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Street hockey lives!

Jonathan Blanshay (left) keeps a close eye on a popular and en er getic street hockey game out side his home at the corner of Summit and Gordon crescents on February 22. Photo: Ralph Thompson.

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Improved communication about the with RF capabilities that compute and that, without prior notice, their bank of 12 In a letter of apology to condo associa - RF meters along with opt-out provisions record additional information on electric - interior hydro meters had been replaced tion president Suni Hope-Johnston, Hydro were among recommendations regarding ity consumption (time of use) and are read by Hydro Westmount’s current radiofre - Westmount stated that a note would be the newer meters made some 18 months remotely from a central location.” quency (RF) model. put in the building’s file that “for any fu - ago to the city by the Healthy City Project The unexpected removal February 19 of ture access to your meters, Hydro West - (see October 23, 2012). the older soon-to-expire mechanical mount will inform you first.” In the wake of the York experience, the meters in the electrical room caused a At present, Hurtubise explains, Hydro controversial issue of RF emissions was Youth play dice, blackout in the building and generated Westmount has separate arrangements raised again, especially when a total of 12 concerns from the condo association to with different apartment buildings. “We are located directly under a unit’s bedroom smoke in bank Mayor Peter Trent, Councillor Christina have to have access to the meters at all (see story May 1, 2012, p. 12). Smith and Hydro Westmount. times.” In some cases, the meter readers Could a shield or other protective de - at 2:30 am Residents also sought an explanation have keys to locked meter rooms. This is vice be installed between them and the A Public Security patroller spotted a about the switch to the RF meter model the case with the York building, Hope- apartment? “I’m investigating this,” Hur - group of five youths inside the vestibule of that enables remote reading from the side - Johnston confirmed. tubise said. the CIBC at 4854 Sherbrooke at 2:30 am walk, though this model is not a “smart” February 22, Public Security officials said. RF meter, like the ones now being used by Regulated by Measurement Canada Re-describing the RF meter They kept up surveillance on the group as Hydro Quebec (see story August 27, 2013, Individual customers are not allowed to He added that he wanted residents to they reportedly played dice and smoked. p. 8). tamper with the meters. 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By Martin C. Barry “Anybody can register to be on this list,” registered.” Dr. Roper pointed out. “You don’t have to The process to register with the CSSS An accidental discovery by Dr. Mark be sick, although, of course, they do prior - to be seen by a family doctor is fairly sim - Roper that Centre de santé et de services itize people with chronic diseases like dia - ple. The easiest way is online at the CSSS sociaux (CSSS) de la Montagne had no di - betes, mental illness or asthma.” web site (http://www.csssdelamontagne. abetics on its family doctor waiting list led All the same, he added, judging from qc.ca). him to wonder whether CSSS users are the feedback he’s received from patients, Click the link for “Care-and-services,” aware they can indeed sign up to be on the most don’t seem to know about the wait - followed by “Find-a-family-doctor,” where list. ing list. He suspects that other patients be - a form can be filled out and submitted. According to the Westmount-based sides diabetics probably need to be better Everyone who doesn’t already have a fam - physician, a nurse practitioner who re - informed of its existence. ily doctor and who lives within CSSS de la cently began working with his office had “There’s definitely a disconnect. Here Montagne territory is eligible. experience managing diabetics. But when you have a situation where we have a Dr. Roper’s advice? “Go register – get she attempted to recruit some from the nurse practitioner who’s taking on new pa - your name on there,” he said. “They’ll call CSSS waiting list, she found there was no tients, or there might be doctors asking for you and find out what your needs are and record of any living in the region. patients from the territory, and no one is they will prioritize you.” Dr. Mark Roper. Antiquarian Book Fair returns to Westmount

By Martin C. Barry Life of King Henry the Eighth . There will also be a leaf from the 1493 Nuremburg “We’re back,” say Westmount Anti - Chronicle , the last history of the world not quarian Book Fair organizers Wilfrid de to mention America. Freitas and Susan Ravdin, referring to the Held in recent years at Selwyn House 22nd annual fair that is taking place at School on Côte St. Antoine Rd., the or - Dawson College on Saturday March 15, ganizers had to relocate to Trinity Memo - following a brief absence from West - rial Church on Sherbrooke St. in eastern mount. NDG for last year’s book fair. Then de Fre - In honour of the 450th anniversary of itas and Ravdin received the disappointing Shakespeare’s birth, a special item at this news that the NDG Food Depot had year’s fair will be an original leaf from the moved into the church basement. third folio edition (1664) of his play The However, they say the newest location WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT We are Westmount. Presstime: Monday at 10:30 am How Can We Help You ?

