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Sources: • 9 février / February 9, 2018 1. GOVERNMENT OF CANADA PUBLIC SERVICES AND PROCUREMENT 5. COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS DRIVE RESULTS 2017 2. NEWS MEDIA CANADA SNAPSHOT REPORT 2017 6. DOUBLE CLICK FOR ADVERTISERS 3. VIVIDATA 2016 Q2 READERSHIP DATABASE 7. CANADIAN MEDIA CONCENTRATION RESEARCH PROJECT 4. TOTUM RESEARCH 2016 Nouvelles Parc-Extension News • 2 ‘Brick by Brick’ seeks funding START YOUR LIFE! for housing/community LIVE YOUR DREAM FHQWUHSURMHFW Local startup hopes to raise money selling community bonds OUR PROGRAMS ACCOUNTING STARTING A BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL TRAVEL SALES SALES LEGAL SECRETARIAL SECRETARIAL STUDIES Photo: Brick by Brick executive-director Faiz Abhuani and organization member Sophie Le-Phat Ho are seen here during the free lunch they held at the Hingston Centre on Feb. 3 to stimulate interest in community centre/housing project. they put in, plus a small amount of interest. MARTIN C. BARRY The prospect of a free lunch last Saturday Alternative funding method in the PEYO cafeteria at the William Hingston HOTEL PROFESSIONAL The reason why the organization has chosen Centre, minus the obligation of having to listen RECEPTION COOKING to go this route, added Abhuani, is that they first to a product or idea pitch afterwards, was approached the provincial Accès Logis housing enough for several dozen Park Exers to accept agency for subsidized funding, only to be told an invitation made by some community activists there wasn’t enough money allotted for the Park determined to build a new community centre Extension area for that purpose. in Park Extension. While the creation of community centres Brick by Brick, as the entity calls itself, is led and public housing are both dossiers that by Faiz Abhuani whose business card refers to municipalities regularly handle, Brick by Brick, him as director-general. According to Abhuani, according to Abhuani believes there’s room for Brick by Brick has been pushing its community CONTEMPORARY FOOD & a community-based private effort to accomplish centre concept for the past year-and-a-half. PROFESSIONAL BEVERAGE those tasks. PASTRY MAKING ‘Community bonds’ Seeking local support “Basically our objective is to develop He said that prior to the municipal elections community housing and a social centre in last fall, they met with local city councillor Mary 9 février / February 9, 2018 • Park Extension,” he said in an interview with Deros. “And we’ve been in contact with a lot of Nouvelles Parc Extension News. Brick by Brick different community organizations and offi- is trying to achieve their goal by offering to cials at the city.” He said they were scheduled to sell “community bonds” that the group says meet this week with Borough Mayor Giulianna would generate a steady revenue for investors Fumagali, “and we’re going to be discussing REGISTER TODAY and offset the negative impact of gentrification how community housing fits in with the new by building accessible housing for low-income administration’s commitments to develop new tenants. housing. Nouvelles Parc-Extension News According to the Brick by Brick website, each “We believe that there are different ways of bond you buy helps to finance a building that will 514.381.5440 meeting those goals, and investing in a project provide affordable housing, accessible creative like Brick by Brick would be a very attractive facilities, childcare and food security, bring way for the city to support affordable housing 9955 Papineau Ave, Montreal Qc H2B 1Z9 together a diversity of people who face systemic because they don’t have to pay for everything. In discrimination in a supportive environment fact, they don’t even have to put in money: they that facilitates personal growth, and engage can support us by changing some regulations, www.piuscentre.com residents in Brick by Brick management and by giving us some way around the welcome offer training to ensure their success. After a tax. There are a lot of different ways that the bond matures, the holder gets back whatever Follow us on • city can help.” 3 Opinion & Editorial Parlez-moi 7KHSODVWLFEDJEDQ bandwagon is way off course D’HUMOUR A ban of anything the environmental movement doesn’t like is smart politics for Alcide Borik a government that wants to look green. But a bag ban is pointless Homophobie - femmophobie: «corriger» he fish in the movie Finding Nemo invention of plastic bags to America to replace le professeur Laberge !!! had made their great escape. After a the paper bags. Tfar-fetched plan and an unlikely set of Would environmentalists who always oppose Décidément, la rectitude politique tre nous, pensent un peu encore comme circumstances, five fish made it out the window the petroleum industry push us back to paper? commence au CÉGEP... et n’a plus de le pauvre professeur je rappellerai cet and into the ocean. But since they each floated This would mean higher carbon emissions in limites ! éditorial d’un grand journaliste, André as buoyant prisoners in plastic bags, one asked, the production of the bags and even in their “Now what?” La petite histoire raconte que le regretté Frossard (curieusement de droite lui aussi) : transportation. Paper bags have greater bulk It’s the very question those on the plastic bag and weight, requiring more trucks burning Sacha Guitry (qui paraît-il n’était pas très Pardonnez-nous d’être Français. C’est ban bandwagon need to ask. more diesel fuel just to get the bags to market. beau), aurait cavalièrement balayé du revers ainsi qu’il titrait son éditorial en première de la main la proposition de mariage que lui page du Nouveau Candide dans les années The Great Pacific Ocean Patch, some claim, is Plastic bags could also be replaced with faisait une dame; Comme elle minaudait : soixante. Il faisait ainsi allusion au fait que the size of Texas. This swirling mass of garbage cotton bags, if poison is your thing. The World les Français d’Algérie, nés sur le sol algérien is said to be full of plastics that will never break Wildlife Fund reports that although cotton «Imaginez donc si nos enfants avaient comme lui, et leurs pères colonisateurs, down – to the detriment of marine life and accounts for 2.4 per cent of the world’s crop- ma beauté et votre intelligence!» avaient apporté à l’Afrique du Nord des eventually of people. land, it accounts for 24 per cent of the market Il lui répondit : écoles et des hôpitaux alors que les autres But as many scientists have noted, the amount for insecticides and 11 per cent of pesticides. «Oui, mais ils pourraient aussi avoir MA n’avaient fait qu’exploiter le sol et le sous- of garbage is sparse and bears no resemblance Plus, cotton is the thirstiest crop ever, needing beauté et VOTRE intelligence!» sol des colonies pour mieux s’enrichir.