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Receive the Mtl Times via E-mail - www.mtltimes.ca Saturday, June 26 2021 Vol. 26 No. 36 birrafanelli.com Covering Montréal & Surrounding Areas BEN ST. JUSTE A NFL JOURNEY Photo: Washington Football Team Happy Saint Jean weekend! Call for a private appointment 540 Tait, St Laurent asking $618,888 3 bdrm semi detached bungalow!! some renos done but needs work! Make it your own! SOLD CALL FOR A PRIVATE SHOWING! D.D.O. 227 Blue Haven 3 Bedroom; 2 1/2 bathrooms; Central A/C & Furnace NEW; 1 car garage (rare in this area) ;lots of storage; large backyard Lauren Marks Vesely Courtier immobilier Real Estate Broker 514-944-8336 DEDICATION • DEVOTION • DETERMINATION 2 www. mtl times.ca June 26, 2021 • Escape to Saint Lucia - Win a romance package for this Fall Saint Lucia is an island where the greatest and other special in-room treats, including love stories unfold. To showcase Saint couples massages. To further celebrate romance, Saint Lucia Lucia’s appeal for couples, more than a The island's natural beauty and matchless Tourism Authority also has launched the dozen hotels, resorts, and villas are offering accommodations make it clear why Saint Ultimate Romance Giveaway. Three lucky “romance packages” this summer and fall Lucia has been named the “World’s Leading couples, one each from the USA, Canada, with exclusive deals for travelers. Honeymoon Destination” twelve years in and the UK will win the romantic getaway a row by The World Travel Awards. 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The site has links to deals Caille Blanc Villa & Hotel; Calabash Cove for couples looking to tie the knot, renew Resort & Spa, Crystals Villa Hotel; Fond Participating resorts include Ti Kaye Resort their romance or just take that trip abroad Doux Plantation & Resort; Heavenly Suites; & Spa, Calabash Cove Resort & Spa, Jade together that might have been postponed Jade Mountain; Ladera; Rendezvous; Sandals; Mountain and Anse Chastanet. due to the pandemic. To see the full list of Stonefield Villa Resort; Sugar Beach, A Visit: romance packages and offers, please visit: Viceroy Resort; The Landings Resort and www.stlucia.org/UltimateRomanceGiveaway Spa; Têt Rouge Resort; Villa Beach Cottages; for entry details and complete terms and https://www.stlucia.org/UltimateRomanceOffers and Windjammer Landing Villa Beach Re- conditions. sort. The #UltimateRomanceGiveaway will run Couples can discover the island together Offer details, valid travel dates, and book- for six weeks from June 23rd through Au- in their special way with chocolate and rum ing windows vary by hotel or tour opera- gust 4th, 2021. The winners will be an- tastings, cruises to the iconic Pitons, inti- tor. Please check the terms and conditions. nounced August 6th, on @TravelSaintLucia mate picnics in classic Saint Lucian settings, social media pages. To enter, participants candlelit dinners with local food specialties, Enter to Win the must be 18 years or older and a resident bottles of wine and Champagne, truffles Ultimate Romance Giveaway of the USA, Canada, or the UK. Get with the Times! mtltimes.ca • June 26, 2021 www. mtl times.ca 3 4 www. mtl times.ca June 26, 2021 • Opening of Jean-Dore Beach MONTRÉAL - Jean-Dore Beach, a veri- competitive training or an introduction September 6. Cost of admission is $9 for table island of freshness in the heart of to the sport, and it enables swimmers to adults, $4.50 for children (3 to 13 years Parc Jean-Drapeau, reopens for the sea- enjoy this body of water at an entirely of age), free for 2-year olds and under son on June 23. Whether you'd like to different level. It should be noted, in and $22 for a family composed of 2 par- soak up the sun, play a game of beach order to maintain the recommended 10 ents and 2 children. volleyball, have a family picnic, enjoy metres of physical distancing between Swimmers who would like to enjoy some relaxation time amid nature or swimmers, the capacity for each course some food fare are well served at Jean- simply take a refreshing pause near one is reduced to 30 people per beach time- Doré Beach, which has a tasty menu on of the water stations, this is the place to slot (reservation required). site, including paninis, salads, snacks, icy be for anyone who likes to swim. Sanitary measures in effect treats and beverages for all. A lively beach with loads of The Société du parc Jean-Drapeau has A shuttle service offered by the STM water-related activities prepared to accommodate visitors by (767) is available from the Jean-Drapeau Again this year, the Beach has an array establishing specific