Publisher: David Price Stories and letters David Price: 514.935.4537 editor: Kristin McNeill (on maternity leave) [email protected] Chief reporter: Laureen Sweeney Westmount Antiquarian Book Fair organizers Wilfrid de Freitas and Susan Ravdin are staging this Advertising Sales year’s event at Dawson College. Photo: Ray Raymond Letters & Comments: Arleen Candiotti: 514.223.3567 [email protected] We welcome your letters but reserve the right in Conrod’s Hall at Dawson College is own, the fair will be a rare opportunity to to choose and edit them. Please limit to 300 We also publish the Free Press ideal in terms of accessibility and expo - see their stock. words and submit before Friday 10 am to be newspaper in Hampstead, Côte St. Luc and NDG. sure, especially since it is right across the According to de Freitas, there will be considered for publication the following week. street from Alexis Nihon Plaza and the At - books to suit every taste and budget. “For Please check your letter carefully as we may Accounting & Classified ads water Metro station. “Ultimately it’s all a small price you can take home a first edi - be unable to make subsequently submitted Beth Hudson: 514.223.6138 about bringing book lovers and books to - tion by Ernest Hemingway or Sir Walter changes. E-mail any letter or comments to offi[email protected] gether,” said Ravdin, who is a former rare Scott, or a signed copy of the latest John le [email protected]. book librarian. Carré,” he said. 16,337 copies Fifteen booksellers and a map specialist The fair runs from 10 am to 5 pm at Audited by will offer some of their finest treasures on Dawson College, 4001 de Maisonneuve just about every subject imaginable: art, Blvd W, Westmount. Admission is $3. For Owned and published by: literature, cookery, history, travel, sport, further details call 514.935.9581 or go to Sherbrooke-Valois Inc., 310 Victoria Ave., #105, Westmount, QC H3Z 2M9 nature, to name but a few. Since almost the web page: www.defreitasbooks.com/ Fax: 514.935.9241 none of the sellers have shops of their wbf.html. WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – March 4, 2014 – 7 Old ideas more forward-thinking than postal plan should go the way of the lamplighter. partment-store home delivery. Gone even From How the proposed community mail - earlier was your grocery order delivered by the Mayor boxes can accommodate decent-sized par - a boy on a black bicycle. Now, every cus - cels is left unsaid. And, in spite of the tomer is self-delivering, press-ganged into Peter F. Trent brainpower of its 22 vice-presidents, Can- the role of carrier-at-large. ada Post has no idea where they are going Ecologically, this makes little sense: to find places for tens of thousands of new people using their cars to pick up some - structures, each a kind of condominium thing from Costco, Jean Coutu, or – soon Houses of a certain era in Toronto were of cubbyholes from which people will re - – to get a piece of mail. Rather than hav - often built with a small cupboard that trieve their mail. Good luck in West - ing one person walking door to door down pierced an exterior wall, accessible from mount, where there can be over 5,000 a street delivering mail, you will have both the inside and the outside by little different addresses per square kilometre. someone from each address polluting doors. They were called milk boxes and No wonder Canada Post is losing their way to their community mailbox, were used by the milkman to deliver dairy money in spite of (or because of) its mo - possibly daily. Good living comes with products without disturbing the home - nopoly. What about municipalities taking over age. Why not retire in perfect owner and without having them (products home mail delivery? Forget it. Municipal and homeowner) freeze in winter. End of story? employees earn 38 percent more than the elegance and ultimate com- Milk boxes were also convenient recep - Rather than exploring other means of rest of the public sector here in Quebec. fort? Our caring staff will tacles for the delivery of newspapers, mail, receiving parcels at home, or perhaps And why go from one union monopoly to tend to all your needs 24 and – significantly for this column – combining their growing (and once pri - another? parcels. vate) Purolator division with their daily de - And on postal pricing, let’s have more hours every single day. Why am I on about parcel delivery? livery, or studying the increasing trend to realism. To send a letter a block away costs Well, one of the reasons given for the sur - work from home, Canada Post simply de - the same as to send it to Joe Batt’s Arm – Please call us regarding our prise announcement last December of the cided in vacuo to stop all home delivery. or to Salmon Arm. affordable rentals: end of home mail delivery in Canada was End of story. I say contract out mail delivery to the that few people mail letters anymore; and, Now, internet shopping does demand private sector on the condition that home while parcel