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It’s only human to suffer the pains of age.

And to stoically smile despite it.

An acceptable penalty for days lived.

In tribute to youth gone.

Then there’s that other human reaction.

Make the freaking pain go away.

Healers throughout human history and in every culture have applied medicines directly to the source of pain. One of the oldest medical documents ever discovered, the 3500-year-old Ebers Papyrus, includes poultices, salves, oils and plasters for conditions ranging from Sting of Wasp to Headache. Found in a tomb at Thebes about 1862 and preserved at the University of Leipzig, Ebers Papyrus is a miscellaneous collection of extracts and jottings from at least forty sources. One remedy found in the text is a poultice composed of pieces-of-excrement, Cat’s dung, Dog’s dung, and berries of the Xet plant. This apparently would “drive out all the Scurf”.

“I can assure you that TPR20 Pain Relief Cream

contains no dung of any sort,” says Rowan Hamilton, Director of Research at Humn Pharmaceuticals. “What it does contain though, helps us believe in the strength of modern pain relievers without the need for powerful pills.”

In our own time and culture, a new understanding of pain treatment is emerging from research and patient studies. It points to topical preparations as a viable delivery mechanism for pain relief medication. The forms they take are creams, gels, liquids and patches. The object is to apply pain relief where it hurts. This may be one of the most important recent developments in the treatment of pain – even if it is a centuries old practice. The most common pharmaceutical approaches

to pain today are oral medications (pills). With this approach, come regular side effects including gastrointestinal complications, liver disease, kidney disease and potential dependency. Canadian consumers are increasingly wary of such potential risks and are looking for a less invasive approach that can be provided by topical analgesics. The type used successfully for centuries; provided of course that they don’t contain dung.

Topical therapies act locally rather than through systemic absorption; this avoids gastrointestinal irritation and the metabolic degradation associated with oral administration. They make possible, in a cream form, the use of local anaesthetic compounds such as Lidocaine, well known to

the public as an injected anesthetic in the dentist’s chair, which actually block the transmission of pain in the nerves.

They can be effective for a broad spectrum of pain relief including insect bites, poison ivy and other plant irritants, minor burns, sunburns, blisters, hemorrhoids, skin conditions, even shingles.

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And to stoically smile despite it.

An acceptable penalty for days lived.

In tribute to youth gone.

Then there’s that other human reaction.

Make the freaking pain go away.

Healers throughout human history and in every culture have applied medicines directly to the source of pain. One of the oldest medical documents ever discovered, the 3500-year-old Ebers Papyrus, includes poultices, salves, oils and plasters for conditions ranging from Sting of Wasp to Headache. Found in a tomb at Thebes about 1862 and preserved at the University of Leipzig, Ebers Papyrus is a miscellaneous collection of extracts and jottings from at least forty sources. One remedy found in the text is a poultice composed of pieces-of-excrement, Cat’s dung, Dog’s dung, and berries of the Xet plant. This apparently would “drive out all the Scurf”.

“I can assure you that TPR20 Pain Relief Cream

contains no dung of any sort,” says Rowan Hamilton, Director of Research at Humn Pharmaceuticals. “What it does contain though, helps us believe in the strength of modern pain relievers without the need for powerful pills.”

In our own time and culture, a new understanding of pain treatment is emerging from research and patient studies. It points to topical preparations as a viable delivery mechanism for pain relief medication. The forms they take are creams, gels, liquids and patches. The object is to apply pain relief where it hurts. This may be one of the most important recent developments in the treatment of pain – even if it is a centuries old practice. The most common pharmaceutical approaches

to pain today are oral medications (pills). With this approach, come regular side effects including gastrointestinal complications, liver disease, kidney disease and potential dependency. Canadian consumers are increasingly wary of such potential risks and are looking for a less invasive approach that can be provided by topical analgesics. The type used successfully for centuries; provided of course that they don’t contain dung.

Topical therapies act locally rather than through systemic absorption; this avoids gastrointestinal irritation and the metabolic degradation associated with oral administration. They make possible, in a cream form, the use of local anaesthetic compounds such as Lidocaine, well known to

the public as an injected anesthetic in the dentist’s chair, which actually block the transmission of pain in the nerves.

They can be effective for a broad spectrum of pain relief including insect bites, poison ivy and other plant irritants, minor burns, sunburns, blisters, hemorrhoids, skin conditions, even shingles.

A study undertaken by the American Osteopathic Association showed that nearly half of the population does not believe that pain can be eased with mainstream medications. Topical pain relief may change that belief.

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And to stoically smile despite it.

An acceptable penalty for days lived.

In tribute to youth gone.

Then there’s that other human reaction.

Make the freaking pain go away.

Healers throughout human history and in every culture have applied medicines directly to the source of pain. One of the oldest medical documents ever discovered, the 3500-year-old Ebers Papyrus, includes poultices, salves, oils and plasters for conditions ranging from Sting of Wasp to Headache. Found in a tomb at Thebes about 1862 and preserved at the University of Leipzig, Ebers Papyrus is a miscellaneous collection of extracts and jottings from at least forty sources. One remedy found in the text is a poultice composed of pieces-of-excrement, Cat’s dung, Dog’s dung, and berries of the Xet plant. This apparently would “drive out all the Scurf”.

“I can assure you that TPR20 Pain Relief Cream

contains no dung of any sort,” says Rowan Hamilton, Director of Research at Humn Pharmaceuticals. “What it does contain though, helps us believe in the strength of modern pain relievers without the need for powerful pills.”

In our own time and culture, a new understanding of pain treatment is emerging from research and patient studies. It points to topical preparations as a viable delivery mechanism for pain relief medication. The forms they take are creams, gels, liquids and patches. The object is to apply pain relief where it hurts. This may be one of the most important recent developments in the treatment of pain – even if it is a centuries old practice. The most common pharmaceutical approaches

to pain today are oral medications (pills). With this approach, come regular side effects including gastrointestinal complications, liver disease, kidney disease and potential dependency. Canadian consumers are increasingly wary of such potential risks and are looking for a less invasive approach that can be provided by topical analgesics. The type used successfully for centuries; provided of course that they don’t contain dung.

Topical therapies act locally rather than through systemic absorption; this avoids gastrointestinal irritation and the metabolic degradation associated with oral administration. They make possible, in a cream form, the use of local anaesthetic compounds such as Lidocaine, well known to

the public as an injected anesthetic in the dentist’s chair, which actually block the transmission of pain in the nerves.

They can be effective for a broad spectrum of pain relief including insect bites, poison ivy and other plant irritants, minor burns, sunburns, blisters, hemorrhoids, skin conditions, even shingles.

A study undertaken by the American Osteopathic Association showed that nearly half of the population does not believe that pain can be eased with mainstream medications. Topical pain relief may change that belief.

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Irwin Block

Duddy’s back and it looks like, finally, he will make the Kravitz family proud.

With a revised script, a fresh set of Broadway-style songs, first-class production staff, and some of Cana-da’s leading actors, the latest version of Mordecai Richler’s most famous novel has “hit potential” written all over it.

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz opens June 7 for a three-week run at the Segal Centre, 5170 Côte Ste. Catherine.

Expectations are high for this version, with new songs by eight-time Academy Award-winning American composer Alan Menken and lyrics by David Spencer. It is directed by Austin Pendleton (featured on our cover), who worked on a 1987 musi-cal version with Richler. It collapsed in Philadelphia when the main investor withdrew his support.

The storyline remains the same as in the book that awakened Canada, and the world, to Richler’s talent.

In the movie version, Richard Drey-fuss made Duddy come alive.

We also met Micheline Lanctôt, who portrayed Duddy’s love interest, Yvette. She had a love relationship

with director Ted Kotcheff, went off to Hollywood but returned to Montreal to act and direct in her own films.

Duddy, the Jew-boy anti-hero, is raised in the densely populated, crab-appled St. Urbain-Fairmount neighbourhood where most of the city’s Jews lived, prayed, studied, and dreamed of bigger and better – a bet-ter world here through socialism, a better world for Jews in Palestine, or a better world by making big bucks.

Duddy’s brother was the proverbial good boy, a medical student, the pride of the family. Duddy wanted to be “a somebody” — to own a piece of land. “A man without land is nobody!” his grandfather famously said.

Working as a waiter in Ste. Agathe — those of us who summered there will recognize the Castle des Monts as the hotel where Duddy served tables — Duddy meets Yvette and, through her, discovers a pristine lake.

He serves scrap dealer Samuel Cohen who came to Canada with nothing and finagled his way to wealth. Duddy is hired to produce the bar mitzvah movie for Cohen’s son Bernie, which is among the funniest sections of the script. Cohen is the teacher, Duddy the apprentice.

