Montreal’s municipal gvernment has given conditional support to the city getting its first drug-injection site — a clean well-lighted place inside of which drug users could shoot up cocaine, heroin or anything else, with a nurse on hand to supervise. Indeed city hall wants three such sites plus a large van that could travel around [...]
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SHOULD WE HAVE DRUG INJECTION SITES?
December 29, 2011SHOULD THE ABUSERS BE NAMED?
October 7, 2011After decades of denying and covering up widespread sexual abuse by its members at College Notre Dame in Montreal, the private school and its religious owners, the Brothers of the Holy Cross, agreed yesterday to pay their victims $18 million – the largest payout ever in Canada by a religious order. Ironically, the perpetrators who [...]
YOUR THREE FAVOURITE RESTAURANTS?
August 21, 2011Do share your favourite restaurants with us. Some day we may be in your neck of the woods and will be looking for aa good place to eat. I will divide my three favourites into breakfast, lunch and dinner. For breakfast you can’t go wrong with Beauty’s (established in 1942) and located on Mount Royal [...]
ARE MONTREAL POLICE RACIST?
May 13, 2011A new study by the Quebec Human Rights Commission raises some troubling questions about racial profiling by the Montreal police. In 2006 and 2007 , as police cracked down on youth gangs, nearly 40 per cent of the young people in the borough of Montreal North and and St. Michel were stopped and asked for [...]
SHOULD THEY GIVE WINE TO ALCOHOLICS?
April 3, 2011A homeless shelter for alcoholics in Ottawa is practicing an unusual treatment for problem drinkers. On the hour over a daily period of 12 hours they give each alcoholic a generous glass of wine. This amounts to 72 ounces or about three bottles of wine a day. The rationale for this unique treatment (run by medical personnel) [...]
ARE CANADIENS HOCKEY FANS THE WORST IN THE N.H.L?
March 19, 2011Gentlemen’s Quarterly magazine has named Canadiens fans as the worst in the National Hockey League and the 11th worst in professional sports. Here is an example of the piece: “In 2003, team veteran Patrice Brisbois was heckled almost every time he touched the puck; the jeering was so intense it likely induced a stress-related irregular [...]
IS POUTINE NOW AN INTERNATIONAL DISH?
May 23, 2010Quebec’s famous dish, poutine – French fries, cheese curds and gravy – is now on the international stage. America’s chefs in particular have come to admire poutine’s definitive Quebecois combination of exoticism and rusticity. Did you know that poutine is now available at gourmand eating spots in New York, London, Seoul, San Francisco. Melbourne, Chicago [...]
