MontrealNews'Some plots are completely flooded': Quebec farms hit hard by rainfallBy Jared Lackman-Mincoff Published: August 14, 2024 at 4:02PM EDT
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Desjardins Group and Farm Credit Canada (FCC) provide loans to support the ownership transfer
LAVALTRIE, QC, Nov. 30, 2023 /CNW/ - Canada's largest strawberry plant producer Production Lareault is embarking on the next chapter of its history with the arrival of new owners
Antoine Casimir and Andrea Borodenko have acquired the Lavaltrie company
founded in 1953 and run by Luc and Lyne Lareault
With 185 hectares in the Lanaudière region
the company thus remains a Québec operation as it marks its 70th anniversary this year
Desjardins Group and FCC provided loans for this transaction
"We are honoured to take up the torch from Luc and Lyne Lareault
who succeeded in building a Québec flagship with an international reputation
The support of our financial partners was crucial to the deal's success and to keeping the head office in Québec
We are also delighted that all the employees will remain and that we can count on the support of Luc and Lyne Lareault to facilitate the transition
Lareault is an excellent platform for our future projects
which will leverage the company's enviable reputation for quality and innovation," said Antoine Casimir and Andrea Borodenko
"Antoine and Andrea are dynamic Quebecers who know the market very well
They have several meaningful projects in mind for the future
I'm confident that their shared passion and expertise will propel Production Lareault to the next level," said a delighted Luc Lareault
who will remain with the company to ensure a smooth handover and support Antoine and Andrea's expansion plans
"Business transfers are a major challenge for our SMEs
We are proud to support sellers like Luc and Lyne Lareault
and buyers like Antoine Casimir and Andrea Borodenko
who take the time to develop a succession plan that will help their company grow
solutions exist for entrepreneurs who want to ensure the future of the company they've built and for buyers who want to contribute to our local economy," said Janie C
President and CEO of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ
"Desjardins is multiplying its initiatives to support entrepreneurs in their succession planning so as to keep businesses and head offices in Québec
helps owners anticipate how they will transfer the business to the next generation
buyers and sellers need to be guided on a human level during this critical period
We're very pleased to have been able to support the founders and new owners of Production Lareault
This transaction is excellent news for the agri-food sector," said Jean-Yves Bourgeois
Executive Vice-President of Desjardins' Business Services Group.
"If our SMEs are to continue driving the Québec and Canadian economies
we must support owners looking to sell and entrepreneurs looking to buy," said Paul Béland
"Thanks to the keen business sense and know-how of Production Lareault's former and new owners
this transfer will long be held up as an example
What a great way to celebrate the company's 70th anniversary
We wish Production Lareault and its new owners the best for the future."
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The stamp bearing the Polaris Prize-longlisted artist's image will be available starting June 21.
Le timbre de Postes Canada à l'effigie d'Elisapie
Elisapie is having a big week. Having just been named to the long list for the Polaris Prize with her covers album Inuktitut
the Inuk singer-songwriter and activist is being honoured by Canada Post
Her portrait appears on a new stamp which is part of a series paying tribute to several Inuit
Métis and First Nations people who dedicate themselves to preserving their culture and improving the quality of life of different peoples
The stamps bearing the image of Elisapie will be available for National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21 and are already available for pre-order
In addition to the Junos Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year winner
Canada Post's Indigenous Leaders stamp series also highlights two other women earlier this yea: Christi Belcourt
Anishinaabe elder and defender of the right to water
Canada and the United States throughout the summer and fall to present her show Uvattini
directed by the artist Émilie Monnet which includes music
She's also playing a number of festivals
QC - Festival de la chanson de Tadoussac SOLD OUT
QC - Théâtre Maisonneuve de la Place des Arts (Montréal International Jazz Festival) (Uvattini) SOLD OUT
NU - Aqsarniit Hotel & Conference Centre - 30th Anniversary of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act
BC - Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (Uvattini)
QC - Cabaret André-H.-Gagnon du Centre des arts Juliette-Lassonde SOLD OUT
A musically diverse group of major international and Canadian stars will take to the historic stage in Ontario cottage country this summer
A historic and popular music venue in the Muskoka cottage country region of Ontario for the past eight decades, The KEE To Bala was taken over by Live Nation in 2023
and the clout of the international concert behemoth has upped the ante
and it again features major international and Canadian artists as headliners
Heading the international names are R&B superstar Nelly
fast-rising young American country star Dylan Gossett