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Duddy then uses Yvette, and money that he grabs from his best friend Virgil, to acquire the property. He famously tells Jerry Dingleman, the wheeler-dealer known in the hood as The Boy Wonder, to “get off my land.” Montreal’s Michael Rudder plays Dingleman.

It was written as satire, but the organized Jewish community at the time hated it because it exposed the seamier sides of ghetto life. It was, as the Yiddish expression goes, “a shandeh far di goyim” – an embar-rassment in front of gentiles.

But the characters and images of

1950s Montreal live on. I was privi-leged to have played Mr. Cohen in the Yiddish version of the play, based on the screenplay, produced by the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre and directed by Bryna Wasserman in 2001. I love the story – so evocative of a time and place, with characters that bring it to life, with a wink and a smile, of course.

“The jaundice in his eye is all- inclusive,” says Pendleton of Richler’s slant on the human condition.

We met Toronto-based Ken James Stewart, who plays the impish Duddy, at Wilensky’s Light Lunch on Fairmount and Clark.

“Where else better to do this pre-mier production than in Montreal, where it’s all based? We’re standing in Wilensky’s where the diner scenes in the movie were shot.

“We’re very happy, there’s a buzz in the room every day about this production.”

The story of Duddy “is something that many people can relate to, and why this story has stood the test of time.

“He’s somebody who has huge dreams, feels he’s not appreciated by his family. He wants land, he wants people not to think of him as a shmuck anymore.”

Ironically girlfriend Yvette, “loves

him for who he is, which makes it so tragic at the end.”

George Masswohl, who plays Dud-dy’s dad Max, says, “It’s great to be immersed in this city and its culture, to be doing this play, and it’s a really great adaptation of the novel.

“The music is unbelievable. With Alan Menken, you can’t miss. Fans of Menken will recognize his style for sure.

“David Spencer’s lyrics are very true to the novel as well, very evoca-tive of the time and the place.”

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Irwin Block

Montreal’s fascinating history, ethno-cultural mix, older neighbourhoods, architecture, and geographical setting make it a city for poets.

Mark Abley, best known as a language columnist for The Montreal Gazette, non-fiction author, and acquisitions editor at McGill-Queen’s University Press, should be much better known and celebrated as a poet.

His latest work, The Tongues of Earth (Coteau Books, 115 pp) is a collection of poems in which Abley reflects with alternating wonderment, irony, and, in varying moods, on the world around him, and our place in it, with word choice and imagery that combine a unique cadence.

In As If, he observes a moment at pre-dusk when a cat brushes by and a bird “tentative, explorative” begins to sing “as if/any god worth its salt/would create/music before light.”

As a child, Abley was terrified of the Pinocchio story — the one before Disney doctored it. He wrote a seven-part reflection, a series of haikus ending with how he’d rework the tale:

Allow him his raucous innocence, his rude brand of fun. Allow him to keep his father If Geppetto accepts a son who may not follow orders and won’t be whittled away by anyone who sees pleasure as the herald of decay

In a bitter reflection, Hard on You, the poet is savouring the delights of a Vermont cottage vaca-tion when he hears a neighbour lecturing his son, “almost 12” but misbehaving and deserving to be labeled “asshole.”

“You know I’m only being hard on you because I love you” concludes the mountain moment.

Abley is not only troubled by the inexorable demise of languages — 600 of the 6,000 languages still spoken will not survive by the end of the century, he writes in Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages — he’s saddened by the disappearance of species.

At the Redpath Museum, he sees a preserved Labrador Duck, with the inscription, “Not seen since 1875. Presumed to be extinct.”

“Presumed, indeed!” he responds, and noting a nearby “brace of passenger pigeons,” equally extinct, hears the duck contrast its caged and stuffed condition with that of the poet/observer.

So here I stand: preserved, and catalogued, andwebbed,a trophy of your deadly skill, while you –still free to taste the wind and weather,peering in at me as though I had the answerto some query on the tip of your tongue –recede into the growing past.Mark Abley read these and other poems at The

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There are those among us with chronic illnesses, special health needs, reduced functionality, dependence and lack of autonomy.

Current government policy requires such people to remain in their own homes as long as possible and many prefer to do so. Such people require help that is often provided by a non-professional care-giver, namely someone close to the person who provides continuous full- or part-time care in the home.

Caregivers have no legal status as employees, professionals or paid help and no specific laws exist to protect them.

Their needs are not recognized, their obligations are not defined and their rights are not protected.

The services carried out by a caregiver may be numerous, varied, complex and often exercised under difficult conditions.

It is important that caregivers rights be recognized and that they are able to exercise their functions with competence in an environmentthat is secure for themselves and those they are helping.

There is presently no law to guarantee the personal security or a minimum quality of life for caregivers. Many are worn out physically and psychologically.

Their health may deteriorate. They may have problems at work, often have no social life, and may become impoverished.

Society must recognize its own obligations to take whatever measures may be necessary to prevent this situation for those who are rendering a necessary service, benefiting the recipient of care and society in general.

Although the position of caregiver must be undertaken voluntarily, there is often no choice. It becomes a family duty rather than a job willingly undertaken.

Moreover those who become care-givers often do not realize what the job entails. There may be a heavy physical requirement from lifting and turning.

The hours and amount of care required may be exorbitant.

The caregiver is often left out of the treatment plan established by the professionals and may have no idea of the full extent of the needs of the person he is helping. There is often nowhere to turn for help.

L’Institut de planification des soins (The Institute of Care Planning) and le Regroupement des aidantes et aidants naturels de Montréal RAANM (the Caregiver Coalition of natural caregivers of Montreal) are non-profit organizations that work to defend the rights of caregivers and improve the conditions of their work and lives.

Their joint report, “Vers la recon- joint report, “Vers la recon-naissance d’un statut légal pour les proches aidants” describes the problems faced by non-professional caregivers. They emphasize the necessity of alleviating some of the problems and offer some suggestions on how to do so.

They are proposing a law to protect the health and wellbeing of caregivers, ensure their burden is not excessive, provide training, ensure they work in an environment adapted to their needs and duties, recognize their rights and alleviate any excessive negative economic effect.

They suggest the creation of government and employer pro-grams to accomplish these goals and that legal recourse and complaint procedures be provided to caregivers should any of their rights under the proposed law be violated.

The proposed law would recog-nize the right of a person to be fully informed prior to deciding whether or not to become a caregiver, determine what tasks he can perform, become a part of the health

team and be given relevant informa-tion as to the state of health of the person he is helping.

For purposes of security, he must be taught the techniques he will need to administer the help, and carry out the duties required in all situations, which may arise including emergen-cies. He must receive training and be evaluated on a regular basis.

He must receive the equipment and materials necessary to carry out his duties safely.

Caregivers must also have access to support and assistance. Their need for relief must be recognized and they must have time for themselves. The health system should not expect them to do everything and limits should be imposed on what they can do, depending on their training and the risks involved.

They should not be placed in a

situation where their own physical or mental health is at risk.

Many caregivers suffer financially. The proposed law would recognize that they are entitled to a reasonable standard of living.

Those who are not working should be provided with financial support, their expenses should be paid and they should benefit from certain tax credits, a pension fund and insurance.

Where they have another job, their employers should be required to accommodate their hours, and retain all benefits and social advantages to which they are entitled

Government policy to maintain people in their homes will reduce the costs for health care and social and shelter services while increasing the burden on caregivers and those in need of assistance.

Some of these savings should be used to benefit caregivers in recognition of their indispensable support and to avoid their unjusti-fied impoverishment.

The proposed law attempts to see that this is done. It is to be hoped our legislators agree.

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Judgment time approaches for HarperThe writ has yet to drop, but the federal election campaign has begun de facto with the Conser-vatives rolling out ads saying Justin Trudeau is not ready.

Harper’s media handlers repeat what they believe is the most effective attack line: the 43-year-old Liberal Party leader lacks judgment. If voters turn around and instead assess Stephen Harper’s judgment, this line may backfire.

In the 2011 election, Harper came to the Mount Royal riding — one reporter described it as a “historic” visit — to actively and personally support the party’s “star” candidate, former municipal councilor Saulie Zajdel, who came close to unseating human rights lawyer and former federal justice minister Irwin Cotler.

Last month, Zajdel pleaded guilty to breach of trust and corruption for demanding payment of $10,000 to $15,000 for having supported a demolition permit. Three other charges against Zajdel were stayed.

Since the leader must approve all official candidates, Harper’s judgment can be questioned.

Senators Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau, all appointed by Harper, who built part of his political career on a pledge to reform the Upper House, have been suspended without pay for what was termed “inappropriate expenses.”