deliveries remain popular home delivery: this is progress of a sort. delivery remain in urban areas and that thanks to internet shopping, people are With the introduction of big-box stores, for stamps reflect the true cost of services ren - not home to receive them during the day. example, the delivery function was of - dered. Ergo, Canada Post concluded, mail-carriers floaded to the customer. Long gone is de - Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to get a quote on installing a milk box. Letters to the Editor It’s just BETTER Put dog run on arena worry about the mail I am not receiving, mail that may be sitting in someone’s The newly created parkland on the roof with TWO! mailbox while they are on vacation or may of the arena should be added to the list of EYE be carried around for a week in a handbag locations under consideration as sites for a or briefcase. Dropping a misdelivered let - replacement dog run in the Lansdowne EXAMINATIONSIONS ter in a mailbox can be a postponed chore. area. It offers a large flat surface un - It seems to me that whoever sorts the ON THE obstructed by trees where a dog run could mail either is dyslexic or just doesn’t care be constructed at minimum cost just by about doing the job correctly. Two years PREMISESSES providing the fencing and any necessary ago, I contacted Canada Post about this, signage and lighting. but nothing has changed. John D. 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Police Report Purse stolen from coffee shop WESTMOUNT WEDDING ATELIER Meet Westmount’s Wedding Specialists in suspected two-man operation Presented by By Michael Moore said Pimentel. “This is how these crimes are done. The following news story is based on infor - You don’t notice a person just talking on mation from police reports provided by a Sta - their cell phone or looking at merchan - tion 12 constable in an interview with the dise. But if they see an opportunity, they reporter. grab it and that’s it,” he added. A man who stole a purse from Sher - According to Pimentel, the fact the al - brooke St. coffee shop is believed to have leged thief knew which coffee shop and had help from an accomplice acting as a which customer to target has led police to lookout, according to Station 12 constable suspect the man by the door may have been Adalbert Pimentel. providing information over the phone. The 35-year-old man entered the shop Coffee shops and restaurants are prime talking on his cell phone while the sus - targets for would-be thieves, said Pimen - pected accomplice, a slim 45-year-old with tel, with customers often placing their salt-and-pepper hair, stood by the door, purses, backpacks and other bags on the also on the phone. ﬂoor and forgetting about them while they The suspect looked at the shop’s baked dine. goods and other products before inching his Individuals can reduce their vulnera - way towards the victim, who was sitting at bility to similar crimes by ensuring their March 13, 2014 5-9 pm a table with her purse on the ground next valuables are kept in sight or out of the to her, said Pimentel. Using his foot to bring reach of potential thieves, he explained. Annie Young Cosmetiques La Boutique the purse nearer, the suspect surrepti - “What we always recommend is that 4908 Sherbrooke St West, Westmount tiously placed his jacket over the bag, when you have a bag with valuables or a picked it up and walked out of the shop. hand bag, keep it on the table, or if that’s Please rsvp by phone 438 383 9939 “The lady never noticed the suspect. not possible, on your lap or in front of you, or email [email protected] The only way we found out about him was never beside you or on the back of your by the store’s video surveillance system,” seat,” he said.

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A small nest, right, spotted on the northwest corner of Roslyn and Westmount Ave. It could be a goldﬁnch, sparrow or robin nest.

Wasps’ nests are a common sight around Westmount, often hanging at the ends of exposed tree branches. A queen wasp chews up wood and manufacturers a paper-like material that she shapes and layers into an umbrella. The nests are usually vacant in the winter since the worker wasps die off in the autumn, however queens may hibernate in them throughout the winter. This nest is clearly visible on Lansdowne just north of de Maisonneuve.

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A nest of leaves and twigs in Summit Woods, most likely a squirrel nest. The main purpose of squirrel nests, just like bird nests, is to raise a family and protect their young but squirrels will also often nestle down as a couple in their nest to keep warm in bad weather.

