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s usual, this edition of the Montreal International Jazz Festival has that broad appeal that quickly engages all music lovers. Of course, jazz is still the main course in its offering, but other rhythms will also be present. The 40th edition of the Festival will take place from June 27 to July 6, 2019. The opening concert at the CBC/Radio Canada Series at Theatre Maisonneuve will feature one of
my favourite artists: Richard Galliano who in conjunction with veteran bassist Ron Carter and the Quatuor Molinari will be offering a Tribute to Michel Legrand, the legendary French composer and jazz pianist who died earlier this year. (June 26, at 8 p.m.). The very unique voice of American singer Norah Jones is another of the exciting features of this year's Jazz Fest. She "first emerged on the world stage with the February 2002 release of ‘Come
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try rock music which during their 35 years on the music scene have sold more than 4 million albums. "Their most recent, ‘1000 Arms,' marks a return to harmonies sung in duet or call and response. And even though the bands two leaders, Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor, have seen several musicians move in and out of the combo, they've never lost their cohesion." (Wilfrid Pelletier Theatre of the Place des Arts, on June 28, at 7:30 p.m.). The Latino musical presence is always an appealing presence at the Festival, I would recommend the concert by Chucho Valdés, a Cuban pianist who have visited Montreal on several occasions. He is equally comfortable with the music of famous American jazz creators as well as with original takes on some of the most famous Cuban songs. (June 28, at the Mai-
son Symphonique, at 7 p.m.). Another interesting representative of Cuban music, this time of a more traditional style is Omara Portuondo one of the last great stars of the legendary Buena Vista Social Club, with a 70-year career she will undoubtedly make many people nostalgic. (June 27, at Maisonneuve Theatre, at 8 p.m.). Last but not least among some of my recommendations for this year, a double bill of the highest calibre: guitar player John Pizzarelli and multitalented jazz singer Ranee Lee will present their show "For Centennial Reasons: 100 Years Salute to Nat King Cole." (July 3, at Maisonneuve Theatre, at 8 p.m.). For detailed information about ticket prices and a complete list of shows go to: mtltimes.ca
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phonique described as "An orchestral project by this American singer, 'I Know I Dream,' combines classics of bossa nova, French chanson, standards from the "Great American Songbook", and original compositions written by her husband, saxophonist Jim Tomlinson. Lyrics are by major figures: Kazuo Ishiguro (Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017), poet Antonio Ladeira and Nashville songwriter Cliff Goldmacher. Her sensual voice, limpid and fluid, coloured by swing and jazz, draws the audience into a sweet reverie they never want to leave. For this unique show, the singer will be accompanied for the first time by an orchestra." (June 30, at the Maison Symphonique, at 7 p.m.). The fans of the Canadian band Blue Rodeo will be pleased to see performing at the Festival this iconic exponent of coun-
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The consultation will follow with sessions devoted to various aspects of the issues of Systemic Racism and Discrimination: • Thematic Session on Culture – May 21, at the Grande Bibliothèque (475, boul. de Maisonneuve E., Métro BerriUQAM) at 7 p.m. • Thematic Session on Employment – May 28, at Cégep Saint-Laurent (625, avenue SainteCroix, Metro Du Collège) at 7 p.m. Thematic Session on Racial and Social Profiling • May 29 at OCPM (1550 Metcalfe St., office 1414, Metro Peel) at 7 p.m. • Session devoted to OCPM Contribution to By Sergio Martinez the Consultation – September 28 at OCPM mtltimes.ca (1550 Metcalfe St., office the metro or a bus, one 1414 Metro Peel) at 12 of the striking character- p.m. Itinerant Information istics of the city is its ethsessions – October nic and racial diversity. Montreal also enjoys a • Deadline to register to reputation as a cosmo- participate in citizens' sespolitan city. We like to sions, orally or in writing: think of our city as an ex- October 31, at 4 p.m. ample of multicultural • First participatory sesachievements, a place sion for citizens – Nowhere tolerance and co- vember 4 at OCPM (1550 existence among peoples Metcalfe St., office 1414 from different origins Metro Peel) at 7 p.m. make up a community • Attendance to these where one is pleased to meetings is free, but for actual participation regislive. However, there are tration is required. This April, the City of some clouds over that Montreal issued a Conideal picture. Signs of syssultation Document temic racism and discrimwhich will be presented ination are still present, at the Public Information and that's why around 22,000 people signed a Session. The document is petition to the City of available in both French Montreal asking to hold and English, at the website public consultations on of the City of Montreal, this issue (15,000 is the www.ville.montreal.cq.ca minimum to request such undertaking). The Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM), an autonomous entity, will then hold a series of public sessions starting with an Information Meeting this May 15 at 7 p.m. at 777, boul. RobertBourassa, Métro SquareVictoria-OACI. On this occasion, referential material will be presented by officials of the City of Montreal, and by representatives of those who requested the consultation. There will also be a question period.
