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For ask questions, because obscure remains future even the doctors for Extension. in Park 6 • Nouvelles Parc-Extension News 7 avril / April 7, 2017 Prime MinisterJustinTrudeau,wasGreekIndependenceparade’sGrand Marshal as well as many andmuni- well provincial as federal, as Athanassoulas, Sotirios Archbishop Orthodox Greek Canadian Sigalas, in Montreal Nicolas consul Greek Marcantonatos, general L. George Greece’s toPantazi-Peck, Canada ambassador W. Robert Greece Maria Peck wife andhis to Ambassador Canadian former table was Many officialsattend Dayannual Parade. Independence Greek tointhe watchExtension district part ortake Talon alongJean ered inMontreal’s St. Park the annual Day gala. Greek Independence ofSaturday in evening March part 25to take in Montreal’s onthe district Neiges Côte des converged onthe Hellenic Community Centre MARTIN C. BARRY Greeks showprideatSaturdayeveninggala 2017 Philhellene ofthe Year Tassos award was Xipolitakis, A. The of recipient the Hellenic Community ofGreater Montreal’s that discussion day.for aninformal briefly to meet scheduled the Hellenic Republic’s Trudeau government. were andQuick Terence ofhonorwas guest Minister ofState in Deputy Quick, parade marshall. as theserved firsttimehe it was Day parades, Independence Greek inprevious ofyears number for agood hadparticipated ofParliament forMember the area, Minister Justin Trudeau. Although Trudeau, the whoisalso Anie Samson, review 2017 the Independence Greek Day Parade from dignitaries’ the reviewing stand. Mayor VSP borough and Deros, Mary councillor From the left, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, HCGM Justin Minister Prime left, From the president Nicholas Pagonis Park Extension city city Park Extension Pagonis Nicholas president Among the dignitaries seated at the head seated Among the dignitaries Then day,the following gath-thousands MontrealersHundreds Greek ofpatriotic At day the the independence gala night before, the special year’s by this led was GrandMarshall–Prime parade The the Greek and Canadian national A the anthems. andCanadian Greek performed music Diamantis, producer Maria bymultimedia (top photo) led schools, Greek areas. Laval from officials theMontreal and elected cipal A choir ofchildren Montreal-area from chairman ofthe HCGM’schairman committee. fundraising longevity of the Greek people, of their will to oftheir survive.” will ofthe people, Greek longevity in celebrating Day, Independence ofthe whichisarecognition “Wein Laval. the community Greek join today the planet across attendingday before whenhewas aceremony for Greek veterans the Sklavounos saidinaninterview MNAGerry Laurier-Dorion community Shore andthe andQuebec,” South ofMontreal, Laval Sklavounos It was a very special days for Greeks, said Park Extension “I’ve I’m gotabigsmileonmy the face because Greek amongst am honored to accept your invitation to serve as as to acceptam honored yourinvitation to serve JustinOfficeread out, was that Trudeau said:“I of their abilities inthe language. Greek the progress showcasing works and theatrical poetic ofHellenicgroup youths performed also In astatement Minister’s the from Prime city councillor Mary Deros, noting that Greece’snational that noting Deros, Mary councillor city Bloomfield Ave. where the reviewing stand was set up. set was Bloomfield stand Ave. where the reviewing TalonJean the from corner ofHutchison to Athena St. Park and around Trudeauwest along walked as andother they officials aperimeter established andpolice ive cordon ofbodyguards Minister. ofthe Prime protection aprotect- Amongother things, Tight securityfor thePM church wherecelebrationswerealsoheld. this twice,” she said, while adding that she just come from day.“Wecelebrate feast religious a on falls also holiday On parade day,On parade Talon tight alongJean was security for the St. Thank you for everything youdo.”everything Thank you for and Iamdelighted you. sideby sidewith to walk the many contributions ofthe community Greek Parade this year. to isstronger thanks Canada Grand MarshallDay inthe Independence Greek 7 avril / April 7, 2017 • Nouvelles Parc-Extension News • 7 ter! 514 872-7763 de François-Perrault de François-Perrault Conseiller du district Sylvain Ouellet de Villeray de Villeray au transport 514 872-0755 Conseillère associée Elsie Lefebvre Conseillère du district HI 514 872-8173 Anie Samson Maire d’arrondissement et des services aux citoyens municipal Vice-présidente du comité exécutif Responsable de la sécurité publique 514 872-7800 de Saint-Michel Président du conseil Conseiller du district Frantz Benjamin les familles se réunissentles et la vie ». se célèbrent familles Joyeuses Pâques à tous nos citoyens et citoyennes! aussi du plaisir et des surprises pour égayer ce magnifique congé Pascale. May you feel the hope of new beginnings during this joyful Easter holiday. les sourires s’agrandissent et les rient, enfants les à Pâques, sourires s’agrandissent vous souhaitent une Pâques remplie de paix et sérénité. Nous vous souhaitons « À Pâques, la nature s’éveille et resplendit, à Pâques, Les membres du conseil d’arrondissement de Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension. Wishing citizens all our a H appy Blessed and Eas 514 872-3103 Mary Deros de Parc-Extension de Parc-Extension Conseillère associée Conseillère du district
