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RESTAURANTS Bombay Choupati and Restaurant Malhi by S. Woods p. 1 Crafting captures Montreal COOKING Easter and Passover fare by A. Howick p. 4 ART Naledi Jackson by Zeke p. 6 by Colette van Haaren WINE Springtime whites and reds by C. Price p. 7 Lively places, where crafters can get together for instruction and to enjoy each other’s company, are sprouting up all over COUNTRY DOCTOR Depression by Dr. V. Heese p. 8 town. Crafting, it turns out, is no longer a solitary endeavour done by lonely spinsters. BOOKS of Mark Haddon by C. McKenzie p. 11 Samantha Star, who opened Scrapbook Star on Somerled Ave. in NDG last year, says that it is 99% women who are into scrap - REAL ESTATE FAQs by B. Schreiber p. 12 booking. Instead of keeping photos in a traditional photo album, MOVIE REVIEW Shooter by D. Price p. 13 they make scrapbooks – large albums designed for artistic dis - PRACTICAL POINTS by J. Smith p. 14 plays of photos and other keepsakes. TOWNSHIPS CALENDAR pp. 14-15 “Scrapbooking seems new in Quebec,” Star continued on page 10 See also these Arts & Crafts features: MATERNALLY YOURS Craft parties, scrapbooking and art classes by A. Melanson p. 1 by R. Haughey DAY-TRIPPING Laurentian artisans p. 13 Bead Emporium collects beads from around the world. Restaurant Review Maternally Yours West & north: Indian restaurants on the outskirts Getting crafty: Part 1 of 2 by Stuart Woods by Annika Melanson My search for the city’s best Indian restaurants took me well There are so many creative activities for beyond a reviewer’s regular downtown and Plateau beat. kids (and parents!) to sink their teeth into An unapologetic urbanite, I have long disdained the suburbs these days. With plenty of opportunities to take an art class, as an undefined halfway point between ski country and my stock up on supplies and even host a craft party, getting crafty Plateau apartment. Imagine my surprise, therefore, when I was has never been easier. told of an Indian restaurant in Pierrefonds said to rival the city’s I recently hosted a t-shirt party for my 4-year-old daughter best – and my displeasure at making the journey to a godforsaken Amel and eight of her most artistic friends. I invited Darryl, stretch of Sources Blvd. north of highway 40. continued on page 5 the founder of Montreal’s only continued on page 9

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Festival City African music. Tickets are free. To reserve new works by emerging Montreal vernissage is April 7 from 2 to 5:30 pm. ឣ Now in its ninth year, the Blue Metropolis call 514.872.2157. Maison de la culture de choreographers Ghislaine Doté, Jean- For more information call 514.337.7272. literary festival celebrates the work of NDG, 3755 Botrel. April 27 at 8 pm . François Déziel and Erin Flynn. Tickets Livingston Hall (6th Floor), Montreal are free. To reserve call 514.872.2157 or General Hospital. April 7 to 13 from 9:30 Margaret Atwood. Tickets to the opening Classical Music ceremonies on April 25 are $50. For tickets 514.872.6889. Maison de la culture de am to 5:30 pm . go to www.admission.com. For inform- ឣ Contrées lointains . Trio Lucia Hall, Arne NDG, 3755 Botrel. April 17 at 8 pm . ឣ McClure Gallery presents their annual Kirchner and José Gallardo performs Maison de la culture de Côte des Neiges, exhibition of student ation on programming go to www. continued on page 3 bluemetropolis.org. Delta Centre-Ville works by Ravel, Shostakovich and Astor 5290 Côte des Neiges. April 24 at 8 pm . Piazzola. Tickets are free. Maison de la Hotel, 777 University St. April 25 to 29 . Theatre ឣ Vues d’Afrique presents the 23rd edition culture de Côte des Neiges, 5290 Côte des of Journées du cinéma Africain & Créole . Neiges. April 11 at 8 pm . ឣ Centaur Theatre presents The Caretaker , a This year’s event features an hommage to ឣ Passion et poésie . Trio Lucia Hall, Arne “comedy of menace” by Nobel Prize- Ivorian filmmaker Henri Duparc. Kircher and José Gallardo celebrates the winning playwright Harold Pinter. Tickets Individual tickets are $7. For tickets and life and work of Robert Schumann and his are $42, $32.50 for seniors and $20 for information call 514.990.3201 or go to contemporaries. Tickets are free. To students. Centaur Theatre, 453 St. François www.vuesdafrique.org. Box office, 67 reserve call 514.872.2157. Maison de la Xavier. For more information call 514. St. Catherine St. West. April 19 to 29 . culture de NDG, 3755 Botrel. April 12 at 6 288.3161 or go to www.centaurtheatre.com. pm . March 29 to April 22 . Music ឣ Ensemble Soffio e Voce matches three ឣ Infinitheatre presents The Facts Behind the ឣ Espace musique presents Quebec voices with three clarinets in Helsinki Roccamatios , a play based on a songwriter Guy-Phillipe Wells , one of arrangements of excerpts from Mozart’s short story by Yann Martel. Tickets are seven artists featured in the Sacré talent! operas. Tickets are free. To reserve call free. To reserve call 514.872.2157. Maison 2006 concert series. Tickets are free. To 514.872.6889. Maison de la culture de de la culture de NDG, 3755 Botrel. April 20 reserve call 514.872.2157. Maison de la Côte des Neiges, 5290 Côte des Neiges. at 8 pm . April 18 at 8 pm . culture de NDG, 3755 Botrel. April 4 at 8 Art pm . Dance ឣ Singer-songwriter Nedjim Bouizzoul , ឣ Former une famille . A painting installation accompanied by his band, Labess , speaks ឣ Choreographer Suzanne Miller plays with by Geneviève Rocher explores the tension out against oppression in his native pacing in Speed , in which a duo performs between binary opposites – like fragility Algeria. Tickets are free. To reserve call the same movement at radically different and monumentality, order and energy, the 514.872.2157. Maison de la culture de speeds. Tickets are free. To reserve call pictorial and the decorative. Admission is NDG, 3755 Botrel. April 12 at 8 pm . 514.872.6889. Maison de la culture de free. For more information call ឣ Spirit of the Sufis . The Farid Ayaz Qawwal Côte des Neiges, 5290 Côte des Neiges. 514.872.2157. Maison de la culture de Ensemble performs a program of April 10 at 8 pm . NDG, 3755 Botrel. March 29 to May 6 . traditional Qawwali music, the devotional ឣ In Perfect Stranger , choreographer Isabel ឣ The Canadian Centre for Architecture music of the Sufis. Tickets start at $25, Mohn looks at fear of the other in the era presents Clip/Stamp/Fold 2: The Radical $20 for students. For tickets go to of reality tv, speed dating and instant Architecture of Little Magazines 196X – www.admission.com. For more communications. Tickets are free. To 197X , which collects groundbreaking information call 514.989.5353. The Oscar reserve call 514.872.6889. Maison de la independent periodicals from the 1960s Peterson Concert Hall, 7141 Sherbrooke St. culture de Côte des Neiges, 5290 Côte des and 1970s that influenced the design and West. April 14 at 7 pm . Neiges. April 17 at 8 pm . architecture of the time. Admission is $10, ឣ Tadava performs traditional Eastern and ឣ Les printemps de la danse is a program of $7 for students and $5 for children under 12, and free on Wednesdays after 5:30 pm. For more information call 514.939.7000 or go to www.cca.qc.ca. The Canadian Centre The Rotary Club of Westmount’s for Architecture, 1920 Baile St. From April giant Garage Sale & Auction is 12 . ឣ Les Paysagistes . Seven sculptors pay tribute Giv coming again in June. to Quebec writer, doctor and founder of e the Rhinoceros Party, Jacques Ferron , who We are ready to pick up saleable died 20 years ago this year. Admission is us household or office articles. free. For more information call 514.872.6889. Maison de la culture de We need useful, quality and working items: Côte des Neiges, 5290 Côte des Neiges. your April 19 to May 27 . furniture, antiques, paintings, lamps, housewares, toys, books, etc... Cinema ឣ Films that Transform . The McGill medical 100% of the funds raised will be used on community, faculty’s ongoing film series screens Born tired... national and international projects... as we have been into Brothels , the Academy Award-winning doing for over 75 years. You can help documentary about the children of yo r The Rotary Club of Westmount prostitutes in Calcutta’s red light district. u Tickets are $10, $5 for students and help others. seniors. Moyse Hall, 853 Sherbrooke St. For local pick-ups call 935-3344 West. April 17 at 7 pm . nearly or inf o@rota rywestmoun t.org Community Events ឣ The Thyroid Foundation of Canada Westmount Arena: Auction, Fri, June 1 – Sale, Sat., June 2 presents the 11th annual Art Exhibition & new... Sale to benefit Thyroid Disease . The Vivva MONTREAL – April 2007 – 3

