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2 Ann_10x14_Cabaret_UnJourUnJour_AN.indd The Senior Times July -1 August 2017 theseniortimes.com 17-07-04 15:33 Renaissance man provides jobs, training, and treasures for us that the founder was Pierre Legault Irwin Block and that this was not the first of his exploits to make the world a better A lot of us complain about the way place. He was instrumental in setting things are in Quebec – poverty, un- up Moisson Montréal, the city’s employment, underemployment, central food bank, which distributes and over-dependency on the state, $81.5 million worth of food annu- or l’état providence. ally to 254 community organizations, Then there are those who take the which then redistribute it. next step and set out to make a real I tracked him down for an interview difference in people’s lives, and one in the offices of the former warehouse such person is Pierre Legault. on Saint-Laurent Blvd, just north of “Pierre who?” you might rightly ask. Jean-Talon, where, as general man- He is hardly a household name but ager, he runs Renaissance. the 63-year-old has made life better I learned that the 63-year-old fa- for thousands of Quebecers. ther of six, and grandfather to eight, I first heard about him indirectly, comes from a middle-class family. because for the past few years I have His father Robert Legault ran a fleet been an almost daily visitor to the of trucks as distribution manager for Renaissance used bookstore and do- La Presse. His mother, Jeanine, was a nation centre located next to where we cosmetics manager at a Jean Coutu in lived, on Decarie Blvd. Laval. He grew up in the St. Vincent For me, this was close to providen- de Paul district of Laval, with three tial – just about every interesting title, sisters, earning a B.A. from Univer- fiction and non-fiction, English and sité de Montréal in psycho-education. French, travel and cookbooks, was for Photo: Irwin Block Pierre Legault heard the call to improve the lives of others. Once Renaissance began to grow and sale there for $3.50. And CDs too, at $2 prosper, he returned to school for an to $6, toys, paintings, and knicknacks. trained and to work for six months, ployment or returned to school. In MBA at McGill. The staff was so polite, so helpful, so at the minimum wage, now $11.25 an that time 11,311 tons of clothing and It was while working with emotion- efficient, the store open seven days a hour. Since he started Renaissance in household goods that might have been ally disturbed children from 1981-84 week, that I figured this could not be a June 1994, the non-profit organiza- dumped in landfill sites were recycled. that he was moved to do something government outfit. tion has found jobs for 3,605 people. And as we know, one person’s junk is about hunger. I learned that the staff is composed After their six months were over, four another person’s treasure. of people ready and willing to be workers in five in 2016-17 found em- Talking to one of the staff, I learned Continued on page 4

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theseniortimes.com July - August 2017 The Senior Times 3 Pierre Legault got his start by creating Harvest Montreal Continued from page 3 to pay to have it dumped!” 1988, and in 1989-90 he got the J.A. Valeurs sells for its share-holder’s profit. “There was a little girl who returned “It was a win-win and then W5 De Sève Foundation interested, which “It is certainly not very ethical to be to the facility after a weekend with her came to interview me!” offered $1 million and a warehouse, highjacking donations from people in parents, who was very upset and cry- That publicity got the ball rolling, but agreed to hold off on setting up Montreal who want to do good with ing. She told me, her mum had sold with a flood of phone calls from Ro- Renaissance for four years. He worked their donations,” he remarked. her bed because there was no money tary Clubs, Centraide, the McConnell as an administrator at Vanier’s Groups that sell donated goods to left for food. It broke my heart. Foundation, and the Bronfman Foun- L’Arche, and in 1993 returned to the Village des Valeurs in Quebec include “I said to myself, it doesn’t make dation offering matching grants. It is idea of starting Renaissance. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada and sense that in Montreal there are these now a pillar of Centraide’s efforts to The concept here is also inspired the Fondation de recherche pour le kids who are going hungry, and yet feed low income families. by Enterprise d’Insertion in France, diabète juvénile, he said. there is all this wasted food.” As far as his motivation, Legault which interested the Quebec govern- Renaissance has a full and part-time He started Moisson Montréal, or says he and his wife, a psychology ment at the time because of its newly staff of 508, and 120 in-training posi- Harvest Montreal, with three pa- graduate from McGill, are both acquired responsibility for manpower tions, plus about 100 volunteers. rishioners of a north-end Catholic idealists who want to contribute to and employability training. Emploi It is now starting to buy surplus church in 1983, first as a volunteer. making the world a better place. Québec now contributes 15 per cent goods, especially clothing, from vari- In 1984 he became involved full- “I stopped going to church when I of Renaissance’s budget. ous not-for-profit agencies. time. At first he was working with no was 12 or 13, but in Europe I ended up The first store was opened in the In the works is “a little project of a revenue at all and