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Cabinet du maire d’arrondissement maire du Cabinet 405, avenue Ogilvy, bureau 103 bureau Ogilvy, avenue 405, members of the late Léo Bricault’s family at the April council meeting. The mayor andThe councillors mayor from the borough VSP council are seen here with Newsfirst • Martin C. Barry PHOTOS: During residents’ question period, Park Samson borough said the would probably Also during question period, Park another Avenue/Hutchison/Jean “Thecorner of Park pedestrians at the Hutchison/Jean the Hutchison/Jean pedestrians at ky complained about hazards for ky hazards for about complained Park ExtensionPark resident Leslie Lutz- Talon intersection. Talon lor Mary Deros spring noted has that arrived property and commercial residential and that owners part should do their clean to up what has winter the left behind. Sasha resident Extension Dyck sought Borough move opinion of a recent Samson’s Mayor annoucned provincial to government by the modify a way in such law municipal Quebec’s as possibly to holding of bring an end the to zoning referendums.municipal affairs municipal minister the what not contest said, “because to ways other are we know there that’s population in a way the consult be to able democratic. the Samson way the suggested that is “extremely system is currently referendum to find a going to way Socomplicated. we’re other ways are there and different that’s do this do it.” to hazards Hutchison/Jean Talon drew borough council’s the Leslie Lutzky, Exer, Talon fact the Hutchison/Jean to the attention intersection highly risky remains pedestrians, to very, efforts. safety “It’s borough’s despite all the he said, noting very street,” this cross to hard crosswalks complicated the setup, as as well fact 10-wheelthe that delivery trucks line the edge sidewalks of the unload goods to local for businesses. city Extension Park is very problematic,” Talon Marycouncillor Deros responded, noting that While cornersthere. five strategic are there they coming,” are “changes Deros said that will with a be in conjunction implemented development of the the plan involving larger nearby yard Outremont of Montreal’s University campus. Deros also police suggested the that should be ticket trucks to the doing more when they parking regulations. violate Prior beginning to regular their monthly Léo Bricault, 26 at who passed on Feb. away in Bricault started Journal the de St-Michel Over decades, the Léo Bricault was a constant As elected officials, suchMayor as Borough was“He someone who truly had Saint-Michel During a period elected for representatives’ borough council. borough file was eulogizedphoto) by VSP the The late Léo Bricault (seen here in a MARTIN C. BARRY C. MARTIN Hutchison/Jean Talon intersection problems come up in question in VSP borough council marks passing of newspaper publisher up come problems intersection Talon Hutchison/Jean memberspublic meeting 4, the of the on April borough Extension Villerary/St-Michel/Parc a man regarded paid homage to council by some as an importantthe publishing figure in news region. Montreal of community in the age 90, was and owner Journal founder of the the independent last the Francophone de St-Michel, weekly which had island of Montreal on the never been owner largest bought of up by the papers.community publisher news A well-known it served, Saint- community 1962 when the Ville wasMichel, still an independent municipality. His son, Claude Bricault, became publisher paper elder of the when the and editor-in-chief retirement. into Bricault went often leading of Saint-Michel, the life in fixture to dealefforts community issueswith the within use abusive of the such as City of Montreal’s the quarry during 1960s and the Saint-Michel huge for 70s asthere garbage. was If a landfill dump takinga demonstration it was place, usually Léo certainquite that Bricault had something do with it.to Anie Samson discovered, Léo Bricault was a be to reckoned on account force with – largely of public support amount huge of the from he was stir up to able within Saint-Michel his newspaper. through to St-Michel dedicated Was said Councillor Frantz engraved on his heart,” Benjamin who represents a district Saint- in the area.Michel Bricault and a few Claude other family were members Bricault’s elder of the Golden Book in invited sign borough’s to the memory. 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War World left home to join the forces in Second yearned for the excitement of big cities that he had read about an avid reader, Robert, to attend the London School of When he arrived in London at the age of 17, in books. After four years of teaching in an inner city he thought had found paradise. Economics, he made his way to Montreal in 1968 where met the love of east London school, That was the start of a a fellow teacher at Riverdale High School. Brownstein, Pearl life, Robert became one of the most sought after and love affair that spanned nearly 50 years. TV Ontario’s and was featured on Toronto, celebrated speakers on books in Montreal and where he he was invited to speak on Crystal Cruise Lines, In his retirement, “Big Ideas”. 