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by Andrea Howick Maple-Soy Glazed Salmon This recipe is appropriate for children 12 Renovating my kitchen has made me months and older. It’s a great way to get kids realize how much I rely on household ap - to eat salmon. pliances even when making “home- 4 6-oz. salmon fillets cooked” meals. A couple of minutes in the Glaze: microwave to defrost a steak before grill- 1 ⁄3 cup maple syrup ing. Grabbing some pre-made pasta sauce . cup low-sodium soy sauce out of the freezer for a last-minute week - 1 tsp. grated ginger night meal. A healthy fruit smoothie 1 tsp. minced garlic whipped up in a handy blender on a busy Whisk glaze ingredients in a shallow morning. glass dish. Place salmon skin side up in Even with the simplest meals, basic glaze. Marinate for 30 to 45 minutes. kitchen appliances – fridge, microwave, Preheat oven to 425°F. blender – play a starring role in getting Wrap the salmon in foil, sealing the food on the table. Per capita, Canadians edges. Place on a cookie sheet. Bake until are the world’s sixth biggest users of en - the fillets are no longer translucent inside, ergy. This high level of use can be attrib - about 15 minutes. (Try roasting the salmon uted in part to our cold climate, but also to unwrapped for drier texture.) Check care - the high standard of living we are used to. fully for bones. When serving, the salmon It’s tapping time: turn your kitchen into a sugar shack. Healthy appliances should flake easily. Make a little extra glaze, minus the gar - Without the household appliances we lic and ginger, to drizzle on top before Oven-Baked Oatmeal with Maple - cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter take for granted, food preparation would serving. and Cinnamon 4 Tbsp. cold water be almost impossible. As a mother of Serves 4 to 6. Filling: This recipe is a great make-ahead to have 1 young children, I try to make sure they eat on hand all week. Suitable for children 9 1⁄3 cups brown sugar mostly healthy meals. It is so easy to steam Maple-Honey Glazed Ham months and older. - cup maple syrup some bright green broccoli, throw together This recipe is good for the whole family! 1- cups rolled oats (use large-flake oats, 2 Tbsp. melted butter a stir-fry or rely on a homemade soup sim - 5 lb. fully cooked boneless ham not quick or instant oats) 1 tsp. vanilla mered over the weekend. With the kitchen Whole cloves 3 cups 2% or 3.25% milk . tsp. salt under renovation, however, the closest we Glaze: . cup maple syrup 4 eggs can get to a healthy meal are endless 1 1 cup pecan halves ⁄3 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed 3 Tbsp. packed brown sugar snacks of cucumbers, cherry tomatoes and - cup maple syrup 1 tsp. vanilla Preheat oven to 250°F. easy-to-serve grapes. 1 Tbsp. Dijon mustard - tsp. salt Crust : Place dry ingredients in food My kitchen was sorely in need of an up - 1 tsp. maple flavouring (optional) 1 tsp. ground cinnamon and nutmeg or processor. Add butter and pulse until date, so I’m not complaining. But with - cup honey 1 tsp. maple sugar dough barely holds together. Drizzle in things in such disorder, I am anxious to Preheat oven to 325°F. Preheat oven to 350°F. water until dough forms a ball (you may strap on an apron, dust off the cookbooks Place ham fat side up on a rack in a Stir together all ingredients, except cin - not need to use all the water). Press into a and cook some homemade meals again! shallow open roasting pan. Insert meat namon and nutmeg. Pour into a greased greased 9-by-13-inch baking pan. Bake for 20 minutes. Let cool. A natural sweetner thermometer in centre. Bake uncovered 8-inch glass baking dish or deep-dish glass for 2.5 to 3 hours or until internal temper - pie plate. Bake until the milk is absorbed, Filling : Whisk together all ingredients Part of the reason I’m itching to get ature is 130°F. Remove from oven. about 40 minutes. Sprinkle with cinna - except pecans. Either stir in pecans and back in the kitchen is the beginning of For the glaze, increase oven tempera - mon and nutmeg or with maple sugar. pour onto crust or pour filling onto crust maple syrup season. Canada produces ture to 450°F. Wrap leftovers in plastic and keep in and arrange pecans in rows on top. Bake more than 80% of the world’s maple Remove meat thermometer. Carefully fridge. Warm up as needed. Keeps for up until filling is set, about 30 minutes. Let syrup. Here in Quebec we are by far the remove rind from ham and trim remain - to 3 days. cool for at least 1 hour before serving. world’s largest producer (about 75% of ing fat. Score top of ham in diamond pat - Serves 4 to 6. Andrea Howick is one of the authors of worldwide production). I can just about tern (do not cut deeper than . inch). In - Yummy in my Tummy in Montreal , a smell the sweet bubbling syrup being sert a clove in each diamond. Pecan Passover Squares cookbook and nutrition guide for parents of boiled in local sugar houses. Mix remaining ingredients. Spread half This sweet treat is perfect for older kids and 0- to 1-year-olds. She is also a founder Maple syrup is a versatile sweetener of glaze over ham and bake for 10 min - all the grown-ups! of The Liandrea Company, which has that can be used in many recipes – both utes. Drizzle the remaining glaze over Crust: produced the award-winning parenting sweet and savoury. With Easter and each serving. 1 cup matzo cake meal DVDs Bringing Baby Home and Passover just around the corner, here are Let stand for 20 minutes before serv - - cup matzo meal Yummy in my Tummy . You can catch her some seasonal recipes to try. ing. - cup brown sugar every month on Global TV’s Serves about 10. . tsp. salt This Morning Live . Got to www.liandrea.com for more information. Vivva MONTREAL – April 2007 – 5 Bombay Choupati: Worth a trip to Pierrefonds continued from page 1 altogether, consisting of puffed-up rice wafers in fruit chutney and the now fa - The restaurant is called Bombay miliar yoghurt-and-tamarind sauce gar - Choupati and has garnered uniform raves nish. The fruit chaat is served cold, the since it opened 15 years ago. What makes sweet chutney offset by hints of spiciness, the trip worthwhile (owner Rajani Sing- with crisp wafers punctuating the mushy nurter claims to attract clientele from as melee. far away as Ottawa) is that the restaurant Pani puri is a real crowd-pleaser. Hol - specializes in south low spheres of deep- Indian cooking – a fried bread are served largely vegetarian cui - Where to go beside a carafe of fiery sine that does without Bombay Choupati tamarind water. Din - the tandoor and heavy, 5011 Sources Blvd. ers are instructed to meat-based curries 514.421.3130 puncture the thin that are the sine qua Open 11 am to 11 pm six days a week. shell and insert a mix - non of most Indian Closed Mondays. ture of potato, chick - restaurants in Mon - pea and fresh corian - treal. Also, the kitchen Restaurant Malhi der, and then fill at prides itself on mak - 990 Jarry St. West least halfway with the A vibrant mess: Restaurant Malhi’s channa samosa. ing everything from 514.273.0407 water. The resulting scratch, right down to www.malhisweets.ca assemblage – which stitution is the place to beat. consists of cafeteria-style seating and a the homemade yo - Open 11 am to 11 pm six days a week. is consumed in a sin - Located on a stretch of Jarry lined with handful of kitschy embellishments, and ghurt and kulfi, as well Closed Tuesdays. gle mouthful, like an curry houses, Malhi attracts a devoted the sometimes brusque, though never