three kids to feed, meeting (Canadian Catholic philoso- former warehouse on Saint-Laurent, farm because not everyone functions but his wife, Margaret Anne (Peggy) pher) Jean Vanier in France. I stayed which Renaissance now owns. well in a retail environment. Some peo- Brooks, said she wasn’t worried, at the L’Arche community he founded “We had a rough time for years, ple need to be in contact with nature.” saying, “If it doesn’t work out, you’ll (for people with developmental barely making it,” but the organiza- The organization is shopping find something else.” disabilities) and rediscovered my tion as of today is a huge success, of- around for a property to grow organic “A friend of mine in the U.S. inher- spiritual values.” fering lower prices than Value Village, vegetables and try to finance itself ited some money, and sent me $5,000 When he realized he was “a bit of a which is a U.S. owned for-profit chain. over the next four or five years. – quite a bit of money then, which social entrepreneur,” he and his wife And there is no sales-tax component “It would be nice to have that.” helped us tide things over.” decided they would do what they can. at Renaissance. Somewhat full disclosure Things started to change dramati- He was struck by the fact that there “On July 20, we are opening our 12th Legault is reluctant to discuss pre- cally, thanks to a TV program on CTV’s were thousands of people using soup store, in les Galeries Normandie mall cise details of Renaissance finances W5, about City Harvest in New York kitchens who were not working, some on de Salaberry in Cartierville-Ahun- because he says it might compromise City, which was collecting food from of whom were very effective as food tsic, a huge store with 17,000 square its competitive position with regard restaurants and institutional kitchens. bank volunteers. feet, similar to the one we opened to privately owned Value Village, but “We went down to New York, and “I realized many had low self- last year on Henri-Bourassa”, he said, he referred me to the Revenue Canada realized there was a lot more food, esteem, were very anxious, and they with pride. report for Industries Goodwill Renais- in warehouses of Kraft, or General needed a way to regain their self- Renaissance has 42 locations, in- sance Montreal Inc. – the registered Foods in LaSalle, and we could pick confidence.” cluding a liquidation centre, and eight name – which shows total revenue last up larger volumes. In 1988, the Catholic organization bookstores. The remainder are dona- year of $25.27 million. His gross in- “We decided to get a truck, a ware- known as Emaus was closing and tion centres. come as general manager was between house, and then started moving much their property was up for sale. Legault Legault says he was not surprised by $120,000 and $159,999. bigger quantities, adding food from had heard about Goodwill Industries the success of the concept but has to Apart from their salary, staff hired the central market, truckloads of po- in the U.S. and decided to copy its face stiff competiton from Village des on the six-month “insertion” program tatoes, fruits, and vegetables. format of running thrift stores while Valeurs and the agencies that collect gain work experience, they receive “This is produce that had to be used providing job training and employment items for it. personalized training and support, right away, so they would give it to us placement services as a non-profit Their business model is to use non- and guidance tailored to their needs and we would pass it on right away to organization. profits, collect goods from them, which in searching for a job. the agencies, rather than them having He visited a Goodwill in Toronto in are paid a low price, and Village des [email protected]

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Yes, boycotts hurt advertising revenue, the result out, developed as a journalist, from and [email protected], Bell and there are risks. But it is a way of of a multiplicity of choice from a meat-and-potatoes sportscaster Media local news director. making your voice heard. competing media, including of into a passionate and thoughtful course, the Internet. analyst. In that role Wilde was the Mixed prayer ban at Wall deepens divide The Montreal Gazette, though still straight man in a delightful series of As an excellent backgrounder in on the support of Ultra-Orthodox with some highly motivated and dialogues with François Gagnon of the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz parties to maintain power: They highly productive journalists and La Presse fame, in their own mini- explains, there was a time when threatened, he caved, and dismissed photographers, is a shadow of its for- version of the hot stove league. The men and women could pray to- the compromise plan for the egali- mer self. But one thing its owners and decision, all about the mighty dollar gether in front of the Western tarian prayer space. managers have not done is reduce as CTV moves to introduce a 5 p.m. Wall, considered to be the second The stranglehold of the Orthodox coverage of sports, specifically hockey. newscast, is wrong, wrong, wrong. holiest site in Judaism, the first and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish com- Given the reality of this being a Viewers who are upset can and being the Temple Mount itself. munities over Israeli government hockey-mad town, we were shocked should do something about it. One Also known as the Wall of Lam- decisions, because they often hold when last month Bell Media, owners thing is to demonstrate your