Duffy, the former popular CBC and CTV television reporter and host, was a star cam-paigner and fundraiser for the party. He faces 31 charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery related to his housing and travel claims, contracts not connected to the Senate, and using $90,000 from Harper’s former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, to repay the claims. Duffy has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Many have asked, if Duffy can be charged for accepting the money from Wright, why has Wright not been charged for providing it? Wright has returned to his former employer, Toronto-based Onex Corp.

Wallin is under continued RCMP investigation for possible fraud and breach of trust linked to her expense claims. Wallin repaid a total of $154,191 to the Senate for claims she attributes to “administrative error.”

After being “punched out” by Trudeau in a fund-raising boxing match, Brazeau was charged with fraud and breach of trust for falsely claiming living expenses for a primary residence outside the national capital region. This amounted to $45,000 for Brazeau. (Former Liberal senator Mac Harb was similarly charged for false claims and has repaid all $230,650). Brazeau also is on trial for assault and sexual assault charges, which he’s denied.

Dean Del Mastro, Harper’s former parliamen-tary secretary, whose role during question period was to defend the government against claims of dirty electoral tricks, has been found guilty of having committed an electoral trick, namely exceeding spending limits in the 2008 election. (Another of his roles was to rally support among Lebanese Canadians.)

Michael Sona, the only person charged in the Guelph voter-suppression scheme, was found guilty in August of attempting to prevent people from voting by sending a robocall to thousands

of opposition supporters, mainly Liberals, directing them to the wrong polling station. Sona, the director of communications for the Conserva-tive candidate, was sentenced to nine months in prison plus 12 months probation.

Leads for the robocalls were from the Conser-vatives’ Constituent Information Management System, or CIMS data base, but Yves Côté, Com-missioner of Canada Elections, after a three-year investigation into some 2,500 complaints about robocalls in 261 ridings, concluded there was insufficient evidence to believe an offence was committed in any riding other than Guelph.

The buck stops at Harper’s desk for what his government does, which is reflected in the latest polls that put the Conservatives, who won a majority in 2011, in a dead heat in popular support with the NDP and Liberals. Harper’s stamp is on everything his government does, or fails to do, and he must bear ultimate responsibil-ity for candidates he actively supported, promoted and trusted. He also must answer for the electoral

machine and database used to mislead voters in the 2011 election. Harper’s judgment is as much on the line in this election as is Trudeau’s.

Harper’s communications advisers, meanwhile, have decided that he will not take part in what has become, for better or for worse, an impor-tant segment of federal election campaigns — the five party leaders’ debate hosted by a consortium of major broadcasters, including CBC/Radio- Canada, one in English and another in French, with simultaneous translation. They and the NDP have agreed to four other debate formats, hosted by Maclean’s Magazine and the Munk Debates. The Liberals have yet to commit, but want one that includes a town-hall format, with a live audience that gives voters a chance to ask direct questions. The NDP wants other debates, including one that focuses on women’s issues.

All parties are pushing their leaders’ strengths, and both the Conservatives and NDP believe that with more experienced leaders in terms of handling the debating pressure, they can exploit Trudeau’s relative inexperience. For the Liberals, lower expectations may translate into Trudeau appearing more likeable than either Harper or Mulcair.

Is performance in these debates a reasonable yardstick for where we should place our X on the ballot? As Doug Howat has observed on Rabble.ca, “What monster have we created when who ‘won’ a televised debate is a topic of conversation? Healthcare should be a conversation. Missing and murdered aboriginal women should be a conver-sation. The direction of the economy, military spending, climate change should be a conversa-tion. These are important conversations. Who ‘won’ a game of make believe should not factor into who leads our country.”

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We pass them, near métro stations, parks, or downtown streets, but we don’t see them.

They are the city’s homeless, part of the urban culture in North America and a living scar, a condemnation of our post-industrial society and its underside.

There has been a recent attempt to count the homeless in Montreal, but that process revealed nothing about the issues behind the statistic.

That is where social worker Victoria Burns entered the picture recently, with her decision to carry out a qualitative study of homelessness in Montreal, with an emphasis on seniors and their first experience with being out on the street. The research is part of her PhD thesis in social work, under review at McGill University. Her supervi-sors are Tamara Sussman and Jean-Pierre Lavoie.

It is an important piece of research because, as Burns notes, “it could happen to any of us.”

She discovered and documented how the shelters, with their focus on getting people back to work or into independent housing, are not geared to the special needs of older adults. They do, she is quick to note, “provide a vital service.”

A New Brunswick native, Burns, 33, who has undergraduate degrees in psychology and social work and a MSW from McGill, decided to focus her doctoral study on 15 homeless people in Mon-treal. Her subjects are first-time homeless older adults, who were using shelters during the study.

Burns carried out in-depth interviews and made observations starting in 2012. She also interviewed shelter operators, staff and counselors.

It’s known in academic circles as a qualitative study, or as Burns says, “trying to understand the trajectory into homelessness.

“These are people who led conventional lives; people who worked as accountants, nurses, and became homeless for the first time.

“I had one woman who was 80, a man who was 70.”

As a social worker, Burns had worked in home care for a CLSC and a community organization and was familiar with ‘ageing in place.’

“I wanted to find out what happens when some-one is ageing ‘out of place’ – as an older person becoming homeless.”

Her initial research revealed a shifting demo-graphic among the people who use homeless shelters. In one women’s shelter, only nine per

cent of residents were over 50 in 1993; that number has more than quadrupled to 40 percent over 50. A lot of them were first-time users.

The situation is similar in men’s shelters, she said, but statistics are not as available because of much greater numbers.

The programs in place are important and useful, but she found they do not necessarily meet the needs of older adults, who may be losing auton-omy and are beyond a return-to-work potential.

“The shelters don’t all have elevators. One person I interviewed, who was discharged from hospital, had to use a walker, being partially paralyzed. When sent to a shelter, this person could not use the walker, and had to use a cane and had trouble navigating the stairs to get to the cafeteria.

“In some shelters residents have to leave by 7 a.m. and come back at 4 p.m. This is difficult for older people who have mobility and health issues.”

Burns uncovered two profiles of the trajectory into homelessness: About half had what she describes as a history of “instability” over their lives when it came to housing and work.

“A typical example is someone who had a work injury while in his/her thirties and was living in sub-standard housing.

“A second type was of a more rapid decline, a series of intense losses in later life that propelled them into homelessness with little warning.”

She cites a man who at 70 had just left a well-paying job, lost his mother, daughter and wife over a five-month period, which led to a relapse into alcoholism after 30 years of sobriety.

“Within a year he was on the street, in a homeless shelter,” she said. “It was very abrupt.

He isolated himself and was reluctant to seek out help. This is common in the 70-plus generation, the result of shame.”

Because of lack of resources, a lot of homecare work that focused on prevention is no longer offered, she noted. “With more support, his relapse could have been prevented.”

Ten of the 15 had children, but preferred to go to a homeless shelter rather than become a “bur-den” on their children, she noted. This seems to reflect a prevalent idea in our culture that being dependent is a bad thing, a sign of weakness.

Many suggest that Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement are no longer sufficient to support seniors at the bottom of the income scale.

“The average waiting list for subsidized housing in Montreal is five years, and when you’re older this is problematic,” she noted.

The aim of a qualitative study based on 15 subjects is “depth, not breadth. The findings are contextualized, but illustrate a phenomenon that has been invisible.”

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Alas, because language is in a constant state of flux, a lexicographer’s work is never done.

The first edition of the Oxford English Dic-tionary (OED), replete with 414,825 words, was completed in 1928 and ceremonial presentations were made to President Calvin Coolidge and His Majesty King George V. Supplements ensued until 1989, when a second edition comprised of twenty volumes appeared. According to The Oxford Companion to the English Language, this edition held “21,728 pages and contains some 290,500 main entries, within which there are a further 157,000 combinations and derivatives in bold type (all defined) and a further 169,000 phrases and undefined combinations in bold italic type, totalling 615,500 word forms.”

The pace of change is ever-quickening. In March 2000, the 20-volume OED plus three volumes of additions became available online, and since then,

every word is being revised. So, 120 years after the first editor of the OED, James Murray, launched an “appeal for Words for the OED”, John Simpson, then chief editor, invited “readers to contribute to the development of the Dictionary by adding to our record of English throughout the world. Everyone can play a part in recording the history of the language and in helping to enhance the OED.”

I believe this project represents one of the great-est feats of scholarship ever undertaken and accomplishes for lexicography what the Human Genome Project is doing for biology.

Words, and new senses of existing words, are flooding into the language from all corners of the world. Only a dictionary the size of the OED can adequately capture the true richness of the English language throughout its history and its development across the globe. By the time the revisions are completed, sometime between 2025 and 2030, the English vocabulary will most likely have at least doubled. There may not even be a print edition, as it would require close to fifty volumes to complete it. One reason so many words are being added is the lexicographic advancements in the non-British and non-Amer-ican English languages, such as African and Asian varieties, whose words are increasingly being recorded in the OED. There is no longer only one English language but a variety of flavours.