un - as using fresh tama- amuse bouche – is clientele with its low prices and relaxed at - friendly, service. rind instead of paste to build a fiery-sweet spicy and fresh, an instantaneous, short- mosphere. Dinner for two, with Cheetah Stuart Woods is the assistant editor of sauce. lived burst of flavour. beer, tip and plenty left over, can run you Vivva Montreal. Unless you’re looking for it, the restau - Dosa is the south Indian pancake, a under $40. And so you know you’re in rant isn’t easy to spot: its co-tenants in a crêpe-thin, slightly spongy rice-dough flat - good company, it’s also where Catherine desolate strip mall include La Belle Pro- bread. Masala dosa is similar to roti and Deneuve spent her birthday on a recent vince, a pool hall and arcade, and an adult- consists of a crisp dosa folded over mushy trip to Montreal. A photo of owner Gur - video store. Choupati is well known to potato curry. The result is sour and nam Singh Malhi with Deneuve – de - Alpenhaus West Islanders, however, who reportedly savoury, an exciting contrast of textures scribed in a caption as a “famous French line up for tables on Friday and Saturday and flavours. The spiciest item on the actress from France ” – is prominently dis - A touch of Switzerland nights (the restaurant declines to take menu is fire dosa, which alone is worth a played at the entrance. reservations). trip to Pierrefonds. It is served with warm in Montreal – On two recent weeknight visits the sambar and coconut chutney to counter - Punjabi classics not to be missed. restaurant was busy, but not so busy that act the spicy, green chili-laced curry filling. Channa samosa is a heaping platter of Singnurter couldn’t manage the smallish When it comes to familiar main course chopped potato and green pea samosas Alpenhaus is located between down - dining room alone. Her presence was a curries, the kitchen holds its own, which smothered in a vibrant mess of chutney, town Montreal and Westmount in boon, since we counted on her expertise is remarkable when you consider that coriander, chickpeas and yoghurt. The re - Shaughnessy Village. The restaurant re - while ordering from the menu, which con - most of the staff is vegetarian. Suffice it to sulting melee is a light meal in itself – cently celebrated its 39th anniversary. tains unfamiliar terms like idli, wala, sam - say that the butter chicken ranks with the spicy, tart and sweet, but not cloyingly so. Alpenhaus is a romantic restaurant that bar, chaat, puri and dosa. city’s best. The meat is assertively sea - Another substantial appetizer is vegetable offers authentic fondues, as well as other soned and submerged in a velvety mus - pekora, which is sold by the half-pound. excellent European dishes. Southern delicacies tard-yellow sauce, good to the last bite. Similar to Southern hush puppies, peko - Wala sambar consists of doughnut- For dessert, the menu lists two items, ras are flash-fried fritters of potato, onion 1279 St. Marc shaped chickpea-and-rice patties (wala) though it’s possible to conjure a third with and fresh spinach served with sweet just west of downtown submerged in a stew-like sauce (sambar) some ingenuity. Take the gulab jamun tamarind sauce and coriander yoghurt. 514 935-2285 of chilies, masala, diced eggplant and dhal, (fried-dough balls in sweet syrup) and Shahi paneer features squeaky cubes of www.restaurantalpenhaus.com and garnished with the aforementioned slice. Do likewise with the kulfi (sweet, homemade cheese in a creamy, bright or - yogurt and spicy tamarind sauce. A varia - cone-shaped ice cream dusted with pista - ange tomato curry. Beware, though: the tion is called idli sambar, which has steam- chio) and stack together for a simple, sauce is strikingly similar to that used in ed, saucer-shaped semolina patties in sweet dessert of milk and honey. the butter chicken, so be sure not to order place of wala. The slightly sour-tasting it twice. You’re better off going for aro - dough is a distinct counterpoint to the Park Ex favourite matic rice-based biryani or chicken tikka – pungent and savoury sambar. Compared to the novelty of Bombay generous hunks of saffron-stained chic- Less spicy is the Bombay chole chaat, a Choupati, Restaurant Malhi (also known ken, green pepper and onion served on a medley of vegetable patties and chickpeas as Malhi Sweets), which specializes in bed of iceberg lettuce. Sweet and stew-like garnished in yoghurt, fresh coriander, Punjabi cuisine, can seem a bit of a let - lamb korma is another winner. tamarind sauce and crisp chickpea-flour down. But for classics like samosa, pakora, The bold and flavoursome cuisine noodles. The fruit chaat is another species biryani and chicken tikka, this Park Ex in - makes up for the scattershot decor, which 6 – Vivva MONTREAL – April 2007 Art Review: Zeke’s Gallery Return to the land

A new exhibition of work by South figure out the best and most efficient man - African-Canadian artist Naledi Jackson ner to comprehend what she has just read. called “Right of Spring” documents Since she is an artist, drawing or painting Africa’s bloody history and offers consola - it out of her system comes naturally to her. tion in nature. I am the first to admit that I am extremely partial to the show – and Rwanda memorial that’s not only because it’s being hosted at Jackson has lived pretty much all over my gallery on St. Laurent. the world: Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Italy and Canada, among other places. How - Peerless talent ever, as she states quite categorically, her Naledi Jackson doesn’t want to be com - attachment to Africa, and to the land of pared to Anselm Kiefer . So I’ll get this out Africa in particular, is something fierce. of the way fast and early: Anselm Kiefer You can begin to understand how deep her uses mud, dead sunflowers, straw and feelings for the land are when you realize other stuff to make his paintings, which that the dirt, oat grass and other living ma - Detail of Checkpoint by Naledi Jackson, on display at Zeke’s Gallery. are generally pretty big. Naledi Jackson terial in her work is not only there as a uses sprouts (sometimes heirloom variation on the stroke, but as a stand-in Focus on Angola and thinks of the continent as a large con - species), oat grass and other living mate - for the dirt and oat grass of Africa. Miss Luanda is similar in its approach nected place with many different locales. rial to make her paintings, which are gen - Take Lavinia , for example, a small No matter where she is in Africa her at - erally kind of small. drawing made with oil paint (not too to African history. Unlike all the other pieces in the exhibition, however, it is not tachment to the land is a very strong bond. Right now the whole concept of bio art much), ink (obviously) and oat grass. Also, she does not want anyone to forget is hot. The National Gallery of Canada is Lavinia is a character in Shakespeare’s small (at 5 feet by 18 inches), it is not hung on the wall (it lies flat on a pedestal), it is Africa’s atrocious and deadly history. But hosting an exhibition of bio art next Titus Andronicus. In the play, she is raped just as spring is a right and not a privilege, month. But despite the fact that her can - and has her tongue and hands chopped an “artist’s book” (not a painting) and the oat grass used to create it is still alive. In there is always hope that things in the fu - vasses are alive, Naledi Jackson doesn’t do off. The whole thing recalls the Rwandan ture will be better. bio art. What Naledi Jackson does is use genocide, during which there were count - fact, for the duration of the show I have to non-standard materials to make pretty pic - less stories of rape and abuse. come in to the gallery first thing in the Right of Spring by Naledi Jackson runs tures that are also pretty darn disturbing. The centre of the ink drawing is taken morning and water the work! until April 15. Admission is free. Zeke’s To my eye, Jackson’s work is reminis - up by a very heavy line drawing of a face Luanda is the capital of Angola, which Gallery, 3955 St. Laurent. For more informa - cent of Kevin