dis- entations, it was never part of the the balance of power, is one of the of CTV and its highly successful TV pleasure by switching to the excel- Temple Mount, but believed to most negative consequences of the station here, scrapped its local sports lent CBC and its local coverage of be a remnant of the retaining wall country’s proportional representa- department by laying off its excellent news, including sports. In Douglas that supported the esplanade built tion political system. This enables journalists: The veteran Randy Tie- Gelevan and Andie Bennett, who by King Herod in the first century Orthodox control over marriage man, the clever Brian Wilde, and work on radio and TV, CBC has a B.C., holding up his reconstruction and divorce. rookie Sean Coleman. well-informed and balanced team of of the Second Temple. Since east Now the outmoded practice of Even those who are not hard-core pros. They do the job, and do it well. Jerusalem was among territories enforcing gender separation at a sports fans enjoyed the friendly and Viewers can also join in the captured by Israeli forces in the June revered and popular religious site is folksy way Tieman treated major burgeoning protest movement to 1967 war, it has become the world’s being restored. The net effect is to sports stories, his humour, compas- boycott CTV News. One campaign foremost destination for Jewish resume a practice that is out of keep- sion, and judgement connected with going around social media says, pilgrimage and prayer. ing with the progressive branches a loyal fan base. We remember his “You can’t cut local coverage and The conflict arose because mem- of Judaism, proponents of which attention to the local scene, his series expect local viewers to continue to bers of Conservative, Reform, and also happen to be among the most Reconstructionist congregations, fervent advocates of restarting the mainly in the U.S. and Canada, frozen peace process. HELP NEEDED… campaigned successfully for egali- This craven political move by the tarianprayer space, where women Netanyahu government can only For a listening and men share equally in the further alienate North American experiment on spiritual experience as they do in Jews and their support for an Israel temples and synagogues at home. that is a beacon among the nations. At the end of January last year, As Israeli consul general in Toronto UNDERSTANDING the Israeli government approved a Gail Baram reported to the Israeli plan for such a space in the Robin- foreign ministry, quoted in Ha’aretz: SPEECH IN NOISE son’s Arch area and Women of the “We are receiving repeated warn- Wall and non-Orthodox adherents ings that these decisions will worsen Seeking individuals who: celebrated. Given the unfortunate the existing trend of growing and • Are between 65 and 75 years of age reality of Israeli politics, the Ne- deepening alienation toward Israel tanyahu government is dependent among the younger generation.” • Have good hearing • Use English as their primary language of everyday communication ST news and views Your total participation will be approximately 3 hours. The Senior Times is available on- be out the first week of August. 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For example, in the former, these words by many North Americans; the 2007 choice have previously been deemed “word of the year”: carbon footprint and the one in 2008 credit crunch. Hashtag (2012), app (2010), tweet (2009), Y2K The other two merit explanation for denizens of (1999), e- (1998), WWW (1995) cyber (1994). In Canada and the USA. addition, in 2010, google was voted as “word of The 2010 choice squeezed middle refers to the the decade.” In the latter category, winners were situation where wage increases for the middle occupy (2011), bailout (2008), subprime (2007), class fail to keep pace with inflation. The 2011 truthiness (2007), WMD (2002). 9-11 (2001), selection big society refers to a political ideology chad (2000) bushlips (1990). whereby a significant amount of responsibility The term truthinesss was invented by Stephen for the functioning of society is devolved to local Colbert and refers to the quality of seeming or communities and volunteers. being felt to be true, even if not necessarily true. What I found most interesting about the Oxford You could say that Colbert envisaged the mindset selections was how many of the winners come of next decade’s Trump supporters. from television culture. For example the 2012 Some of the choices have proved to be short- winner omnishambles was a neologism that came lived. In fact, the very first selection in 1990, out of the BBC political satire show The Thick bushlips had the shortest legs of all. It referred to of It; it referred to a situation shambolic to the insincere political rhetoric emanating from the extreme. 