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Tickets $30. VIP tickets $100. 7 Tony & Tina’s Wedding. The 42nd Benefit gala. BJM Gold. artist Leïla Labelle.Inspired by Desert Susan Rozansky 514.342.1234. Local interactive Matrimonial Off- Chairs Jean-Marc Léger, presi - Flower and Half the Sky, empowering 7234. [email protected] 10 Broadway Touring Production, dent/founder Léger, and Johanne Berry, women around the world for better 24 A Chance to Shine 2014. Ometz raising funds for Donald Berman UP president, Télé-Ressources. Whiskey bar, human rights and education, one woman Fundraiser. Gala patrons Véronique House. Theatre, dinner and dancing. cocktails, dinner and dancing. Véronique at a time. 6 to 9 pm. Mod’s Hair West - and Herbert Black. Gala chair Ruth Tickets $250. 514.798.0791. Thibault 514.982.6771. Local 7. mount, 4201 St. Catherine St. (corner 8 Ben Simon Choueke. Théâtre Maison - [email protected] Veronique @ bjmdance.ca Greene).Information and RSVP neuve, Place des Arts. Tickets 514. 514.935.5608. , 26, 27 AGI Alzheimer Groupe A Vision to Remember. AGI 342.0000. Local 3470. Vintage Recall. Designer clothes Alzheimer Groupe Gala. 6 pm. St. Patrick’s Society Luncheon. Batshaw Centre Foundation’s and accessories sale. 12 to 9 pm. Centre Mont-Royal, 2200 Featuring Aislin (Terry Mosher) 25 13 Annual Cocktail Challenge. 6 to Free entrance. 5500 Ferrier. Information Mansfield. Tickets 514.485.7233. as guest speaker. 11:15 am. 14 8:30 pm. Parisian Laundry, 3550 514.485.7233. [email protected] Linda@ agiteam. org Hilton Montreal Bonaventure Hotel, 900 8 St. Antoine St. West. Tickets $125 and de la Gauchetière W. Tickets $80. Corpo - Generations Foundation 5th Annual Tiny Survivors Cock - $80 for 35 and under. (At the door $150 rate tables (10) $1,250. 514.481.1346. of - Theatre Evening. Segal Centre tail. Fundraiser for the Royal and $100). 514.989.1885. Local 1192. fice@ spsmtl.com 30 production of Top Girls , by 14 Victoria Hospital’s Neonatal In - Dinner with Friends. To benefit Caryl Churchill, directed by Micheline ten sive Care Unit. Hosted by Lucian Tux in the City. Proceeds go to the Centaur Theatre. Dinner and Chevrier. 8 pm. Segal Centre, 5170 Côte D’Iorio, Karen Aziz, Helen Wolkowicz the Art for Healing Foundation. performance of 4000 Miles, by St. Catherine. Tickets Adrian and Erika Sainos. Tickets 514.843.1543 Produced by Corinne & Co. 8 10 15 Amy Herzog, directed by Roy Surette. 514.933.8585 pm. Galerie 203, 229 Notre Dame W. Tyndale St. Georges Community Conversation with the cast. 5:30 pm. Guests must wear tuxedos and bow ties. Centre’s Dance & Auction Tickets Victoria Laberge 514.288.1229. Tickets $99. 514.439.4203. By text at MAY “Disco & Diamonds.” Chair Local 240. development@centaurthe - 16 514.261.0899. Grands Ballets Canadiens de Mon - Sandy Infilise Miron. 6:30 pm. Rialto atre.com tréal Benefit Gala. 6 pm. Uniprix Theatre, 5723 Park Ave. Tickets $150. Mount Royal Ball for St. Justine Musée d’art contemporain gala. Stadium. 285 Faillon West. Tickets Susan McKinnon Bell 514.931.6265. CHUM Foundation. 10 pm. 3 Les Printemps du MAC, to $700. Tables (10) $7,000. 514.849.8681. Local 25. susanbell@ Mont real Science Centre. Tickets 21 benefit the MAC Foundation. Local 229. [email protected] tyndalestgeorges.com $125. 514.345.4931. Local 5221. 11 Honourée Grégoire Baillargeon, head, La Dolce Vita. Italian cocktail pre - Tribute gala celebrating retiring Israel Cancer Research Fund’s invest ment and corporate banking, sented by the Miriam Foundation head of St. George’s School, Experience Fashion Show. 8 pm. Montreal, BMO Capital Markets. Event with the Unicorn Children’s Foun - James Officer. Hollywood theme. Eric Maclean Centre for the Per - presidents Eva Hartling, vice-president 4 21 27 dation. Honourary co-chairs Diane Le Windsor, 1170 Peel St. Tickets www. forming Arts, Loyola High School, 2477 market ing and communications Birks Proulx Guerrera, Valeria Rosenbloom. stgeorges.qc.ca/tributegala West Broadway. Tickets 514.481.2723. Group Inc., and Maria Antonopoulos, Chairs Rhoda Vineberg, Marsha Becker. director marketing and communications, Peter Hall School Foundation. CSUQ-Shaaré Hessed Benefit Luciani Infiniti Showroom, 4000 Jean- Groupe Antono poulos. 9 pm. 185 St. 13th Annual Wine and Cheese Concert, presided by Michael Talon W. Tickets $200. Elysa Ben Sabat Catherine St. W. Tickets 514.847.6234. Evening. Event president Tony Goodman. The Four Seasons of 514-345-1300. Local 104. elysab@miri - 21 30 Naila Del Cid 514. 847.6272. Loffreda, regional vice-president, Com - Vivialdi interpreted by the OKTOECHO amfoundation.ca mercial Financial Services,Western Que - Orchestra. Special guest Sharon Azrieli Come Together! The Best of the Canadian Red Cross 10th Anniver - bec, RBC Royal Bank. 6 pm. Le Crystal Perez, soprano. Black tie. Valet parking. Beatles, to benefit the Segal sary Benefit Dinner (Quebec Divi - Congress Centre, 5285 Henri-Bourassa 7:30 pm. Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavil - Centre for Performing Arts. 13 sion). Honorary president Michèle W. Tickets Louise Leblanc 514.510.2021. ion, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1 pm and 7:30 pm performances. 6 Dionne. Chairs Martin Thibodeau, presi - 1339 Sherbrooke St. West. Tickets $125. Tickets $55 (adults) and $36 (under 12). Montreal Children’s Hospital dent Quebec headquarters, RBC Royal Agnes Castiel 514.733.4998. Local 3135. 