alt-rockers Billy Corgan and The Machines of God with Collective Soul
rock veterans The Wallflowers and hip-hop stars Cypress Hill & Ja Rule
The musically diverse Canadian contingent features multiple platinum-selling bands and crowd-pleasing veteran live favourites including Billy Talent
Jun 11: Billy Corgan and The Machines of God
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Andrea Borodenko and Antoine Casimir have acquired Lavaltrie-based Production Lareault
ensuring the company remains in Québec hands
LAVALTRIE — A strawberry plant producer
says new owners Antoine Casimir and Andrea Borodenko have acquired the Lavaltrie company
“We are honoured to take up the torch from Luc and Lyne Lareault
The support of our financial partners was crucial to the deal’s success and to keeping the head office in Québec
which will leverage the company’s enviable reputation for quality and innovation,” said Antoine Casimir and Andrea Borodenko
“Antoine and Andrea are dynamic Quebecers who know the market very well
I’m confident that their shared passion and expertise will propel Production Lareault to the next level,” said a delighted Luc Lareault
who will remain with the company to ensure a smooth handover and support Antoine and Andrea’s expansion plans
“Business transfers are a major challenge for our SMEs
solutions exist for entrepreneurs who want to ensure the future of the company they’ve built and for buyers who want to contribute to our local economy,” said Janie C
“If our SMEs are to continue driving the Québec and Canadian economies
we must support owners looking to sell and entrepreneurs looking to buy,” said Paul Béland
“Thanks to the keen business sense and know-how of Production Lareault’s former and new owners
What a great way to celebrate the company’s 70th anniversary
We wish Production Lareault and its new owners the best for the future.”
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CORNWALL – Electronic waste recycler FCM Recycling has closed its Cornwall operations permanently
Plant Manager Joel Latreille confirmed the closure to Cornwall Newswatch but referred other questions to the company’s head office in Lavaltrie
The plant is at 2900 Loyalist Avenue in the Cornwall Business Park
President Andre Rubin did not return calls requesting comment for this story
In a 2018 interview with Recycling Product News
Rubin boasted about being ahead of the curve in electronic plastics recycling with a $1 million investment in Cornwall’s polymer division
“Our work in plastics recycling is a couple of years ahead of everybody,” he told the publication
“We feel that that’s a major differentiator for us from our competition
as our recycling rate is considerably higher because of our ability to domestically handle plastic.”
The company had the capacity to process 10 million pounds of high-impact polystyrene (HIPS) and acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) and was the first e-waste recycler in Canada to operate a plastics recycling facility
In addition to its shredding facility at its head office
The Cornwall plant would clean plastic and turn it into pellet form
The closure means up to 35 workers have lost their jobs at the Cornwall location
based on employee numbers from the City of Cornwall’s business directory
It’s not known whether the employees were offered an option to transfer to other plants
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Toronto lawyer Fay Faraday has studied Canada’s temporary foreign worker and seasonal agricultural worker programs for decades and says a lack of political will has resulted in system engineered to provide cheap
A group of Mexican migrant workers sit on the front porch of a house in Lavaltrie
after finishing their work on a nearby farm
Often times as many as eight workers can be found living in a two-bedroom house
A migrant worker waves from a bunk house deemed a quarantine area
‘Quarantine area - COVID-19 - no visitors
no vendors’ in both English and Spanish
A study urged better standards for migrant workers’ housing
Across Ontario, nursing homes are the province’s deadliest epicentres for the COVID-19 pandemic
the county’s largest outbreak of the virus is on a farm — where 49 migrant workers have fallen ill
Labour advocates warn that living conditions are hastening the virus’s spread on farms across the country
where bunkhouses often make it impossible for temporary foreign workers to social distance
Those workers are essential to the country’s food supply
leading agricultural groups to push for their exclusion from Canada’s COVID-19 travel ban
many of these groups also lobbied against the creation of a national housing standard that a government study recommended “to reduce the risk of negligence and possibly of harm” to migrant workers
The national standard for migrant worker housing has not been implemented — despite a study commissioned by the federal government that found “gaps in the housing inspection process” and an “extremely wide variation of what is deemed an acceptable housing standard.”
overcrowded housing for migrant farm workers is an issue that workers have raised literally “literally for decades,” said Fay Faraday
a Toronto-based lawyer and York University professor who has written numerous studies of migrant workers’ conditions
“From the very beginning of the outbreak the first concern that workers were raising was whether they would have housing facilities that would be safe.”