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theseniortimes.com July - August 2017 The Senior Times 7 SENIOR TIMES MAGAZINE : 3,25 X 5 N/B 28/03/2017 - V01B Irwin Cotler honoured for lifetime achievements Irwin Cotler received Quebec’s All-Party Save Darfur Parliamentary highest honour from Premier Coalition. Philippe Couillard June 22 when he An international human rights law- was named an Officer of the Ordre yer, Professor Cotler has served as national du Québec. Cotler’s tire- Counsel to prisoners of conscience less and continuing body of work including Andrei Sakharov & Nathan in the defense of human rights and Sharansky (former Soviet Union), equality were recognized, along Nelson Mandela (South Africa), Ja- with 35 other Quebecers at a cer- cobo Timmerman (Latin America), emony in the Salon rouge of the Prof Saad Eddin Ibrahim (Egypt) National Assembly. and he was Chair of the International David Birnbaum, MNA for D’Arcy- Commission of Inquiry into the Fate McGee initiated the nomination of and Whereabouts of Raoul Wallen- Cotler, with Mayor Denis Coderre. berg. He is a Member of the Interna- The nomination was supported by tional Legal Team of Chinese Nobel a letter from American lawyer Alan office Photo: Courtesy David Birnbaum’s Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo, and more Irwin Cotler, Premier Philippe Couillard, MNA David Birnbaum Dershowitz who has worked with recently became international legal Cotler on a series on international his home and place of birth, now Court of Appeal; initiated the first- counsel to imprisoned Saudi blogger human rights cases and in fighting recognize that contribution as well.” ever law on human trafficking; Raif Badawi, Venezuelan political anti-Semitism worldwide. Dershow- crafted the Civil Marriage Act, the prisoner Leopoldo López, and Shi’ite itz has nominated Cotler three times He continues to work as Chairper- first-ever legislation to grant marriage Cleric Ayatollah Boroujerdi in Iran. for the Nobel Peace Prize. son of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre equality to gays and lesbians; issued He is the recipient of eleven hon- “Irwin’s contributions to Que- for Human Rights. Canada’s first National Justice Initia- orary doctorates, numerous awards bec and the rest of Canada, and to As Minister of Justice and Attor- tive Against Racism and Hate; and including the Order of Canada, the world, cannot be overstated,” ney General, Irwin Cotler initiated made the pursuit of international and has recently been awarded the Birnbaum said. “His humanity, his the first-ever comprehensive reform justice a government priority. Canadian Bar Association’s Presi- brilliance, and his determination of the Supreme Court appointment A leading Parliamentarian on the dent’s Award, the International are gifts to all of us. Irwin has been process and helped make it the most global stage, he is Chair of the Inter- Raoul Wallenberg Foundation’s recognized for those seminally im- gender-representative Supreme Parliamentary Group for Human Centennial Medal and was elected portant contributions many times, Court in the world; appointed the Rights in Iran; Chair of the Inter- 2014 Canadian Parliamentarian of and in many places. It is so appro- first-ever aboriginal and visible Parliamentary Group of Justice for the Year by his colleagues. priate and important that Quebec, minority justices to the Ontario Sergei Magnitsky; and Chair of the Source: irwincotler.liberal.ca Welcome to the New Volunteer for senior care The CIUSSS West-Central Montreal four hours a week, and attend com- Grace Village Care Pavilion Health is looking for volunteers for pulsory training. A police check is its long-term senior care facilities mandatory and character references to help with recreational activities, are required. friendly visiting, medical escorts, Two volunteer information meet- and meal assistance. Volunteers are ings will be held at the CLSC de also needed to assist at the CLSC de Benny Farm, 6484 Monkland, Benny Farm reception area. Thursday, July 13 at 1pm and Friday, Volunteers should have inter- July 14 at 9:30 am. personal skills, speak English and For more information or to French, be able to volunteer two to register: 514-484-7878 x. 3146

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Rideau Memorial Gardens & Funeral Home [email protected] Rideau-Lakeview: One Teamby Arbor Memorial One Vision 4239 Sources Blvd., Dollard des Ormeaux • rideaumemorial.ca montrealapts.ca 12 The Senior Times July - August 2017 theseniortimes.com Iconic drummer disappeared but still a music legend Irwin Block Born in Montreal to a working play free. Sometimes he’d get up and class family – his father was a la- walk away. He just couldn’t stand it.” Jazz drummer Claude Ranger was bourer and truck driver – and raised The book is replete with this kind a legendary figure long before his in the northern Plateau Mont-Royal of learned appreciation from fellow disappearance almost 17 years ago. and Rosemont, he first picked up the musicians, some of Canada’s best, But his last years away from the drums as a teen when he joined the who played with Ranger, as well as music scene and the mystery sur- army cadet corps. After private les- Miller’s own insights. He knows rounding his fate have only served sons, he quit high school and spent the instrument, since he is a drum- to enhance his iconic status, even the next two years just practicing at mer himself, and is the author of ten as his family, friends, and fans are home, with his first gig at 17. other books on jazz and jazz musi- perplexed and saddened by it. He grew into his own style, in- cians, and a keen music journalist The Claude Ranger story was wait- fluenced at first by early beboppers who had covered the scene for 27 ing to be written, and Mark Miller, Max Roach and Miles Davis’s Jimmy years for the Globe & Mail. the Toronto-based jazz writer and Cobb, then by John Coltrane’s drum- The book is also a review of photographer, took up the challenge mer, Elvin Jones, and Davis’s Tony Ranger’s major gigs, his CDs, and producing a fascinating and in-depth Williams, who had replaced Cobb. a complete discography in annex. chronicle of the drummer’s life and This book, of course, is much more something you can’t learn. It’s But above all, with scores of in- his music, including the state of the than simply