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"Montrealers have made public transportation a priority, and my administration makes evident today that their voice has been heard…" said Mayor Valerie Plante this past Tuesday during a joint press conference where the Société de Transport

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de Montréal (STM) announced the addition of 300 hybrid buses to its

fleet. Delivery of the new vehicles is set for 2020. For his part, André Fortin, the Quebec Minister for Transportation, Sustainable Mobility, and Electrification of Transport, indicated that (these 300 hybrid buses) "will make Montreal a leader regarding the protection of the environment and sustainable development." Martin Coiteux, Quebec Minister for Municipal Affairs, and Responsible for the Region of Montreal stated that his government "is proud to participate in the acceleration of this audacious project" adding that "by investing in public transit we are investing in a better quality of life for our citizens." The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the STM, Philippe Schnobb, was very pleased for this pledge by the city and the

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province: "300 new buses represent about a 15 percent of our current fleet which should mean better frequencies and more comfort for our customers, and will significantly speed up our organizational strategic plan 2025." Of course, the effect of the new buses would be felt in two years from now, but this is undoubtedly positive news for Montreal bus riders. The STM, however, faces many challenges regarding its services. The bus service

is still very irregular, and timetables for the different lines are often ignored. (One could certainly excuse this problem in winter when, we all know, roads are not in good shape or the case of routes running through streets undergoing repairs, but the lack of punctuality in many lines also occurs during good weather or where there are no road detours). Some of the problems facing the bus service are caused by some wrong planning, for instance,

buses running every 20 or 30 minutes are basically useless. STM bureaucrats usually say that those routes don't have enough ridership to justify a better frequency, but here one faces a chicken or egg situation. Do those routes have long waiting periods because they have a low ridership or do they have fewer passengers because they don't run often enough and people then don't bother to wait for them?

11 Critical home inspection traps to be aware of weeks before listing your home for sale

MONTREAL - According to industry experts, there are over 33 physical problems that will come under scrutiny during a home inspection when your home is for sale. A new report has been prepared which identifies the eleven most common of these problems, and what you should know about them before you list your home for sale. Whether you own an old home or a brand new one, there are a number of things that can fall short of requirements during a home inspection. If not identified and dealt with, any of these 11 items could cost you dearly in terms of repair. That's why it's critical that you read this report before you list your home. If you wait until the building inspector flags these issues for you, you will almost certainly experience costly delays in the close of your home sale or, worse, turn

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prospective buyers away altogether. In most cases, you can make a reasonable pre- inspection yourself if you know what you're looking for, and knowing what you're looking for can help you prevent little problems from growing into costly and unmanageable ones. To help home sellers deal with this issue before their homes are listed, a free report entitled "11 Things You Need to Know to Pass Your Home Inspection" has been compiled which explains the issues involved. To order a FREE Special Report, visit: www.montrealinspectionpitfalls.com Get your free special report NOW to learn how to ensure a home inspection doesn't cost you the sale of your home.

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Loblaw's $25 Card Apology - Is It Worth It?

oblaw wants to apologize for their part in the industry-wide, bread price-fixing scandal with a $25 card - available by registering online as of Monday January 8th. But is $25 worth the price of over thirteen years of price-fixing? Are those who accept the card waiving their rights to participate in any class-action lawsuits against them? The Competition Bureau was alerted to the problem last August and began an investigation into George Weston/Loblaw Companies Ltd., who admitted to participating in the price-fixing arrangement since 2002.The investigation also included two other major grocery chains, Metro Inc. and Sobeys - both to date stating they do not believe that they or any of their employees ... http://mtltimes.ca/Montreal/news/loblaws-25-card-apology-worth/

