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arc Jean-Drapeau invites you to come enjoy the last days of summer at the Beach! On Sunday, August 27, the Western spirit will storm the Jean-Doré Beach for a day of festivities combining dance, funfilled activities, swimming and country music.

From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., kids and grown-ups will have fun playing in inflatable game structures, trying to tame the mechanical bull or learning the line dancing basics! Our partners Rythme FM and Parks Canada will be on-site to entertain the crowd with animation, a sand castles competition and an introduction to

canoe and kayak activity. The country singer and former La Voix cast member, Mathieu Langevin, will also be there to do two performances. On this special day, the admission to the Beach will be free for children aged 13 and under.

This event will mark the end of the regular summer season at Jean-Doré Beach. After this date, the Beach will only reopen on September 2, 3 and 4 for a final weekend of activities.

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Access to the river has always been mentioned as a sort of natural aspirations for a population located on an island. The need for port and industrial installations, combined with the urban growth have in the past blocked the visibility of the river let alone its access. The fact that in recent decades almost all of the industries have

So far, many people suspect that the Strategic Plan is aimed to favour real estate development

fter a period of consultation during last year and the release of a preliminary document highlighting the main points of what has been called A Strategic Plan for Downtown, the final report was published a few weeks ago. Regarding the actual area which the document is focused on, it corresponds to the borough of Ville Marie, which extends far beyond the usual notion of downtown, generally applied to the core, mostly commercial centre of the city. The plan then applies roughly to the sector of city bordered by the rail line just east of Iberville on the east, the St. Lawrence River

including St. Helen and Notre Dame islands on the south, Victoria

points highlighted in the introduction are a complementary transport network, access to the river, and urban re-use.

The first point refers to the integration of the already approved (and controversial) REM or Light Electric Train that will connect the South Shore, Downtown, Laval, and the Pierre E.Trudeau Airport, to the existing metro and bus system.

While one new station (Bassin Peel) will be built

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abandoned their riverfront buildings could make this aspiration easier to achieve.This industrial migration would also cover the third point of the plan, since already many of those buildings may be transformed into condos or office complexes. Re-utilization may also be feasible in some other downtown neighbourhoods where former schools, churches, and other institutional buildings are now languishing.

The document also

makes reference to the consultations held at the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) where citizens expressed their concerns last year. Five items were identified as priorities during those meetings: public transportation, lodging for homeless people and families, collective equipment, culture, and the vitality of commercial arteries in the area.

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Public transportation in the area has usually been mentioned as a problem in the area. Although the downtown sector is wellserved by two metro

lines, bus service is deficient, especially in the east-west axis with only one route having a relatively good frequency, line 24. Lines 15 on Ste. Catherine, 144 on

Pine/Dr. Penfield Avenues, and 150 on René Levesque, on the other hand, offer a horrible service.

Homelessness has already been underlined by various social organizations as a growing problem in the downtown area. The same goes for the need for affordable housing for families in the sector. However, little has been done in both respects.

The general amenities under the category of common equipment include items such as lighting (replacement of the old sodium lamps for more efficient LED ones is going very slowly). Also in this category tree planting on streets and parks (an issue many times raised with municipal authorities with no definite answer on their part), and equipment for kids in parks (one of the few things that have been done).

Cultural dynamism is something that has flour-

Common equipment including tree planting is one of the points considered in the plan

ished in the downtown area thanks to the existing festivals that take place mainly in the Quartier des spectacles and on Crescent St. around the time of the Grand Prix. Regarding the vitality of the commercial arteries, in this case, in particular, I should

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say Sainte Catherine St., the city plan doesn't provide any specifics. Last year the project to renovate that street was unveiled, but since then no more details have come from the borough or the city. We know that the works to replace the old water pipelines under the iconic street will disturb traffic and commercial activity there for months. It remains to be seen what the long-term effect of that construction will be since many fear that –although the works are necessary—they may result in a total disaster for

some businesses.

The bottom line, however, is the question of who is going to benefit from the implementation of this action plan. A plan produced by the city which for now is short on specifics but seems to point mostly to stimulate real estate development and big business in the area, more than to the needs of residents. This is a question that should eventually resonate with greater force as we approach the municipal elections to be held in November.