a biography of a drum- innate” Allen remarked. terviews, including with Ranger, jazz scene in Montreal, Toronto, and mer: it also offers an overview of the But Ranger could not stand it references to reviews and his own Vancouver while he lived there. jazz scene in Montreal at the time, when bandmates would play the profound knowledge of the scene, Claude Ranger, Canadian Jazz then, following Ranger as he moved same all the time, even if they were we learn how Ranger and his music Legend (Tellwell Talent, 279 pages, west, of the Toronto, and Vancouver the top musicians in Toronto and, as fit the varied and evolving scene in $38, Kindle Edition, $7) begins with scenes, where he ended his perform- multi-instrumentalist Don Thomp- Canada’s three major cities, and his the time “on or about November 2, ing career. son says, Ranger would “just start ultimate refusal to accept and adapt 2000” when, according to his friend, Ranger had his own trademark playing free, right in the middle of a to conditions that did not meet his Ivan Bamford, Ranger left his one- stage presence, with a lit cigarette straight-ahead tune.” standards and expectations. room apartment in a subsidized perpetually hanging from the left Ranger “really could play time. He In the end, as Miller notes, Rang- housing complex in Aldergrove, side of his mouth and a bottle of had a groove that was unbelievable. er’s way of dealing with situations B.C., never to return. beer by his side. But if the bass player was pushing, he that he could no longer bear was to The Montreal-born musician was Miller’s remarkable black and white couldn’t deal with it. He’d get really walk away. 59, living alone, apart from his wife photograph on the book’s cover, with angry and he’d stop playing, or he’d [email protected] and four daughters, and to this day, the freshly lit cigarette and ash hang- the RCMP inquiry into his where- ing from the tip, as he was playing abouts, launched in 2001, has been at the Montreal International Jazz inconclusive. Festival in 1986, and several more Ranger had sold his drums and inside, are exactly as I remember after 30 years stopped playing the jazz Ranger playing in Montreal. he loved, and living the life that went Toronto saxophonist Ron Allen, with it. Both, as Miller writes, were who worked with Ranger in 1980, characterized by “a remarkable sense says the cigarette cum ash was “a of immediacy, a love of risk and no symptom of the absolutely disci- particular concern for consequence.” plined carelessness that he had … What that meant was being at times The way it would hang, defying extraordinarily busy and in demand. gravity – he knew it was intimidating, In 1989, at the du Maurier Interna- he knew it was attractive, he knew tional Jazz Festival, Ranger would how to seduce.” play with seven different bands in But that image could not be divorced 10 days, a total of 13 concerts. For a from his dramatic role as a drummer quintet of his own, one of its mem- who made music, rather than sim- bers recalls, Ranger organized but ply keeping time or enhancing what one rehearsal. But saxophonist Rob others were doing. Frayne has a different memory. In Toronto he “cut a compelling Moments “Claude would throw down charts figure” and was a living antidote to and we just played them. I don’t re- what Miller describes as “the prime member rehearsing even once. He’d conservatism of a scene still largely That Matter say, ‘Play like the bomb will fall at mid- defined by the values of the 1950s.” night.’ He meant the nuclear bomb. Writing in Coda magazine, Bill ‘Play like these are your last moments Smith marvelled in a December 1974 on earth.’ That was his approach, review at “the incredible Ranger, Can- ada’s master of percussion dynamics, CHARTWELL CHARTWELL and he took it very, very seriously.” LE WELLESLEY MANOIR KIRKLAND Ranger was a perfectionist with his sitting there at his tiny drums provid- 230 Hymus Blvd. 2 Canvin Street own high standards and concept for ing dialogue at every level necessary.” Pointe-Claire • 438-538-8474 Kirkland • 438-538-8472 how the music should be played, and Drummer Buff Allen tried to not be played; if he didn’t like what learn by listening to Ranger after he someone in a band would be doing, refused to offer lessons. “It wasn’t a special style, or a technical style, it he could just stop, which in jazz is CHARTWELL.COM equivalent to spitting in your face. was his emotional power. That’s

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theseniortimes.com July - August 2017 The Senior Times 17 What’s happening in juLY Feature-length films and living arts at 27th First Peoples Festival Jessica Deer happy because the rest were mainly feet high – that will represent the Pennell with La Bronze; and Laura Courtesy The Eastern Door short films or medium-sized films for two brothers and they will stand at Niquay with Sunny Duval. television. Now, feature films are really two ends of Ste. Catherine Street – On August 9, the festival will The 27th edition of the annual event something common in Indigenous one near Bleury and the other near close with a dedication to the 10- will transform Place des Festivals production,” Dudemaine said. St. Laurent – and they will come year anniversary of the United from August 2-9. Among the films to be featured are together at the bottom of Place du Nations Declaration on the Rights “This year, as always, we have Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s Angry Inuk, Makusham,” said Dudemaine. of Indigenous Peoples, at the Grande great outdoor activities around what and Daniel Redenbach