In consultations initiated by the federal government in 2018 on updating migrant worker programs
agricultural groups including Canadian Federation of Agriculture and the Ontario Federation of Agriculture pushed back against stricter auditing of living and working conditions
according to submissions obtained by the Star
The groups argued that the process treats employers “like they are guilty of an infraction before proven innocent” and represented an “excessive” administrative burden
“The approach from government has caused a great deal of concern
Employers’ eligibility to hire workers through Canada’s temporary foreign worker schemes is contingent on submitting housing inspection reports to the federal government
But the 2018 study conducted by the National Home Inspector Certification Council found no “uniformity” in housing standards and confusion over who enforces them: “complex jurisdictional roles and responsibilities can make it unclear what housing standards applies,” and whether housing makes the grade
The study recommended updating and standardizing guidelines across the country
and letting inspections include a “broader scope” of issues — including bunkhouses’ electrical systems
and the age of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors
a spokesperson for Employment and Social Development Canada said the government’s review of its temporary foreign worker program “identified some opportunities to improve housing for foreign workers” that would be addressed with the provinces
“Because of the urgencies related to the COVID-19 pandemic
Workers say the delay comes with a price tag that is now more costly than ever
provided mostly by migrant workers who plant
and pack the fruit and vegetables the country relies on
Some come for eight months a year; others have work permits for up to two years
None can gain permanent residence through the country’s temporary foreign worker streams
Leamington has always been a town of immigrants
its evolution tied to successive waves of workers who powered its economy
Local hotels became self-isolation quarters for workers just in from Mexico and the Caribbean
The community health centre launched an education campaign
urging migrant workers to practice social distancing
warning of the penalties for failing to do so
One Mexican worker here on a two-year permit said he shares a house with 10 other workers; he is picked up by a bus full of other workers to get to his job at a mushroom farm’s packing plant
“We cannot social distance because we have to work very close,” he told the Star
several workers across his employer’s facilities were diagnosed with COVID-19
housing inspections for migrant workers are usually done by local public health units
the Windsor-Essex County unit conducted 121 bunkhouse inspections between the beginning of March and mid-April
Around 100 were for housing permits or licensing; the rest were reinspections or responses to complaints
the inspection process has long been flawed
health units can’t fine employers for shoddy or unsafe housing because there are no legislated standards for worker accommodation
Inspections “have typically been done before any workers arrive,” said Faraday
“So they are seen in a pristine condition without the workers there and without necessarily a realistic assessment of how many workers will be in that space.”
said he has not been allowed to leave his bunkhouse since the pandemic started
Even shopping for groceries is off limits — instead
the farm’s secretary brings a weekly supply
His bed is in a large open space shared by 12 workers
that were the only time that felt like his own
“That’s how we were able to relax.” Now leaving the bunkhouse could be grounds for suspension
He understands the need to social distance
can still go out occasionally — “We feel like prisoners.”
site of 51 of the region’s 89 COVID-19 cases
one migrant worker said he shared a room with six others before the outbreak
“I feel like I want to cry,” the worker said
Chatham-Kent’s public health unit said the workers are believed to have been exposed to the virus by a local farmhand
The unit’s spokesperson Caress Lee Carpenter said the bunkhouses received routine inspections prior to the outbreak
and said living arrangements make it “easy to transmit this kind of infection.”
was “similar to if someone in your own household had the virus but did not yet know
The chances of other household members contracting the virus is likely.”
But few Canadians live in conditions like migrant workers
where “it is completely normal to have eight people living in a two-bedroom space
“It’s so common to have workers in storage sheds or tool sheds that have been repurposed into dormlike housing with dozens of workers separated only by hanging sheets.”
The worker at Greenhill said the quality of his bunkhouse was good
other than the number of people who shared it
Greenhill workers were rehoused to separate those who tested positive and negative
“I think they could have moved us much much earlier.”
The public health unit said it has provided support to workers on a daily basis and the company has followed “all public health measures directed at them.”