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ith the violent, horrific rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia just the weekend before still reverberating across North America, a farright wing group led by La Meute - with members who participated in the fascist, white-supremacists protests in the US, gathered to protest last Sunday in what they said were the policies of the Canadian and Quebec governments concerning 'the scourge of illegal immigration' and the asylum seekers entering Canada.

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Technoparc drought: Is something fishy?

Marsh dried up during record rainfall..

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nvironmentalists say something is fishy in the Technoparc area of St. Laurent. They claim management at Technoparc is deliberately draining a marsh to kill fish and drive birds away from an area with perhaps the greatest biodiversity on Montreal Island, all this

dence. Instead, a flawed study was done in the fall, and it categorized the area as being “of little ecological importance.”

“Amateur bird watchers have since established that Technoparc—with 182 species of birds observed—is the secondbest spot for bird watching in Quebec.

There are endangered species--such as the Least Bittern--nesting here, many attracted by the presence of fish. Until last year, the borough mayor of St. Laurent also claimed that there were no fish here until we published photos of herons with fish in their beaks.”

In 2016, environmentalists tried to invoke an injunction to prevent a $5 million road extension

By John Symon into the marshes and almost won. Over the winmtltimes.ca ter, a dyke was built through the marsh area, to facilitate construction. fragmenting it. In June, “No proper environ- 2017, the southern pormental inventory was tion of the marsh dried ever done here,” says Joel up.

Coutu, an eminent birder.

“In building the dyke, unHe notes that proper en- told numbers of overwinvironmental inventories tering fish were buried need to be done in alive. Once spring arrived, springtime when birds other overwintering fish and flowers are in full evi- died when they had no

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Where did water go Coutu in former marsh

water. And the new exit culvert off Étang aux herons would probably have sucked out any small fish swimming near it,” charges Coutu.

Technoparc management counters in their online newsletter that low water levels are “normal”: “Because the water

supply is not constant, and there is an increase of the evapotranspiration and percolation of the water,” This same area is also referred to as “le Petit marais Hubert Reeves.”

“This year le Petit marais Hubert Reeves dried up in June during a year of record rainfall

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without any extended heat wave and well before the nesting birds were able to complete the raising of their young,” retorts Coutu. “There was absolutely nothing normal or natural about what happened here. It had everything to do with the fragmentation caused by

construction of the new dyke and new road.”

Coutu notes that this same marsh stayed wet through a prolonged drought in 2016.

“We also have a video recorded in April 2017 of water leaving this general area at an estimated rate of 2,800,000 litres per day. That is enough water to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool.”

Again, a very different story emerges from the Technoparc newsletter: “Although there may be false rumors that water is being pumped by some equipment, none was never used to pump/drain water, either by Technoparc Montreal, the Borough of Saint-Laurent, or by the City of Montreal or any other contractors engaged by them.”

Coutu and others invite the public to come and see the astonishing biodiversity for themselves on Sunday, August 27, when a bilingual guided walk through the Technoparc area starts at 8 am. More info at “Grosse journée d'observation d'oiseaux / Technoparc Mtl.”

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see some favourite shows and discover some shows that offered new approaches to comedy. And its multitude of spectators seem to agree, with a record 42 sold out shows to prove it, which also attracted many artists to play spectator and check out how this festival always manages to showcase the constantly changing face of comedy.

As is my journalistic tradition (after seeing so many shows and conducting countless interviews with comedians and performers before and during the festival), I always offer my personal highlights based on what I experienced and witnessed during this exhaustive – and fun – 21 days. So here is a sampling of how I spent my three weeks during the madness that was the 35th anniversary edition of the Just For Laughs festival: “I said it before and I’ll say it again” moment: This year’s edition of the Ethnic Show was the best ever. Anchored by host Alonzo Bodden (who filled in at the last minute when original host Maz Jobrani had to withdraw due to a personal matter), this multicultural comedy mosaic had its strongest line-up ever, as Steve Byrne, Jessica Kirson, The Doo Wops, Mike Rita and Vladimir Caamano constantly delivered the laughs to packed crowds

at Club Soda and Metropolis without any let up, and has set the bar high for future Ethnic Shows.