and Janine The interactive theatre, choreo- Bibliothèque auditorium. we call now Place du Makusham,” Windolph’s The Land of Rock and graphed and directed by Pierre-Paul *** said André Dudemaine, director of Gold, which stars Kahnawake actress Savoie, delves into the Creation Story. For details: presenceautochtone.ca cultural activities for Land InSights, Kawennáhere Jacobs. On August 4, Nikamotan Mtl Jessica Deer is a deep-thinking, the driving force behind the festival. The festival will also include the will take place on the main outdoor quick- witted (and perhaps heavily Throughout the week, the area Montreal premiere of Rezolution stage featuring new Indigenous wave caffeinated) columnist at The Eastern will include festive installations, Pictures’ feature documentary and well-known performers on the Door, Kahnawake’s community news- performances, concerts, active art, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked Quebec musical scene: Natasha paper. and food, while a parallel inter- The World, which shines light on Kanapé-Fontaine with Random Reprinted from The Eastern Door national film and video competi- Indigenous musicians’ contributions Recipe; Matiu with Dramatik; Esther [email protected] tion will present the best of to rock, heavy metal, jazz, and blues. cinematographic creations by and In collaboration with Montreal’s about Indigenous Peoples. 375th anniversary, a special theatrical Shakespeare’s Much Ado on July 13 - Aug. 15 “There are a lot of feature films and visual production, Ioskeha et As anyone who has watched any couples dance in celebration of mar- now – documentary or fiction. This Tawiscara: le grand Jeu de la création of its productions over the past 28 riages, which in the end are a go. The is really a new phenomenon. A few will span three evenings at Place years, Shakespeare-in-the-Park is actors include Dakota Jamal Wellman years ago, when we had one or two du Makusham. a lot of fun, the experience often (Claudio), Tiernan Cornford (Hero), feature films in the festival we were “We want to have big figures – 25 memorable. Quincy Armorer (Benedick), and From July 13 to August 15 this sum- Holly Gauthier-Frankel (Beatrice). mer, Repercussion Theatre will pres- All shows begin at 7 pm, starting July Stimulating the brain to tailor training of ent its family-friendly production of 13 in Baie d’Urfé, July 16 Park Exten- the affected arm after stroke The Bard’s beloved comedy, Much sion, July 18 Pierrefonds, July 19 Kirk- Can using a brain stimulation technique to tailor interventions for Ado About Nothing, directed by land, July 20 Dorval, July 21 Canadian the affected arm promote better recovery in stroke survivors? Amanda Kellock. Centre for Architecture, July 22 and Eligibility Criteria Procedure In Shakespeare’s day, the word ‘not- 23, Westmount, July 25 Verdun, July • Man or woman • Two pre-training evaluations of your affected ing’ referred to gossip and rumour, 26 Côte Saint-Luc, July 27, Town of • Having had a stroke arm and your brain and Benedick and Beatrice are tricked Mount Royal, July 28 Beaconsfield, at least 6 months ago • 12 sessions of an individualized training of into confessing their love to each July 30 N.D.G., Aug. 1 McGill Uni- your affected arm span over 4 weeks, • Being able to reach one other, while Claudio is hoodwinked versity Campus, and more until the of our study sites in combined or not to a transcranial direct Sherbrooke, Montreal current stimulation (tDCS) of your brain into rejecting Hero as they were to final three performances Aug. 2 Ville- or Ottawa • Two post-training evaluations of your marry, in the erroneous belief that she Marie, Aug. 13 Hemmingford, and affected arm and your brain had been unfaithful. Aug. 15 Greenfield Park. Interested in this study? But as Shakespeare has said, All’s For details of all performances Please contact a member of the research team : Well that Ends Well, and Benedick in July and August, visit Montreal: 514-398-5457 • Sherbrooke: 1-888-780-1832 • Ottawa: 613-562-6262 and Beatrice make it all happen, the repercussiontheatre.com/muchado/

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A this day will live on in nine are hockey fans, and George memories, including the says, “I wonder if we could Photo: one that isn’t a hockey fan. get them to come over and Left to right: Josh Kayson, Harry Abramovitz, Archie Katz, Sid Birns, George Nashen, Jack Frank, Beryl Peletz, So, today’s choice by Beryl, Peter Sternberg and Jack Lackman. Standing left to right: Larry Robinson, Guy Carbonneau and Guy Lafleur. take a picture with us,” so I of the Rail restaurant which said “why not, give it a shot George,” of them come over to our table Famers: Robinson, affectionately was established in 2010, was the right so he does with much enthusiasm and and happily get into picture taking known around Quebec as “Big choice, because as fate would have completely forgets he has trouble mode. After the pictures were taken, Bird”, is one of the most popular it, everything worked in our favor. walking. After all he’s pushing 94. Larry and Guy Lafleur sat down and players to ever don the Montreal Good food, meeting the “three mus- (George recently started using a walker). chatted with the ‘boys’. Canadiens jersey. Having played for keteers of Hockey Hall of Fame,” Well, he gets to their table and A bit of interesting background the Habs for 17 years, the 6’4’’ de- and great friends, made for a day after a couple of minutes the three about the three Hockey Hall of fenseman helped lead his team to six to remember. Four cultures of youth