Greenhill said it cared “deeply for our employees and takes all steps to protect their health and safety … we are proud to provide some of the best quality living quarters for our workers
meeting and greatly exceeding federal government regulations
“Examples of amenities we provide in all residences is free Wi-Fi
After authorities in British Columbia began investigating a COVID-19 outbreak amongst migrant workers in Kelowna in March
agricultural employers such as Greenhill have been hit; so too have food processing facilities that rely heavily on temporary foreign workers
such as a Cargill meat-packing plant in Alberta
Responses have varied from employer to employer
Migrant workers’ precarious immigration status and fear of reprisal makes it difficult to voice concern about conditions
Faraday said: “There is also the undeniable racism” behind employers providing conditions for migrant workers that locals wouldn’t accept
And while employers’ responses to COVID-19 have varied
their submissions to the consultations that addressed housing concerns two years ago were consistent: stronger enforcement is not necessary
“We urge the government to not only consider the rights of the workers but also the right of the employer to due process as they deliver these inspections,” said one submission from the Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers
Noting the “importance of ensuring that our (temporary foreign worker) workforce is treated fairly,” the submission added that “fairness is only one aspect of what individuals need to feel included and secure” and suggests that the federal government reallocate “funds from compliance activities to initiatives that support the inclusion and acceptance of our TFW workforce in rural communities across Canada.”
Last year, a Star investigation exposed thousands of complaints that migrant workers made to Mexican authorities
Only a small number of the complaints are ever shared with Canada’s government
the pandemic has brought the enforcement issue into sharper focus
Canada announced a $50-million program last month to help farms modify accommodation and subsidize migrants’ wages when they are in self-isolation
said Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau
is dependent on employers following public health guidelines and will be accompanied by targeted inspections from federal ministries and local health units
Employment and Social Development Canada said it had “ceased conducting proactive inspections” in mid-March so it could “abide by local travel restrictions” and protect the health of communities and departmental staff
The ministry said it expected to resume proactive inspections “in the coming days” by video and other means
advocacy group Justice for Migrant Workers wants the provincial Ministry of Labour to include housing in health and safety inspections
and “It is time that the workers receive the benefits that are due to them,” the group said in a recent letter to Premier Doug Ford
Faraday said the pandemic has also brought migrant workers’ value into sharper relief
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Jean-Roch Lacroix is the co-founder of Helio RV
The company offers HE3 series trailers at their headquarters in Lavaltrie
Co-founders Jean-Roch Lacroix and Marco Leblanc would chat at the local arena as their children took figure skating lessons
Lacroix grew up camping and was looking for a trailer so he could bring his children on the kind of adventures he enjoyed as a boy
Leblanc was a long-time entrepreneur looking for a new kind of adventure himself
“We would chat every time we were at the arena,” Mr
“My partner had a business for 30 years and he wanted to diversify and [work] with his son and create something new.”
the friendly chats became serious discussions
market research and analysis and the three of them – Mr
“We wanted to have the smallest trailer that you can pull with a small SUV or electric car,” Mr
It’s a niche product in a very competitive and lucrative industry
Last year was a record year for RV manufacturing and sales in North America, with more than 600,000 RVs built and more than US$30-billion in RV sales and service activity in the U.S., according to the American RV Industry Association
North of the border, the Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association of Canada estimated $470-million in sales in 2017
the most recent year statistics are available
Helio RV sold about 300 trailers last year
“There were not a lot of builders or manufacturers in that niche,” Mr
Helio’s Series O mini trailers can sleep up to four people and each has a queen-sized bed
a toilet and shower and a kitchenette with a two-burner stove
designed to be towable by a three-wheeled vehicle
contain a bed that converts into a couch and weigh in at just 456 pounds
The trailers are moulded fibreglass on an aluminum chassis
From their initial offering at only a few RV dealers in Quebec
Helio RVs are now available at dozens of dealerships across Canada and eight in the United States
Vehicles are strictly regulated industries in both Canada and the U.S.
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
QAI Laboratories’ certifications are recognized by U.S
standards are now very similar to the Canadian ones
Lacroix acquired its services.Christinne Muschi
While the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA)
He and his father had previous experience exporting furniture and kitchen cabinets to the U.S
but “it was less complicated in terms of standards requirements because it was not related to vehicles.”