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acism and discrimination in Montreal? This question may have many answers depending on who is giving them. At first sight, just by walking through most of its neighbourhoods, visiting a shopping mall, or riding
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In the city document discrimination is defined as "Distinction, exclusion or preference that is founded on a ground prohibited under the Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms and that effectively nullifies or compromises a right or a freedom protected by the Charter, or the exercise of that right or freedom. Prohibited grounds for discrimination: race, colour, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, sexual orientation, civil status, age (except to the extent provided by law), religion, political convictions, language, ethnic or national origin, social condition, disability or the use of a
means to compensate for a disability." For its part, racism is defined as "Theory or ideology, based on the assumption that there are separate human races, which considers these races unequal. Racism leads to hostile and contemptuous attitudes and
behaviours towards certain people because of their colour or of their ethnic or national origin. Racism finds expression in subtle, indirect and insidious forms, founded on the idea that certain cultures cannot be assimilated into the dominant culture, tradition or
lifestyle of a national or majority group. Genetics has shown that races do not exist, that human beings belong to a single species.Yet, racism is a reality, a social phenomenon with serious consequences for victims and societal relations."
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Annual IT Connect Conference to focus on cybersecurity
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ith computers and computer technology becoming more user friendly and sophisticated, the issue of cybersecurity in general – and hacking in particular – has quickly become the hot button issue that is being talked about every day and discussed about on the
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news and online forums. As well, cybersecurity is increasingly becoming a major concern to governments, corporations, organizations and individuals around the world about whether their home computers, digital devices or their cyber networks are free from hackers and cyber criminals. For their third annual IT Connect Conference, Champlain College St. Lambert will solely focus
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pedagogical advisor at Champlain College who is also organizing the conference. “All of us are using technology more and more, and the growth of the industry and how secure it should be is the #1 issue right now. Every citizen has to protect themselves with their devices, because hackers are getting smarter and are one step ahead of everyone. The problem is that for most cases of cyber hacking, it comes down to a lack of education. Participants at the conference will get the chance to hear from different experts in the field of cybersecurity so that they can discuss, debate and question what concerns them when it comes to cybersecurity. What I hope they get at the end of the day is a better awareness on how they can prevent cyber attacks,” she added. Tickets for the 3rd annual IT Connect Conference cost $50, or $75 after May 7, which also includes lunch and admission to the networking cocktail reception. Spaces are limited. To purchase tickets, go to www.champlainconted.com/events/itconnect.