Interestingly, the revision in 2000 began not with the letter “A” but with the letter “M.” I asked John Simpson why this was done. He replied, “The OED editors wanted to start the revision at a point halfway through the dictionary where the style was largely consistent, and to return to the earlier, less consistent areas later.” In any case, by 2010 all words from M to R had been revised and this alphabetical format was abandoned. Entries across the alphabet are revised every three

months. For example, in December 2014 un-PC was added; June 2014 introduced branzino as a name for the European bass or sea bass, and also the verb Skype; in March 2014, bestie achieved OED validation.

Aside from cataloguing virtually every English word of the last 1000 years, the OED, in its online incarnation, offers a host of useful features for the lexicographically-minded.

In graphic form, timelines highlight the year when words first entered the OED. Hence, the year I was born also featured the arrival of the words cappuccino, cybernetics, and transistor, whereas 1616, the year Shakespeare expired, saw the birth of acquiescent, incidental and Kurd.

If you guessed Shakespeare as the most frequent quoted OED source, you’re not far wrong. The Bard, however, comes in second and is bested by the London Times (39,884 quotations versus 33,127). Rounding out the top five are #3, Walter Scott; #4, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London; and #5, Encyclopaedia Britannica. The top North American source is the New York Times at #11 and the Globe and Mail takes Canadian honours at #212. I don’t think too many people would guess the Canadian runner-up —The Daily Colonist of Victoria, B.C. at #431.

The feature that I find most useful in the OED is the categories section, so, in my next two Se-nior Times columns, I will explore some of its dimensions.

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In wondering whether this monument’s title should be changed to “Victims of Totalitarianism” or maybe “Totalitarian Communism,” we are into semantics. Probably a better title would be “...of Communist Regimes.” But if you make a commemoration too wide, it loses its power.

The 20th century, with its unrivaled advances in the technology of killing, allowed the wicked to kill more people more often. Alas, the 21st seems to be continuing the trend with the Jihadists outdoing the likes of Hitler in sheer savagery, if not yet quantity. By far the most prolific butchers of the last century were Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. Given that there are many memorials to Hitler’s victims, that the other two were both Communists, and that right after the big three come the likes of Pol Pot and the North Korean Kims, with a nod to Ceausescu of Romania, and Hoxha of Albania, very effective Communist murderers themselves, I think the monument is merited.

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Mount Royal isn’t the only Mon-treal riding that’s too close to call, and NDP candidate Ryan Young in Lac-Saint-Louis believes he is well-positioned to score an historic upset in that Liberal stronghold.

Young, 43, has been an active city councillor in Ste-Anne-de Bellevue since 2009, with a solid track record on environmental protection. He teaches creative arts at John Abbott.

Young and Conservative candidate Éric Girard — a “star” candidate on leave from his position as senior vice-president of the National Bank of Canada — regard the declining numbers for Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia as an opportunity to unseat him.

Young is happy, for strategic rea-sons, that the Conservatives are running a star candidate because “this pulls votes away from the Liberals.”

“I think people are ready for some-body who is not connected to wealth and power. I am the only candidate who grew up in the riding.”

The riding is suburban, including Beaconsfield, Pointe Claire, Baie-d’Urfé, Kirkland, Ste-Anne-de- Bellevue, Senneville, and the west-ern part of Pierrefonds-Roxboro. Voters there gave Liberal Clifford Lincoln comfortable majorities, but Scarpaleggia, who succeeded him in 2004, won by only 2,204 votes in 2011 against the NDP’s Alain Ackad.

Beyond the Orange Wave under Jack Layton that helped the NDP sweep Quebec, winning 58 of 75

seats in 2011, Young believes he can win under leader Tom Mulcair.

“The NDP is popular in Quebec; it’s not the same Liberal Party as under Pierre Trudeau,” he said. “People are looking seriously at the NDP when the Liberals are voting for something like C51 (the anti-terrorist act).

“I see my riding as a progressive riding and people see the NDP as having taken principled stands. They also see Tom Mulcair as some-one who is a principled person, who has experience in government, com-pared with young and inexperienced Justin Trudeau.

“It’s a strange narrative when you

think that Pierre Trudeau is some-one who brought in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms and his son, when he doesn’t need to – the Con-servatives are going to pass that bill anyway – decides to vote in support of that bill.

“Many observers across Canada, legal experts, say it’s a bad law and violates our Constitution and may not even withstand a court challenge.”

He is proud of what he’s accom-plished with others in conserving and protecting the environment, including expanding the l’Anse à l’Orme nature park, introducing curbside compost pick-up, promoting traffic-calming measures, creating a

dog park, and developing a commu-nity sustainability plan.

Young is honoured to have received the endorsement of environmental-ist David Suzuki, who praises the candidate as “a person of very high ideals who has been willing to throw himself into trying to make the world a better place. We need young idealists like Ryan.”

Young says he “respects Francis” Scarpaleggia for the stands he’s taken on the environment.

“He’s on the green side of the Liberal party but he’s not a true progressive Liberal,” Young argued, since he was the only Quebec Liberal to support a motion in 2006 to re-open the same-sex marriage debate, which was defeated.

“I am the only progressive candidate in Lac-Saint-Louis. If voters want real change, they’ll elect me. What just happened in Alberta creates the climate for that to happen here.”

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Who looks out for seniors who have no family or friends to look out for them? A recent story that went viral caught my attention.

An 81-year-old terminally ill man in the U.S. had just returned home after spending months in the hospi-tal and rehab centre. He was weak and unable to shop for food. He was hungry and had no one to call to help him. So he called 911 and told the emergency operator that he needed someone to go to the store for him to buy food, his refrigerator was empty and he was hungry. Lucky for him the operator took it upon herself to buy him groceries and even prepared something for him to eat. She said she couldn’t stand the idea of anyone being hungry.

Here we have an 81-year-old man, terminally ill with cancer, spending months in hospital settings. How can he be home without staff verify-ing that he would be able to manage once he arrived home — with no discharge plan, no social worker? Who is keeping an eye out for our frail elderly who are all alone?

I am saddened but not totally shocked that this happens. I often visit clients on geriatric hospital units and it is not unusual to see patients staring at their food, not eating, and no one around to help. Those who may need assistance eating may get this service from a busy overworked nurse, who does not have the neces-sary time for the patient to complete

their meal. When you have a support network, it’s easy to forget that some people just don’t have anyone to help and advocate for them.

Last year, when I spent the night in Emergency following a car accident, I observed an elderly lady nearby who barely spoke English or French. Fortunately there was a lovely nurse on duty and he assisted her after I alerted him that she needed to go to the washroom.

She then tried to dress herself, without success, and since no one was around I managed, with a frac-tured sternum, to help her get her top on. I wasn’t very alert, drowsy from painkillers, but the next thing I knew she was being told that she was going home. It was in the middle of the night, she was asked if she felt okay to go home and she seemed anxious to leave the hospital. So she was sent home by taxi. Had I been more functional, I would have intervened.

Some time ago, after a short stay in the hospital, my mother was ready for discharge. I was there when the physician told her she would be going home that day. She was quite weak but wanted to go home. I asked the doctor if he was aware that she lived alone in a house with 17 stairs. He then sent in a discharge nurse to arrange for rehab. Had I not been there, she would have been sent home.

We need to have watchful eyes for our orphaned elderly, who may not have people involved in their lives. The few times that I have seen seniors fall outdoors, there were strangers around willing to help. Good people are everywhere; we just need to be more active and look out for those who have no caring “watchdog.”

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Using life insurance for chari-table giving can be an effective strategy to help you support registered charities of your choice. There are various ways to use life insurance to donate.

Once a donation amount, percent-age or range has been determined, the next step should be to consider how the gift could be structured to

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Gifting all or some insurance pro-ceeds by Will. When proceeds are donated by Will, the donor does not receive a tax credit for the premiums paid while he is living. The charity instead will issue a tax receipt upon the insured’s death equivalent to the amount of the donation made.

Naming a charity as a beneficiary of the life insurance. The form and timing of this strategy’s tax credit is similar to one received when making

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The charity receives its gift in a way that provides a clear line between the charitable gift and gifts for estate beneficiaries, which may minimize the opportunity for conflict. These strategies help provide the opportunity for personalizing the timing of charitable receipts.

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The upcoming election is more than a numbers game for incum-bent MP Francis Scarpaleggia in Lac-Saint-Louis, who looks back at the 2011 result as something of an anomaly.

Scarpaleggia saw the New Demo-cratic Party candidate double his party’s support and come within 2,204 votes of upsetting him in what was considered a Liberal fortress. The Conservative candidate was not far behind in third place.