It’s the exporter’s responsibility to know what certifications and regulations apply
it’s not just one set of national standards
“You have to be aware of the industry standards in your own country as well and the requirements of the countries where you want to export,” Mr
“You have to expect that you will have to answer to specific requests for the targeted states or regions.”
and exporters have to anticipate that before entering any specific market in the U.S.
For every province you can do the same,” adds Mr
but when you’re talking about California or another state
Rather than try to navigate the national certifications themselves
Helio RV turned to British Columbia-based QAI Laboratories
inspection and certification services in a variety of sectors
The company’s certification process is recognized by all agencies as confirmation the trailers meet all safety standards such as gas and electrical
looks at each component that will go into the RV and conducts factory visits a few times a year
The company’s certifications are also recognized by U.S
if they tell us up front that they plan to export to the U.S
we’ll do our evaluation to both standards at the same time,” Mr
Just a few minor differences that we have to look out for when we do our inspection.”
“With CUSMA and different trade agreements worldwide
there is a much greater effort to harmonize standards to reduce barriers to trade
And they’ve made a lot of progress in bringing the U.S
and Canadian RV standard closer together to make it easier for cross-border trade,” Mr
“But I think there’s a lot more progress that can be made on harmonization efforts.”
Lacroix says Helio RV is focusing on the expansion of its North American sales
which are split about 50-50 between Canada and the U.S.Christinne Muschi
Canada is far more harmonized with the U.S
Lacroix says that’s one reason Helio RV will focus on expanding North American sales
which are split about 50-50 between Canada and the U.S
“We’ve received a lot of inquiries from Europe and Australia but for now
We have plenty of opportunities here before opening up in other markets,” he says
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MontrealNewsToonie-sized hail pummel parts of Quebec during Saturday storm By Luca Caruso-MoroOpens in new windowPublished: July 01, 2023 at 10:58AM EDT
Emergency workers wearing protective masks
gloves and clothing are shown at a seniors' residence in Lavaltrie
Health-care workers across Quebec are getting pay raises
Health-care workers in Quebec–including thousands working at the bottom end of the wage scale in long-term care homes–are getting temporary pay raises
The hikes will go to workers in both the private and public sectors
Front-line workers–such as emergency-room professionals and nurses in coronavirus testing centres–will get an eight per cent boost to their salaries
As well, people working in private long-term care homes–most of whom make little more than the minimum wage of $12.50 an hour–will be included in the 69,000 workers getting the eight per cent hike
Including the long-term care workers appears aimed at keeping them working
rather than quitting an already thankless job to take advantage of federal financial assistance that’s worth $2,000 a month
“I don’t think there is a group that has ever been more deserving of a pay raise,” Premier François Legault said
Legault said this week one of his biggest fears is the spread of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities.
Some 200,000 other people who work in the health-care system but who are less exposed to COVID-19
will receive a salary increase of four per cent
The measures–retroactive to March 13–will cost about $287 million
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as well as select cities in Ontario and New Brunswick
BY Megan LaPierrePublished Mar 13
Supporting their latest record Tintamarre, Montreal-via-Moncton Acadian folk-rock trio Les Hay Babies have announced their tour plans for the year — which will bring them all around the province of Quebec
as well as to select cities in Ontario and New Brunswick
with the band performing at Ottawa's National Arts Centre
They'll spend the next month or so traversing the province they've adopted as their own ahead of getting back to their roots with a performance in Edmunston
(They'll also hit Rogersville and Moncton in May.)
After another Ontario stop in Waterloo on May 10
Les Hay Babies will return to the province in July to play Toronto's Horsehoe Tavern (July 3) and Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia (July 4)
They also have more Quebec dates through mid-October
Tickets are on sale now. See the full itinerary — as well as the music video for Les Hay Babies' latest single "Some People" — below, and find additional upcoming shows with Exclaim!'s Canadian concert listings
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Ruth Ellen Brosseau, NDP MP-elect for the riding of Berthier-Maskionge, leaves city hall in Louiseville, Que., on Wednesday with NDP deputy leader Thomas Mulcair running interference.
Elusive NDP rookie Ruth Ellen Brosseau has finally visited the Quebec riding she will represent in the House of Commons.
Some constituents had even put out “wanted” posters for her, but the controversial new MP for Berthier-Maskinongé, 27-year-old Ruth Ellen Brosseau, is no longer just a picture on a website.