Sonmor ’s. For her part, Jack - that is half obscured – almost crossed out. for about three centuries was one of the tion call 514.288.2233 or go to zekesgallery. son cites Betty Goodwin as a precursor. On the left-hand side of the drawing there centres of the slave trade. The pages of the blogspot.com. The gallery is open every day ex - But, in truth, both of us are wrong, since are residual markings of oat grass making book are made of canvas and interspersed cept for Friday from 3 to 7 pm. there isn’t any artist who makes anything a vaguely abstract and psychedelic pattern. with dirt, oat grass and orca “friendship” beans, which makes it tough to “read” the Chris “Zeke” Hand runs Zeke’s Gallery. even remotely similar to Jackson’s work. The right-hand side of the drawing is a All opinions expressed herein are his own. How does she do it? It all starts with a very flat gray paint, effectively blank. The book – in the same way the history of An - gola is tough to read. This review is excerpted from an as- stroke. A stroke heavy and thick enough to part of the face that is not obscured fades yet -unpublished catalogue. give you a heart attack. A stroke so hard into the blank gray part of the painting, Jackson calls herself a “pan-Africanist” and heavy that your standard-issue steam - suggesting the faceless victims of the roller feels insecure. Now that you have genocide who have been forgotten in the the stroke down, you gotta learn to read. West. Jackson adds to the story by using Jackson reads voraciously. And once she the residue of oat grass as a touchstone for has consumed a great book, she tries to the land of Africa and to show that mem - ories of past atrocities linger on. 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illness sometimes manifests itself through rebalance the brain’s neurotransmitters, Country Doctor physical symptoms, such as weight and several different classes of antidepres - changes, sleep changes, and aches and sant drugs have been proven to accomplish pains. This is very characteristic of atypi - this. However, the most successful way to cal depression, which is the most common treat depression seems to be a combina - way depressed patients present them - tion of counselling and drug therapy. Combating depression selves to primary-care providers. Whatever the treatment, the response The symptoms that characterize depres - time may be up to 4 to 6 weeks, so be pa - by Virginia Heese episode at some time in your life can be up sion can include low or depressed mood, tient with the course of therapy your doc - to 12% in men and a whopping 25% in diminished interest in almost all activities, tor prescribes. If drug therapy is a main - Depression is a common illness that af - women. Yet, sadly, there is still some social appetite and weight changes, sleep changes stay of your treatment, medication is fects many folks – it can be life-threaten - stigma attached to the disease, and many (especially waking early in the morning), typically continued for 6 to 12 months ing and hard on personal and professional sufferers hesitate to seek the care and treat - feelings of guilt or worthlessness, low en - once there is a response. At that point you relationships. Happily, it can be treated ment that would enrich their lives. ergy levels, diminished ability to concen - and your doctor may decide to decrease very successfully and sufferers can return trate, slow or agitated movements, and re - the medication or to continue with it as to normal, productive lives. Symptoms of depression curring thoughts of death or suicide. long as necessary. Depressive disorders are generally con - At the risk of stating the obvious, if you Lastly, I want to mention that many What is depression? sidered to be caused by imbalances in neu - or someone you know is having suicidal people fear taking antidepressant medica - First off, it’s important to state that de - rotransmitters in the brain such as sero - thoughts, seek help immediately. Either tions because they believe the medication pression is a medical illness. Some folks tonin, norepinephrine and dopamine. get yourself to a trusted doctor or go to an will make them into a different person. As mistakenly believe that all depressed peo - These chemicals allow brain cells to signal emergency room. reassurance I have to say that patients reg - ple can recover simply by thinking positive each other and are necessary for all brain What distinguishes depression from ularly tell me that, in fact, the medication thoughts – but this is not the case. Studies functions. However, even as we are gradu - the occasional lousy mood or sleep distur - makes them feel like themselves again. have shown again and again that depres - ally starting to understand that impaired bance is the persistence and severity of the Depression is a serious illness and you sion responds to medications that change interactions between these neurochemi - symptoms. In depression, some or all of should never face it alone. Many solutions the level of specific chemicals in the brain cals and brain cells can lead to depression, these symptoms are present every day for exist – but the most important first step is and that a tendency to depression can be in - there is no simple blood test, sign or two or more weeks and are severe enough asking for the help you need. herited. These characteristics point to a bi - symptom that leads to its diagnosis. to interfere with daily activities and per - Dr. Heese is a Canadian and American ologic disorder. You may as well tell some - Instead, we have to look at clusters of sonal and professional relationships. Board-certified family physician and a body to simply shake off a case of diabetes ! symptoms. Making the task even harder is graduate of McGill. She resides in Vermont. Depression is also very common. The the fact that people frequently do not rec - Winter blues Dr. Heese cannot stress enough that the risk of experiencing a major depressive ognize they are depressed and that the As a physician advising Canadians and general advice supplied above should not, Vermonters, I feel obliged to mention Sea - and cannot, replace the individualized sonal Affective Disorder (SAD). In general, advice and care of your own SAD is defined as recurring depression family physician. with seasonal onset and remission. The most common is fall-onset SAD, when symptoms begin in late fall and winter and remission occurs during the summer. Though there is some debate as to whether SAD exists as a separate depres - sive syndrome, it seems to be characterized by this seasonality and is associated with increased appetite (specifically, increased cravings for carbohydrates), weight gain and an increased need for sleep. Another distinguishing feature is its response to ar - tificial bright light therapy, as well as more standard medication therapies. Fall-onset SAD tends to be longer and more severe at higher latitudes, so if you find yourself struggling through long, dark winters, you may want to discuss SAD with your doctor. Treatments of depression The treatment of depression typically involves psychotherapy (also known as talk therapy or counselling), medication ther - apy or a combination of the two. Psy - chotherapy may lessen symptoms of de - pression and in some people may be more effective than drug therapy. What is im - portant is to connect with a trained health - care professional with whom you can establish a good psychotherapeutic rela - tionship. Antidepressant medications can help Vivva MONTREAL – April 2007 – 9