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on the issue of cybersecurity. It will take place on June 7, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at its campus located at 900 Riverside Drive in St. Lambert. With about 400 people expected to attend, the conference will feature a number of presentations, workshops and panel discussions in both English and French for both beginners and advanced users, with a roster of professionals and experts that will focus on such topics as threat intelligence, general data protection regulations, security awareness and capacity building, cloud and data security, and risk management. There will also be a lunch, a postconference networking cocktail reception with famed mixologist Gizmo Sirois, and plenty of door prizes to be won. “The idea for the IT Connect Conference was a way to build partnerships between the college and industry in general, because education and industry were becoming far apart from each other. So the idea of starting this conference was to bring industry and academia together in an elite concept so that the public can find out what’s happening in the technology industry,” said Tetyana Tsomko, a
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rones, the more popular name being used today for 'Unmanned Aerial Vehicles' (UAVs), are remotely controlled aerial vehicles, controlled by humans or flown with the use of software to follow a pre-destined flight path. They are basically machines with cameras, sensors and GPS technology that fly
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through the air without a pilot inside. Many people flying drones today are hobbyists, using them for recreational purposes, but they were first used by the military for anti-aircraft target practice and intelligence gathering. In 2002 the CIA used a drone (a much larger airplane-size one compared to the UAVs most people are familiar with) to carry a Hellfire air-tosurface missile in a botched attack in Afghanistan targeting Osama bin Laden - and although they missed their target, the attack was a turning point for the military and its use today. But with the advent of 'consumer' drones flying all over the place, drones might be getting out of control. Safety concerns are serious, specifically midair collisions and loss of control of the craft. Last year in Quebec a woman was injured by a drone that fell from the sky and struck her.And in Ottawa, a few years back, fighter jets were dispatched when two airplanes reported a drone flying too close to an airport landing route.There are some rules in Canada for the commercial operations of drones, but the recreational use of drones has been fundamentally unrestricted so far. Drones can be of great benefit to society by being able to travel to areas deemed too dangerous or impossible for people to get to, such as
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helping to fight fires and for search and rescue operations - but their use is also growing in the area of photography, videography and even delivery services. Increasing use of drones in commercial and recreational areas have given rise to many concerns, such as the 'paparazzi' and others who have been crossing the lines of privacy by using them to take pictures of people in their homes or in private locations. They are even being employed to smuggle drugs and contraband into prisons, using small drones to illegally deliver things like cannabis over the walls of prisons under the cover of darkness. In our consumer driven society the idea of goods being delivered via drones is grabbing a lot of attention, mostly due to its novelty. Just this past November a New
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Zealand couple became the first in the world to receive a drone delivery when Domino's Pizza flew a pizza order to their home. Domino's claims the service is faster than delivery cars with the food arriving 'warm and delicious'. Amazon has been developing their 'Prime Air' program with a drone delivery system designed to get packages to customers in 30 minutes or less instead of their 2-day shipping service. They have already delivered an Amazon Fire TV and a bag of popcorn to customers in Cambridge in the UK and said it took 13 minutes for the customers to get the packages via their own specially designed drone. Expansion of the program into the US has been challenging because of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations which prohibits commercial drone deliv-
drones that were choreographed and recorded earlier in the week. The use of drones certainly has the potential to be of great use in some areas - but drones are starting to buzz around everywhere, like bees who just had their hive destroyed and seem to be out of control. It makes sense to ensure proper laws and regulations are in place before serious injuries or crimes take place. Do you fly drones? If so, have you been using them responsibly? Have you been a victim of a drone spying on you or have witnessed one? How do you feel about drones? Let us know!
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Joey Elias and friends stand up for Sun Youth organization
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un Youth and long time friend Comedian Joey Elias partnered up to raise funds for the organization’s football program last Thursday. Stand up comedians Joey Elias, Leonard Yelle, Jacy Lafontaine, Jeff Schouela and the Montreal Gazette’s own Pat Hickey put on a great show for the 100 guests present at Selwyn House. “Geat job by @jeffschouela @rebellenyelle @jacylafontaine @zababes1. And TY to everyone who came out on a school night to support @sunyouthorg. Hope you had as much fun as I did,” wrote Joey Elias on Twitter after the show. Huge thanks to Joey Elias and his special guests for a very special evening.