Shows worth staying beyond midnight to catch: “Midnight Surprise” and “Bumping Mics” proved that quality live comedy can happen even after the clock strikes midnight.

“Midnight Surprise” certainly lived up to its billing, as audience members were not aware of that night’s line-up until the moment the show began.

When I attended the first show of the series, Sugar Sammy hosted, and had Nasty and Ethnic Show comics like Big Jay Oakerson and Jessica Kirson perform sets that were not featured at those respective shows; even Kevin Hart, Michael Che, Moshe Kasher, Natasha Leggero and Jeff Ross made unannounced appearances on the Midnight Surprise stage, much to the delight of each sold

Trevor Noah being interviewed on the red carpet

out crowd.

And speaking of Jeff Ross, he and fellow comic Dave Attell perfected the art of ad-libbing during their three-night stand of “Bumping Mics” at the L’Astral, as they tried to outdo and out-joke each other, and the fans just ate up every word they uttered. And that show had its share of surprises, too; when I was there for opening night, Judd Apatow did a surprise opening set, and Jim Carrey was in the audience (and no mattered how much Ross and Attell cajoled him to join them onstage, he politely refused so that he can enjoy the show as a spectator).

Favorite new experiences at JFL: After covering this festival for over 15 years, I got the chance to experience Just For Laughs like a typical entertainment journalist would do in New York or Los Angeles. First there

were the two press junket-style interviews I did.

One was about the CNN series “The History of Comedy” with comic W. Kamau Bell and executive producer Mark Herzog and the other was with the three cast members of the CBS sitcom “Superior Donuts” (particularly, Judd Hirsch, Katy Sagal and Jermaine Fowler); both interviews will be the subject of two separate features that will appear in future issues of the Montreal Times.

Second was as a participant on the red carpet prior to the annual Just For Laughs Awards Show.

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residents of Shaughnessy Village spoke out about the problems home-sharing services have been causing on their street.

“There are five places within 20 metres of where we’re standing,” Bernard Sanchez said in a Montreal Gazette report, while pointing out apart-

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ments being rented through home-sharing services like Airbnb. Two years ago he started noticing the problem when a house sold on Tupper St. was converted into a short-term rental property. He said that 'people came and went with trolley suitcases in tow, often confused about parking restrictions along

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the street and that license plates from different provinces and states became common'.

More houses were sold on the street and more people were coming and going. Even an apartment complex at the corner of the street started renting out units to tourists - and with it came garbage left at the curb, broken bottles littering the sidewalks and parties lasting until 3:00 in the morning.

“I fear it will only get worse and worse,” he added. “We won’t have quietness. We won’t have clean streets. We won’t have security or safety for our kids. It will affect the value of our properties.

And it’s our homes… we need help. The law was changed to give it more teeth, but nothing seems to be happening.”

And it's not the only area in Montreal noticing the problems. Martin Blanchard of the Comité de Lodgement de la Petite-Patrie said that a dramatic increase in Airbnb listings in La Petite-Patrie have resulted in a lack of available apartments for residents.

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irbnb, founded in 2008, is an online 'home-rental hub' providing tourists and travelers with access to millions of accommodations in over 190 countries - with lodgings available in houses, condos, villas and more. Travelers can choose from listings posted on the Airbnb website by the home owners, called 'hosts', who want to earn a little extra income to help pay the bills by offering short-term rentals of rooms or entire dwellings. But now there are owners and property management companies who appear to be taking advantage of the program and side-stepping the rules put in place.

In December 2015, the Quebec government put forth Bill 67 to regulate short-term rentals in the province. People who regularly rent out their properties are required to get a certificate from the province's tourism ministry, pay a lodging tax and if not the property owner, advise their landlords that they will be renting to tourists.There are considerable fines in place for those who don't follow the rules - but it doesn't seem to be stopping many from doing so.