514.739.7944. Foundation Ball. “There’s No Bank; Martine Turcotte, vice-chair Que - [email protected]. Place Like Home,” Wizard of Daffodil Ball benefiting the bec, Bell. Tickets Diane Harnois 22 Oz-themed gala. Patron of honour Karen Canadian Cancer Society. 514.362.2930. Local 2930. diane - Leggett, executive vice-president market - APRIL Theme: “On the Wild Side.” [email protected] 24 ing, National Bank. 6:30 pm. Windsor Lighting the Way Dînatoire. B’nai Chairs Jon Fairest, president/ CEO, Under the Tuscan Sun. Queen Station, 1100 de la Gauchetière W. Valet Brith Canada honours lifetime presi - Sanofi Canada; Robert Hattem, presi - Elizabeth Health Complex’s 10th an - parking. Tickets $500. Natacha Lachaine, dent Eric Bissell. Chairs: Robert dent/CEO, UAP Inc., Nick Loporcaro, 3 niversary fundraiser, Italian-themed 514.934.4846. Local 29270. nlac@ mchf. Cutler, Jacques Maurice, Avram Fish - president McKesson Canada. Windsor 7 evening to benefit the Diagnostic Imag - com man. Emcee Andy Nulman. 6 to 9 pm. Station. 6:45 pm. 900 Peel St. Tickets ing Clinic. Chairs Robert Fargnoli, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1380 $850 (available only to benefactors Miriam Foundation 4th Annual Richard Yufe. Tickets $150. Sarah Malka Sherbrooke St. West. Tickets donating $2,000 or more). Sponsors’ Art Auction. Chairs Jeannette 514. 485.5023. Talia Noya 514.485.5018 514.733.5377. Local 127 tables $27,500, $35,000 and $50,000. 28 Hoffman-Zaffir, Carol Tryansky, Alison Silcoff 514.932.7517. Alison@ Franki Yanofsky, Judy alisonsilcoff.com Wolfe. 6:30 pm. Loft continued on p. 17 WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – March 4, 2014 – 17 ‘Short-listed’ in December 2011 municipal evaluation, by far the highest mark-up of the month. Real estate The other two sales were both far gen - tler prices and mark-ups, with 464 Mount Andy Dodge, cra Stephen Ave. representing the lowest price, $980,000, and the only markdown of 1.3 percent. December also recorded the sale of one Note: The following article relates to the more apartment at 3453-57 St. Antoine St., registration of deeds of sale for Westmount one of two triplexes that were sold out of property in December 2013, glean ed from an estate in October 2011, for $400,000 non-city of Westmount sources. A list of sales each and then renovated. The two apart - can be found on p. 15.) ments at 3453-57 that have been sold off Only three sales were registered in De - to date have returned some $606,000 to cember last year, touching on the lowest the investor. monthly volume in decades and, perhaps, In examining sources of information foretelling a lack of interest in the West - from which real estate information can be mount real estate market as we move into gleaned, we came across one more sale a new spring season. registered in June, at 4328 Montrose Ave., The one- and two-family sales list is just east of Clarke Ave., which went for a highlighted by the $2,225,000 sale of 565- healthy 37 percent above the 2011 valua - 65B Victoria Ave., originally built as a tion. horse-stable-with-carriage-house arrange - The low volume in December matches ment in 1910, which was totally renovated the number of one- and two-family sales over the past six years and now has a huge in March 2009, and two months in the 565-565B Victoria Ave. – highest price ($2,225,000) and highest mark-up, (50 percent). two-storey house in front, with a double 1970s. Our records have only two sales garage capped by an apartment at the rear. each in January 1988 and December 1994, 1988 sales preceded a substantial hike in the bottom of a slump in prices, which The sale was 50 percent higher than its and only one sale in February 1988. The prices as the year went on; 1994 was near lasted through most of the decade.

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Westmounter Bernard Amyot’s deci - From the time he was part of “a group sion to seek the federal Liberal nomination of young federalists” involved in the 1995 in the newly created Ville Marie riding is a Quebec referendum on separation, Amyot natural outcome of his years of advocacy said he has been speaking out on national for federalism, democracy and justice, he issues and writing about them. told the Independent last week. “As president of the Canadian Bar, I But despite living on Holton for 17 crisscrossed the country in 2007-2008 years, he said, his decision not to run in defining the pillars of our democratic sys - the new riding of NDG-Westmount was tem, due diligence and our courts.” His out of deference to incumbent MP Marc whole experience allowed him to realize Garneau who will run there. “He’s my that “you can make a difference,” he said. friend and a Canadian icon.” It was the same time that he became an And for Amyot, a 53-year-old trial advocate for the repatriation from Guan - lawyer, longtime Liberal and a former tanamo Bay of accused terrorist