connect, break down stereotypes Photo: Courtesy Lisa Byer De Wever Four communities with questions and minds open to discovery showed the power of listening to and learning from each other last week. Daniel J. Rowe minister Lisa Byer-de Wever, who Horn. “They still thought we lived said Horn. “They got a better un- Courtesy The EasternD oor wanted to open a dialogue about in ribbon clothes (North American derstanding and not just what they Two days before Canada 150 the realities facing Kahnawake and Native ceremonial costume) and learned in history class.” celebrations and accompanying other communities. The groups met didn’t leave town.” Leaders Karina Peterson and Adri- protests dotted the country, Kahn- at the Kanienkehá:ka Onkwawén:na Wever was inspired by the way the enne Zachary hope when Kahn- awake was host to a celebration, Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural youth responded to the issues raised. awake visits the Muslim community one of sharing and learning. Center to share stories, and ask each “What’s really amazing is that the in August, the reverse of last week’s “Origins” was a gathering of 48 other questions. kids are questioning the information experience will happen. youth and leaders from the Muslim “It was so amazing, and they’re so they’re getting,” she said, recalling a “When they came here they got to Community Centre, Dorshei Emet excited to do it again,” Wever said. 13-year-old Muslim boy, who came ask the questions that they had been Jewish Centre, the Montreal United As hosts, Kahnawake’s youth were to the community and shared a story thinking about,” said Zachary. “I’m Church and A:se Tahonatehiaróntie able to answer questions about the of how he challenged a teacher who hoping what they get from the other youth group from Kahnawake, who community. suggested a stereotypical idea of the groups is the same thing: to really met in the community June 29 to “It was really interesting be- Onkwehón:we way of life. Many said understand their culture. share and learn about one another. cause they asked a lot of questions the experience was positive. Condensed from the original that can “That’s why we timed it this way,” that I thought I wouldn’t get,” said “I got to learn about them and be viewed at easterndoor.com. said Kahnawake United Church 15-year-old Karennahen:te Mara they got to learn about my culture,” [email protected] theseniortimes.com July - August 2017 The Senior Times 21 Ode on retirement: A valediction allowing mourning* Barbara Moser Poetry, no. Nevertheless I had and swim around in it. Oh, yes, too People keep congratulating me on taken a couple of courses in Israel often we would have the tired argu- retiring but I don’t feel like celebrat- I have done that which I thought I when I began my Masters Degree, at ment of “Miss, why can’t I interpret ing. Yes, it was the right time be- would never do — I have retired. least Yeats and Eliot. the poem the way I want” with me, cause it was getting hard to hear the Not from The Senior Times or Overjoyed, I would finally be the “dictator” answering that poems girls in the middle range who spoke from my pursuit of changing the teaching literature, reflecting my are not meant to be interpreted but with their heads down, and harder world one child at a time, at least in years of study and training. felt, and once you feel them, you to hear about the plights of students Ecuador, but rather from teaching I chose a poetry anthology recom- understand their meaning. who couldn’t afford to go to school, literature at Dawson College, which mended by a friend who had been So it is with Hope, by Ariel Dorf- even though it was ostensibly free, has been my career and calling for my professor during the beginning man, which I recommend you read. whose fathers or mothers were very the past 25 years. of my MA in Haifa, Israel. It almost breaks my heart every time ill or unable to care for their families, I was hired first as a business-writ- I began to engage with the likes of I read it to a class of students. At the the non-English speakers who had ing teacher (then The Senior Times William Wordsworth, John Keats, end, I always asked “How does the taken the poetry class because they was my main job and journalism John Donne, Sylvia Plath, Marge poem make you feel?” What is uni- wouldn’t have to read that much, wasn’t yet a Profile at Dawson) per- Piercy, Anne Sexton, Andrew Mar- versal about this experience? the students who cut themselves, or haps because my Aunt Beryl Moser vel, Robert Frost, and to learn and wrote ballads about a suicide they love the complexity of their art. had tried to commit. was a librarian there and the Chair- I loved the first-term person of the English Department For 20 years, first as a Cont. Ed. The conversation with the boy who, knew her. Teacher in the evenings (far too students best, fresh in his ballad, wrote about how his As I was walking down the steps many years) and then finally as a full out of high school. mother walked in and saved him — on Sherbrooke St. after we had met fledged “day” teacher, I would walk the best ballad a student wrote for my to discuss the course I would be into classrooms full of eager and not- class. He read it to the class. Both ver- teaching, Elaine Bander, then the so-eager students (I loved the first- And yes, poetry was not what I was sions. The one where he is saved and English Chairperson — called out, term students best, fresh out of high known for at Dawson. I excelled at the one where he is not. And the stu- “Can you teach poetry?” school) ready to transfer my love