One property management company in Montreal has close to 160 properties which they have been renting out through Airbnb - and have so far been profiting up to what is reported to be several million dollars. To put it simply, they have turned their rental apartments into hotels.

A study by McGill University's David Wachsmuth and his team, showed a small number of commercial property managers have been generating a majority of Airbnb's overall revenue and cutting into available housing rentals for Montrealers, as well as driving up rent. They also found that two or three per cent of the housing available in the Montreal's more popular PlateauMont-Royal and VilleMarie boroughs, is now being run by property management companies for short-term rentals.

More importantly, the majority of Quebecers who list their properties on Airbnb and other home rental websites are not registering with the province for their permits. The tourism department issued 967 permits for rental hosts out of 2,244 applications in the year after the law took effect on April 15, 2016.

There were 19,400 Airbnb hosts in Quebec in 2016, according to the data.

This past July, some

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worldwide who are attempting to deal with Airbnb;Toronto proposed regulations to prohibit

people from renting out homes that aren’t their principal residence. New York banned short-term

rentals of complete apartments, while Berlin banned short-term rentals altogether.

Quebec needs to better enforce Bill 67 and put even more inspectors out there, but it's not an easy task. To date, only 27 inspectors are mandated by the province’s tourism department to enforce the laws - up from two when the law first came into effect.

As suggested by David Wachsmuth, perhaps regulations should include that hosts only be allowed to rent out their primary residences - and not have multiple listings. As well, there should be no fulltime rentals allowed in properties solely existing to be rented through Airbnb - and that shortterm rental platforms, like Airbnb, should be required to enforce the regulations themselves.

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Movies from 17 countries competing at the World Film Festival (Hong Kong, China), "The Hidden Sword" by Xu Haofeng (China), "The Colour of Eroticism" by Xiaoyan Xu (China), "Reconciliation" by Maciej Sobieszczanski (Poland), "La route de Marie" by Atia Aldaraji (Iraq-Germ,any co-production), "Les bases de meurtres" by Jan Cvitkovic (SloveniaSerbia co-production), and "Who has confiscated Christmas" by Dinu Tãnase (Romania).

There are also 19 films competing in the First Work category, featuring movies from Hungary, Brazil, USA, Russia, China, France, Japan, Dominican Republic, U.K., Italy, Canada, Morocco, Australia, South Korea, Mexico, and Kyrgyzstan.

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Individual tickets are $11, a pack of 10 tickets for $85.Tickets are sold at

the Imperial Theatre ((1430 Bleury, metro Place des Arts) or online going to ticketpro.ca The screenings are scheduled to take place at the Imperial Theatre, Cinema du Parc (3575 Park Ave.), and Dollar Cinema (6900 Decarie Square, metro Namur). For more detailed information visit the festival website: www.ffm-montreal.org

The beautiful Imperial Theatre is the main venue for the Festival, in spite of those bad guys at Hydro Québec who had to cut power to it

f everything goes well by the time you are reading this story the 41st edition of the Montreal World Film Fes-

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tival must be going underway, and people should be lining up at the Imperial Theatre to see some of the movies scheduled this year. With some notable differences compared to

when technology is no longer an arcane domain.

Still, movie fans and some journalists came to ask the same question: why is that this beloved Montreal institution is in such a bad shape? How is it possible that the city— just to mention one level of government—can spend 24 million in just one event like the controversial Formula E race, and cannot spend a few million dollars to inject some needed cash to an event that is part of the city's cultural tradition?

Some would blame the president and director of the World Film Festival (WFF), Serge Losique, for the problems the festival is facing claiming bad management on his part, but that is not the whole story. It is impossible to ignore the fact that the

"A Prominent Patient" a Czech-Slovak co-production focuses on the life of Jan Masaryk

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so-called cultural bureaucrats—namely those who manage Telefilm Canada in Ottawa, and SODEC, at the provincial level—have tried to destroy the WFF at least since the beginning of this century. The truth is that the cultural

A scene from the Chilean film "And Suddenly, Dawn"

by Silvio Caiozzi, also in official competition

bureaucracy never liked the WFF, and with the help of some people in the media and others in the film industry who have an axe to grind, as the saying goes, they want the festival dead. First, they tried to create an alternative festival which was a failure and had to fold after only one edition and millions of taxpayers dollars wasted in the venture. In recent years the tactic employed by the bureaucrats has simply been the refusal of any financial support to the event.