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I can barely that thud noise ends with a light But I can see it as it mows down those around me, those with whom I huddled just a few brief moments before. Blood splashing. The grey mud me hasall around begun turn a shade of red. to men everywhere,Broken some crying, some shallow lastbreathing breaths, some with legs or arms missing and guts dangling. I focus and look ahead. I see distance. On it, a hill in the what looks out with like a steel box a hole, is spitting violent and sporatic noise and smoke. Splashes appear me asof mud all around noise the comes from it, men falling, a bloody mist seems linger to air after splashesin the the of flesh and bone hit charge. to turn is my It gun is ready. My mud. the I am afraid. soldiers and English had died sands of French trying summer of 1915. They the do since had to Ridge. secured of Vimy battle hill 145 and won the War One. 10,602 World turningThe of point Canadian casualties. 3,596 Canadian soldiers lost lives. their has of what become foundation in the the stone a house of Canadian house. A house of integrity, democracy and a house of peace. As we walked was there row cemetery, adjacent the through upon of headstones. row Each with a terrible can peace all only hope has that story We tell. to thoseto rest come who here. finally Our huddle then broke, now we wait. broke, Our then huddle Each of holes the I had dug feet into way made their My us lining the wall of the trench a few wall trench us lining the of the feet apart. small holes of the stand each in front of us We commanding officer then left to officer take his commanding message groupa few next yards the on to down trench, the stayed a few huddled for together of boys. We looked seconds. me asmore at back he Father could I followed officer, behindcommanding the read his lips… Godspeed he said, Godspeed… 9th, 1917 April 5:45 am, Monday, would that wall trench the of the had dug into serve as we all steps How take top. to us over the took pride in our steps…digging, sculpting and Neverforming them. aboutthey a word where would be taking beyond. lay us and what Face against wall, the waiting.reality, The noise, like back.had come Then it came. The high pitched me like a scream. through went whistle like I was climbing a set of stairs. feel my I could side of me move as on either comrades I moved. It seemed clearer The noise had changed now. up. The dull as way sound of I made my bombs pounding was distance land in the now replaced by a high-pitched buzz of objects-bullets and believe I see me. What all around I can’t shrapnel, and understand as I fire accept I charge. or can’t movingthink are objects I what at rifle my ahead I see bodies me. all around of me-the enemy. The Battle of Vimy Ridge The lice cover The lice everymy inch of me. I scratch as snowflakes the Just beginto the dark- fall, As right, I look my back to against with the my the rats away with the butt of my rifle. The rats rifle. The of my butt with the rats away the feed cut and are on those top who go over the down by sniper fire. Sometimes, everyfew days, shelling is a short dinner time. The truce at there and gunfire stops, so we can retrieveeach our dead and decaying friends and bring back their bodies finished rats have them. the once with Lifeless, decaying, bodies. empty I am so afraid. They it is a slow and painful say The chlor- death. ine gas burns lungs the inside out. from the They two years gas ago, the was brought Ypres at say, trenches windby a light the which laid it into a smothering blanket.like no masks. were There left were rot.Our to brothers Some swollen, were some had eyes out by rats. eaten still were Many wasalive, but death welcome. 9th, 1917 April 5:30 am, Monday ness and ongoing is pushed aside by a thunderous roar of shelling. The skyto a yellow-or- lights up two or three seconds a time. The noiseange for at is deafening. Several our backs of us have up asagainst trench the we look skyward. Between snowflakesthe we the seeheading in the fireballs seems hundreds like It direction enemy. of the of fiery a time, all landing at somewhere, arrows a moment, I pitiedon someone. whoever For would be close these where bombs to landing. are Whoever they they are are, as afraid as me? Is same things I am thinking? Dohe thinking the expect and father his mother be him to home sometime soon? this think to They us not tell it. help Sometimes too we have but I can’t way, think. time to much As began shelling the to slow down, gun hear machine we could the fire. was see enemy could the now that We Steady. beginning fire. return As we look to up our from post see back we could the wall to trench, of the splashthe top of of machine gunthe against fire walls from our heads. mud 8 or 10 feetthe away It makesfeel me bit tighter. rifle a little I hold my blankets face as the like clutching my safe, up to imagination told a child when I feared my what be closetme might in the bed. or under the I wish I was a child again. see I could wall trench, commanding of the the toward way their man make and another officer us. had just left He group of men who another The machine gun all now huddled together. were fire washum, almost now a steady a background noise. The officer waved He to me. was now close up so he huddle to company in my others the at man The other say. he had to us what tell could stood behind him. Solemn faced, eyes dark. He was a priest. palm of his hand against the held He hand, he other the crucifixWith the on his chest. touched each of