She made her first in-the-flesh visit to the riding Wednesday, albeit very quietly and under heavy NDP guard.
No one was alerted to her appearance at a news conference for a museum in Lavaltrie — not even the museum.
“We knew a half-hour before the event” that Brosseau would be present, a representative of the Maison Rosalie Cadron, France Beauregard, said. “At about 9 o’clock.”
Neither were any media advised of her first public appearance, hotly anticipated since the former Ottawa assistant pub manager won on May 2, against all odds, having never set foot in the riding, having vacationed in Las Vegas during the campaign, and having been revealed to speak little French.
At the museum news conference, attended by three local journalists who had no idea she was coming, she answered no questions.
“I wanted to do an interview but they told me she had a tight schedule,” said Pierre Bellemare, a journalist with L’Action d’Autray. They offered to do it later, but “I’m still waiting,” he said.
Appearing professional in a sharp black pantsuit, Brosseau read from a short prepared speech, the journalists said. She spoke of the woman for whom the museum is named, who devoted her life to helping single mothers, as an inspiration. Brosseau herself is a single mother.
Olivier Landry, a journalist with radio station M 103.5, said Brosseau’s French was “intelligible, understandable. She had good pronunciation.”
She also spoke with Lavaltrie Mayor Jean-Claude Gravel, who came to her defence.
“She expresses herself very well in French,” Gravel insisted in an interview, adding their entire conversation was in French.
The mayor said she promised to support “all” of his plans, including a new $13 million sports complex for his city of 13,000.
“She was treated unfairly,” he said of newspapers and pundits who had ridiculed her as a place-holder candidate.
Yet her NDP entourage, which included senior Quebec MP Thomas Mulcair, tried to shield her from the media. A Radio Canada crew caught wind of her presence and attempted to talk to her in the museum parking lot.
Mulcair, who tried to run interference, was seen telling the journalist, “We have many events this afternoon…we will continue with our events.”
“It was difficult to even say hello to Miss Brosseau,” the journalist commented on the air.
By the afternoon several other journalists had caught up to Brosseau in Louiseville, where she met Mayor Guy Richard.
“We’re not hiding her,” said NDP spokesperson Marc-André Viau. “We wanted to give her a chance to go to the riding, meet some people and actually learn about the riding, not spend her day doing media.”
Still, she gave an interview to a TV station in Trois-Rivières in French. She managed to understand and answer the questions, while asking for help with certain words. She said her vacation to Las Vegas “was not a lack of respect.” She left for five days to celebrate her birthday.
She said she had learned where the riding was before the election by using Google Maps.
If there is one good outcome from all the negative publicity, she said, “Everyone knows Berthier-Maskinongé now.”
The NDP went from just one seat in Quebec to 58 on May 2.
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2003 Concordia student conflict flares again with eviction Suspended union executive arrested after refusing to leave campus NATALIE ALCOBA trators
Engler was asked to Friction between Concordia University and student activists resurfaced last night when an executive of the student union was arrested for resisting his eviction
was arrested after he resisted a police escort out of the Henry F
He was attending a Concordia Student Union meeting
but police would not confirm that late last night
Constable Yannick Ouimet said police were called to the building by university adminis- leave
Engler had been suspended for one semester for his conduct last year during a campus demonstration that cancelled a speech by former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
a former vicepresident of the student union
said Engler served his suspension during the summer semester
He added that the Quebec accreditation law allows any elected member of a student union access to the school premises for meetings
But Concordia rector Fred Lowy said: "it is my understanding that the (law) doesn't protect someone from suspension." IN BRIEF TROLLER 3450 COURTESY LONGUEUIL POLICE A device similar to this one was purloined from a Longueuil construction site last month
Lavaltrie man accused of murder in woman's death A 69-year-old Lavaltrie man appeared yesterday in a Joliette courtroom
where he was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend
shortly after he told du officers that his lover
was dead and her body could be found in his mobile home
Desrosiers was ordered held in custody until his next court date
THE GAZETTE Stolen device emits radiation Longueuil police are trying to track down a radiation-emitting device that was stolen last month from a construction site in the city's St
known as a Emotional adieu for actor killed in crash QUEBE FUNERAL DRAWS 1,500 Jaclyn Linestsky died with co-star Schneider SIDHARTHA BANERJEE THE GAZETTE Jaclyn Linetsky and Vadim Schneider were up-and-coming actors with a bright futures