The WFF started this Thursday with the screening of the Russian film "Anna Karenina.Vronsky's Story" directed by Karen Shakhnazarov which is one of the 18 movies competing for the Grand Prix des Amériques in the Official Competition category. The other films are "A Prominent Patient" by Julius Ševcík (Czech Republic-Slovakia co-production) based on the life of the diplomat and politician Jan Masaryk, son of the founder of Czechoslovakia. "Cardinal X" by Angie Wang (USA), based

on the real story of the most powerful drug dealer in the West Coast in the 1980s.

"Dear Stranger" by Yukiko Mishima (Japan), "Des amours, désamour" by Dominic Bachy (France), "Elvis Walks Home" by Fatmir Koçi (Albania-UK co-production), "Y de pronto el amanecer" ("And Suddenly, Dawn")

by Silvio Caiozzi (Chile), "Footprints" by Wai Wong

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Al Franken: Giant of the Senate

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hen I first heard of the title of Al Franken’s humourous political memoir “Giant of the Senate”, the first thing that came to mind was “Master of the Senate”, the title of the Pulitzer Prize-winning third volume of Robert A. Caro’s epic biography of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.

This volume, which was published 15 years ago, covered Johnson’s 12 years as Senate Majority Leader from 1948 to 1960, and how he used that esteemed, powerful position to its fullest extent – with a great deal of phone calling, cajoling and even bullying that were his trademark characteristics thrown into the mix – to

get the legislation and government programs that he believed in get passed into law by the Senate.

Although he is no master of this much revered legislative body like LBJ, the SNL writer/comedianturned-junior senator from Minnesota has carved out an impressive track record since his first election to the U.S. Senate in 2008, as a true progressive politician whose main aim is to represent the people of Minnesota and fight for legislation that will benefit them and the American people as a whole. …And when you come to think of it, with the acrimonious nature that has befallen both houses of Congress since 2009 (and has ramped up even con-

siderably since the election of Donald Trump to the presidency last November), Franken has truly become a “giant of the Senate” (although he probably meant it in a more jokingly, rather selfdeflating manner).

The book chronicles Franken’s career from comedy to politics, first as a writer/performer for SNL during the 70s and 80s, to radio show host and satirist (as the liberal equivalent and antithesis to Rush Limbaugh), to best selling author, to finally political activist and U.S. Senator.

Sparing no details, Franken gives the reader a clear, insightful look at how Minnesota politics works (especially all the “Bean Feeds” he had to attend as part of his first campaign to get the Democratic nomination for the Senate); how his first campaign against incumbent Republican senator Norm Coleman was a nasty, name calling campaign that compelled his wife Franni to do a TV campaign spot in which she confessed about her bout with alcoholism (and went through a series of recounts and court challenges before

Franken was declared the winner and finally sworn in … in the summer of 2009); the ins and outs of being a U.S. Senator (in which he learned the hard way of how NOT to give his staff credit in public for a job well done); and the arduous process of trying to pass or defeat a piece of legislation, and all the loopholes and roadblocks that go with it.

And through it all, Franken tells his story with a great deal of rationality, knowledge and of course, generous doses of his somewhat understated, yet always pointed sense of humour (for example, here’s what he has to say about how to be an effective Democratic senator: “…you have to be able to hold two inher-

ently contradictory ideas in your head at the same time without suffering a cerebral hemorrhage.”).

Of course, he saves his best venomous jabs for his Republican opponents in the Senate chamber. Although he admits to love/hate relationships with current Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, he lobs his most pointed, venom laden arrows for Texas senator (and defeated presidential candidate) Ted Cruz, who gives the impression that he has been a constant thorn in the side of not only Franken, but practically every Senator on both sides of the chamber (especially due to his liberal use of the word “sophistry”).

Here’s how Franken sums up the ordeal that is working with Ted Cruz: “Ted Cruz isn’t just wrong about almost everything.