our helmets. His face was ashen and expressionless. held The Commanding officer his all see so whistle we could it, he said, “on then I began to signal, boys,my top.” we go over the heart my feel chest. beatcould hear in my Then I it, ears. as if inside my me, The noise all around machine guns of the seemed and shelling hum the go quiet.to hear All I could was was which that it what from inside me. I am not sure coming I suppose. body My is-the noise of fear, internal inside, screamingchoking on the in pain, without making a soundbe else. to The heard by anyone scalp it bleeds. until teeth I taste beginning my rot.to God, please god, not be gas. let there any As we headed north from Arras the toward of in July unveiling monument’s this Upon eyesAs a road, the my back to way made their historic I site, As national the we entered greeted were by a young woman, maybe 20 We After a good laugh, our guide, Andrea, begins I slept very last night. little I was afraid close to small city of Lens, the hills of the French country-small city of Lens, French hills of the the was a bright, It but unseasonably side rolled by. felt warm 2004. The sun in early June, cool day car of the and not a cloud windshield the through a large several kilometers From away, sky. in the structureconcrete began take to shape as we rectangular-like soared towers Two got closer. upward like sky scrapers peaceful the reaching to base seemed on a concrete sitting that heavens majestic two were There field. an entire cover to staircases side. Graceful adorn statues on either all sides: Canada mourning Mother her dead; truth representing statues and knowledge; the of parents spirit statue and another of sacrifice; as mourning as children their well dormant peace. represent statues cannons All of the that surrounding this incredible structure seemed so big. French, 1936, it was fifty by the thousand thought and Canadian familiesEnglish and their veterans war end all wars” to was “the that who attended, modern worst the the would ever world see and like it would ever nothing happenthat again. Six jour- Canadiansthousand transatlantic made the ney on five ocean liners departing Halifax.from remember and They to their fallen brothers went comrades. again, Who was once know to that would soon world the be precipice on the of war few years. next within the Who was know to they possiblythat could be back, coming not to remember comrades, their bury but to sons. their small hill rose eerily above country the side. As I overgrown brush the looked through closely more and grass surrounding it, see I could rusted steel doors facing appeared what be to west. Each steel door had a square hole about 6 inches across. Above each hole was about two feet a slot across and two inches to took deep. me a moment It it exactly what wasfigure out I was lookingat. I cut men were down wonderedthen how many by machine gunthis bunker. fire from from I was like but feel help away a world couldn’t I had read abouthome, looking and things that at my To seen on television in some far off land. left, small welcome as the to we made our way two cemeteries. were centre, Each was immacu- kept.lately Row upon of headstones, row all lined with a cedar seemed hedge that designed keep to something out… something in, or, years old. I ask from, she comes “Nova her where says. asks she She then we come us where Scotia” I tell just place north of Montreal,” little from. “A “Do know it, Rosemere.” don’t probably “You her. guy uncle Dominicyou know she asks? my “Tall she says. All of with glasses?” him,” I ask. “That’s middle of a barren home, in the at a sudden I felt France… town outside in northernfield, of a tiny away. half a world giveto us some history memor- surrounding the trenches. leads the ial. She then us to Before I the but notice help down, way I can’t make my beyond distance hill in the I was trench the about A brief head vision climb into. as my to entered looked have hill might like almost this what to ninety years As before. five or six I took the steps The blue sky down, sun seemed the disappear. to grey. had gone, replaced by a colourless 9th, 1917. April 5:00 am Easter Monday, see. a I thought eyes,my I can’t by what haunted friends, my lot about being Family, home. Safe. should I home town. The life be living.few A short ago, I was Now it seemsmonths life. living that I am and soso am I here? far far gone. Why away inspectionafraid. told we were During yesterday’s men were of the Many we would seetoday. battle their they for hear will to that finally fight excited None of us wanted admit how afraid to country. I go over the be day today the Will we really are. I needtop? getI need to out of here, move. to is sickening.the trench I am afraid of to The smell boots my remove feet. and look my at They have been weta week. for I sometimeschase to have Montreal
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Galeries Joliette 1075 Firestone Blvd. Joliette Huawei Nova Plus Huawei GR5 Samsung Galaxy J3 LG K4 450 499-3014 1 1 1 1 $0 $0 $0 $0 South Shore + $100 Fido Visa® + $50 Fido Visa® + $50 Fido Visa® + $50 Fido Visa® 3310, Taschereau Blvd. Greenfield Park 2 2 2 2 Prepaid Card Prepaid Card Prepaid Card Prepaid Card 450 465-5757
Outaouais
1 On select 2-year plans Galerie de Hull 320, St-Joseph Blvd. 819 205-1390
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