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continued from page 1 shops in knitting at Effiloché . Her goal is to show you how knitting works, how to says, “and that’s because we are a French fix your own mistakes and how to “bend province.” Most products are geared your knitting to your will.” The most pop - towards English-speaking markets, she ex - ular workshop is on making socks, Gilbert plains, and scrapbooking has been popu - says. Students make a miniature tech - lar in anglophone provinces for years. nique sock that includes a sock’s sticking points, such as turning the heel and graft - Scrapbooking: a new trend in Quebec ing the toe. To see Gilbert’s designs go to The modern scrapbooking trend began www.kategilbert.com. in the 1980s in Utah, where Mormon fam - ilies are required by their church to record Crocheting and sewing family history. The attention one family’s Hairpin lace, a crochet technique that 50 albums garnered at a conference on was popular in the 1970s, is back again. record keeping was the impetus to start Hairpin lace was invented in the Victorian the scrapbooking industry, which includes era, when women wound yarn around the books, magazines, stores and supplies. prongs of their hairpins and crocheted Star’s store looks like a paper candy these loops into strips. Off loom, these store, with pattern paper, stickers, ribbons, strips were then joined to form lacy lettering and rub-ons in many designs and shawls. Larger looms, or staples, were de - every colour of the rainbow. The basic ma - veloped for the craft; modern hairpin lace terials for scrapbooking are an album looms can be adapted to various widths. Geneviève Poirier and Mrs. Girard (from left) at the weekly Stitch & Bitch at Effiloché. 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Brickpoint Studios, 318 photo of him and his RCAF crest the focal cycling sewing course at Friperie La Gail - courses are also available in the winter. Victoria Ave. For more information call Friperie La Gaillarde, 4019 Notre Dame St. point of her album. larde . The course “facilitates an ecological 514.489.0993. Wednesday evening knitting According to Palmer, the pages turned way of living,” he says. “It provides the West. For more information call clinic from 6 to 8 pm. 514.989.5134 or go to out well: “Before I made this the badge sat skills needed to avoid waste, and encour - Effiloché opened six months ago in www.friperielagaillarde.com. in a drawer. It’s important to bring it out ages people to reuse clothing they already St. Hubert Plaza. 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continued from page 9 The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1380 Sherbrooke St. West. Admission is $15, Red letter days (Part 1 of 2) 4 and up. Courses include drawing, paint - free for children under 12. For more in - ing, sculpting, jewelery making, and cos - formation call 514.285.1600 or go to www. by Catherine McKenzie fit in easily with the world, as opposed to tume illustration and design. Eight-week mmfa.qc.ca. those suffering from autism. This book sessions beginning in April start at $135 The Curious Incident of Mummieslist boo-boo the Dog in the Night- deserves to be a bestseller and deserves to (plus materials). Visual Arts Centre, 350 Time by Mark Haddon be read. Victoria Ave. For more information call I would like to correct an error I made 514.488.9558 or go to www.visualartscen - in my March column. The Mummieslist A Spot of Bother Second best tre.ca. website is www.mummieslist.com, not by Mark Haddon I wish I was as enthusias - The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts www.mummylist.com. By the way, did you I like to find themes that connect the tic about Haddon’s second continues to host family Sundays at the know that in March, $15 of every mummy disparate works I review: books with the novel, A Spot of Bother . This museum. A free art workshop called card sold online was donated to the Mont- word “little” in the title, for example, or book is about an unassuming “Looking at Colour: Creation of a Portrait real Children’s Hospital? Well done! memoirs about childhood. This month, 62-year-old man who has just in Gouache” will be given on April 15 at 1 , Annika Melanson is the author of it’s books with red covers. retired from a life installing 2 & 3 pm. Suitable for children ages 5 and The Montreal Pocket Parent and Le Why? Searching the bookstore I noticed children’s playground equipment. He is up (accompanied by an adult). Tickets are Bottin des Bambins and co-author of four books that had the same colour cover: keeping busy by building a studio in his available in the lobby of the Jean-Noel Des - Yummy in my Tummy in Montreal. a dark wine-red. Is it silly to pick a book by backyard so he can go back to the painting marais Pavillion (south side of Sher - its cover? So long as that’s not how I judge and sketching he abandoned years ago. brooke) from 12.30 pm. Arrive early for BASKETBALL CAMP at BISHOP’S them, I think it’s okay. Then, on the day his daughter an - the 1 pm workshop as it is the most popu - My visual criterion led me to two books nounces that she is marrying a man he lar. August 5-9 by Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of and his wife do not like, he discovers a le - The Enigma of Walt Disney continues One week only the Dog in the Night-Time and his most re - sion on his hip and becomes convinced until June 24. Disney paraphernalia is on Sleep Away & Day Camp cent work, A Spot of Bother . My two “red that he has cancer and is going to die. The display and classic Disney movies are for girls and boys 10 to 18 years-old books” for next month are Bloodletting & idea festers and colours everything that screened: Alice in Wonderland on April 19 A dynamic team of coaches from Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam and The happens to him in the months that follow. at 6 pm; Dumbo on April 22 at 1:30 pm Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult. His acceptance that his son is gay. His re - (French) and 3:30 pm (English); Peter Pan renowned high schools, colleges and alization that his wife is having an affair. on April 26 at 6 pm (French); and Bambi universities from eastern Canada. The colour’s the thing His inability to connect with his daughter. on April 29 at 1:30 pm (French) and 3:30 For more information call: After beginning The Curi - It all pales beneath the weight of his fear of pm (English). Eddie Pomykala, basketball coach ous Incident , I realized how death, as if the sum of the people he is os - The exhibition is appropriate for older Bishop’s University, Lennoxville (Quebec) fitting it was that I had been tensibly living for is less than the singular children and adults, so if you are planning led to this book by its colour, importance of being alive. to take your young child try to time your (819) 822-9600 ext. 2663 since the book’s narrator, outing with one of the movie screenings. [email protected] www.bubballcamp.com Chris, is a 15-year-old autistic I’ve seen this before savant who judges everything While this book is mostly the story of by its colour, texture or smell. He hates all one man, it is told from the perspective of things yellow. He loves all things red. He four characters – the same literary device loves math and mystery books. And he used by Nick Hornby in (the better, fun - loves his caregiver-father in the only way nier, but not perfect) Long Way Down. he can: without touch or other common Fresh from his success at recreating alter - methods of showing affection. native thought processes in The Curious One day Chris’ neighbour’s dog turns Incident , Haddon attempts to write about up dead, stabbed with a garden fork, and thoughts in the way people actually expe - he decides to solve the mystery of the dog’s rience them when they are alone. One death. As he works to unravel this seem - thought leads to another and to another so ingly simple mystery, Chris discovers quickly that the reader is sometimes dis - things about every person in his life that oriented and confused; I had to re-read changes all he knows and thinks he has several pages more than once. figured out about the world. The book is well written, but I frankly found it depressing, as one might expect Sight, sound, smell from a book about a man who is very de - This is a truly original and well-written pressed. There are parts that are also sup - book. While I don’t know what it is like to posed to be funny, but I found them more be an autistic savant, Haddon makes us like watching a train wreck. I also found believe that he does. And in the course of many of the characters stereotypical: the doing so he writes some truly great de - uptight, closed minded, middle-class Brit- scriptive passages that, at least temporar - ish couple; their feminist, hard-as-nails ily, changed the way I look at the world. daughter; their uptight, middle-class, gay The amount of detail I notice. Why I like son who can’t commit. It feels like I’ve met the taste or texture of certain foods and not these people before in other books, but others. Why we tell lies. Why we feel em - never in real life. pathy for other people. How lucky I am to Catherine McKenzie is a Montreal lawyer. 12 – Vivva MONTREAL – April 2007