He’s impossible to work with. And he doesn’t care that he’s impossible to work with. And here’s why, even when the choice was between Ted Cruz … and Donald Trump …, establishment Republicans couldn’t bring themselves to rally behind Cruz. Even

if you like what he stands for, the most he’ll ever be able to accomplish is being an obnoxious wrench in the gears of government … Real senatoring requires that you build productive relationships with your colleagues. And Ted just isn’t that kind of guy.”

Al Franken: Giant of the Senate is a refreshing political memoir that takes out all the stuffiness that goes with a lot of books of that genre, and injects a great deal of honesty and humour that only an individual like Al Franken can offer.And with the U.S. and its government becoming more divisive than ever over the past decade and counting, we need more people like Al Franken (and behind-the-scenes political manifestos like this book) as an example of what an elected official should be like: taking his job with varying degrees of seriousness and humour, yet without losing sight of its original purpose of introducing legislation and passing laws that will benefit the people whom elected you to that governmental office, and to whom you swore to serve to the best of your abilities. So help you God.

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A review of Just For Laughs

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Biggest golden opportunity at JFL: This year, I got the rare chance to see the most highly-anticipated show of this year’s festival: the double bill of legendary stand-ups Jerry Seinfeld and Gad Elmaleh at the Bell Centre.

Whether Jerry was talking about large coffees, golf, or getting his kids to bed; or Gad talking about his American dream in reverse, the reality about life in Paris or why baseball is boring, I got the opportunity to see two giants of comedy perform on the same stage, not as student and mentor, but as equals.

Discoveries of the festival: Finnish comic Ismo Leikola, who was one of the major reasons why both Sugar Sammy International Galas played to sold out crowds; “Randy”, the no-holds-barred puppet from hell who killed at the Jane Krakowski gala and its own OFF-JFL solo show “Randy Writes A Novel”; and Canadian comic Mark Forward, and his dark, off-beat solo show “Mark Forward Wins All the Awards”.

Best way to spend your time between shows: Montreal comic Mike Paterson, as he made the JFL stage (located directly across from the Bouffons

MTL site) his own mini comedy world for five hours a night, for 15 consecutive nights. Whether it was the kale smoothies or not, Paterson’s nonstop manic energy kept his audiences entertained every night with his adlibbed interactions with the spectators, his “Late Night” talk show, and the comeback performances

Jerry Seinfeld (right) and Gad Elmaleh at the Bell Centre of his lip-synch, air instru- the White House in 1814, ment band “Never Sur- during the War of 1812): render”. Hopefully, the “What would it take for Just For Laughs people you to do it again?” will realize that the debut Most out of the ordiof the JFL stage was an nary comedian’s merchanimmediate hit, and will dise sold at the festival:Arj make Paterson its regular Barker, who after perhost there for as long as forming his solo show he wants it.

“Get in My Head” at the Best Jimmy Carr line: Theatre St. Catherine and (On the historical fact the MainLine Theatre, sold that Canadians burned something called “Sticky

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Arjisms”, a cardboard stock panel with seven stickers that you can peeland-stick that contain seven different Arj Barker quotes, such as “Get a deck of cards & deal with it”, which sold briskly at about $10 per set.

Indication that Just For Laughs is truly an international festival: The announcement made by Just

For Laughs during a press conference on July 26 that it will expand its operations into Africa. A threeyear development partnership between the festival and a conglomerate based in South Africa (led by Just For Laughs Africa’s director Moyikwa Sisulu) was unveiled to include a separate festival of comedy shows to take place in Durban, South Africa in July of 2018, as well as the chance to give comics from across the continent (i.e., Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya and Botswana) more opportunities to showcase their comedy talents to a much wider international audience.

Finally, I would like to thank Charlene Coy and her terrific P.R. team (Emile, Stephanie, Emilie, Channa, Michael, Jack, Josh, Lianna and Samantha) for their outstanding help in making my job of covering the 35th anniversary edition of Just For Laughs so much fun once again. As well, thanks to following people for making this year’s festival another memorable three weeks in July: Allan, Bill, George, Neil, Jason, Sheldon, Jake and Abdul. See you next year for JFL 36!

