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The annual Sun Youth Christmas basket distribution is underway, and thanks to our teams of staff and volunteers, hundreds of people have already received their basket.The holiday spirit is spreading throughout the homes of Montreal!

Yesterday, Wednesday December 9, we received the help of many volunteers whom we warmly thank. Among these, several individuals came to offer their help individually: thank you so much! We also received the volunteer teams from Pepsico, Stationnement Montréal and Budge Studios. Heartfelt thanks. It’s a real pleasure to see you every year!

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Montréal and Pepsico will also be present.

We want to stress that all these activities are carried out in strict compliance with health measures and that they are part of a strict protocol that aims to protect everyone’s health.

We also take this opportunity to thank the medical supply company Medsup Canada which donated 2 million masks to Sun Youth.We will distribute them to our clients in their Christmas baskets. The masks will help keep our clients safe without having to incur any costs. With the long winter months ahead, it is a top priority for Sun Youth to help seniors and other people with health issues refrain from risking their safety to obtain food security.

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Thanks to your generous donations, we can purchase food and toys to help the tens of thousands of people who receive our Christmas baskets.

It's never too late to give: companies and individuals who wish to make a donation to help us pursue our goal are invited to give on our web page https://sunyouthorg.com/en/. Thank you for your generosity.You can also make an online donation at guignolee.ca, or an instant donation of $10 by texting "NOEL" to 20222.

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COVID Alert app updated to serve Canadians better Millions of Canadians are doing their part to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 by downloading and using the COVID Alert app. Thousands of people have uploaded their one-time key following a positive diagnosis to help protect others by notifying them that they may have been exposed. As more Canadians use the app, we continue to collect feedback on how it can be improved to meet user needs. Use of the app is one of the ways you can help protect each other and limit the spread of COVID19.

Today, the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health, and the Honourable Joyce Murray, Minister of Digital Government, announced that COVID Alert has been updated with two new features. The first app update allows users to clear the screen that indicates exposure to COVID-19.

After receiving a negative COVID-19 test result, the screen can be cleared enabling the app to alert the user of a new exposure. Users should follow public health guidance, and only clear the screen that indicates exposure following a negative test result or after they receive instructions provided by their public health authority.

The second feature allows users to turn COVID Alert on and off without disabling Bluetooth. This change was made after listening to feedback from health care workers, who need flexibility to turn off COVID Alert while they are at work wearing their personal protective equipment (PPE). • December 5, 2020

When these users turn off COVID Alert, their phone will not exchange random codes to or from other app users' phones, nor will it send notifications of exposure.

To ensure that Canadians have the latest features and that the app is working at its best, we recommend regularly updating your operating system and checking the COVID Alert app to ensure you are aware of any exposure notifications.

The Government of Canada continually reviews and improves COVID Alert. Updates are based on public health guidance, provincial and territorial needs, user research, and changes to the underlying framework by Apple and Google.

Quick Facts As of December 7, there have been more than 5.6 million downloads of the app.

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for 15 days, after which they are automatically deleted.

The COVID-19 Exposure Notification App Advisory Council was established to ensure the app meets the highest standards in public health outcomes, privacy and technology. Council members reflect Canada's regional and cultural diversity, and cover a wide range of expertise, including health, privacy, data governance, science and innovation.Their advice informs the implementation and rollout of the app.

BlackBerry and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security completed a security assessment of the app before it was launched.

All data provided to the app is securely stored and protected.

COVID Alert is a collaboration between Health Canada, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, the Canadian Digital Service, and the Ontario Digital Service. It builds upon an exposure notification solution developed by Shopify volunteers in coordination with the non-profit Linux Foundation Public Health.

As part of our commitment to open and transparent government, the Canadian Digital Service is making its work on the app's development and testing available on Github.

The Canada COVID-19 App is another digital tool that supports Canadians. It allows users to track their symptoms while receiving the latest updates and accessing trusted resources.

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Health Canada authorizes first COVID-19 vaccine Thanks to advances in science and technology, and an unprecedented level of global cooperation, today, Canada reached a critical milestone in its fight against COVID-19 with the authorization of the first COVID19 vaccine.