but to the friends and relatives who saw beyond that
The impact Linetsky made in life was evident yesterday
as more than 1,500 people crowded into Paperman and Sons funeral home to say goodbye to the 17- year-old Hampstead teen
was best known for her work as the English-speaking voice of Caillou
"It is the largest funeral I've ever seen
It was just tragic and emotional and heartbreaking," said Debbie Scott
The funeral was a private affair that lasted close to an hour
Among those who spoke were Linetsky's brother
They focused on her glowing personality and her enthusiastic approach to life
saying it would allow her spirit to live on forever
good-hearted and charming," Scott said following the funeral
"She loved people and she made everyone feel like they were important." Among those who attended was the family of Vadim Schneider
mourners paid their respects to the Schneider family
Vadim is survived by his parents and four younger brothers
all of whom are interested in the performing arts
said he hopes his oldest son had a positive influence on his siblings
he got involved in show business because I was involved," the father said
"He loved musicals and comedy he discovered Les while were in Paris
and he never forgot the love of performing." COURTESY OF ACTRA Actor Jaclyn Linetsky
was remembered yesterday for her glowing personality and enthusiasm
that he wouldn't be in but saying they should needed anything
a child who was full of Even three days before he was telling me
Papa' and 'I love Jean-Paul Schneider
something you expect of but he was always affection and love for his his four brothers." funeral date has set
where they a television show currently in proOn the show
set in the international junior competition
Linetsky Schneider's characters were to fall in love
were killed when their minivan spun out of coninto oncoming traffic
thegazette.canwest.com GAZETTE is Now the really over
Tomorrow John Mahoney The Gazette Policing in plan criticized MORE COPS ON BEAT But it's not enough for some residents JOHN MacFARLANE THE GAZETTE Though most people who attended a public hearing on community policing last evening were in favour of a more visible
not everyone was happy with the proposed method of achieving it
Montreal police chief Michel Sarrazin wants to put more officers on walking beats
but he said yesterday that doing so will require some changes and some sacrifices
it's hard to be able to give all the services the citizens want," he said before the hearing
"So we want to increase the number of officers in some stations
"And I don't have the money to hire 100 or 200 more officers
SO we're trying to merge two stations together to have the number of officers we need to give that service to the people." Most in attendance acknowledged the budgetary limitations
but some weren't so quick to accept the stations proposed for merger
Michel residents' group representing people in the Jean Rivard district
who complain of chronic high crime and low security
presented a 460-signature petition demanding the addition of more beat cops dedicated to their area
Michel borough chairperson Paolo Tamburello said he understood the need for restructuring
but insisted that the plan for the Park Extension station be reconsidered
where we have 33,000 citizens and the crime rate is always rising
they want to reduce not give us 37 police officers that we need," he said
"They want to add two to give us 32 and expand the territory towards Jarry Park
because the officers we get for Park Extension will he used for Jarry Park." The recent police tactic -f mass arrests at protests was raised at the meeting by several in attendance
but Sarrazin said he couldn't comment because some cases from the World Trade Organization protest are currently before the courts
is similar to an X- ray machine and measures the density of concrete base and is asphalt
instrument's painted yellow; the device also features a large keypad with the word Troxler and the model number 3450 inscribed on it
The instrument gives off low levels of nuclear radiation
and anyone who finds it is urged to call police immediately at (450) 445-7711
People are warned not to handle the device
30 Residents of the Plateau MontRoyal borough can still renew their reserved parking permits until Sept
The permits can be renewed in person at 201 Laurier Ave
A copy of the vehicle licence and proof of residence are required
cars without renewed permits could be ticketed if parked in reserved zones
COURTESY OF SCHNEIDER FAMILY -born Vadim Schneider
was "always full of affec- at morning had visited lamenting classes
the accident 'thank said "It's not a 17-year-old
full of mother and Schneider's not been France has Linetsky on their Monday were filming called tion," he father says
world of from France in 1996 and the chil- tennis dren fell in love with Quebec
beginning Vadim's career consisted of The two voice work and theatre before rental starting his TV career recently
literature and philosophy as a student THE HABS HIT TRAINING thegazette.canwest.com MONTREAL CAMP summer's report for their today at the We'll tell you up and how in Sports