By Murray Sherriffs
Game 5, Habs in Raleigh, tonight at 8 p.m. The Canadiens have decided there will be no outdoor watch party at the Bell Centre. Wayne Gretzky says that Game 4 was “…men against the boys”, noting that Hurricane coach Rod Brind’Amour started Game 4 with the fourth line who set the tone, “getting pucks deep, taking the body, pounding, then putting skilled players out to do their thing.”
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French Language Minister Jean-François Roberge says that Quebec’s English-speakers will not have to prove that they are English to access the province’s websites, as proposed by Quebec’s French language commissioner who says that English remains too freely available on Quebec government websites and that it should be sharply reduced by checking who is using the sites. The recommendation is contained in a report on linguistic choices that Quebecers make, following evaluation of content on the websites of Hydro Québec, Revenu Québec, Services Québec, Retraite Québec, SAAQ, SAQ and the workplace safety board, stating that they “are essentially bilingual” because they offer a button which allows users to switch from French to English.
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Quebec’s Minister Responsible for Relations with the English community Christopher Skeete says that the rights of the English-speaking community will be respected in the overhaul of Bill 101 that will place adult education and vocational training under its control. Quebec Liberals are asking why the CAQ government hasn’t studied the impact the new law on English educational institutions.
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The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Missing Indigenous Children and Unmarked graves, meeting in Montreal, has heard from international law expert, Université Laval human rights lawyer professor of law Fannie Lafontaine on Day 4, and she has offered a legal definition of genocide and its connection to Canada’s residential schools, forced sterilization and other government policies, claiming that genocide is the intent to destroy a group and that repeated patterns of government policies are “… a slow moving dance kind of genocide using murder, sexual violence and the transfer of children from one group to another, with the intent to destroy what makes Indigenous peoples distinct as a group.”
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The Montreal police Economic Crimes Section has arrested four people in a major fraud investigation involving $4.5+ million in stolen monies through real estate fraud and vehicle rental scams that touched people in Longueuil, Dollard, Sorel and a car dealership in Montérégie.
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Truck driver Dany Lessard, who killed a nine-year-old girl and badly hurt her twin sister by driving his vehicle through an intersection on a rural highway in the Lanaudière region, four years ago, has been sent to jail for 32 months, despite a plea from his lawyer that he spend his sentence at home.
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As Quebec and Canada invest millions in affordable housing, advocates say that nearly a third of social housing units now on the market are in disrepair; that renovations aren’t keeping up with inflation; and maintenance budgets aren’t adequate to deal with the crisis.
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Bell Canada will introduce the 273 area code next year to include areas covered by 418, 367 and 581 area codes that serve Quebec City, Saguenay, Lévis and Rimouski.
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The Canadian Muslim Forum is pushing police to investigate, after members of the Muslim community in Trois Rivières were targeted by threats and hate, following a private Eid Al-Adha prayer gathering.
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The Kirkland RioCan Centre has hired Stat Park to enforce parking regulations, after witnessing people using its lot to park-and-ride the REM. Kirkland’s mayor is offering no comment, as his office reviews what’s going on.
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The Court of Quebec will deal with tenants who want to have an animal live with them on a rental property, following a decision from Judge Suzanne Guèvremont of the Tribunal Administratif du Logement, who overturned a landlord’s ban on his tenant keeping pets.
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Can wisdom be taught?
A group of researchers, psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists and philosophers is applying scientific methods to understand wisdom, with the hope of increasing the capacity of individuals to act wisely and perhaps nudging a world beset by violence and other problems, onto a more sensible path.
Although they lack a single shared definition of wisdom, many are optimistic that wisdom can be cultivated.
Judith Glück, developmental psychologist at the University of Klagenfurt, in Austria, says that “…not everyone will become a super wisdom-guru, but I think that there’s some space for everyone to grow.”
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Rain / 20º today
Showers / 20º tomorrow + Sunday