Health Canada received Pfizer's submission on October 9, 2020 and after a thorough, independent review of the evidence, Health Canada has determined that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine meets the Department's stringent safety, efficacy and quality requirements for use in Canada.

As part of its continued commitment to openness and transparency, Health Canada is publishing a number of documents related to this decision, including a high-level summary of the evidence that Health Canada

reviewed to support the authorization of the vaccine. More detailed information will be available in the coming weeks, including a detailed scientific summary and the full clinical trial data package.

Canadians can feel confident that the review process was rigorous and that we have strong monitoring systems in place. Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada will closely monitor the safety of the vaccine once it is on the market and will not hesitate to take action if any safety concerns are identified.

The terms and conditions of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine authorization require the manufacturer to continue providing information to Health Canada on the safety, efficacy and quality of the vaccine to ensure the benewww.mtltimes.ca

fits of the vaccine continue to be demonstrated through market use.

The initial indication of the vaccine is for use in people 16 years of age or older. Pfizer-BioNTech are running further clinical trials on children of all age groups and the indication could be revised in the future to include children if the data from these studies support it.

The vaccine was authorized under Health Canada's Interim Order Respecting the Importation, Sale and Advertising of Drugs for Use in Relation to COVID-19. This process allowed Health Canada to assess information submitted by the manufacturer as it became available during the product development process, while maintaining Canada's high standards.

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The Société du parc Jean-Drapeau announces the unveiling a winter cycling route on île Sainte-Hélène to ensure active mobility year-round To welcome cyclists all year round, the Société du parc Jean-Drapeau will be providing a winter cycling route between the Jacques-Cartier and Concorde Bridges.The winter bike trail, which will cross île SainteHélène by going through a combination of multi-purpose and vehicular roadways, will have snow removal on a regular basis so cyclists can enjoy safe travels all winter long. Blue signs with snowflakes will inform cyclists of the route to use.

Please note the biking overpass that uses the Saint Lambert locks is closed during the winter months. Cyclists coming from Saint Lambert who want to cross over toward Montréal can use the multi-purpose pathways of the Jacques-Cartier and Samuel-de-Champlain Bridges.

The SPJD publishes notices pertaining to mobility on its web site pages devoted to

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Bicycling at Parc Jean-Drapeau Closure of Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve and the South Shore bike path for the winter season T. he Société du parc Jean-Drapeau is announcing a series of changes for the use of Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve and the closing of the South Shore bike path. Please be aware that: 1. Since Monday, December 7, the markings denoting the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve bike path have been removed, and this is no longer being maintained for usage by sports enthusiasts. For the entire winter period, vehicular traffic will now be two-way traffic between the top of the Pavillon de la Tunisie and the Pavillon du Canada; 2. The South Shore bike path, including the

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Saint-Lambert locks, are closed since, December 6.

3. The Société du parc Jean-Drapeau will be providing a winter cycling route between the Jacques-Cartier and Concorde Bridges.

The winter bike trail, which will cross île Sainte-Hélène by going through a combination of multi-purpose and vehicular roadways, will have snow removal on a regular basis so cyclists can enjoy safe travels all winter long.

Cyclists wishing to continue to do bike riding via the Parc this winter will have to share the road with vehicular traffic: motorists and cyclists are urged to be careful.

The SPJD publishes notices pertaining to mobility on the relevant pages of its website, and invites users to regularly check parcjeandrapeau.com to properly plan their travels.

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The Last Days of John Lennon

by James Patterson

In the history of the rock music era, there are two instances that can be deemed as “the day the music died”.

The first one happened on February 3, 1959. That was when rock stars Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and “The Big Bopper” were killed in an airplane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa, as they were about to make their way to the next stop on their “Winter Party Dance Tour” during a very cold and stormy February night.

The next one happened exactly 40 years ago this month. On December 8, 1980, John Lennon, former member of the powerhouse rock group The Beatles, was shot to death in front of the Dakota, the palatial New York City apartment building where he,Yoko Ono and their son Sean lived, by a deranged, obsessed fan named Mark David Chapman. John’s violent, untimely end came at a time when he just started a career comeback after a five-year self-imposed exile, and his new album “Double Fantasy” and its first single “(Just Like) Starting Over” were rapidly climbing the record charts.There was even talk of a world tour for 1981.