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ass Jordan is arguably one of Canada's first Queens of Rock. The British-born Canadian singer from Montreal, will be performing at L’Astral on January 26th with an album release party for 'Racine Revisited', a brand new rendition of her classic 1992 album 'Racine'. Over the years Sass has worked with the likes of Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Steve Miller Band, Van Halen, The Foo Fighters, Cheap Trick, Santana, Joe Cocker, Styx, Rodger Hodgson, April Wine and Jeff Healy, to name a few. She has sold over a million records worldwide and won various awards, including the Juno award for Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year in 1989 and was nominated for Best Female Vocalist in 1990, 1993 and 1995. And now her breakout, major-label masterpiece, 'Racine', has being re-imagined and released as 'Racine Revisited', a brilliant record with updated versions of each song. Racine, first released in March of 1992, topped the critics 'Best Of' lists that year and continues to resonate on rock radio 25 years later. So why go back? As Jordan says in her own words, "The album’s release is a milestone for any musical

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recording that sold as much as it did. So we decided to throw a year long celebration in its honour, which gives all the fans a chance to connect and reminisce about where you were, what you were doing and how far you’ve come since then." “Re-recording such a landmark album was not a venture that we took lightly, because once you

would have if it had been recorded during that seminal decade where the original recording drew its roots from? What would that be like?” With an all-star cast of musicians, the likes of Rudy Sarzo on bass, Brent Fitz on drums and percussion, Chris Caddell on guitars and Derek Sharp on guitars, keyboards and production duty - one listen and you’ll know it was the combo that made sense for the delicate undertaking. What you hear on the album is what happened. No click tracks and no auto-tune.This album was made with great care and precision - to be played 'LOUD and PROUD'. The show is not to be missed by her longtime fans - and By Bonnie Wurst the newer 'fans-to-be' who are fortunate enough take in this great mtltimes.ca opportunity to see her! release your music to the For more about Sass world, it becomes the Jordan you can visit her emotional property of website at: https://sassjoranyone who connects dan.com with it, and rightly so. We L'Astral is located at wanted to be true to the 305 Ste-Catherine West original recording but doors open on January (also) to do something we 26th at 7:00pm and the had never heard of be- show starts at 8:00pm. fore,” Jordan explains. “In- Tickets are $37.75 in adstead of doing the obvious and updating the vance or $43.75 on the vibe, making it all shiny, day of the show. More insparkly, hissy and huge… formation on ticket purat: why don’t we recreate chases http://mtltimes.ca/Monthe record as if we were in the ‘70’s and try to treal/entertainment/mumake it sound like it sics/sass-jordan-racine-re visited-lastral/ January 13, 2018 •

Montreal tax increase to exceed inflation Did Plante Administration Break Election Promise?

he Valérie Plante administration in Montreal has given a preview of its first budget and property taxes will rise in 2018 by an average of 3.3%. This has produced outcries that Plante's Projet Mon-

She is breaking one of her main electoral promises..,” said Lionel Perez, leader of the opposition Mouvement Montréal (formerly Equipe Denis Coderre). The party's financial critic, Alan deSousa, went on to claim that the majority of Montrealers would not have voted for Plante if they had known that taxes under her administration would increase beyond inflation. Earlier, Plante held a press conference defending the budget, flanked by her chairman of the Executive, Benoit Dorais. By breaking down the tax increase into its component parts, they claimed to By John Symon have respected their promise: "The increase in mtltimes.ca tax charges under city tréal party has broken a council jurisdiction is limkey electoral promise not ited to 1.9%for residential to raise taxes above the property and 2.1% for the inflation rate. Inflation is non-residential sector. expected to reach 2.1% in This average variation re2018 according to the flects responsible fiscal Conference Board of practices and is meant to support services to MonCanada. “The Plante-Dorais ad- trealers," said Dorais. It is true that by treating ministration is demonthe 1.1% increase in the strating a lack of budgetary rigor in not re- water tax separately from specting the Montreal the general increase in taxpayers' capacity to pay. taxes, Projet Montréal is basically respecting its