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Drinking wine on a budget

Without question, the classic red wines of the Northern Rhone Valley are some of the world’s greatest. Hermitage, Côte Rôtie and Cornas reds are the finest expressions of Syrah on earth.

But the best of the pack have gotten to be quite expensive, especially in the north american market. Recent vintages of

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Hermitage from JeanLouis Chave are now more than $250 per bottle. Guigal’s Côte Rôtie La Landonne, La Mouline and La Turque will set you for more than $300, and even the Guigal Côte Rôtie Brune et Blond bottling is over $75. In the less glamorous appellation of Cornas, the wines of top producers such as Auguste Clape are now approaching $100+ per bottle.

Whats a french syrah lover gotta do to drink decent Syrahs without taking a second mortgage?

Luckily, some lesser known Rhone Syrah sources have been producing even better wines in recent years. These wines have the classic northern Rhone Syrah characteristics and display very much their unique terroir. At prices well below the more famous stars, they actually offer reasonable value for the money.These are good alternatives worth exploring for.

In my latest trip to the region in April (Découvertes en Vallée du Rhône 2017) , I had the chance to taste wines from value driven appellations from the Northern Rhone.

These include CrozesHermitage and St-Joseph Crozes-Hermitage

Consider Crozes-Hermitage. Long treated as unqualified to even bear a name related to the famous, nearby Hermitage appellation, the vineyards of Crozes-Hermitage are relatively flat as contrasted to the steep 16

slopes of Hermitage itself.

The area of Crozes, on the east side of the Rhone River, is much larger, so the quantity of wine produced is much greater.

The broad area encompassed within the appellation is far from homogeneous. Some of the soils are more granitic and some are more clay. It is necessary to seek out specific producers who

grow in specific sites.

Alain Graillot

One of my favorite producer in Crozes-Hermitage is Alain Graillot, who is by relative standards a newcomer to the wine business and to the appellation (he started about 1985 after a career as an agricultural machinery salesman). From his rocky, alluvial vineyards in the southern part of the appellation, Graillot two red Crozes-Hermitage

bottlings, a cuvee Classique and cuvee La Guiraude, are outstanding Syrahs. Graillot is careful to keep his yields low in order to achieve impressively rich wines. They have the spicy, pepper quality sometimes encountered in the best Syrahs that is so alluring, and they display a gamey, almost blood like flavor.

Both have plenty of tannin and acid.

on granite hillsides.The diversity of vineyard sites is reflected in the wines, with too large a share producing only simple, undistinguished wines.

Fortunately, some producers are now proving that St.-Joseph can produce some excellent Syrahs. St.-Joseph Syrahs tend to be more easier to understand than other northern Rhone examples, with lower tannin and an appealing fruit St-Joseph character. At their best, they have the spicy and Another good source of peppery quality that Syrah to get to explore is makes northern Rhone St.-Joseph. Similar to Syrah so appealing, and Crozes-Hermitage, this is sometimes you can enanother relatively large counter the nuances of appellation, but on the meat, bacon, fat and blood west side of the Rhone that add so much comRiver. St.-Joseph has long plexity. been notorious of some Ony of my favorite Strather indifferent wines. Joseph comes from the And like Crozes-Her- Pierre Gaillard mitage, the appellation is estates.Gaillard is one of far from homogeneous. the most respected viMany of the vines grow in gnerons in the Northern overly fertile bottomland, Rhône. He worked previwhereas a smaller pro- ously for both Vidal-Fleury portion of the vines are and Etienne Guigal before

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starting out on his own and then received amazing accolades when he first started producing in the mid-eighties, his first vintage being 1987.

Louis Cheze

From Malleval, Pierre craft wines fine wines from granitic vineyards of St. Joseph, Condrieu and Côte Rôtie with experienced eyes. He produces around 18,000 bottles of red St. Joseph each year from just under 40 hectares. He is a master in using the right amount of oak to bring out seductive flavours without losing the soul of the terroir.

