Receive the Mtl Times via E-mail - www.mtltimes.ca Saturday, June 12, 2021 Vol. 26 No. 34 birrafanelli.com Covering Montréal & Surrounding Areas SHAN COLLECTION FROM MONTREAL Kim Bruneau modeling one of Montreal’s leading fashion giants SHAN swimwear Get your vaccine! Don't Delay! NEW OPEN HOUSE BY APPT ONLY Sunday June 13 2-4 pm 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! 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And Ilesoniq presents Misstress Barbara and starting July 2, the Jardin Royalmount will Altroxx which is presented in collabo- symbolize this return to summer, as it ration with Bud Light (July 16), opening becomes Montreal’s only open-air event night of the Au Contraire film festival, theatre and venue. Established by the which helps bring more awareness to team of Lorne Levitt of Total Events and mental illness issues and breaking the Adam Bultz of C3, the duo behind the stigmas behind them (August 19) and successful Royalmount Drive-In Event By Stuart Nulman the Joey Elias Comedy All Stars Show Theatre which staged over 100 events (August 25). last summer and fall, the Jardin Royal- mtltimes.ca Other events on the Jardin Royal- mount will be in operation from July 2 town Royalmount community project, mount schedule with dates to be an- and throughout 2022, as it will host a along with a partnership with evenko. nounced later include Dinner and Live wide variety events for groups of all ages Recently, the Jardin Royalmount un- Interactive Game Show, more Open-Air and tastes such as comedy nights, movie veiled their schedule of events for sum- Supper Club evenings, Boozy Brunch, nights, supper club events, charity galas mer 2021. In order of appearance, they Workout in the Garden, Friday Fright game nights and charity fundraisers, to are Open-Air Supper Club (July 2 and 3), Nights: The Haunted Garden, and a Du- name a few. Family Dinner and Movie Night featuring eling Pianos concert. The venue is located at the corner of a screening of the live action/animated For more information regarding Jardin Royden and Royalmount, and is sup- comedy “Tom & Jerry” (July 4), Comedy Royalmount programming, or to book ported by Carbonleo Real Estate Inc., Nest Presents: Find YOUR Funny (July 6), an event there, go to the group behind the innovative Mid- Movie Night Out: The Marksman (July 7), www.jardinmtl.com . Get with the Times! mtltimes.ca • June 12, 2021 www. mtl times.ca 3 4 www. mtl times.ca June 12, 2021 • What’s happening in Montreal this summer If you plan to attend outdoor events, that goes with getting a COVID test,” not a humourous one. When I found out dine in restaurants, or maybe travel to said Ms. Muhey. “Specialite RX wants to I won the award, I felt a lot of bliss. It was and from Canada this summer, and you give people a good – not intimidating – an amazing moment for me.” want to make sure you haven’t caught experience.” As well, she praised the GGs jury for the symptoms of COVID-19, and take a For more information about the serv- doing something rare and rewarding a COVID test in a more convenient and ices Specialite RX offers, please call 514- book that was originally humorous in affordable manner, then Specialite RX is 844-8888. tone. “I believe it is - at last - a recogni- for you. tion of the importance of humor and With 30 branches across Canada, Spe- laughter in society, in our daily life, in a cialite RX offers the same community children’s life. If the events from the last care that you would expect from a phar- year and a half have proven anything to macy or public clinic, but in a setting that all of us, it is that laughter is much is less intimidating. They offer expertise needed to go through life’s ordeals and when it comes to specialty drugs and tough times,” she said “In that sense, it offer additional care and constant mon- is quite telling that the jury, for the first itoring for patients who are experienc- time, stepped out of its usual path, and ing chronic illnesses. recognized that a humorous, funny book, “We are catering to a market that re- can also be deemed worthy of a presti- ally needs this testing service, where you gious literary recognition. For humor can make an appointment, get the test does not take away - to the contrary - done right away and have the results By Stuart Nulman the literary values of book.” within 15 minutes, as opposed to getting Pete et Repete is based on a long-run- tested at a government site, where you mtltimes.ca ning silly joke that was constantly told have to wait a full 24 hours for your re- by generations of school children. “The sults,” said Heba Muhey, a pharmacist *** When Katia Canciani was younger and joke centres around these two charac- who owns and operates the Montreal ters Pete and Repete who are in a boat, branch, which is located at 1029 St. growing up in the Montreal suburb of Cartierville, she wanted to be a writer and one of them falls out of the boat. Denis Street in downtown Montreal. And then you say over and over ‘who Ms. Muhey adds that besides detecting and painter, but her parents frowned on her initial career choice. She then chose stays in the boat?’,” she said. the COVID virus, the test offered at Ms. Canciani then decided to take the Specialite RX – which is not the com- aviation, particularly being a pilot, but her parents still frowned upon that old joke and let her imagination run a lit- monly used PCR test but an Antigen test tle wild for the book. “I imagined the – also detects the spike protein. Al- choice (they hoped that one of their though COVID cases are continuing to three sons would pursue that career whole story of these two guys, from decrease, restrictions are gradually being path). birth to when they go to a retirement relaxed and vaccinations are up, Ms. But she stuck with aviation, attended home, so I could bring much more layers Muhey strongly points out that now is the flight school at Chicoutimi College, to the story of Pete and Repete,” she not the time for the public to let their and became the first women to graduate said. “When the book was on display and guard down when it comes to COVID. and get her pilot’s license from there. for sale at the Salon du Livre, kids, their “The pandemic is still not over. About She then found work as a bush pilot, parents and grandparents were at- 24% of the population is still not vacci- then as a military flight instructor in tracted to the book’s cover, which made nated and 80% have not yet had their Manitoba. Aviation is still her main line them chuckle and relive many memories second dose. If the trend continues with of work, as she currently holds a posi- of the joke. I thought that was absolutely people getting their second doses on tion as a civil transportation staff officer amazing. I have never seen that kind of schedule, then we can tell them they for NATO in Brussels, Belgium. reaction before. It brought together so don’t have to wear masks anymore by But her first ambition of being a writer many generations.” September of this year,” she said. was never grounded. She started writing She also liked the kind of effect the As well, the rapid COVID testing serv- books later in life; her first three books book has had on adult readers. “I really ice makes it convenient for people who were novels, and then as a result of a like how this book has spoke to parents are travelling to and from other coun- great deal of encouragement from her and grandparents, because they get the tries that may still be COVID hot spots, three daughters, she started writing and second and third layers of the story, or people who have to board a plane illustrating children’s books. As of now, which says how we need to adapt as within hours and needs a proof of a neg- Ms. Canciani has written and published human beings to any life event, and then ative COVID test. a total of 48 books. But it was her 48th go your own way,” she said. Besides the convenient location, rapid book, an illustrated children’s book So while she continues to serve service and ideal, sanitary and comfort- called Pete et Repete, that won her the NATO, Ms.