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The 2018 Montreal budget is pegged at $5.5 billion, up some 5% from 2017. The population of Montreal is some 1.7 million inhabitants. The Plante budget will be voted on at the January 24 city council meeting where Projet Montréal holds a majority of council seats. continued from Page 3 the Bassin Peel future REM station and from On the metro front, there extending west to some of the new Azur Lachine. trains are already serving Anyhow, the acquisithe Orange Line and in a tion of new buses is at smaller number the least a step in the right Green Line too.The fleet should be renewed en- direction, and something tirely soon.The big prob- concrete amid so many lem here is the lack of plans that the STM has concrete action to com- announced in the past plete the long-time which it never came to planned Blue Line which concretize: the tramway should go down to line for the Côte des Anjou. The Orange Line Neiges-Guy axis or Park is also waiting for an ex- Avenue, or the trolleytension on its western bus line for Saint Michel, section to connect with announced during the the Bois-Franc train sta- previous PQ administration. For its part, the tion. We just have to new administration cam- wait for 2020, and we paigned on an ambitious hope, the new vehicles plan to build a new diag- will be equipped with air onal line (the Pink Line) conditioning and be to connect Bonaventure more stable for standing with Montreal North, passengers than the curwith a final second stage rent lower-floor Nova that would connect it to buses.

between Montreal's 19 boroughs from a high of 5.6% in Rosemont La Petite-Patrie to a low of 0.7% in LaSalle. Taxes on commercial properties are also up; the city-wide average equals 3.0%. By borough, the sharpest increase is in Outremont (6.3%) while the lowest increase is in St. Laurent (0.9%).

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promises. But it is unclear if most taxpayers will see it that way... Projet Montréal also emphasized the importance in spending on water infrastructure now: “It is thus imperative that we continue to invest in water infrastructures so as to ensure that they are repaired and upgraded. As well, Montréal must take appropriate measures to meet the requirements of the Stratégie québécoise d'économie d'eau potable. To offset the major deficit in water infrastructure investments, this year's total tax charges include an increase in water tax, namely of 1.1% for resi-

dential properties and 0.8% for non-residential properties.” Projet Montréal also trumpets its increased investments in such areas as public transit, snow clearing, housing, assistance to business, and repairing potholes. Montreal's debt will not be increased with this budget. The average municipal evaluation on a singlefamily house in Montreal is $427,524; for the owners of such a house, the 3.3% increase equals an additional $118 in taxes to pay annually. Last year's increase was only about half as much.This 3.3% average hides wide variation

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tainly being felt in our pocketbooks. When Trudeau came faceto-face with 54-year-old Kathy Katula from rural Ontario at a town hall meeting last January, he learned about the real-life consequences of government climate policies on real people. “My heat and hydro now cost me more than my mortgage,” Katula tearfully explained to Trudeau. “How is it justified for you to ask me to pay a carbon tax when I only have $65 left of my paycheque every two weeks to feed my family?” Although the federal government’s carbon tax will make hydrocarbon fuels even more expensive, Katula’s main complaint is actually with the Liberal government of Ontario, the most aggressively anti-carbon regime in the country. Katula and other Ontarians suffering from energy poverty can blame the province’s massively subsidized and poorly structured green energy contracts, recklessly rapid phase-out of coal power generation, the infamous gas plant cancellations, and gross mismanagement of power supply and demand. The primary architect of Ontario’s green energy debacle was Gerald Butts, now Trudeau’s principal secretary. Butts developed the plan as policy adviser to former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty. Although he moved on to head the World Wildlife Fund Canada in 2008, Butts’s influence was still evident in 2011 when McGuinty visited a Siemens Canada wind turbine blade manufacturing plant in Tillsonburg, Ont., to announce subsidies for the industry which, he promised, would deliver the next generation of clean energy jobs. Last