action plans to com- subway station. It's also easy to get to of entertaining activities to offer. ply with health and safety measures. the Beach by bike using Circuit Gilles- Aquazilla is back with its many inflatable Swimmers must arrive on the site wear- Villeneuve. Visitors can use the south en- structures comprised of a series of ob- ing their bathing suit because changing trance, near parking area P4. stacle courses, and if you're a boating rooms are not accessible. The on-site About the Société du parc Jean-Dra- enthusiast, you can rent several types of service for loaning life jackets is still peau crafts, including kayaks, pedal boats and available. The Beach's capacity has been Established by the City of Montréal, the stand-up paddleboards (SUP). A new fea- reduced to facilitate physical distancing Société du parc Jean-Drapeau has a mis- ture this year enables visitors to bring recommended by the INSPQ, however, sion to preserve, plan, promote and de- their own SUP or kayak to explore the it is no longer necessary to reserve time velop this huge urban park, oversee the Beach's lake and its lagoons. slots like last year. healthy coexistence of activities which For athletes and casual swimmers Price grid, concessions and how to get occur there and ensure its longevity for alike, the Parc has also made a 300- there current and future generations. metre open-water swimming course Jean-Doré Beach is open every day from For any and all information on Parc available in the Beach's lake sector. The 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., until August 22. After Jean-Drapeau's programming, please go course is comprised of three marked-off this date, it will only be open on week- to parcjeandrapeau.com or follow us lanes, making it an ideal facility, either for ends, and will close for the season on on social media @parcjeandrapeau . • June 26, 2021 www. mtl times.ca 5 3551 boul. St. Charles, Suite #547, Kirkland, Quebec, H9H 3C4 514-951-3328 [email protected] www.mtltimes.ca [email protected] www.totimes.ca Distribution Prime Minister statement Hudson, St. Lazare, Senneville, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Baie d’Urfe, Bea- consfield, Kirkland, Pte. Claire, D.D.O., Pierrefonds, Roxboro, Dorval, La- chine, NDG, Ville St-Laurent, Châteauguay, Cote St-Luc, Snowdon, on the findings around the Hampstead, Mtl-West, Westmount, Laval, Verdun, Lasalle, Montreal, St. Leonard, Anjou, Ahuntsic, Little Italy, Nuns’ Island Advertising former Marieval [email protected] ADVERTISING DEADLINE (Cowessess) Residential (Wednesday at 5 p.m.) 514-951-3328 Managing Editor: School in Saskatchewan Tom West The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following state- ment: "I am terribly saddened to learn that the remains of children had been found in unmarked graves near the former Marieval (Cowessess) Residential School Contributors: in Saskatchewan. My heart breaks for the Cowessess First Nation, • Alyssa De Rosa and for all Indigenous communi- • Marco Giovanetti ties across Canada. • Sergio Martinez “No child should have ever • Bonnie Wurst been taken away from their fam- ilies and communities, and • Stuart Nulman robbed of their language, culture, • Deborah Rankin and identity. No child should have truth that they have long known. minder of the systemic racism, • Martha Shannon spent their precious youth sub- The hurt and the trauma that discrimination, and injustice that jected to terrible loneliness and you feel is Canada's responsibility Indigenous peoples have faced – abuse. No child should have to bear, and the government will and continue to face – in this spent their last moments in a continue to provide Indigenous country. And together, we must SUBSCRIPTION place where they lived in fear, communities across the country acknowledge this truth, learn General subscriptions in Canada: 1 with the funding and resources from our past, and walk the year $150, 2 years $275 Subscrip- never to see their loved ones tion to the U.S. and outside North again. And no families should have they need to bring these terrible shared path of reconciliation, so America:1 year $250 US been robbed of the laughter and wrongs to light. While we cannot we can build a better future." All contents of this publication joy of their children playing, and bring back those who were lost, This document is also available at are sole property of The Mon- treal Times Newspaper. Opin- the pride of watching them grow we can – and we will – tell the https://pm.gc.ca ions expressed in this If you need someone to talk to, publication are not necessarily in their community.