Omar president of the Canadian Bar Association, Khadr, based on conventions governing it’s now time to take his community advo - child soldiers “and so he could be afforded cacy to a new level, at which he hopes to a fair trial.” be able “to make a greater difference.” Amyot spoke on the issue at govern - It happens to be a particularly busy ment hearings and had a private meeting time for him now as he sets up a new law with the Justice minister (Rob Nicholson), firm with his commercial litigation team whom he calls “a good minister.” But it from Heenan Blaikie, which is winding up was the political stance of the Conserva - its business. Called LCM Boutique, “it will tives with which Amyot disagreed, further be a one-stop shop specializing in litiga - fuelling his aspirations to carry the Liberal tion.” banner into a federal election. Nevertheless, he will also have time for Amyot has also served as chairman of campaigning if he’s chosen as a candidate, Brébeuf College, a director of the Montreal he said. “I’m used to doing two jobs at the Symphony Orchestra and chair of the Na - same time.” tional Theatre School of Canada. He is also Bernard Amyot. Photo: Independent. Amyot is one of two known aspirants a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Ju - his wife, Francine, ultimately moved to for the nomination in Ville Marie. He and bilee Medal. Westmount in 1996 where they raised Marc Miller both live in Westmount (see Raised in Outremont, he credits his fa - their daughter, Juliette, 20, and where their story, p. 18). ther with encouraging him to study law at son, Eric, 12, is growing up. McGill in order to learn English. “It’s the No stranger to national issues best advice he ever gave me.” Amyot and While this is Amyot’s first foray into the Meter damaged political arena as a politician, he served as vice-president of the former Westmount- Noisy music, videos accidently Music and loud video games were A worker at 4920 Sherbrooke acciden - heard emanating from an apartment at tally damaged a hydro meter at the rear of Loose dog 3035 St. Antoine St. February 23, accord - the building February 21, Public Security ing to Public Security officials. Answering officials report. The contractor erected a ‘known to authorities’ a complaint about the noise at 3:37 am, metal fence around the area and, after no - A dog was found running loose on public safety officers warned the resident tifying Hydro Westmount, called an elec -

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I am RAPPORTS DE DÉPENSES ÉLECTORALES On the still mystified by the role of the bobsleigh Lighter Side crew, who push – at full tilt, mind you – D’UN CANDIDAT INDÉPENDANT AUTORISÉ and then hop in and duck. They are next Ingrid Kovitch- spied (G-d willing) at the bottom, when ELECTION EXPENSE REPORTS FOR Dannenbaum they pop up eagerly, like anxious prairie dogs. “So? How’d we do? Anyone see my AUTHORIZED INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES shadow?” I have spent much of the past two No matter who competes, the winner is En vertu de l’article 499 de la Loi sur les élections et les référendums dans les weeks crying. Yes, the Olympic Games always the same: Team Gravity! municipalités (chapitre E-2.2) et à titre de Trésorier des élections, je publie le have gotten the better of me. sommaire des rapports de dépenses électorales reçus à l’intérieur des 90 jours The waterworks began, predictably, Uphill sledding depuis l’élection générale municipale du 3 novembre 2013. with the opening ceremony. I cried watch - One of my boys, ever the pragmatist, ing countries with huge contingents enter wondered aloud how the sleds arrived À la demande, ces documents peuvent être consultés. the stadium – the hordes whooping and back up at the top of the run. Was there a As per Section 499 of the Act Respecting Elections and Refer endums in hollering in stirring solidarity. I cried for very large magic carpet? A family of Sher - Municipalities (chapter E-2.2), as Election Treasurer, I hereby publish a summary nations with only a single athlete march - pas assigned to each country? (I hadn’t no - of all election expense reports received within the 90 days following the Municipal ing in lonesome exultation. And I cried ticed them in the opening ceremony.) General Election of November 3, 2013. watching the handful of countries that Our unanimous conclusion was that sent two delegates. (You know, for the ath - like all self-respecting tobogganers, this re - These documents are available for public consultation by request. lete NOT chosen as flag-bearer.) sponsibility should fall to the sledders I cried during the events, and I cried themselves. In fact, we felt that official during commercials. I cried watching ath - timing should actually begin at the bottom Dépenses Limite de letes’ profiles, and interviews, and fami - of the mountain, include the hauling or effectuées et Date de dépenses lies. I cried in the midst of thrilling dragging or what-have-you to get to the