But what were the events in both Lennon’s and Chapman’s respective lives that eventually crossed paths on that tragic night in December of 1980? Mega bestselling author James Patterson, best known for his popular Alex Cross murder mysteries, delves into the facts of this tragic event in rock music history with his second noncrime nonfiction book The Last Days of John Lennon.

Let’s face it. If you want a more thorough telling about the life and music of John Lennon, you can always check out the epic biographies written about him by Ray Coleman and Philip Norman. However, Patterson manages to tell the story of John Lennon, Mark David Chapman and 10

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Lennon’s murder in a style and pace that echoes many of his best selling crime thrillers. Also, the reader has to give Patterson a great deal of credit for telling this story without having to economize on many of the vital facts that would have made the book end up like a cheap paperback crime novel (and the nearly 100 pages of notes at the end of the book is a vivid testimony to the diligent research Patterson committed in order to make the text factually credible).

Thanks to that, he brings to light several instances in Lennon’s life that have been rarely recounted. One that comes to mind is one Saturday night in the spring of 1976, when Paul McCartney visited John at the Dakota and decided to watch that night’s broadcast of “Saturday Night Live”, in which executive producer Lorne Michaels appeared on camera at the beginning of the broadcast and proposed a Beatles reunion on the show for a flat fee of $3000. Both of them were tempted to just pick themselves up and go directly to the NBC studios at 30 Rock and make a surprise appearance, but they decide against it. Acwww.mtltimes.ca

cording to an interview McCartney gave last year, “…we decided it was too much like work and that it would be more fun to have the night off.”

All the main events in Lennon’s life are covered in the book, such as his 1957 initial meeting with Paul McCartney, the musical trial by fire of the Beatles in Hamburg and Liverpool, the “we’re more popular than Jesus” remark and its repercussions, his relationship with Yoko, the bed-ins for peace, the “Lost Weekend” period, his quest to stave off deportation, and the career comeback that resulted in the Double Fantasy album. And to give the book that much needed sense of balance, Patterson interjects the Lennon narrative with the threeday period of December 6 to 8, 1980, in which he follows Chapman’s quest for notoriety by meandering around the streets of New York until he familiarizes himself with Lennon’s world in New York – especially the Dakota luxury apartment building where John and Yoko lived at – in order to make him more comfortable as he readies himself for his deed of death. It almost reads like one of Patterson’s Alex Cross thrillers (which makes us wish that Detective Cross would be in hot pursuit of Chapman and stop him just in time before he does any harm).

Although many people are aware of this day of infamy and its violent outcome, James Patterson has proved in The Last Days of John Lennon of Lennon’s iconic status in the world of rock music as its most vocal and creative rebel, and the pain many Beatles fans still feel 40 years after the fact.

James Patterson has shown he can write highly readable nonfiction books that don’t necessarily have to deal with crimes and mysteries, and has made one point that’s quite starkly clear with this book: we still sorely miss John Lennon.

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Homeless tent city being dismantled by Montreal fire and police departments It is not an easy situation for everyone involved, but after a fire broke out at the homeless 'tent city' located on NotreDame Street (near the Old Port) on Saturday December 5th, Montreal's fire department ordered the immediate evacuation of the site. On Monday, the police were called in to assist the fire department in dismantling what is known as the largest camp in the city. According to reports, the fire almost almost ignited a propane tank and the potential explosion could not only have endangered the occupants of the camp, but the residents in the area as well.

As it was, one tent was completely destroyed by the fire and some other tents received minor damages - and it was not the first time a fire broke out there.

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other shelters in place, including at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Guy-Favreau Complex, the former YMCA Hochelaga and more. However, most do not want to go there for various reasons, with some citing the pandemic and fear of being infected with the Covid-19 virus. It is understandable.

Homelessness is not a situation anyone would really want to find himself or herself in - especially during the winter season.

Nevertheless, some people are unable to afford housing or they have emotional challenges, drug or alcohol addictions or just plain down and out with bad luck. In 2018, there were approximately 3,100 people who were homeless in the city - and since the start of the pandemic, it is estimated to have doubled.The fire at the camp left officials with little choice but to take it down.