to obtain a pre-approved mortgage before with a condo the building is responsible Real Estate they begin their search – it can stack the for the structure (or envelope) and that lit - deck in your favour, because the sellers tle can go wrong with the inside. This is a will know that you are a serious buyer. But dangerous assumption. A condo – be it in you should always have a home inspec - an apartment building or a duplex – can tion. have serious and costly roof, foundation, Real Estate FAQs water infiltration and other issues requir - Pre-approval – or not? ing unplanned-for owner assessments. Be by Barry Schreiber affect your negotiation strategy. Not all pre-approved mortgages mean safe: always conduct a home inspection. that the applicant will receive the funds If you’re bidding on your dream home, “Here I am, stuck in the middle...” Many readers have called or e-mailed you’ll probably want to do your best to en - asked for. What! How can that be? qualified pre-approved mortgage re - me with questions about real estate, so I tice the seller to choose your offer. It’s a A Yes, it’s part of a song, but these lyrics thought I would address a variety of issues poker game and you don’t know the cards quires the lending institution to do an as - are sung to me quite often when a buyer that often come up. Keep your questions the other players have in their hands. But sessment of your financial situation, in - has sold his or her house and can’t find an - coming. I’ll always respond. price is just one card. The others are the cluding your assets, liabilities and credit other, or when he or she has taken pos - conditions you impose. rating. It’s an involved process that usually session of a new home without having Negotiating a bidding war I’ve seen situations where the top price takes a couple of days. sold the original home. “I thought it would You found the residence you’ve always was not selected because the winning buy - Even the best pre-approved mortgage is be easy to sell,” they say. “I’ve decreased wanted, but by the time you decide to ers did not require a mortgage and did not often contingent on the bank inspecting my price three times and still no buyer.” make an offer, you discover that two com - ask for an inspection. There were really no the property and agreeing to the amount Well, here is what can be done to avoid peting offers are being tendered. Horror! conditions to be met. the buyers ask for. Sometimes, the precise this predicament. Find the property you You’re in a bidding war. This can certainly If you need a mortgage, I advise clients amount is not forthcoming if the property want to buy, but make your offer condi - is deemed unsuitable to the amount re - tional on selling your home. In fairness to quired after the inspection. the seller, you could include a clause indi - So, a pre-approved mortgage is a sign cating that, should he receive another offer Hello, Real that you are a serious buyer, but it does not in the interim, you have the right of first tell the seller that you definitely have a refusal – any interim offer can be matched Estate Agent! mortgage. However, it is a comfort factor by you should you so chose. Yes, you and worth obtaining. Stack the deck in might lose the house, but you will be able If you are an agent reading your favour. to sleep better knowing that you won’t have to carry the financial responsibility of this advertisement, you To keep or not to keep the deposit cheque owning two homes. are confirming that agents When selling, you receive a deposit cheque with an offer you accept, but the Condos versus co-props read Vivva to find out buyers cannot obtain the financing they re- There are advantages and disadvan - about what’s happening quire. Do you get to keep the deposit? No. tages to buying a condo versus a co-prop, “The deposit is meant as a gesture of more properly known as divided co-own - in the marketplace. good faith,” explains real estate lawyer erships versus undivided co-ownerships. And often it is another Michael Concister, “but it is not required Which is which? by law.” It is, however, a common tradition The undivided co-ownership property agent who sells a listed in Montreal. “Virtually all deposits for res - is taxed by the municipality at a lower rate, house by bringing their idential properties must be returned. but the owners cannot rent it, at least not However, if a seller feels otherwise, he can for the first five years. This might be con - client to the table. go to court and the decision will be ren - sidered an advantage depending on your dered by a judge,” says Concister. If you viewpoint. So, forget just reading want to ensure that you get to keep the de - The owners of a co-prop must also deal posit, you must ask your agent to put in with the existing lending institution or, This house is not even for sale ... Vivva . Advertise writing that the deposit is nonrefundable. if that has not been decided on, with a but you are reading about it! your listings ! Now, how comfortable would you be as caisse populaire or the Banque Nationale. a buyer if the seller required a nonrefund - In short, the owners are not free to choose able cheque? A clause like that, in my view, their lending institution. Another impor - $20 CAN PROVIDE THE GIFT OF A would need to have good cause. I know of tant consideration is that they must make LIFETIME TO A CHILD THIS SUMMER! a situation where a buyer missed the sign - a 25% down payment. ing because the buyer’s funds could not be The situation with condos is different. Each year, Welcome Hall Mission organizes a acquired in time for the meeting at the no - The buyers are free to choose their lend - summer camp in a lovely country setting for less tary. This buyer also missed the second ing institution. The down payment for fortunate inner city kids. $200 is the cost for one agreed-upon signing date. The owner then first-time buyers is 5% and they are free to child for a week. It only takes 10 people at $20 each asked that an additional deposit be re - rent if it is so indicated in the declaration to send one child to summer camp, and 5 people quired and that both the original deposit of co-ownership – the document that de - at $40. A donation receipt is issued for each gift. and the second deposit be nonrefundable. fines the terms, by-laws and responsibili - Give hope. Give laughter. Give today. The buyer agreed. Eventually, the house ties of owners of both condos and co- Send your gifts to: Welcome Hall Mission was sold to that buyer. props. 606 De Courcelle Street Montreal QC H4C 3L5 Don’t skip the home inspection Barry Schreiber is an affiliated real estate agent with Sutton Centre-Ouest in (514) 523-5288 Some buyers can save several hundred Westmount specializing in residential dollars by not having a home inspection. Or visit our secured website properties. He can be reached at This is more common when buying a www.welcomehallmission.com [email protected] and 514.781.2425. condo than a house. The thinking is that Vivva MONTREAL – April 2007 – 13 Day-Tripping

The Laurentians: an artisan’s paradise