Not only was Sun Youth fortunate enough to be able to hold the event at renowned Selwyn House thanks to Selwyn House Sports Director Mike Maurovitch but the organization also got help from the Bantam and Juvenile Division 1 hockey teams players. “A huge thank you goes out to all of the boys for their service, as well as Coaches Laperle, Giroux and Widgington for helping oversee the night with other members of the Athletics Department. The night was a huge "win" for all sides.” (https://www.selwyn.ca/) Selwyn House and Sun Youth have in common that success in the classroom is as important as success on the field. Youngsters who want to be part of our sports teams must do well in
Montreal City Council adopts a motion calling for an end to the genocide of the Rohingya People
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ontreal City Council has adopted a motion joining a Canada-wide campaign demanding an end to the genocide against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority,
in Myanmar. A number of municipal jurisdictions have signaled their intention to come on board and press the federal government to honor its commitment to the Genocide Convention. "A lot of groups have worked on it (the motion)," Rotrand said. "We're hoping to have someone do this in the House of Commons." Senator Marilou McPhedran has taken up the cause in the Senate calling on the Government of Canada to invoke the Genocide Convention with respect By Deborah Rankin to the ongoing genocide committed by Myanmar mtltimes.ca against the Rohingya a Muslim ethnic group. people and to pursue Ensemble Montréal the matter before the Inleader Lionel Perez and ternational Court of Jusopposition councilor tice. "As a member of Marvin Rotrand tabled the international comthe motion at a recent munity, Canada has a council meeting urging duty to hold Myanmar to the Government of account for the crime of committed Canada to invoke the genocide against the Rohingya Genocide Convention people," she said. against Myanmar. "Of course, before The same text was circulated among munici- pursuing any intervenpalities nationwide with tion, military or otherToronto passing its own wise, we must exhaust identical motion the fol- the resources available lowing day. "It seems to to us under international have mushroomed," Ro- human rights law, and trand said of the growing this motion reinforces campaign to draw atten- this approach." Canadian lawmakers tion to the plight of the Rohingya minority and have already unaniother persecuted groups mously voted to declare Myanmar’s military ac• May 4, 2019
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tions against the Rohingya people a genocide. The House of Commons endorsed the findings of a UN factfinding mission on Myanmar that found “crimes against humanity have been committed against the Rohingya” and that these acts were sanctioned by top Myanmar military commanders. The Canadian Parliament recognized that "these crimes against the Rohingya constitute genocide.” McPhedran's motion along with similar municipal initiatives asks the Government of Canada to hold Myanmar accountable for its actions and to seek reparations for the Rohingya People. It asks for the release of journalists imprisoned by Myanmar, access for outside investigators, and an increase in humanitarian aid. It is estimated that as many as 1.3 million Rohingya refugees are living in a vast camp in Bangladesh following a mass exodus in 2017. Myanmar has denied accusations of genocide. However, in 2018, Canada revoked the honorary citizenship it had awarded to Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. www.mtltimes.ca
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Oprah is coming to Montreal
Today, evenko conferences & Live Nation announced that global media leader, Oprah Winfrey will embark on a multi-city Canadian tour this summer as she shares her key lessons and the personal stories that helped set the course for her best life. Oprah
Winfrey Presents: Your Path Made Clear (Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose) tour will kick off in Toronto, ON on Friday, June 14. Oprah Winfrey will speak about the moments throughout her life that helped direct her on her path before
being joined on stage by a special guest who impacted her journey for a unique one on one conversation. To see more please visit:
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Montreal Food Trucks First Friday festivals in on!
The first Fridays of the month are in full swing this week at the Olympic Park. Montreal food truck season has officially started! As of May 3rd, and for every first Friday of the month,
food trucks will be available on location for foodies to enjoy. Since the pilot project in 2013, Montrealers have proven that they love their food trucks. The Olympic Park is the
perfect place to kick off your weekend. To see more please visit: https://mtltimes.ca/Montreal/entertainment/festivals/montreal-food-truck-fe stival-is-on/
Quebec minimum wage increase of $0.50
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Quebec employment minister Jean Boulet made an announcement yesterday that there will be an increase in minimum wage.