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Canada's national vaccine strategy misses the mark for 8 million children and youth Canada's efforts to combat COVID19 will fail if children and youth do not figure prominently in a national vaccine strategy.

Canada, like many peers internationally, will soon start vaccinating its citizens against the novel coronavirus. With time of the essence, Canada urgently requires a plan to protect those both infected and affected by COVID19, including children and youth.

Children and youth have been the silent victims of this pandemic and will suffer the longest tail of COVID19 unless and until Canada implements measures to ensure their physical and mental health, safety, and wellbeing. An effective national vaccine strategy not only protects those Canadians most at risk of contracting COVID19, but also those most directly impacted by public health measures aimed to reduce the spread of this virus.

Concerns around the national vaccine strategy and Canada's 8 million children are many: What is the government's plans to ensure a safe and effective vaccine for children?

While clinical trials are underway internationally to ensure a COVID19 vaccine will one day be available for children and youth, there remains uncertainty around the timing of its release, and whether a vaccine for children was negotiated in contracts between the government and industry.

Canada's 8 million children and youth represent over 20% of the population. With goals to reach herd immunity established to equal 70% of the population, a strategy that does not include children will not succeed.

When will parents or caregivers of medically fragile and disabled children deemed vulnerable to COVID19 be prioritized for the vaccine? It is widely agreed that a national vaccine strategy must address and prioritize the most vulnerable Canadians but to date, almost 1 million children and • December 5, 2020

youth with disabilities and other medical complexities have not been classified within this category.With up to 20% of COVID19 transmission happening in the home, it is essential that parents, siblings and other caregivers be vaccinated to protect these vulnerable children.

What is the government's position on Immunity Passports? Will families be exempted?

In some jurisdictions, governments are considering immunity passports to establish proof of vaccination.

For children under the age of 16, for whom vaccination is not yet available or may ultimately be contra-indicated, what will be the implication for families? Will children and youth suffer a burden of stigma associated with not being vaccinated, and what are the implications on their mental health?

What will the national vaccination strategy ensure childcare, primary and secondary schools remain open over the weeks and months to come? Children's health and

wellbeing throughout the pandemic is heavily dependent on a community of healthy adults who support and surround them.

Every jurisdiction in Canada has seen firsthand the impact of childcare and school closures on children, youth and families.

Physical and emotional safety, nutrition, academic and emotional development, even health services delivery are all compromised if childcare centres and schools shutter again in the face of COVID. What priority does Canada's national vaccine strategy place on educators, school staff, childcare workers and others who work with an unimmunized population?

Children's Healthcare Canada understands the complexity involved in what will be an unprecedented effort to develop and implement a national vaccine strategy to protect Canadians from the coronavirus.

Put simply, children and youth must be central to this strategy, and central to Canada's overall COVID recovery efforts.

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The Dogs of Winter

by Ann Lambert

Winter in Montreal can be – and usually is – a cold and unforgiving season.

This is quite so not only to residents and visitors, but also to the homeless population, in which those unfortunate individuals have to deal with the snowstorms, howling winds and sub-zero temperatures with very little warm protection. And it’s even more so with the segment of Montreal’s homeless population who originate from the North, where its indigenous citizens go south in hope of relief from the harsh way

By Stuart Nulman mtltimes.ca of life in their remote towns and villages.

However, the misery they endure on the streets of Montreal is definitely not much of a difference.

And when the frozen body of a young Inuit women is discovered below a downtown Montreal overpass following a major snowstorm, it’s another murder case for the duo of SQ Detective Inspector Romeo Leduc and his girlfriend, Dawson College teacher Marie Russell, to solve and at the same time, bring to light the plight of violence against homeless people. This is the cold, tragic premise of Ann Lambert’s second Leduc-Russell mystery novel The Dogs of Winter.

“I love my city. It’s the most extraordinary city in the world and there is no city like it on the planet,” said Ms. Lambert during a recent phone interview. Born in Montreal, she spent most of her life living between the West Island, the Plateau and NDG, and also loves how its citizens are a blend of different people who live a relatively peaceful fashion. “Although Montreal has its advantages and disadvantages, I wanted to make the city of Montreal an important character in my book. I especially love it in the winter, and feel a great deal of comfort when it’s hit by big snowstorms.”