autorisées / Candidat / Candidate District production / électorales / vic tories, unexpected triumphs, and for top, and then finish with the glorious run Authorized Date of filing Election expense those who fell short. I cried over skis be - back down. (Style points optional.) Now actual limit stowed to strangers, race positions sur - there’s a sport! expenses rendered to teammates, and secretly All that being said, I did it once more. I Mairie buried ashes. And I cried during the an - cried – pitifully, and whole-heartedly – when Peter F. Trent 2013-12-02 7 984.60 $ 0 $ Mayor thems. All of them. our extraordinary Canadian duo won again. Julia Carbone Gold 1 2014-01-30 2 370.00 $ 2 357.04 $ Between sobs, I learned a few surpris - In so doing, I succeeded in crying dur - ing facts: ing every single sport, for every single Patrick Martin 1 2014-01-31 2 370.00 $ 2 349.36 $ There is an Official Cracker of the Can - country, and for all possible outcomes. I Peter Starr 2 2014-01-31 2 358.60 $ 2 229.11 $ adian Olympic Team. (Ritz. Imagine that. cried for this glorious two-week celebra - Despite all those saturated fats.) tion of youth and vigour, of magnificent Philip A. Cutler 2 2014-01-29 2 358.60 $ 1 473.84 $ Some curlers have been to the gym. (As health and sublime well-being. And I cried Victor M. Drury 3 2013-11-17 2 434.50 $ 0 $ such, drug testing might not be entirely in - for myself – my own aging body recently Rosalind Davis 4 2013-12-31 2 433.60 $ 2 094.39 $ appropriate.) gone awry. There are style points awarded in ski But most of all I cried for the essence Kathleen W. Duncan 4 2013-12-30 2 433.60 $ 495.87 $ jumping. (In my view, this “flies” in the and humanity of the Olympic ideals: the Christina Smith 5 2014-01-31 2 436.60 $ 1 327.29 $ face of all reason. Like long jump, or high setting aside of that which might make us John P. Fretz 5 2014-01-31 2 436.60 $ 1 211.72* $ jump, I think athletes should be free to different or drive us apart; the shared em - use whatever technique gets the job done. brace of struggle, resilience and honest Nicole Forbes 6 2014-01-22 2 444.10 $ 0 $ If you can land, and still be alive: full fight; and the spirit of friendship, of fair Nigel Goddard 7 2013-12-17 2 442.00 $ 0 $ points.) play, of tolerance and of peace. What I did not fully learn was a greater No w I am crying because it is over. Mavis Young 7 2014-01-31 2 442.00 $ 2 249.63 $ Cynthia Lulham 7 2014-01-31 2 442.00 $ 625.65 $ Quality, Convenience Theodora Samiotis 8 2014-01-31 2 406.60 $ 1 116.21 $ &Customization WOOD RESTORATION Andrei Jones 8 2014-01-14 2 406.60 $ 338.13 $ Touch-ups/repair *Dépenses effectuées sans autorisation. TOTAL 44 200.00 $ 17 868.24 $ *Expenses incurred without authorization. service on site! Stripping/ DONNÉ à Westmount, le 4 mars 2014. Staining/Polishing GIVEN in Westmount, on March 4, 2014. 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Sylvie Chagnon, Lise Watier and Claire Kruyt. Anne Marie Bertrand and Sylvia Rourke. Long time patrons Westmounters Local school choirs entertained guests, Social Notes Maria Birks and Barbara Bronfman joined with students from ECS, Selwyn House, Ginger Petty , who founded the tea 22 years The Priory, Villa St. Marcelline, St. from Westmount ago, in welcoming hundreds of guests to George’s elementary, Akiva and The Study, Ogilvy’s wood-panelled 5th ﬂoor space, part of the event since its beginning . and Beyond chock full of brightly coloured play things, Westmount’s Roslyn School collected Veronica Redgrave teddy bears and construction blocks. toys, and attended to receive a Certiﬁcate Ogilvy has been a sponsor for over 10 of Appreciation. Other schools attending As our thoughts spring to warmer years. The other major sponsor is Mega include LCC, École Buissonniere, Kuper weather, we hope you will forgive us for Brands, represented by Anne Marie Academy, Sacred Heart, Willingdon and speaking of a colder season. Better late than Bertrand. Co-chairs were Westmounters Lady of Pompei . never. Sylvie Chagnon and Claire Kruyt. Volunteers from Concordia University Montreal is so full of deserving fund - Amidst the packed crowd, Quebec helped with event coordination and pack - raisers during the fall/winter social season beauty queen Lise Watier was noted offer - ing the toys, distributed to 31 shelters that we are only now getting around to one ing beautiful support to the cause. Com - throughout Montreal. of the city’s most charming events: the Toy mittee members from Westmount were Extra toys were given to community or - Tea. Held annually, the daytime event col - Sylvia Papchristou-Rourk, Roshi Chadha , ganizations such as Diet Dispensary, Bat - lects toys for children in shelters. Guests Helen Klinkhoff, Alicia Hamilton, Sophie shaw and Patricia MacKenzie Pavilion. are invited to attend for the “ticket price” of Palmer, Sylvia Rourke, Jill de Villafranca Catere r By Ge orge provided delicious re - a new wrapped toy. and Christine Henderson. freshments. Maria Birks and Barbara Bronfman.