of a course no one knew how to teach, dents were silent and then applauded. “Yes” I responded, elated but these poets to these young, develop- at least in the beginning, a course in Yes, there were moments like this worried. I had never taught poetry ing minds and hearts, to show them writing and reading “practical” Eng- at Dawson College, moments of un- before. My thesis was on a Cana- how relevant John Donne’s Vale- lish in the programs, mainly I sup- derstanding and bonding, like the dian novelist, Henry Kreisel, and a diction Forebidding Mourning or pose because I was used to that kind ones after the Dawson shooting. central theme was the juxtaposition John Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn of writing in my other life outside Nobody likes it when we call it a of the Holocaust and the wasteland could be, how to dive into the pool Academia. And I did teach a lot of shooting but nobody likes it when that was Alberta, during the 40s. of azure waters that was the poem short stories and even some novels. we call it a tragedy either. But it But poetry always was my favourite. was our tragedy and we will always I love the ballad, the oldest and remember that day and Anastasia perhaps less-appreciated of all the DeSousa, the student who was forms and I loved teaching them, gunned down and never had the both anonymous and modern, chance to engage and learn and especially The Ballad of Rudoph laugh and cry with us. Reed and The Ballad of Birmingham, So all these things I will miss and ballads of the Civil Rights Move- this is why, when my friends and ments. Look up Ballad of Birming- colleagues smile and say, “Congrat- ham and the University of Tennessee ulations” and it was time for you, I and you will find the ballad put to can’t quite smile back, not because I music by students at this school, haven’t got a rich and full life to live unbearably sad and moving. from here on but because I will never My students, whether they were again experience teaching Donne or in first or second year, would write Keats and that look of understand- their own ballads, some of them, on ing on the face of a student who was personal experiences or “ordinary” just turned on to poetry. ancestors who achieved extraordi- So I will not deny myself the “tear- Enhancing the lives of everyone touched by nary feats in difficult times. floods and sigh tempests” that Donne In my class on Holocaust poetry, denied his wife on his departure, but Alzheimer’s and related dementias I subjected the students, sitting on try to keep those many lines in my the floor, crowded together, to hun- mind and my heart, as I continue to Are you caring for a loved one dreds of images of the Holocaust on struggle with my decision to retire. a video screen and passed out poems *Ode on a Grecian Urn by John with Alzheimer’s or dementia? and texts, asking them to read them Keats and A Valediction Forbidding aloud and then write their own Mourning by John Donne are two of You’re not alone – We’re here to help! Holocaust poem or make a visual the poems I most enjoyed teaching representation of one they had read at Dawson. that day. Not all the students reacted Contact AGI well to that class, but enough did. Editor’s Note on our Chicago This is what I will miss most about article in June: 514.485.7233 | [email protected] | www.agiteam.org retirement. This is why I am con- Thanks to Mary Jo Martens, we have flicted. I am not retiring from a 9 to 5 learned that the “El” (L) metro line Helpline – Counselling – Support groups – Respite – Education desk job, not that they are unstimulat- runs directly from O’Hare airport to ing, but this job was the most reward- the Loop and the price is just an El ing, most challenging of my life so far. ticket, which costs $5. 22 The Senior Times July - August 2017 theseniortimes.com Ah... Carmel-by-the-Sea Art is everywhere in this gorgeous little California town — a sumptuous feast of paintings, sculpture, crafts, or pastries that adorn every window as you walk the four or five streets off the ocean. We were there for the day, Paola Martin, my Cuban daughter, who recently immigrated to Florida; Molly, my California daughter who lives in Sunnyvale, near Google and Apple; and me, visiting for the week. We immersed ourselves in the many art galleries, choosing our favourites should we ever afford to become collectors and we availed ourselves of the wonderful salads and sweets along the main street. I’ll let the pictures do the talking and include some facts about Carmel.

Times and Places Barbara Moser Carmel-by-the-Sea stats Location: Monterey County, California, Monterey Peninsula, Pacific coast, about 330 miles (530 km) north of Los Angeles and 120 miles (190 km) south of San Francisco. Population as of 2010: 3,722 Beginnings: Founded in 1902 and incorporated in 1916. In 1906, the San Francisco Call devoted a full page to the “artists, writers and poets at Carmel-by-the-Sea” and in 1910 it reported that 60 percent of Carmel’s houses were built by citizens who were “devoting their lives to work connected to the aesthetic arts.” Early city councils were dominated by artists. Several mayors were poets or actors including Herbert Heron, founder of the Forest Theater, writer and actor Perry Newberry, and actor-director Clint Eastwood. Dog-friendly: most restaurants, hotels and boutiques allowing dogs. Known for unusual laws: including a prohibition on wearing high-heel shoes without a permit, enacted to prevent lawsuits arising from tripping accidents caused by irregular pavement.

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