Besides utilizing Montreal as the main canvas for the book, she also wanted to focus on the city’s dark side during its cruelest time of the year, especially when it came to such issues as homelessness, systemic racism and sexual violence against women.

“In The Dogs of Winter, I wanted to look at these issues as a fiction writer. While working at Dawson College, I have always seen homeless people hanging out at the nearby Alexis Nihon Plaza, and it has always 14

bothered me about the cause of homelessness and why it happens, not to mention how helpless people are pushed down in western society and the economic injustice that goes along with it,” she said. “As well, I have always been concerned about how sexual violence against women has intensified so much and has come together with its own implications in systemic racism and social injustice.”

As well, Ms. Lambert likes the rare mystery novel dynamic of a man-and-woman couple who are complete opposites, yet are in a relationship, who team up to solve crimes, which is what the reader gets with Romeo Leduc and Marie Russell (which kind of harkens back to Nick and Nora Charles from Dashiell Hammett’s 1933 novel The Thin Man, which spawned a series of popular movies between 1934 and 1947).

“I really liked the tension, conversation and conflict that emerges from Romeo and Marie as they try to solve these murders and sexual assaults that have become rampant in the novel,” she said. “You also get the chance to see the crimes and their implications from Marie’s point-of-view, which allowed me to tell the story in a more complete way.”

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son Theatre Collective for 12 years), she admits that she enjoyed the experience of writing a novel – in particular a mystery novel – without being bound to the restrictions that go along with writing a play.

“A mystery novel is like a genre with so many sub-genres. I like the joy of the pageturner because it’s mostly plot-driven, and you’re allowed to include more complex characters to give the story more depth and complexity. I have always liked following clues and solving puzzles, so I wanted to write mysteries like The Birds That Stay and The Dogs of Winter because they’re the type of books that you can read on vacation without having to think too deeply about them,” she said. “Remember, murder is the greatest violation in humanity, especially when it’s set against social, political and historical backgrounds.”

And The Dogs of Winter is the type of book that should be part of your Christmas vacation reading. It’s an engrossing mystery of murder most foul during a cold, unforgiving season. And it takes the wits, wisdom, know-how and “opposites attract” back-and-forth modus operandi of the most unlikely crime solving duo around, in order to get to the bottom of a series of heinous crimes that cry of the echoes of three of the most socially relevant and dire issues that affect our world today. It’s a redhot potboiler that effectively pierces through any kind of bone-chilling cold.

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Kudos to Kukui A newborn baby delicately bathed in oil is a ritual in many countries: a welcome to

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enlightenment, protection, peace, light.

Emu oil in Australia, Shea Butter in Africa, Kukui in Hawaii.

It is kukui we wish to honour here.

Now the state tree of Hawaii, Kukui is known as the candlenut tree, the flammable oil to be used as a candle. It is the nut and the oil that are cherished, as the raw fruit itself is best not consumed. The soot from the burned nuts can be used as black ink for tattoos.

Fishermen spit the oil from a chewed nut onto the water to create a lens to remove reflections, seeing deeper underwater. Leis and jewelry are made from the seed shells, canoes and fishnet floods made from the tree wood. Medicine

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Panda Online writes of the Kukui Nut tree in Hawaii. “The lightcolored nut oil is practically odorless and a person’s skin can easily absorb it. It blends seamlessly with most lotions and creams as it is high in alpha-linoleic and other fatty acids. At farmer’s markets, you can find kukui nut oil as the primary ingredient in soaps, candles and body lotions. People also use it as a hair the most intense nutrition for the hair follicle stimulant.” and scalp and is espehttps://www.pandaon- cially sought after for line.com/the-kukui-nut- people with any skin issues. tree-in-hawaii/ Our Regular Bar Our shampoo bars has that old-fashioned freshness, that will grace kukui dance you down Our bars are magi- memory lane. It concal all over body tains nourishing and cleansers. Earthy. The gentle essential oil like orange, scents may even take sweet to back if you are old patchouli and lavenenough to remember der.

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