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Quebec’s hourly wage will be $12.50 per hour as of May 1, 2019. That will be a $0.50 increase. To see more please visit:
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f you are an avid reader of Young Adult (YA) books, whether they be the Hunger Games or The Hate That You Give, then you don’t want to miss the 2nd annual Montreal YA! Fest, which will take place at 5151 Cote St. Catherine Road on May 26 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Presented by the Jewish Public Library (JPL), the festival will feature 25 popular YA authors such as Tim Wynne-Jones (who will be the conference’s keynote speaker), Monique Polak, SK Ali, Jeff Zentner, Sabina Khan and Laura Sebastian, who will be involved in a wide assortment of activities throughout the day such as panel discussions and book signings; as well, there will be a creativity contest, a photo booth, personalized button-making, book merchandise for sale, live music and a lunch. “The Young Adult literary genre has a demographic that’s tough to appeal to, because teens like to do their own thing,” said Talya Pardo, who is the director of the Norman Berman Children’s Library and is an organizer of the festival. “This festival had its genesis with our motherdaughter book club event called ‘Girls’ Night Out’. Last March, someone proposed to me the idea of having a YA festival, because festivals of that nature were very popular in the U.S.And thanks to generous donations and support from Babar Books and CBC Montreal, were we able to reach out to authors and publishers.” “And the best thing about YA books is that they’re not just for teens. Adults like to read them, too because there’s plenty of quality writing, they can be complicated and simple, and they deal with many issues and concerns, such as bullying and terrorism.” Tickets for the Montreal YA! Fest are $20 in advance and $25 at the door; and lunch is also included in the price of admission. For more information, go to: www.mtlyafest.com *** Whenever the organizers from the Montreal International Jazz Festival announces their line-up every spring, I always seek out first and foremost the rock and pop music legends that are going to perform at the festival, and whose respective shows I know that are must-sees for me. For this year’s milestone 40th anniversary edition – scheduled to run from June 27 to July 6 – I am happy to discover that when the line-up for the indoor shows was revealed, there were a bountiful selection of those music legends – including artists who got their big breaks here – whose shows I hope will be included in the media ticket request form, which will certainly guarantee my at-
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tendance with an added sense of reverence. And here are those rock/pop legends that will grace the jazz festival’s many indoor venues: As part of the Evenements speciaux TD Series at Salle WIlfrid Pelletier of Place des Arts, the festival will welcome veteran Canadian rock group Blue Rodeo (June 28), guitarist George Benson (July 1), concept rocker Alan Parsons (July 4), rock star Peter Frampton, who is making a stop at the festival as part of his farewell tour (July 8), and the double bill of Buddy Guy and Colin James (July 6). At Place des Arts’ Theatre Maisonneuve, the following legends shows will be part of the Grands concerts Rio Tinto Series: Brazilian jazz vocalist Bebel Gilberto (June 29), and the John Pizzarelli Trio teams up with Montreal singer Ranee Lee to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nat King Cole with “For Centennial Reasons: 100 Year Salute to Nate King Cole” (July 3). Finally, don’t forget to catch the return of these local vocalists who got their musical careers launched at the jazz festival: Nikki Yanofsky (June 29 at Club Soda) and the Holly Cole Trio (for a fournight run at the Lion d’Or from July 2-5). Tickets for these and all other jazz festival indoor shows are now on sale. For more information, or to purchase tickets, go to www.montrealjazzfest.co m or call 514-871-1881. *** There is a new kid in town regarding the Montreal theatre scene. Its name is Contact Theatre. Founded by Ally Brumer and Debora Friedmann, Contact Theatre is a newly-formed theatre company that is dedicated to presenting Broadway’s most risqué musicals with a fresh approach that is more modern, tackles heavy moral issues and questions the status quo, and showcase a diverse selection of new voices and talent from across the community. And Contact Theatre achieved those objectives with flying colours with their inaugural production, a musical recounting of the life and violent times of 1930s American outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, which had a successful four-night run last week at the MainLine Theatre. And judging by the full house at the performance I attended, the strong performances by the cast, the way the spirit of the Great Depression of the 30s was faithfully recreated, and the enthusiastic response by the audience throughout the show, then this new kid in town is her to stay for a very long time. What I liked about this production is how it brought a greater emphasis on the human side of the story of Bonnie Parker (Camille Cormier