As he prepares to run for a fifth term, Scarpaleggia attributes the NDP’s strong showing to “the Jack Layton factor”— the late NDP leader who was campaigning with a cane as he battled cancer — and the fact that then Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff was “not very popular.”

This time around, he believes Justin Trudeau will bring voters back to their traditional support for the Liberal brand.

“He’s well liked on the ground in our community, and well appreci-ated elsewhere in Canada.”

In addition, Scarpaleggia detects “a desire for change that is palpable. I

am taken aback by how strong is the desire for a new prime minister.”

The Conservatives hammer away at Trudeau’s alleged “lack of judgment,” but Scarpaleggia says that’s unfair.

“Justin is very much a hands-on leader, he’s rebuilt the party, he was on top of it himself and can take credit for it. He knows the issues very well.

“He grew up in a household where these issues were front-and-centre, and he got to debate them with his father at the dinner table. Talk about an education!

“He has a real grasp of policy and knows where he wants to go with policy.”

In spite of the Conservatives’ abun-dant use of negative advertising, “the Liberal Party under Justin Trudeau is essentially tied for first place.”

According to the website threehu-ndredeight.com, the Conservatives are slightly ahead in popular support nationally, with 31 percent support compared with the Liberals’ 29 per-cent, but way behind the front-run-ning NDP and Liberals in Quebec.

“That tells me that there is a basic positive feeling about Justin.”

As for his Tory challenger, Éric Gi-rard, Scarpaleggia, a Kirkland resi-dent, says he plans to “build on the trust that I think I’ve established with my constituents. I live in the riding. I worked 10 years for Clifford Lincoln. I won a very tough nomination. I have a young family and we partake in community activities at all levels. I know the big businesses, the small businesses, and all the community groups, and what their needs are.”

As for NDP candidate Ryan Young, “I think the dynamic will be different this time. It was almost surreal, with the Layton surge.”

He prides himself on developing expertise in water issues, lobbying for the “train de l’ouest”, and was the party’s public security critic.

On Liberal support for the contro-versial anti-terrorism legislation, Bill C-51, Scarpaleggia recalled that his party supported the reintroduction of preventive arrest two years ago.

“The right to physical security is a Charter right. Certain aspects of our security law needed to be tightened up. The NDP has said they will not repeal it, while we have proposed amend-ments to get greater civilian oversight of national security agencies.”

(The NDP has promised to repeal “every offending provision” of C-51.)

“If we’re elected, we’re going to amend the bill to provide proper civilian oversight … I don’t think it’s credible to challenge Justin Trudeau for not being a strong enough defender of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”

His campaign will echo that of the Liberals nationally: a call for “fairness for the middle class, a better child tax credit, and income tax cuts for those in the $44,000 to $90,000 range.”

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The end of the school year also coincides with the start of day camp.

Each year Sun Youth sends kids to camp for fun and positive activities. Children enjoy hours of excitement. Each child is provided with breakfast and lunch, and a snack at the end of the day. Day camp outings include amusement parks, local museums and water parks, as well as sports activities, swimming, arts & crafts, theatre and picnics. Rates are adjusted according to a family’s income. In the last week of camp, the campers and the counselors put on a variety show for the parents, showcasing dances, skits, or songs they’ve learned.

On behalf of everyone at Sun Youth we wish you well, and a summer full of excitement. Look out for our bike patrol this summer and do not be shy about asking them any questions you may have about Sun Youth.

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June 26Bassist Avishai Cohen, a virtuoso

musician and imaginative composer, opens his Invitation series with the accomplished pianist Renée Rosnes. Gesù, 6 pm, $42-$49.

Bassist Omer Avital, Israeli-born and trained, brings his thrilling and forward-looking quintet with Joel Frahm on sax to Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill, 7 and 9:45 pm, $35 each set.

Oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil, the Arabic Oud master, blends tra-ditional sounds with a jazz and modernist’s sensibility, Monument National, 8 pm, $34-$51.

Charnett Moffett, the hugely talented bassist, plays with elec-tric guitar whiz Stanley Jordan and drummer Jeff (Tain) Watts, Gesù, 10:30 pm, $47-$54.

June 27Bassist Avishai Cohen plays gor-

geous melodies, at that rare higher level, with his trio, including pianist Nitai Hershkovitz and drummer Daniel Dor, Gesù, 6 pm, $42-$49.

Trumpeter Enrico Rava, Italy’s perennial jazz star, leads a quintet with trombonist Gianluca Petrella and pianist Giovanni Guidi, Monu-ment National, 8 pm, $34-$51.

June 28Bassist Avishai Cohen adds the

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The Bad Plus acoustic trio (Reid Anderson, drums; Ethan Iverson, bass; David King, piano) add snap, crackle and lyricism with tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman, Théâtre Maisonneuve, 8 pm, $47-$57.

Pianist Robert Glasper is neo soul and experimentation for meditation – a stunning talent that must be heard, with Vincente Archer (bass) and Damion Reid (drums), Monu-ment National, 8 pm, $38-$55.

June 29Jean Derome, Normand Guilbeault,

Pierre Tanguay, the veteran Montreal -based sax-bass-drums trio, is tight, talented and fun to watch, L’Astral, 6 pm, $28-$32.

Guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel kicks off his Invitation series with his new quartet of Aaron Parks (piano), Eric

Revis (bass), and Allan Mednard (drums), Gesù, 6 pm, $42-$49.

Guitarist John Scofield and saxo-phonist Joe Lovano are must-see musicians, with drummer Bill Stew-art and bassist Larry Grenadier, Théâtre Maisonneuve, 8 pm, $52-$62.

Ron Miles on cornet challenges on the modal side of the spectrum with brilliant band-mates – Brian Blade on drums and Bill Frisell on guitar, Monument National, 8 pm, $33-$50.

Buster Williams (bass), Gary Bartz (saxophones), Al Foster (drums), and Larry Willis (piano), known as Heads of State, are jazz royalty, Gesù, 10:30 pm, $47-$54.

June 30Guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, much

in demand as a sideman for his distinctive sound, unusual chords, and imaginative use of special effects, plays a rare solo gig, Gesù, 6 pm, $40-$47.

Saxophonist Wayne Shorter’s quar-tet – Danilo Perez (piano), John Petitucci (bass), Brian Blade (drums) – is the must-see group in jazz, with opening act 11-year-old piano

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virtuoso Joey Alexander, Maison symphonique de Montréal, 7 pm, $68-$93.

Pianist Harold Mabern is a living legend, best appreciated in an intimate bar setting, in a quartet with Jeremy Pelt (trumpet), Joe Farn-sworth (drums), Brandi Disterheft (bass) at Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill, 7 pm and 9:45 pm, $40 per set.

Pianist/conductor Vic Vogel, who turns 80 in August, says it’s a fare-well concert, with his big band and special guests, Théâtre Maisonneuve, 8 pm, $38-$49.

July 1Guitarist Gilad Hekselman, a

young master trained in Israel and working out of New York City, leads a quartet with the sublime tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill, 7 pm and 9:45 pm. $37 per set.

Pianist Vijay Iyer offers a unique vision in his friendly avant approach, with Justin Brown (bass) and Stephan Crump (drums), Monument National, 8 pm, $28-$42.

Electric guitarist Nels Cline teams up with acoustic guitarist Julian Lage for what should be an innovative outing, Gesù, 10:30 pm, $42-$49.

July 2Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, for-

merly known as Dollar Brand, is an Ellingtonian whose rich chords reflect the colours of his native South Africa, Invitation Series solo, Gesù, 6 pm, $40-$47.

Guitarist Russell Malone is a self-taught master and his quartet is perfect for Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill, 7 pm and 9:45 pm, also on July 3, $42 per set.

Pianist Lorraine Desmarais delivers on every musical level, in a rare solo outing, Gesù, 10:30 pm, $34-$41.

July 3Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim sets aside

his roots orientation with cellist Noah Alexander and saxophonist Cleave

Guyton in his Japanese influenced Mukashi Trio, Gesù, 6 pm, $44-$51.

Brazilian pianist Eliane Elias, based in New York, showcases her Made In Brazil project, with bassist/husband Marc Johnson, guitarist Rubens de la Corte, and drummer Rafael Barata, Monument National, 8 pm, $43-$52.

Electric bassist Alain Caron, pianist John Roney, and the Alcan String Quartet collaborate in what should be a sublime effort, Gesù, 10:30 pm, $41-$48.

July 4Ibrahim Abdullah and Ekaya,

which means home in the Xhosa language, is the horn-rich septet in which his Capetown sound is best appreciated, Gesù, 6 pm. $47-$54.

Battle of the Bands, featuring the reconstituted Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey Orchestras’ charts, is fun and nostalgic, Maison sympho-nique de Montréal, 7 pm, $89-$96.