Another exciting producer in the appellation is Domaine Chèze. Domaine Chèze is a family estate established in 1978

by Louis Chèze and situated on the steep hillside above Limony, on the right bank of the Rhône, 60 km south of Lyon.Initially only 1 ha of Saint Joseph, today the domaine extends to some 30 ha

with holdings in Condrieu and Saint Joseph as well as some Vin de Pays.

The commune Limony is located in the northern part of the Saint Joseph appellation about 60 kilometres south of city Lyon.

Louis Chèze started his domaine with 1 hectare of Saint Joseph plus some vines on lease. He taught himself winemaking from scratch but also learning and receiving advice from friendly neighbours such as George Vernay in Condrieu and Jean-Luc Colombo in Cornas By experimenting with producers from these lesser known appellations, a wine lover can find reasonably affordable, highquality northern Rhone Syrahs that display the terroir of the region and have the aromas and flavors of classic Syrah.

All of the producers mentioned above can be found easily at the SAQ with the exception of Alain Graillot wines that comes in tiny quantities or by special operations such as Courrier Vinicole.

Marco Giovanetti is an Italian-Venezuelan sommelier student in the ITHQ of Montreal, Quebec. He has 15 years of experience tasting wine from Europe and emerging wine regions. His key specialties are the wines of Tuscany, Italy and the wines of Spain. He enjoys fine wines, gastronomy, film and literature.You may contact him at: productionslevin@gmail.com Legend of rating Under 60- Do not buy. Faulty wine 60-70- Mediocre wine 70-80- All right 80-90- Very good 90-100- Excellent wine.

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The downtown location was opened in 1967 and the West-Island restaurant opened thirteen years later, in 1980. Bar-B Barn is famous for its ribs and chicken. Our host for the evening, co-owner Tom McQueen, explained to us that he and his partners Manny and Dalton

By Anne McDougall Barnoff ship their prodmtltimes.ca ucts as far as Western Sources boulevard on the Canada, to long-term West-Island. The decor faithful customers in Calhas not changed since the gary and even the Yukon!

My dining partner Wes restaurants opened, and this will give you the im- and I decided that we pression that you are wanted to try as many of going back in time.Vintage the items on the menu as barn-style wooden ac- possible and our friendly cents decorate the walls waiter Nelson gladly and ceilings, and comfort- brought us many dishes. able table or booth seat- We started with a Caesar ing awaits you. Calming salad ($7, or $10 with Western-style chandelier added chicken). It was lighting illuminate the quite good, served with space, and the most spe- plenty of bacon bits, big cial tiered bottle display at crunchy croutons and the West-Island location good homemade dressing. will certainly amuse you. f you are craving a nononsense, generouslyportioned and wholesome dining experience, in an iconic setting that is a Montreal establishment, you’ll want to settle down to a meal at Bar-B Barn. We have all noticed the impossibleto-miss yellow and brown restaurants at either of the two locations: Guy street downtown or

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The garden salad ($7), also a generous portion, is made with fresh crunchy vegetables, and offered with a choice of three dressings, one of which was a house dressing, and my favourite.

Our next dish was a starter serving of chicken wings ($12 a pound), which came with three

Bar-B Barn delicious spare ribs and chicken!

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was able to say that the mashed potatoes were my favourite, and Wes preferred the fries, although we finished all of the tasty onion rings. The ribs, coated four times and cooked slowly for

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The chicken is marinated for 24 hours in a dry-rub, then also cooked slowly for two and half hours.

The meat was butterytender and delicious.

Even though the food was very good, the portions were so generous that we ended up taking some home.

Our desserts were just awesome. A rich plain cheesecake served with blueberry sauce ($6) and a slice of homemade apple pie ($4), which we chose not to have ice-cream with, but we could have, for an extra $2.

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A chef, cooking up a storm, barefoot? What about a firefighter in an intense blaze, barefoot? Not practical, not safe.

When barefoot, we can exercise the 33 joints and the more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments in our feet. There are 26 bones in the feet, over onequarter of the entire bones in the body.

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People who wear a flat sneaker, flat shoe, or sandal often do NOT experience the same issues as those who wear the expensive, marketed, recommended footwear.

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