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2018 Annual Gala at the Redpath Museum

he Redpath Museum Society annually organises a fundraiser gala to encourage students, faculty members and museum enthusiasts to embrace our unique history right. We design, print, label, seal, package… all in and collection of the Redhouse. And sometimes, path Museum. The gala will when we are lucky, we get the opportunity to hand it over to you in person. There is no greater joy! Supporting local business has many benefits. You will receive unique items, better service, better health and superior quality. Shopping locally also helps to create jobs in the community, develop a stronger economy by keeping our tax dollars local and contributes to a cleaner environment. Ensure a diverse and vibrant atmosphere while supporting your neighbors. Visit us in store or at a local craft show near you. We do travel across the country. Support Canadian Made, Small, Local AND Family Business! We stand behind our his February 2-4 products. We give great 2018, the 4th edition customer service. Visit of the Festival Rando our online store: Alpine Tremblant natural.ca. Subscribe to presented by Smartwool is our newsletter. Check out sure to attract experts and our BIOS. Meet us in person at the shop. La Boutique Earth to Body 89 Lucerne, Pointe Claire, QC H9R 2V1 Write to us at: info@natural.ca Stay tuned for informative product reviews and great customer stories that you can relate to.

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Cineplex ‘Flashback Film Fest’ brings retro films back to bigscreen

ineplex Events today announced that the 9th annual ‘Flashback Film Fest’ is back to provide another dose of nostalgia-inducing cinema. Canada’s only coast-to-coast film festival will offer action, sci-fi and

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Make-A-Wish Quebec gift wrapping campaign huge success

ake-A-Wish Quebec – Thanks to the efforts of more than 800 elves, Make-An a cold day, (serves 10p) brown on all sides (do not Wish Quebec is proud to comfort food • 3 lbs of beef – cut into 1 overcrowd pan). Remove announce that the gift is needed to to 1.5 inch cubes the browned cubes, set wrapping campaign raised warm up the • 3 tbsp canola oil aside and continue more than $78,000. bones. Soups are great • 2 onions, peeled and browning the beef until Throughout the month of but nothing compares to diced December, volunteers a hot bowl of stew with a • 2 cloves garlic, peeled completed using more oil were at five shopping as necessary. crusty baguette and but- and smashed In the same pan, add the malls: Alexis Nihon, Carter on the side. • 2carrots, peeled and onion, carrots and refour Industrielle AlI like to use top sirloin chopped liance, Eaton Center, Place for my stews but the car- • 2 parsnips, peeled and parsnips stirring and Longueuil and Place Mondinal rule here is to use chopped (optional) cooking until tender, those cheaper cuts of • 2 potatoes, washed and about 3 minutes. Add in treal Trust.The generosity of volunteers and donors meat. ( flank and blade diced, skin on the garlic, potatoes, mush- will allow us to create liferoasts are perfect here). • 1/2 bulb fennel, diced rooms and fennel, stirring These cuts lend them- • 1 lb mushrooms, washed for another 3 minutes. changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. selves beautifully to the and quartered In total, over 5,000 volbraising process, becom- • 1 cup red wine or beer, Deglaze the pan with the wine or beer, scraping up ing tender and flavourful for deglazing any browned bits. as they cook in the liquid. • 1 litre beef stock Add the beef pack into I like to buy a large piece • Fresh herbs such as of meat and cut it myself thyme, rosemary or the casserole with the rather than buying the oregano stock. Add in your herbs, prepackaged stewing beef. • Salt and pepper salt and peeper and a little When sautéing the beef • Red pepper flakes (op- of the red pepper flakes if cubes, don’t overcrowd tional) using. Bring to a simmer the pan. You don’t want In a heavy based casse- on the stove top , cover to steam the beef, you role, heat the oil over want to brown it. medium high heat. Add in and put into the oven at INGREDIENTS: some beef cubes and 300ºF. Let the stew simmer for 2 hours minimum. Taste and adjust the Chefs Karen & Peter seasoning, skimming any fat from the top of the Webster stew. You can thicken the stew with some cornstarch/water mixture.

