By Murray Sherriffs
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The mom and dad of the three-year-old boy who drowned Friday in a backyard pool in Blainville are in the worst pain imaginable. The Executive Director of the Quebec Lifesaving Society, Raynald Hawkins says that people with pools on their property must ensure that access is secure, adult supervision is present at all times, remove all toys or floatation devices from the pool when not in use, to neuter temptation, the gate locked, the self-closing mechanism still works after our hard winter and, in an above-ground pool, is the ladder removable, how solid is the fence and is it hard for a little one to climb?
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Quebec English-language school boards say that the proposed expansion of Bill 101 to include vocational and adult education, as proposed by Quebec French Language Minister Jean‑François Roberge, will dramatically reshape the English-language education landscape, predicting a 70% loss of students.
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A collision scene reconstructionist, a forensic identification technician and an SQ investigator have looked at the site of a single vehicle road crash on Highway 249 in Saint Georges de Windsor in the Eastern Townships, last Friday, which killed two teenagers and put two other young people in hospital with very serious but non life-threatening injuries.
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A Quebec Environment Ministry order to Glenn Chamandy and his wife Amel Murad, who built a private golf course on their property in Austin, to restore the land to its original condition, has still been ignored by the couple.
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A NASA scientist says she died three times and claims to have seen the exact same vision every time.
55-year-old Ingrid Honkala is an oceanographer who says that the near-death events happened when she was two years old (drowned in a backyard pool), again at age 25 (motorcycle crash) and again at age 52 (on an operating table) and every time entered a state of complete calm, had no fear, no sense of time and a feeling of separating from her physical body, becoming pure awareness and seeing a vast, interconnected consciousness filled with light, clarity and peace.
She says that it was not a fleeting hallucination, but a consistent experience.
She has largely kept her experiences private for years but now believes science and spirituality may not conflict, arguing we should be exploring the same unanswered questions from different angles.
Her upcoming book, Dying to See the Light: A Scientist’s Guide to Reawakening, dives deeper into her experiences and what they could mean for our understanding of consciousness.
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Carolina vs Canadiens Game 3 / 8 p.m.
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Formula One leader 19-year-old Kimi Antonelli won the wild Canadian Grand Prix yesterday in Montreal, claiming his fourth-straight race win after teammate George Russell exited due to engine failure.
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Gilles Villeneuve’s helmet from his final Formula One race in 1982 has sold for a record US$1.25 million.
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Rain / 21º today
Sun / 28º tomorrow