by Roger Haughey In 2004 there were nearly 100 profes - sional artisans in the region and over 50 The Laurentians have the key ingredi - artisan organizations representing paint - ents for a perfect getaway – close enough ing, photography, glassworks, ceramics, to Montreal by car or train for a comfort - cabinetmaking and metalworks – and the able day trip and crammed full of things number has grown since then. Major to do. That’s probably why the region is summer events like the Argenteuil Art also full of artisans. Tour (July and August) and 1001 Pots (July There is a lot of talk these days about and August) highlight the artistic culture artisanal products – from cultural prod - of the region. April is a great time to avoid ucts like art, theatre and music, to spa the crowds and explore the region’s art and treatments, household objects and food. artisans in a relaxed and intimate atmos - Artisanal products are handmade in small phere. quantities, often with local design or com - Galerie d’art Michel Bigué is at the heart of the gallery district in St. Sauveur. ponents. Many people believe they should Galleries and studios to show their work to visitors. They know Roger Haughey is a CEGEP professor and be preserved and supported. Works by Laurentian artisans are on that education is an important part of their the president of ValoEco, an environmental permanent display throughout the year at trade and are glad to answer questions organization based in ND G, where he lives. Artisans at work regional museums and galleries. Most about their craft. There are plenty of opportunities for Laurentian villages have private galleries hands-on experience of arts and crafts of local painting, sculpture and other arts. year-round, as the region has camps, day The largest concentration of galleries is in courses and workshops. The Laurentians St. Sauveur, where a stroll down Principale Movie Review: Shoot and miss also offers an impressive array of places to St. reveals several galleries of regional art. watch artisans at work, view their cre - The Argenteuil Regional Museum in ations and, if the spirit moves you, pur - St. André d’Argenteuil, the Musée de pou- By David Price helicopter !). And the movie’s gun expert chase all kinds of artisanal objects. pées Claire Poirier in St. Sophie and the brings up unwelcome echoes of Donald Whether you are in one of the many beau - Musée d’art contemporain des Lauren - Shooter Sutherland’s character in JFK (1991) , just tiful villages within an easy scenic drive of tides in St. Jérôme offer permanent col - The plot: a US marine sniper (Mark as a scene between Wahlberg and the main Montreal (St. Sauveur, Val Morin, St. lections as well as exhibits of local arts and Wahlberg) retires from the military after female character (Kate Mara) brings up Agathe, Val David or Mont Tremblant) or crafts. In addition, LézArts Loco in Val being abandoned behind enemy lines. A unwelcome memories of the Meg Ryan- as- meandering along rural back roads, the David is a “multidisciplinary creation cen - few years later, he is recruited to help stop wido w/Tom Cruise-as-good-soldier scene Laurentians are home to many artisans’ tre” and cooperative housing complex for a presidential assassination – only to find from Top Gun (1986). exhibits, galleries and studios. artisans with gallery space, workshops and himself in a plot much more complex than cultural events throughout the year. that. Unforgiven For those of you who like to witness I wanted to like this movie. I liked What I can’t forgive was the movie’s de - Where to go artistic creation, several studios are open Wahlberg in movies like Three Kings generation into a Chuck Norris -style ex - Argenteuil Regional Museum year-round where you can meet artisans at (1999 ) and Boogie Nights (1997) – and I plosion -fest. Our sniper sets off some 44 Long Sault, St. André d’Argenteuil work, learn about the techniques and pur - salute his successful transformation from homemade napalm worthy of what the air - 450.537.3861 chase finished works of art. Marky Mark. The movie had a good feel. planes unleash in Apocalypse Now (1979). Musée de poupées Claire Poirier Glass artist Jonathan Léon’s Lolipop By the end , however , I wished that I had Nor can I forgive the multiple and contra - 667 l’Achigan West, St. Sophie boutique and workshop in LézArts Loco been watching the “first draft” that could dictory endings. Towards the end, our 450.432.7954 displays hand-blown glass jewelery and still be fixed and not a final edit. sniper has the bad guys in his power and objects in a stylish storefront in the heart then lets them go (“I’m out!”) – only to go Musée d’art contemporain of the village. Cabinetmaker and sculptor First draft after them again. Nor can I forgive some des Laurentides Pierre Trahan in Gore (just past St. Adol- If I were reviewing this hypothetical of the silly dialogue. After several betray - 101 Curé Labelle Pl., St. Jérôme phe d’Howard) features beautiful hand - first draft , I would say : This movie could als, our embittered sniper eventually 450.432.7171 made furniture, as well as sculptures in be great. It is well acted by Wahlberg, stands at attention and affirms his military LézArts Loco / Lolipop boutique wood and clay. Troy Beck ’s metalworking Danny Glover and Michael Peña. It suc - oath. (Was the anthem playing? I can’t re - 1287 Dufresne St., Val David studio in St. André d’Argenteuil boasts an cessfully brings us into the fascinating member.) As counterpoint, Glover – play - 819.322.6379 array of unique handmade metal objects world of the sniper – a profession that has ing the over-worldly insider – crows cyni - Pierre Trahan, cabinetmaker designed for everyday use, such as fire - not been “movied ” to death. And it could cally about “the land of the free and the 9 Jasmins Rd., Gore place tools, hinges and candle holders, as be an articulate, angry and semi-serious home of the brave. ” Originality and real - 450.562.9842 well as elegant sculptures made from re - political movie in the same vein as the ex - ism were simultaneously and glaringly ab - cycled metal and other media. At sculptor cellent Spartan (2004 ) and Three Kings . sent. Troy Beck, metalworker Simon Le François ’ studio in Grenville, Unfortunately, I was watching the final The worst unforgivable moment: a 73 Wales Rd. N, St. André d’Argenteuil you can see the self-taught artisan’s works edit . Nevertheless, I would have forgiven semi-courtroom drama at the end of the 450.537.1743 in wood and metal, then take a tour many minor sins. For instance, it is bla - movie (in front of the attorney general !) Simon Le François, sculptor (weather permitting) of a water garden. tantly unprofessional for our supposedly complete with a “courtroom ” surprise that 3 William St., Grenville Most Laurentian artisans work in stu - ultra-professional sniper to break cover in would prove nothing in the real world, but 819.242.4736 dios in or near their homes and are eager the opening scene (to duke it out with a that we are supposed to believe . 14 – Vivva MONTREAL – April 2007 Practical Points: Investing Townships Calendar Prognostications Shacking up

by John Smith Summer 2008: The Olympic Games There’s no better way to celebrate the says Richard Normand of La Sucrerie History tells us that the country that end of winter – and nothing more fitting Haut Bois Normand , a 10,000-tap sugar What future events will benefit the pru - hosts the summer Olympic games experi - for a Quebecer – than to visit a sugar bush in Eastman, Quebec. “It depends a dent investor who has anticipated their po - ences a severe and very uncomfortable shack. And in the Eastern Townships, the lot on temperature,” he says, “but that’s tential? hangover when the party ends. China has second largest syrup-producing region in not everything.” The relentless passing of time can ben - spent more than any other nation prepar - Quebec, there’s no shortage of sugar A maple tree can be tapped for its sug - efit the investing public. It makes a good ing for this showcase event. The ruling shacks to visit. ary sap when temperatures are below wine taste even better. Apparently, it does government has used the games as a Sugar making is big business in Que - freezing overnight and above zero in the wonders for teenagers. Moreover, in the springboard to revitalize Beijing and sur - event of a market reversal, it can have re - rounding infrastructure. Once the tourists cuperative powers for most good long- leave town and the letdown