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unteer hours were needed to fulfill the 24 days of the campaign. Our elves were particularly busy over the last 4 days, during which thousands of gifts were wrapped.“Many volunteers have been with us since the beginning of this project! Every year, we see how generous people from here are with their time and their donations. It’s truly heartwarming to see that our cause brings together so many people,” says the project coordinator, Christiane Badaoui. Make-A-Wish Quebec sincerely thanks all those who participated in this campaign. It is thanks to a

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The Improv by Budd Friedman

xactly 55 years ago, Budd Friedman, a former advertising executive and aspiring Broadway producer, returned to his native New York City to open up a night club on West 44th

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about the ups and downs of running such a legendary comedy club. But Pryor began to perform Leno and Jimmy Fallon. at the club on a regular “Without question, what gives this book so basis to try out their lat- Budd is the father of mod- much balance and creest comic material. ern-day stand-up. He dence is that he allows By the 70s, the club made it possible for peo- the people who worked shortened its name to ple to feel good about behind the scenes and the “The Improv”, and it themselves with a real comedians who perquickly became THE place comedy audience,” said formed onstage the opin New York for stand-up comedian Richard Lewis, portunity to tell their side comedians of all stripes to who also got his begin- of the story of the Imhang out with their nings at the Improv. “Budd prov. And what an imprescomedic peers and try Friedman was the first to sive array of people who out and develop their ma- give praise and recogni- were interviewed for the terial and comic personas tion to great comedy and book; besides the aforein front of a live audience. great comedians. He was mentioned people above, By the time it opened up the first guy to give real we get to hear from Judd its Los Angeles club on prestige to comedy. Budd Apatow, Bill Maher, Bob Saget, Chris Albrecht Melrose in 1975, the Im- turned us into stars.” prov and its founder Budd Gathering 55 years of (who helped Friedman Friedman not only was memories, successes, set- run the New York club known for being the backs and discoveries in and later became the model of the comedy club the stand-up comedy head of HBO), Jimmie that we know today, but it world, Friedman has put Walker, Paul Provenza, Aiello (who also became synonymous together a memoir/oral Danny with being a training history that is just as en- started out as a bouncer ground and star maker for tertaining as the comedi- at the Improv), David some of the greatest ans who performed in Steinberg and Jerry Stiller, names in stand-up com- front of the brick wall of amongst many others. And what stories that edy over the past 50 its New York and Los Anyears, such as Robert geles locations, which is are told: Rodney DangerKlein, Jerry Seinfeld, Billy called, plainly enough, The field as an Improv fixture during the 60s (even after Crystal, Larry David, Andy Improv. Kaufman, Drew Carey, Jay Friedman tells his story he opened his own comedy club in 1969); Friedman allowing a young Jay Leno to be regular after he found out that he commuted from Boston to New York three times in a row (his day job was to deliver cars for a Boston luxury car dealership) so that he can perform at the club; Friedman’s early recognition of the unorthodox comic genius of the late Andy Kaufman and Robin Williams; the tragic comic legacy of Freddie Prinze; Larry David’s rather erratic comic persona (in which one time he went onstage, surveyed that 020-052518

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night’s audience, said “Nah,nah,nah, this isn’t going to work for me” and promptly left the stage); Bruce Smirnoff’s bizarre episode of driving a very inebriated, philandering Johnny Carson home from the Hollywood club in his Mercedes; and Friedman’s intense rivalry with dictatorial Comedy Store owner Mitzi Shore. Although he sold the Hollywood Improv club several years ago (the original New York club closed its doors back in 1992), and Friedman is basically retired from the highly pressurized world of running a pioneering comedy club, he has given comedy fans a terrific record of his contribution to the world of modern stand-up comedy with his book The Improv. It’s a highly enjoyable look at a man who wanted to be a big time Broadway impresario, but ended up being present at the creation of the stand-up comedy revolution and through the Improv, was a witness and driving force to the evolution of this entertainment genre, and the places we go to in order to appreciate it.

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