Morasse) and Clyde Barrow (Joel Bernstein), on how they met, fell in love (much to the consternation of their parents) and thanks to the harsh reality of the Great Depression, led them to a life of crime and violence that thanks to sensational media coverage, became heroes in the eyes of average Americans who were going through that same harshness in their lives during that period. The live music, the song and dance numbers and the costumes really gave the production a complete air of authenticity that really took you back in time to the early 1930s. And special kudos go to Julia Kennific, for her riveting performance as Blanche Barrow, the mercurial wife of Clyde’s brother Buck; it would have made Estelle Parsons (who portrayed Blanche in the classic 1967 Bonnie & Clyde biopic and won an Oscar as a result) proud. If the success of “Bonnie & Clyde” is any indication, then Contact Theatre will certainly become a force to be reckoned with in the Montreal theatre scene and the many spectators who enjoy seeing live theatre on a regular basis. *** The Dawson Theatre Collective presents “The Importance of Being Verity”, an original comedy by Victoria Caputo, Mathilde Rousseau, Cate Dunsby, Nadia Trudel and Jeff Gandell, which will have a three night run (May 8, 9 and 10 at 8 p.m.) at the Dawson Theatre, located at 2000 Atwater Street on the Dawson College Campus site. Loosely based on Oscar Wilde’s classic play “The Importance of Being Earnest”. the story focuses on Jack, a member of the Dawson men’s hockey team. When that team is folded, Jack’s passion for playing the game leaves him no choice but to disguise himself as a women so that he could play for the Verity, Dawson’s women’s hockey team. However, things get kind of complicated for Jack when he meets and falls for Gwen, the captain of the women’s team; and to top things off, Jack’s best friend Algy threatens to blow Jack’s cover as a means to get even with the school’s glee club. Tickets are $15, $10 for students and seniors. Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit two charities: the Theresa Foundation, which is dedicated to improving the lives of grandmothers and orphaned children of AIDS victims in Malawi; and Gender Creative Kids, which offers support, training and workshops that help to create safe spaces for transgender, binary and creative kids everywhere. To purchase tickets, go to www.buytickets.at/beingverity, or the Dawson Theatre box office on the night of each performance. May 4, 2019 •
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n April 21, 1945, as Nazi Germany was about to collapse thanks to the rapidly advancing Allied armies of Russia, the U.S. and Britain to Berlin that would conclude with Germany’s surrender and the end of the European theatre of World War II more than two weeks later, a secret meeting was taking place in Germany that would have been regarded as virtually impossible a year before, let alone weeks before it took place. The main players in that secret meeting were Heinrich Himmler, the much feared head of the SS and Gestapo, and at the time also held the post of Nazi Germany’s Minister of the Interior; Norbert Masur, a German Jewish businessman who resided in Sweden; and Felix Kersten, who was Himmler’s therapist and arranged the secret meeting between the two. The objective of the meeting was simple, yet quite unheard of. Himmler, who at the time was in Hitler’s bad graces due to
his failures as a military leader and was on the verge of losing his other posts within the Nazi hierarchy, was willing to allow the release of all Jewish prisoners (all of them female) from Ravensbruck, a concentration camp in Germany that during the final months of the war, was transformed into a death camp, and was murdering prisoners at a rapid rate every day. Himmler hoped that if an agreement could be reached to release these prisoners from Ravensbruck before he was dismissed by Hitler and the camp was liberated by the Allies, he would be able to save face for himself in the event that he would be captured by Allied soldiers. In essence, this was a true “deal with the devil”. Of the number of female Jewish prisoners who were confined at Ravensbruck (many of whom were working as slave labourers at the Krupp munitions factory) and doubled as bargaining chips to this secret negotiation, one of them was Malka (Molly) Goldman, who also survived the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz before she arrived at Ravensbruck. Her son Stanley, who is a lawyer and professor of law at
Loyola Law School in L.A., during a visit to Israel saw a pamphlet with a photo that could have included his mother as she was being released from the camp. This sparked his curiosity, as he wanted to know more about the events that lead to his mother’s eventual release from this piece of hell on Earth, and how she became an unwitting participant in this bit of hidden history of the Holocaust. After eight years of thorough, diligent research and writing, Stanley Goldman finally tells us how this secret meeting between Himmler and Masur in April of 1945 not only led to his mother’s early release from the jaws of death of the Nazi war machine, but also how it contributed to the fall of Hitler and Nazi Germany a few short weeks later, in his book Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream. In a recent phone interview, Mr. Goldman said that he got the title for his book from a line in William Shakespeare’s play “Henry VIII”, which was uttered by Cromwell, one of the play’s characters. “In the play, Cromwell admits that when he was young, he didn’t understand
