there have been errors. The to pay suppliers in India and China amount of animal protein, and have ported the Castro revolution of U.S. economic boycott, repeated for raw materials used to manufac- free health care and education.” 1958, and the many positive changes attempts by the U.S. and its Cuban ture medications in Cuba. “Yes,” he countered, “but I still that have occurred in Cuban soci- exile surrogates to invade, attack, As a result of serious arrears that have to pay for electricity, phone, ety since then, this anecdote is not and sabotage Cuban facilities, the persisted in the past two years, these

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suppliers have suspended shipments a shortage of cash and failure to pay Cuba to resell some of it at a profit. and this has affected some 160 medi- suppliers, could continue through- Venezuela – Cuba’s closest ally – cations, according to well-informed out 2017,” my friend suggested. last year cut oil shipments to Cuba friends in healthcare. This means It stems from the fact that Cuba’s by 40 per cent and is roiling from that Cubans such as Ricardo, who economy, even with a robust tourist massive inflation and economic and barely have enough money to meet sector, is in trouble. In his year-end social crisis, tied to declining oil essential needs, have to purchase review, as reported by AFP, Presi- revenues. The supply of oil to Cuba much more expensive imported dent Raùl Castro declared the Cuban is linked to its sending teachers, medication, which often is beyond economy had contracted by 0.9 per doctors, and other professionals to their means. cent – the first time since 1995 that work there. One doctor, who gave me the fig- Cuba has reported negative growth. Cuba’s dependence on Venezuela ure of 160 medications, said that This compares to what Castro said recalls its similar reliance on Soviet colleagues are scrambling to suggest was 4.4 per cent growth in 2015. economic support, which led to a combinations of available medication “If not solved this year, the coun- reported decline of up to 15 percent to make up for the unavailable prod- try could face economic collapse,” in the Cuban economy in the early ucts, which affect people with dia- my friend warned. 1990s following the collapse in 1989 betes and other chronic conditions. Much will depend on a hoped-for of the Soviet Union. According to this physician, these boost in tourism, based on a con- In the current economic climate solutions often are “hit and miss.” tinuing flow of visitors from the and the uncertainty generated by According to my observer friend, U.S., who arrived in huge numbers the hard-line policies and “Amer- the situation is “almost critical” and over the Christmas/New Year break, ica-first” priorities of U.S. Presi- Cubans who have taken for granted and a hoped-for hike in crude oil dent Trump, it remains to be seen a high performing and quality medi- prices, which would allow Cuba to whether economic prospects for cal treatment, including affordable resell oil at a favourable price from most Cubans will improve in the medication, are extremely upset. the still-friendly Maduro govern- short term. “The lack of medication, based on ment of Venezuela, which allows [email protected]

theseniortimes.com March 2017 THE SENIOR TIMES 37 Life and death have different meanings in India

Ceremony at sunset to purify the Ganges

Times and Places Albert Cormier

The principal reason for my trip to India was to spend three days in the holy city of Varanasi. My ulti- mate goal was to see the Ganges, this mythical sacred river where each day thousands of Hindus bathe to purify themselves in water that is extremely polluted! Each day human and cow cadavers are thrown into it. After age 65 the majority of Hindus leave their families to come to this place of pilgrimage. All want to die in Wood prepared for cremation Varanasi because Hindus believe that if a person dies in this holy city, this As the sun sets, people arrive for purification in the Ganges person is automatically liberated from Cremation & Ritual Burning the cycle of rebirth. We attended a purification cer- Not all Indians have the right to cremation, only those who die a natural emony at the Ganges, performed by death. People who die of an accident, an illness or a murder are not cremated seven Brahmin priests to the sounds but their bodies are thrown directly into the water. Their brutal deaths can only of bells and scent of incense. This bear the fruit of bad karma, it is believed. ceremony is held each evening at A bamboo stretcher is used to carry the body to be cremated and the oldest sunset and attracts thousands of son uses a piece of bamboo to break the skull of the dead in order to facilitate people. The experience is gripping. the rising of his spirit. At the end of cremation most of the remains float in the Our being is awakened by the music water. The place is summarily cleaned and ready for another body. Cremation and chanting heard on speakers. The is possible through electronic means, it is much less expensive,but this does not atmosphere engulfs us and reaches fit with tradition. While the bodies burn, the cows and dogs walk around in into our soul. search of something to eat. The next day, waking at four in the morning, we left on the Ganges. Our guide rented a boat and we traveled on the river. As the sun rose, more people arrived to get into the water for purification. We did not have the right to photo- graph the women or the funeral pyres. There were large stairs cut from rock descending right down to the river and we saw from both sides, the pyres Cell phones are ubiquitous, even where the dead are incinerated daily. in the streets of Varanasi The ashes were still burning. 38 THE SENIOR TIMES March 2017 theseniortimes.com The Swastika is a positive symbol in India Market on our way to Mandawa The Swastika The Food I was told that this symbol is the most auspicious of all. For Hindus it symbolizes the popular god, Ga- Each day is a new experience in India. The food, nesh. For good luck to come from all directions, the is excellent. The country of spices offers us a great lines point at the same time to north, south, east and variety of meals. Morning, noon and night, an all- west. For Hindus, the swastika was an important you-can eat buffet is served. The Indians love spices symbol for many thousands of years. Our guide, Taj Mahal, Agra for their taste and also their health benefits. Rahul Chaula told us the word “swastika” is a San- For example, turmeric is used as an antibiotic, a skrit word meaning well-being, good existence and blood purifier, and a mosquito repellent. It is used in The most celebrated monument in India, the Taj good luck. A Sanskrit scholar, P.R. Sarkar, in 1979 beauty products and even to dye fabric. For tourists, Mahal, is also the most perfect mausoleum in its ar- said that the deeper meaning of the word is perma- there are many meals with hot peppers on the menu chitecture and is one of the seven wonders of the nent victory. but mostly spiced to the degree we prefer. Curry is world. All the same, the magnitude of pollution and The original swastika is a symbol of good fortune, most often used, as are cardamom, cumin and cori- the seven million visitors each year cause damage to abundance and eternity. A drawing of it can still be ander. Indians are mostly vegetarian. They eat meat, this imposing structure. Luckily the Indian govern- seen as well on temples, houses, buses, taxis and on poultry or fish every three days. In the north less fish ment has imposed major restrictions on traffic and the corner of books. It can have positive and negative is consumed but when it is prepared, it is excellent. other sources of pollution close to the monument. meaning depending on how it is drawn. The swas- Cows and wild boars roam the streets freely, but There is little trace of degradation, hopefully it will tika is a symbol used by one of the most hated men they are not on the menu. last through the years without deteriorating. on Earth, Adolf Hitler. A symbol that represents the The last moghul emperor married three women, slaughter of millions of people. Hitler perverted this of whom the third was his favourite. The relation- symbol by tilting it to a 45 degree angle and cutting ship was a good one and when she died in 1631, the off the curves at the end of each line that represent emperor ordered the construction of a great mauso- openness in all directions. In doing so, Rahul said leum. Following his death, the emperor’s body was he effectively cut himself off from the world. put by her side, in spite of the fact that he remarried several times afterwards. So the Taj Mahal is a tomb, albeit an exceptional one. The monument was constructed between 1632 and 1648. When the principal architect was chosen, the emperor assassinated the architect’s wife so he would be in the same state of grief as the emperor during construction. It is built in white marble en- crusted with semi precious stones. As the marble reflects the sun, the Taj Mahal is visible from 40 km!

Market near the Ganges, Varanasi Our guide Rahul Chawla Baking treats for Diwali (Festival of Lights)

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