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HELM superb local example, St. Ambroise Cream ing itself “extra.” comes from Houblons (hops), Eau (water), Ale. It just didn’t happen with Fairmont. According to the menu, it measures 75 Greg Dunning, The Connoisseur; Levure (yeast) and Malt – a pretty cool Stick to the bagels. IBU (international bittering units), but I beer drinker/brewer/hunter name. THE CONNOISSEUR: I went next think this batch must have been closer to 50. Ideal beer: One that is made by people THE PHILISTINE: My first beer was a with Mile End, a best bitter, the English - A beer’s IBU score is basically the bit - who care more about the beer than Pilsner, La Clark. It quenched my thirst ad - man’s session ale. It was smooth, expect - terness of the individual hops multiplied the money equately, but I think a Budweiser would edly between a red ( rousse ) and blonde, and by the amount of hops used in the batch. Favourite beer: Too many to mention have done the same. Regardless Mila of Prague gave it a passing David Price, The Philistine; beer drinker of what one thinks of it, I don’t grade, but Freddy preferred the Ideal beer: Stronger-than-average lager, think this beer belongs in a clas - Hefeweizen, La Bloomfield. even if it’s commercial Canadian beer sic lager category like Pilsner, The IPA world standard bearer Favourite beer: Harp which should have a clean, un - (at 100+ IBU) presently is Heady complicated taste. Topper brewed by the The Al - For this review, we were accompanied chemist in Waterbury, Vermont by our incorruptible “Euro-sidekicks,” Pils to start and it calls itself a double IPA. Mila of Prague and Willem of THE CONNOISSEUR: Like on Get in your car right now! Amsterdam, and invited guest our last outing, we all began from No wheels? Drown your sor - Fred of Côte des Neiges. the same spot, with La Clark. The rows with Death Valley (triple- Helm Microbrasserie has big shoes to menu describes it as a German hopped 8%; Brasseurs RJ) avail - fill as it occupies the location that was the Pils (lager), a classic Rhine-Ruhr able at the Victoria Metro (check home of Futenbulle, the original destina - apéritif . The standards of this style out its new Quebec micro shelf!) tion for beer geeks back in the 80s. The are Dortmunder Export, Bit - or Brutopia’s (Crescent St.) IPA dozens of mostly Belgian and interna - burger and DAB. for a good tap version. tional bottled beers back then have been A Pils is wetter in your mouth replaced by eight brewed-on-premise (subtly more malty) and it evapo - The finish beers, named after iconic Montreal streets rates more slowly (subtly less THE PHILISTINE: My last and four guest beers from Brasseurs RJ hoppy) than a Czech Pilsner. beer, Van Horne, was an IPA, not (Belle Gueule), all on tap. Clark matched this profile ade - my favourite kind of beer, but it Complementing the beer selection is a quately, but it had this off-bitter af - did taste like it is supposed to. I tertaste in the back of my throat. It think we already covered that simply should have been more re - long trip from England-to-India McKenzie #1 freshing. story for big hops in this style, You can do better with a Sap - which is the rage on both sides of on Amazon.com poro. We munched on nachos, the border. Photo courtesy of W. Westenberg. Westmounter Catherine McKenzie’s which were lousy but we were too THE CONNOISSEUR: I want - fourth novel Hidden débuted in the US hungry to care. hoppy enough (could have been more bit - ed to finish with a dessert beer and the on March 1. It was available early as THE PHILISTINE: My second beer ter). A nice drinkable ale that paired very closest Helm could get was with St. Via - part of Amazon.com’s Kindle First pro - was a cream ale, Fairmont. It was indeed nicely with my venison burger, which defi - teur , a porter. It had a real nice choco - gram and will be generally released on creamy, but it should have had a less full- nitely was the best item on the menu. late/coffee/cereal aroma, but it should April 1. flavour, in my view, than the ubiquitous, THE PHILISTINE: My third beer was have been sweeter and smoother; also too It was the #1 book in “Literature & multipurpose “craft taste” one finds in a rousse , Du Parc. It had that taste that chalky. I was surprised there was no Fiction” and the #1 book overall in the many micro-brews nowadays. Greg tells many craft beers have that is halfway to cheese plate on offer to pair with it. Kindle store March 2 and 3. me that, when drinking a cream ale, you nuttiness and halfway to spiciness, which THE PHILISTINE: I have to give Helm She is the wife of the Independent’s should be able to close your eyes and think I also found in Clark and Fairmont. low marks for its beer. Some places have publisher. you are drinking a blonde Guinness. This I know some beer drinkers consider many lagers, which is great for a “lager is what happens, he tells me, with Bod - this taste to be the hallmark of good, non- head” like me, but you have to have at least commercial beer, but I don’t like it. one that kills, which was not the case here. In my view, a rousse should have a The service was excellent, though, and sweetness (of an unsickly variety) that was very friendly. The food was good. entirely absent. THE CONNOISSOIR: I agree. All the According to Greg, rousse is Quebec’s beer choices were variations on them - version of England’s mild, which refers to selves. They lacked distinctiveness. Even a gentle sweetness, absence of bitterness the lone lager tasted more like an ale than and less alcohol by volume. It was brewed a Pils. My guess is that they brew in a to quench the thirsts of labouring farm - small space and quality control is less than workers who toiled in the West Midlands. perfect. Maybe they have to clean the lines It’s pretty hard to find a good really good more frequently. rousse , Greg tells me. What I would like to ask the brewer is THE CONNOISSEUR: I followed with why he goes to the big extra trouble of Hutchison, Helm’s extra-IPA (7.5%). This throwing one lager into a mix of English hit that sweet-bitter sweetspot just right, and German ales. like a P. K. Subban one-timer. I wouldn’t go back to Helm when there Certainly an above-average IPA, but no are so many other places to check out. WESTMOUNT INDEPENDENT – March 4, 2014 – 23

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