Master bassist Ron Carter leading a quartet with pianist Renée Rosnes, is a must-see, Monument National 8 pm, $48-$61.

Patricia Barber always has a lot to say as a wry wordsmith and subtle pianist, Théâtre Maisonneuve, 8 pm, $47-$54.

Pianist John Medeski, whom we know as part of a trio with drummer Billy Martin and bassist Chris Wood is an outstanding solo improviser, Gesù, 10:30 pm, $38-$45.

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Much like I.L. Peretz’s Bontshe the Silent, Gim-pel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer is among a pantheon of characters in Yiddish literature best described as beautiful losers.

Peretz’s sub-text was to wake up the Jewish proletariat and persuade them not to accept things as they are.

Singer’s message is more passive as he de-scribes a supremely gullible Gimpel who grew up believing everything he’s told, most of which is untrue. Despite everything, he believes in God and human kindness.

The play, translated from the Yiddish by Saul Bellow, directed and performed by Howard Rypp, with music by Ron Wiseman, is being mounted at

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Gimpel marries a pregnant whore and when the child is born believes that it was a premature birth, and the child is his.

Gimpel is a multiple cuckold, and is encouraged by the devil to take revenge. He only changes his tack when visited by his now dead wife in a dream, who admits all is lies, saying she never fooled anyone but herself.

This apparition seems to free Gimpel from his role as village fool, and he wanders the country-side telling fantastic tales, at peace and looking forward to death.

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The performance space at the Casa del Popolo on St. Laurent filled up quickly to standing-room-only overcapacity last month for a special premiere.

It was the launch, not just of a new CD, but of the book describing how it came to be.

Those who read his widely praised book The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece, already know Eric Siblin for his love of music and talent as a meticulous researcher and engaging writer.

This story of how journalist Siblin morphed from rock critic at The Montreal Gazette to fasci-nation with Bach’s six incandescent Suites for solo cello, their creator and major interpreters, put him on the map internationally as a true original in style and content.

With the launch of Songs from Studio Grace, we get to know Siblin as composer, guitarist and guiding spirit behind its fully-produced 12 songs. The book, Studio Grace, The Making of a Record (Anansi, 295 pp, $29.95) chronicles the arduous but fascinating year-long process that resulted in the CD.

In many ways the genesis of both books is similar: Studio Grace begins with Siblin at home in Mon-treal in the early 1970s acquiring a “cheap acoustic” guitar at age 12, and lessons from a teacher named Ted. A year later, he graduated to a $69 solid-body electric guitar that he could plug into a stereo system, both the results of Bar Mitzvah gifts.

He then composed his first song and played in a couple of pickup bands. After an M.A. in History from Concordia, Siblin began a career in journalism that included work as a reporter with Canadian Press, rock critic at The Gazette,magazine writer and filmmaker.

What about the music? Though he contin-ued to perform his songs for friends at parties, the mission to record a full album finally took shape. The book is a highly personal, immensely

readable, occasionally funny, and sometimes gripping tale of the writer’s quest. His writing about music combines an artist’s sensitivity and musician’s familiarity with a mastery of words.

He meets old friends, and new ones, those with home or more sophisticated recording facili-ties, and the skills required to record, edit, mix, fine tune the music so his lyrics have maximum impact.

As the final cuts took shape, Siblin found him-self “ever so slightly elbowed out” of a starring role in his own project. The friends he drafts to produce the fully rich and professional sound he wants begin to dominate, at least as vocalists.

“I couldn’t have it both ways,” he observes in the book. “I couldn’t have those fabulous singers showcase my songs, and also have my own vocals ‘authentic’ and ‘unpretentious,’ as (recording engi-neer and Grammy-nominated musician Howard) Bilerman once called them, remain in the tunes.”

Justifiably proud of his original music and lyrics,

Siblin confesses he continues to create because the artist within him cannot be contained.

“Ideas would come to me while I played the guitar – emphasis on ‘play’ here – and some notion of a complete and worthy song would come to mind…The desire is simply there.”

In the end, Jo Simonetti, Rebecca Campbell, Michael Jerome Browne, Sheharah, Michael Leon, and Hayley Richman sing lead on nine songs, Siblin on two, plus one remix of Grace of Love.

The styles vary from rhythm and blues to blues and contemporary ballad, with lyrics that range from the highly personal to the historical. With so many different lead voices, the album can sound like a compilation, even as many of the tunes have hooks that grab the listener and demand repeat spins. All the music is Siblin’s, who shares the credit on two songs.

How he engaged with the musicians and recording engineers to achieve his dream make for another great read.

Reaching for a state of grace in words and music

Composer-author Eric Siblin performs in Montreal at the launch of Songs from Studio Grace in May.

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Summer dazes, summer phrases: a Pilsner of beer, bar-b-que (drawn out, slowly), picnics in the park, lawn sprinklers, shaded porches, vinho verde, spritzers and shandies, balconville. To paraphrase the Lovin’ Spoonful: hot days, sum-mer in the city, feet up, bum down, who needs to get around town…

We do live in a great city. I am thankful that our politicians have deemed it wise to supply us with an endless series of summery events. Rome’s offering of bread & circuses had nothing on Mon-treal’s food trucks & festivals. There is so much to do. If I were a tourist, I’d be exhausted. But as one who lives here, it would mean subscribing to summer’s antonym — work: planning, navigating bars, crowds, booking reservations, buying tickets, making arrangements with friends, going by car, by bike, by metro, with an umbrella or without, meet to eat or hit the streets… I’d be exhausted.

More often than not, the joy of summer is about staying home. I am not a big sports fan, but there is something appealing about sitting on a porch, listening to a baseball game on the radio. Baseball and its older cousin, cricket (just check out the Atwater reservoir, the Douglas Hospital grounds, or Jarry Park on weekends) are true games of summer: no physical contact, a minimal amount of clothing, the slow pace of the game, a ball, a bat, folks having fun. With TV, we know what we see; there is no room for imagination. On radio, there is the announcer’s sonorous quality, the thwack of a bat, that unique pulsing murmur of a crowd in an open-air stadium and, in those pauses, we may enter a more vivid field of dreams.

A perfect summer day doesn’t need much: something to read, to drink, to eat, maybe a ball game. I am not going anywhere and I don’t need to get there fast.

Basic hamburgerGo to a butcher. Have a human being grind up

a kilo of meat from left-over beef cuts: a chunk of chuck, maybe sirloin, some of that marbling too, whatever is in that container over on the side. A kilo feeds 8 people. Even if it is just for you, get that kilo - you can’t ask a butcher to grind a quarter pounder. Besides, I’ve got a good idea for leftovers.

You want the meat fresh, not too finely ground, and with fat speckled throughout. Form it into patties at home, about a half-inch thick and bun-size. Salt and pepper both sides. Let these sit in the fridge, stacked in a container between layers of parchment or waxed paper.

Bring them out of the fridge an hour or so before cooking. They should be cooked at room temperature, broiled on a fire or in a pan. Sear them to form a crust and then let them cook over a lower heat as you would steak. Some like them well done, others rare. Consider that hamburger is just steak in another form. Instead of having a steak with a side of salad, the lettuce, tomato and dressing get stacked on top.

What isn’t cooked makes meat loaf. Take the leftover meat and add a hefty squeeze or two of ketchup, a dollop of Dijon mustard, a beaten egg, a half cup of cooked chopped onion and garlic, a few shakes each of salt, pepper and what-ever spices you like - these days I favour smoked paprika - and just enough beef or chicken broth to soften everything. Do not add breadcrumbs.

Mix it all together and firm this in a loaf pan. Spread the top with a thin layer of ketchup mixed with a little apple cider and a dash of Worcester-shire sauce or with your favourite barbecue sauce. Cook at 325o for about 45 minutes or until it is firm and a knife inserted into the center comes out very hot. Let it sit, covered loosely with foil, for about 15 minutes before serving. Pour off any liquid, strain and serve that as gravy. What? You don’t eat meatloaf? Then serve it cold the next day and call it a terrine.

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As part of its educational mission, the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre has produced a Brief His-tory of Anti-Semitism in Canada. It’s a companion guide to its Brief History of the Holocaust handed out to 10,000 students coming annually to the centre. Sixty percent come from francophone schools.

At the launch this spring, Uni-versity of Ottawa Professor Pierre Anctil, social anthropologist, outlined two streams of anti-Semitism: one involves words and ideas; the other, actions and organized movements.

“In Canada, it was never a domi-nant theme in political life… chang-ing contexts produced quite different reactions… some attacked the Jews, while others defended them.

“Anglo British Canadians tended to act in terms of social Darwinism—racial conceptions of Jews as inferior on a racial scale. With human rights legislation and with courts, this is difficult to maintain, though some may still think in this way.