the true circumstances of the stream of history, until it was too late to change his ways,” he said. “But choosing that line for the book’s title also had a dual purpose: the tell the story of my mother’s wartime plight as a single person whose was pushed by the currents of history, and how I, like Cromwell, foolishly ignored the true circumstances of history until it was too late to do so.” Although it wasn’t his intention to make part of the focus of the book about Ravensbruck, Goldman felt that during the course of his eight years of research and writing (which he also delved into the testimonials that were stored in the archives of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum located in Jerusalem), he felt he couldn’t ignore the terrible history of that camp, which had the notoriety of being the only Nazi death camp within German territory. “I learned all sorts of things, including the fact that there wasn’t much at all written about Ravensbruck, which I discovered was a disturbing kind of hell,” he said. “It was the largest women’s prison, in which 80% of its population wasn’t Jewish. Also, so many of its guards were
women, and their behaviour towards the prisoners were worst than that of the male guards. In fact, 21 of Ravensbruck’s female guards were brought to trial after the war for crimes against humanity.” As well, Goldman felt a personal sense of obligation and responsibility in writing this book, especially owing to the fact that there is growing apathy amongst the public today when it comes to the Holocaust. “It reminds me of the line from the 1950s TV series ‘Naked City’, which says that there are eight million stories in the naked city. The Holocaust has six million stories; everybody has a story to tell about it,” he said. “The more I learned about it, I knew somebody had to write this story, because these days, there is a certain amount of distance between today’s generation and the Holocaust, and people have no particular interest in talking about things that happened before I was born. The tides of history carry us all with it. It ebbs and flows and things do come back, like anti-Semitism.” “I believe that every Holocaust survivor should write a book, because it’s important to discover each
survivor’s experience and the place it holds within the historical context of that massive tragedy,’ he added. Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream certainly succeeds in telling a Holocaust survivor’s story within that enormous historical context, especially when that context is narrowed into the many hidden histories that are always being unearthed, especially the secret negotiations that were initiated by Himmler, his motivations behind them, the role of the Krupp armaments empire in the Holocaust, and some of the lesser known members of Himmler’s inner circle who were just as – or even more – evil than their much feared leader. Stan Goldman tells us through the story of his mother’s harrowing survival that there are still millions of more stories about the Holocaust, and there should be a never ending quest to bring out these stories for future generations to become more aware of such an unspeakable tragedy, and continually end the ignorance so that it could never happen again. (Potomac Books, $27.95)
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he heartbreaking effects of Alzheimer’s or dementia can be challenging for both the individual and their respective caregivers. Eventually, families have little choice but to adapt to their loved one’s failing condition and they must try to find the best solutions for them. One option is to approach your local CLSC and pursue the route of the public system by placing your loved one into long term care. Although long term care nursing homes in the public system are doing the best they can with limited resources, some families choose to go the private route to avoid long waiting lists; to have the luxury of selecting a senior residence of their choice as opposed to the public selection; and to offer their loved one premium levels of care. Here are some helpful hints and recommendations to find the ideal private senior community for a loved one with
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Some communities may also provide escorted outings.At a memory care community, staff typically handle all the responsibilities of life—from housekeeping and laundry to meal preparation and transportation. Assistance with activities of daily living is also a standard service offering. Research It is also important to do your homework and to visit the memory care residence to see if it is a good fit for your loved one. Touring at different times of the day is recommended, as this way you can view residents and staff throughout the day, rather than just at lunch or during activities Once you have selected a community, try to take measures for a smooth
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Should you renovate your home before selling? ing for a fixer upper will expect to get a discounted price on your home to allow for the cost of labour and material. On the bright side, there is a buyer for every time of home! Before fixing up your home If you are thinking about repairs, and not sure which way to go, team up with a knowledgeable real estate broker, and analyze the cost of potential improvements against your homes real market value. Before you decide to give your home a quick “facelift”, realize that a new kitchen and bathroom will give you the highest return. Whatever you decide to renovate always use the best quality material and workmanship, or else it is not worth doing! Before deciding to make specific repairs I invite my potential sellers to take an afternoon off to visit homes for sale in the neighbourhood and compare. Take notes on overall conditions and major or minor renovations. By comparison for example, if most of the homes in your area have upgraded kitchens, you should concentrate on fixing the kitchen. Currently many areas of Montreal are in a sellers’ market, with a very low
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