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"Minister McKenna, who is in charge of Parks Canada, said last spring that what is possible will be done so that everyone can ride the bike path" said Renaud Gignac, one of the co-organizers of Friday's event. He adds that "the Southwest borough has unblocked a budget of $100,000 for snow clearing this winter. The City of Montreal and Parks Canada have only to agree on the technical details to clear the bike path this winter!" A "pellete-in" is a gathering of cyclists who demand that a cycling facility remain accessible in winter. To do this, volunteers symbolically clear a stretch of bike path. Montréal has regularly been the theatre of such "Pelletein"s since the 1970s with Le Monde à Bicyclette and Robert “Bicycle Bob” Silverman. TV host and lecturer Yvan Martineau was there; he uses his bike all year round, snow or not. Martineau wonders why "at a time when (governments) are telling people it's important to be active and keep fit, how is it that this bike path--a direct link for workers to downtown--is not yet cleared while demand has been there for a long time?" 6
“We have been working hard on this since January, trying to get government officials to clear this bike path,” said Dan Lambert of the Montreal Bike Coalition. His sentiments were echoed by Jonathan Théorêt of the environmental group, GRAME. Théorêt thought he had obtained assurances from local governments on this in 2014. The Lachine Canal bike path, which dates from 1978, is often considered the first bike path opened in Canada, with close to 1 million people using it each year from April 15 to Nov. 15. The bike path is also the only major bike link from Lachine to Old Montreal. Ongoing highway construction work with the Turcot project means years of constant traffic congestion between Lachine and downtown, but winter cyclists do not have the option of using the bike path. It is unclear if the bike path, or part of it, will be usable from February 8-10, 2017 when Montreal is hosting the fifth annual Winter Cycling Congress, supposedly a chance for the city to show-off how much importance it places on winter cycling.
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uccess takes shape in many forms, especially on the streets of Montreal. Inspiration isn’t hard to find if we take a look at our neighbours. One neighbour in particular has been extra busy sharing her passion with both readers and viewers: Anne-Lovely Etienne, one of our most admired television personalities, took the time to chat with us about her career. “I started as a radio researcher,” said Etienne. From this intern position, she worked her way up the ladder to become a trusted source of information in our city. Her resume includes Radio X Montreal, live television time alongside Marie-Claude Savard and Benoit Gagnon, as well as Journal de Montreal, and Global Montreal. Global Montreal is one of her newer feats—an exciting one as Etienne breaks into the English market with her television beauty segments. Her columns and television segments focus on lifestyle topics in and around our city. WEDNESDAY
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One of the things that makes Anne-Lovely so lovable is the genuine emotion she shows through all of her work, towards all of the people she meets, and back at all of her fans. “People should know about my human side,” she said. “People should know more about me than just lifestyle.” When she began working with Journal de Montreal, Etienne was a hard news reporter. “People would come up to me and open their hearts to me. They would tell me their stories.” Etienne hopes to experience
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these types of genuine connections, regardless of what type of news she reports. “I love people. That’s very true.” Etienne takes the time to appreciate her readers and viewers. She listens to content suggestions, stories, and all around soaks in the support. “If no one read me, or watched me on TV, there would be no Anne-Lovely,” she said. “When someone recognizes me, I take the time.” It’s the beautiful and diverse people of Montreal that inspire her daily.
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Etienne’s mission lately is driven by the di- backgrounds find the same opportunities that verse citizens in our city. Etienne wants to she did to follow her lifelong dream. “I really bring the same diversity we see in the streets want to work on diversifying media in French,” into the media. She was born in Haiti, but she said. “I’m not going to be a black journalgrew up in Montreal, like many others from a ist, I’m just going to be a journalist.” In our dihuge range of backgrounds. Now, she loves verse city especially, everyone should have the range of communities that cohabit in Mon- the chance to express themselves. treal. “We are so lucky,” she said. Anne-Lovely Etienne shared words of parting Anne-Lovely knew she wanted to be in the media since she was nine years old. Her wisdom to those chasing after their dreams: teacher asked the class to draw themselves “Never give up. It’s very tough. A lot of times as they picture their lives in ten years. “I’m a I thought I should do something else,” she journalist, and I’m actually on TV,” she said. said. “Every time I thought ‘I am meant for “Now, I am a black journalist in one of the this; I have to do this; I will be unhappy if I do most read French papers in North America.” something else.’ A lot of doors close before Etienne hopes that others from all different one door opens.” 22 www.mtltimes.ca WEDNESDAY
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