begins, there term investments. will be little or no new construction and Recently, investors and the media have ancillary activity for a significant period of had a tendency to concentrate on weekly time. (Montrealers, think of the Big Owe.) announcements that turn out to be of very The effect of this slowdown will be a short-term importance. Housing starts, greatly reduced demand for all sorts of ma - gasoline stockpiles, metal inventories and terials in world commodity markets. The even weather forecasts have made the absence of substantial purchasing of oil, front page and beckon us to follow hedge metals and lumber are a few areas that fund and portfolio traders in minute-to- could have a negative effect on Canada’s minute vacillations. markets. A few years ago a press release record - ing changes in US money supply would January 20, 2009: transfix the marketplace. That particular Inauguration of US president bec, where over 7,000 producers generate day. It helps as well if there is ample snow indicator is no longer in use, yet its disap - Inauguration of a new president of the $178 million annually or about 75% of the cover, which insulates the tree’s roots, and pearance hasn’t made one iota of differ - US and the departure of the incumbent world’s supply. not too much sun in the afternoon. Also, ence to the performance of markets. A berserker. This will make for a desired sea This wasn’t always the case. Formerly, vibrant fall foliage is a sure sign of a sweet good investor will look well beyond the im - change in attitude about the politics of the syrup producers in New England and Ver - harvest. mediate headlines and prepare for move - mont dominated the market. But with US and should revive a conciliatory atti - Visiting a sugar shack ments that underlie good investment prac - tude from investors around the world. warmer-than-usual winters in the last 30 tice. However, the shift in political comfort years, as well as generous subsidies from Sugar shacks are living museums of Here are some important events that zones will not be achieved quickly and the Canadian government and aggressive French-Canadian kitsch. Expect to pay will affect the marketplace in the next few markets will remain skeptical for a long branding by the Quebec Federation of about $20 for an all-you-can-eat meal of years. But remember, these prognostica - time before restoring the US to a predom - Maple Syrup Producers, the tables have split-pea soup, baked beans, maple-cured tions are guesses at best. The market will inant role. The challenges left behind by turned. Nowadays, it’s hard to think of a ham and oreilles de criss (deep-fried pork absorb the information and do precisely the present administration will remain more quintessentially Canadian export lard), as well as omelettes, sausages and what it wants to do without the slightest significant burdens for many years to than maple syrup. doughnuts slathered in the sweet stuff. regard for the pundits, prognosticators, come. In general, sugar shacks are open to the analysts and, particularly, this watcher. Miracle of nature public until mid-April. It’s always best to Late 2009: The War in Iraq The conditions that make for good call ahead, since most “authentic” sugar 2007 or 2008: UK Election The last foreign troops leave Iraq and sugar making are manifold and complex, shacks sell out in advance. The demise of Tony Blair and the re - the country reverts to being a loose cannon moval of the Labour Party from power. r r looking for a dictator to quell the factions u a O e Retailers and boutique s! This will be an event that will leave the US that make the country such an interesting y rd without its one significant political ally. topic for historians. The result will be the 3 The time to order is no w! Investors tend to follow the path laid inclusion of Iraqi oil exports in the OPEC 2008 Eastern Townships calendar (bilingual) down by senior elected officials. Any re - club, with little benefit to the rest of the treat by UK investors would not be a wel - world. Oil will continue to be the propel - Barns and Farms of the Townships come departure from the markets in lant of choice for most vehicles and the North America. Middle East and OPEC will be the pre - by Louise Abbott and Niels Jensen September 2007: Demise of Greenspan ferred suppliers. Unless Alberta undercuts Variety of towns, seasons and subjects. their price. 3 Alan Greenspan will cease to be on the Size (bigger this year!): 24 inches high by 13 ⁄8 unfolded lecture circuit after forecasting possible re - John Smith is the nom de guerre of a Same size as the “Lang-style” frames cessions in the US and finding that his retired investment executive. John has been forecasts are not winning many friends at a broker, investment banker and trader in Retail: $16.95. Call now for the best retailers’ discount. his old employer. Interest rates will have Montreal and Toronto, as well as in 310 Victoria Ave., Suite 105, Westmount, Quebec H3Z 2M9 ticked up and the markets will be looking company management and the investment Tel: 514.223.6138 – Fax: 514.935.9241 ahead to a recovery. industry’s self-regulatory agencies. Email: [email protected] Vivva MONTREAL – April 2007 – 15 Sugar shacks Eastern Townships Events

Au Bec Sucré Érablière Landry Festival 5677 Airport Rd. 830 Pope April and will feature recitals of classical ឣ Le Temps des sucres . Local artisans and popular music throughout the spring Valcourt, QC Cookshire, QC and summer, as well as an antiques fair. 450.532.3771 819.875.3851 showcase their wares throughout the town of Knowlton. For more information call For more information call 819.842.2784. Cabane à sucre Bellavance Érablière Leclerc 1.877.242.2870. Various locations in St. Elizabeth Church, North Hatley. 773 Bellavance Rd. 275 Brandrick St. Knowlton. April 7 & 8, 14 & 15 and 21 April 15 at 4 pm . St. Cécile de Whitton, QC Shefford, QC & 22 . ឣ Classical guitar prodigy Thierry Bégin 819.583.0441 450.777.7128 Lamontagne in concert. Tickets are $14. Movies For more information call 819.849.6371 Cabane à sucre Mégantic Érablière Martin ឣ Theatre Lac Brome screens Quinceañera , or go to www.pavilliondesarts.qc.ca. 3732 10e Rang 675 Route 137 South Pavillion des Arts et de la Culture de Lake Mégantic, QC St. Cécile de Milton, QC the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winning film about how a Mexican Coaticook, 116 Wellington St., Coaticook. 819.583.1760 450.772.1196 girl’s 15th birthday celebration is April 1 at noon . Cabane du Pic Bois Érablière Paré complicated when she discovers she is Theatre 1468 Gaspé St. 155 Route 112 East pregnant. Tickets are $7, $5 for members. Brigham, QC Dudswell, QC Arts Knowlton, 9 Mount Echo Rd., ឣ Arts Knowlton presents The Dik And Mitsy 450.263.6060 819.887.6621 Knowlton. For more information call Anniversary Show , a vaudeville show. www.cabanedupicbois.com 450.242.2270 or go to www.theatre Tickets are $23, $26 on Saturday. For more Érablière Sanders lacbrome.com. April 1 at 5 pm . information call 450.242.2270 or go to Érablière du Lac d’Argent 256 Domaine St. ឣ Theatre Lac Brome screens Manufacturing www.theatrelacbrome.ca. Theatre Lac 1050 Carette Rd. Ascot Corner, QC Landscapes , an NFB documentary about Brome, 9 Mount Echo Rd., Knowlton. Dudswell, QC 819.346.0852 Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. March 29 to April 1 . 819.887.1030 www.erablieresanders.com Arts Knowlton, 9 Mount Echo Rd., ឣ Le fantôme de Canterville . An evening of Érablière la Grillade La Sucrerie Haut Bois Normand Knowlton. For more information call imaginative entertainment in French. Tickets are $25. For more information call 106 Érables Rd. 426 George Bonnallie Rd. 450.242.2270 or go to www.theatrelac brome.com. April 1 at 5 pm . 819.849.6371 or go to www.pavillion St. Alphonse, QC Eastman, QC desarts.qc.ca. Pavillion des Arts et de la 450.375.5959 450.297.2659 Music Culture de Coaticook, 116 Wellington St., www.grillade.ca www.hautboisnormand.ca ឣ Festival du Lac Massawippi kicks off in Coaticook. April 27 at 8 pm .

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