“Among French Canadians, ob-jections are doctrinal, based on religious dogma. Jews cannot be accepted in a Catholic milieu because, having rejected Christ, they are non-Christians, apostates.”

Anti-Semitism became antitheti-cal to Church doctrine when Pope Paul VI, in his 1965 encyclical, said the Church “decries hatred, perse-cutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.”

Before 1900, there was some “anti-Semitism without Jews.” That changed with the great migra-tion beginning in the 1900s and the numbers of Jews in Canada swelled to 130,000 by 1931. With the Depression came restrictions on immigration and racist editorials in Le Devoir.

As Hitler assumed power in 1933, Canada’s immigration policy, adopted behind the scenes by Order-in-Council, ignored the Jewish plight and exemplifies how anti-Semitism worked in Canada.

“You had to leave your country of birth in one continuous trip with a valid passport within a year of issue and a visa issued in the country of birth, and a certain amount of money to be admitted to Canada,” Anctil noted.

Immigrants from eastern and central Europe were among “non-preferred immigrants”; those from

southern Europe and Turkey had to get special permits. In 1931, only wives and children of Canadian residents and those who owned or worked on farms were admissible, except for British immigrants and those from “self-governing domin-ions” excluding India.

“This was adopted in a democratic (Liberal) regime, without an overt anti-Semitic program, without any specific mention of Jews in Parlia-ment.

“When you’re appeasing Hitler, you’re not going to accept Jews from Germany.”

From 1931-39, total immigra-tion dropped dramatically. Of some 150,000 from Europe, only 5,000 Jews came to Canada, another 3,000 via U.S. ports and, in 1940, Eng-land sent 2,000 German and Aus-trian Jews to be interned in camps as enemy aliens in Quebec and New Brunswick. About 500 refugees arrived from Portugal via the Serpa Pinto in 1944.

“Nothing was done to change the regulations, which did not make it possible to come to the help of Jew-ish immigrants,” he observed.

After the war, the “second wave” of Jewish immigration to Canada began. Between 1945-50, 20,000 arrived in Canada, 36,000 during the next decade, and then 7,000 Sephardic Jews fleeing North Africa and the Middle East.

“In a context where political and economic crises in Europe did not

weigh on Canada, Canada is able to receive large numbers of Jews.”

In his summary, Anctil failed to mention the bloody six-hour riot at Christy Pitts in Toronto on Aug. 16, 1933, after a baseball game involv-ing two teams in which Jews and some Italians battled another team sponsored by the Catholic Church after a Swastika was raised at the game.

There were isolated street battles in Montreal where low-income Jews lived alongside Francophones and Italian Canadians. While dismissing

the anti-Semitic Le Goglu publisher Adrien Arcand as marginal, Anctil failed to mention the hugely influ-ential nationalist historian Lionel Groulx, who supported the Achat chez Nous campaign.

Anctil suggested that the moral issues raised by Canada’s record in immigration when it comes to Jews should be raised with respect to Syrians, Iraqis, and other refugees, suffering tremendous hardship and seeking to rebuild shattered lives.

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“Nothing was done to change the regulations, which did not make it

possible to come to the help of Jewish immigrants.”

Images appear in Brief History of Anti-Semitism in Canada.Both signs were posted in 1939 at Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec.

Toronto, May, 1981

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At a weekly Thursday meeting of the Côte St. Luc Men’s Club, guest speaker Marc Renaud, Project Man-ager for glaucoma at the Informa-tion Centre & McGill Low Vision Laboratory at the Jewish General Hospital, explained the causes and consequences of Glaucoma and how to properly administer eye-drop medication. He stressed that testing for Glaucoma should be done on a regular basis.

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Before the lecture, members of the Côte Saint-Luc Dramatic Society made a surprise visit to perform a “musical clip” from their upcoming show, the Broadway hit Hairspray, which tackles the issue of racial segregation in the United States in the 1960s.

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Binney, Cary set for Dialogic sessionsAlto saxophonist David Binney has a large and growing following in the jazz community because of his unique style, total commitment, inspired and inspiring performances.

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Among the newer voices to be heard at the Festival, pianist Marc Cary, who performs at l’Astral in a trio at 9pm, July 3, will take part in three dialogic sessions. Meet Cary, in conversation with Cornett, July 2, 3 or 4 for two hours starting at 2pm at St. James United Church, 463 Ste. Catherine W. Tickets cost $5 a session.

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BAZAARS & FAIRSSt. Zotique Church • June 6 & 7; July 4 & 5Sat. 9am-5pm; Sun. 9am-4pm. Tables available. 4565 Notre Dame St. W. (St. Henri) 514-660-0649Garage sale, BBQ, strawberry social • Sat. June 138am-2pm. Treasures, furniture & books, plus BBQ hot dogs, hamburgers, seafood chowder, chili, strawberry shortcake & soup. Dorval-Strathmore United Church, 310 Brookhaven. 514-631-6171, dorvalstrathmoreunited.weebly.comCentre Greene Community Carnival • June 203pm-8pm. Free: acting, dance, fitness, gym with bouncy castles, carnival games. Food and drink for sale. Raffle. Proceeds go to resurface the gym floor. 1090 Greene. 514-931-6202, centregreene.org; [email protected]

CLUBSJewish Genealogical Society • Sun. June 710am-noon. Free family tree workshop. JPL, 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Rd. 514-848-0969 Atwater Library Book Club • Wed. June 107:30pm. Mary Soderstrom discusses Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurson. 514-935-7344The Teapot 50+ Centre • Wed. June 176:30pm-9:30pm. Discussion and ideas. Light refreshments. 2901 St. Joseph Blvd. Lachine. RSVP: 514-637-5627Riverside Ramblers Walking Club • Tues. & Fri.10-11:30am. For ages 50+. Riverside path in Ver-dun. Bilingual. Meets at 666 Woodland. Free with $15 annual membership. 514-767-9967 x 236; [email protected]

LECTURE & BOOKSAtwater Library Financial Literacy • June 10, 171pm-3pm. Fundamentals of Investing seminar. [email protected], 514-935-7344 x 206Festival Bloomsday 2015 & JPL • Tues. June 167:30pm. Author Kevin Birmingham on his work The Most Dangerous Book, examining literary censorship, and James Joyce’s Ulysses. $15/$10 members. 5151 Côte Ste-Catherine Rd. jewishpubliclibrary.org 514-345-6416Montreal Zoological Society • Tues. June 167:30pm. Ryan Young on Housing for the Birds, Ste. Anne de Bellevue’s Nest Box Project. Montreal Anglican Diocese, 1444 Union. 514-845-8317Sundays at The Shaar • Sun. June 14Noon. MUHC’s Dr. Ernest Seidman discusses “Why does my family get Crohn’s disease?” Lecture followed by lunch. $5. Reserve by June 10: 514-937-9474 x 139Philippine Pilgrimage talk • Sun. June 2112:30pm-2pm. Presentation on pilgrimage overseas by Trevor Juhl, 19. Refreshments. Donations accepted. 5035 de Maisonneuve W. Thomas Room. [email protected] 514-775-2043

EVENTS & FESTIVALSBeer Brewing Week • June 8-14Wed. 3:30pm-10:30pm; Thurs. Fri. Sat. 11:30am-11pm; Sun. 11:30am-6pm. $1 per testing coupon (2-6 coupons per tester). Palais des Congrès. festivalmondialbiere.qc.ca 514-861-7870Festival Bloomsday Montreal • June 12 -16Everyone’s Joyce: Irish Culture in Montreal. Story-telling, gala concert, lectures, film, readings from Ulysses, walking tour.  Various dates & venues.   bloomsdaymontreal.com 450-671-8516Knitters for Public Art Project • Sat. June 13Atwater Library invites knitters and crocheters to join Arlene Lund in creating flowers for a public artwork. Espace Tricot is donating wool. Bring folding lawn chair or sit inside. Treats & prizes. [email protected] Taste of the Caribbean • June 26 -2811am-6pm. Free. Caribbean food, music & arts event; kid zone. Parade on Sunday. 6pm-11pm. Concerts are $5 via Ticketpal.ca or $10 at gate. Old Port of Montreal. [email protected] Inaugural Events • June 20 & 21Sat. 9am-3pm. Kicks off with 10 am walk led by Mayor Denis Coderre, from Dawson Col-lege to new Glen site. Concerts start at 1:15pm. Only walk participants may attend. Register for $5 at 514-934-1934 x 23622, walkformtl.ca Sun. 10am-4pm. Community festival with chil-dren’s entertainers Shilvi and Jennifer Gasoi; jazz legend Oliver Jones; Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir under Dr. Trevor W. Payne; Nikki Yanofsky. muhclovesmtl.ca/eventArts Alive! Quebec 2015 • until Oct. 2015English-speaking arts communities present week-end-long celebrations of Quebec arts and cul-ture: Hudson (June 4-7), Québec (June 12-13), West Island (June 26-27), Knowlton (July 3-4), Huntingdon (August 8-9; 14-15); Wakefield (Oc-tober 1-4). arts-alive-quebec.ca/eng/artsAlives/regions 514-935-3312Festival de Lanaudière • July 4 – Aug. 2Concerts in various venues, plus open-air film classics, and yoga. lanaudiere.org/en/

Just for Laughs Festival • July 8 – 28Galas, shows, venues, free events. hahaha.com 514-845-2322Festival des arts de St.Sauveur • July 29 – Aug. 8 Under new artistic direction of Guillaume Côté. Rufus Wainwright performs Wed. July 29. Gauthier Dance, Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, Tentacle Tribe, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montreal, Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie, Stars of Ameri-can Ballet & Les Étoiles Internationales de Ballet. Shows at Le Grand Chapiteau plus free shows at Scène Desjardins. fass.ca 1-866-908-9090Vaudreuil-Soulanges S.O.U.P. Fest • Sun. Sept. 6 9:30am-3pm. Between soup tastings, enjoy games and entertainment for the kids or visit the Mill and the Miller’s House. Chef ’s Toque Soup, a friendly contest between professionals, is decided by popular vote, while Soup Mania is an event for non-professional soup-makers. Pointe-du-Mou-lin Historical Park Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot. [email protected], festivaldelasoupe.ca 514-453-9530

EXHIBITIONSArt in the Park (Dorval) • Sat. & Sun. June 6 & 7 10am-5pm. Dorval Artists’ Association outdoor exhibition. Mike McLaughlin draws free cari-catures Saturday and Sunday. Wind ensemble orchestra from FACE School performs Sunday at 12:30pm. Sarto-Desnoyers Community Centre Grounds, 1335 Lakeshore, Dorval. In case of rain: Sarto-Desnoyers Community Centre. dorvalartistes.org 514-633-4000Women’s Art Society of Montreal • June 6-11Juried Members’ Art Exhibit & Sale: Vernissage June 6, 2-5pm. Sun. to Tues. noon-5pm. Wed., Thurs. noon–8pm. Galerie E.K.Voland, 4710 St. Ambroise. womensartsociety.com 514-935-1291 Kaleidoscope Photo/Video Exhibit • till June 14 Festival Accès Asie’s 20th edition. Tues.-Thurs. 1-7pm. Fri-Sun. 1-5pm. Free. Maison de la cul-ture Plateau Mont Royal, 465 Mont-Royal E. 514-872-2266Marion Wagschal Survey Exhibition • till Aug. 9Colossal canvases spanning 50 years by Montreal figurative artist. $20/seniors $10. Wed. after 5pm. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1380 Sherbrooke St. W. mbam.qc.ca/en/ 514-285-2000

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June is the height of nesting season for turtles.

Given that  fewer than one in 100 turtle eggs will hatch and grow into an adult, the death of one female turtle can have a huge impact.

Keep these rules of engagement in mind the next time you hit the road:

Slow down in areas where water and wetlands are on both sides of the road. 

Be extra alert when driving, espe-cially in the morning, late afternoon and evening, in late May and June, to watch for turtles, snakes and am-phibians.

Most turtles can be safely carried off roads with two hands on either sides of the turtles’ shell.

Use a flat object (such as a car mat or card board) to move snap-ping turtles.

Always carry or move turtles off roads in the direction they were heading (if moved off the road back to where they came from, they will likely try to cross again).

Never move turtles to what you think is more suitable habitat (in-cluding your home!); they have  a home range and know where they are heading.

Contact your local wildlife reha-bilitation centre upon encountering an injured turtle — turtles are resilient creatures that can survive injuries that look fatal.

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new bicycle. The organ-ization would like to ex-press its gratitude to the Clown known as Fred-olini for providing the entertainment as well as Canadian Tire Verdun for its outstanding contribu-tion.

For the 2015 giveaway, Sun Youth’s Bike Com-mittee received 330 ap-plications, many of which told wonderful stor-ies about outstanding youths. Amongst these, more than 90 deserving young people were select-ed and rewarded with a new bike, a safety helmet and a bicycle lock. Wheth-er they saved the life of other people, overcame disabilities, sickness or other difficulties, helped others through volunteer work, prevented bullying or organized fundraisers, these young ambassadors stand as an example for their generation. For the past few years Sun Youth has also honoured adults for there outstanding community work. The

Ninety amazing young-sters whose courage and behavior had a positive impact in their com-munity were rewarded on May 20th during Sun Youth’s 31st Annual Bike Distribution.

Every year Mr. Bike Man, an anonymous benefactor, celebrates his birthday by giving away bicycles to deserv-ing children through Sun Youth Organization. This year was a special celebration as Mr. Bike Man reached the ven-erable age of 90 years. Sun Youth’s gymnasium was filled with a crowd of 300 people, relatives and friends of the young recipients. To mark the occasion, a giant birth-day cake was served at the event, thanks to Les Anges Gourmets bakery, while the generous an-onymous donor received the gift he wanted above all: the many smiles of exceptional youths, who are role models for their peers, rewarded with a

2015 Excellence Award was presented to former Sun Youth athlete Nicolas Perez, and current volun-teer football coach who also participated in the humanitarian assistance in Sierra Leone with Doc-tors Without Borders to aid in the fight against Ebola virus.

For the last three dec-ades more than 1,400 new bikes have been distrib-uted. On behalf of all the recipients rewarded, Sun Youth would like to thank Mr. Bike Man for his com-mitment and exceptional generosity and wish him a happy 90th birthday!

Nicolas Perez surrounded by members of the Bike Committee: Eric Kingsley, Tommy Kulczyk, Ann St Arnaud, and President Robert Sauvé.

Photo: Joseph Munro

Photo: Joseph Munro

Photo: Allen McInnis

To make a donation online and for more information on our programs visit our web site at www.sunyouthorg.com. For more news and information on Sun Youth and the community, like us on Facebook at facebook.com/sunyouthorg, and follow us on Twitter @sunyouthorg.

HAPPY 90th BIRTHDAY, MR. BIKE MAN

THANK YOU MR. BIKE MAN NO LESS THAN 90 BIKES DISTRIBUTED FOR MR. BIKE MAN’S 90TH BIRTHDAY!

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Irwin Block

In its 20th season, Denis Brott’s Montreal Chamber Music Festival has become a much-anticipated celebration of the finest in small ensemble music, including a bit of traditional jazz and klezmer.

This year’s lineup, curated by cellist Brott, offers the same high quality program, with variety in repertoire performed by established virtuosi and stars-to-be.

The U.S.-based Dover Quartet (violinists Joel Link and Bryan Lee, violist Milena Pajero-van de Stadt, cellist Camden Shaw) opens with Viktor Ullmann’s Quartet No. 3, composed in 1943 while he was in the Theresienstadt concentra-tion camp, where he died. Pianist Marc-André Hamelin then joins for Franck’s Quintet in F minor, June 10, 8 pm, Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke W.

Hamelin, famous for his mas-tery of modern repertoire, will play Schubert, Field, Debussy, and his own compositions. June 11, 8 pm, Pollack Hall.

Israeli clarinetist Alexander Fiter-stein shares the spotlight with the Dover Quartet playing the Brahms clarinet quintet in B minor. He opens with Bartók trios, followed by the Dover playing the Dvořák String Quartet in C major, June 12, 8 pm, Pollack Hall.

Acclaimed jazz trombonist Wycliffe Gordon leads a quintet in a New Orleans themed program, June 13, 8 pm, Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, 7141 Shebrooke W.

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine has made Paganini’s challenging 24 Caprices a highlight of her repertoire, which

she laces with anecdotes, June 15, 8 pm, Bourgie Hall, 1338 Ste. Cath-erine W.

The Ariel Quartet (Israelis Alex-andra Kazovsky and Gershon Ger-chicov, violins; Jan Gruening, viola; Amit Even-Tov, cello) plays Alexander Brott’s Ritual, Shostakovitch’s Cham-ber Symphony in C Minor, with a string ensemble that includes cellist Dennis Brott, violinist Jonathan Crow, bassist Ali Yazdanfar, and closes with Schubert’s Death and the Maiden Quartet, June 17, 8 pm, Bourgie Hall.

The Ariel Quartet celebrates the Human Spirit in two 20th century works, Argentina’s Oswaldo Golojov’s Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, with clarinetist David Krakauer, pianist David Jalbert, violinist Jonathan Crow and cellist Dennis Brott, followed by Olivier Messiaen’s moving Quartet for the End of Time, June 18, 8 pm, Bourgie Hall.

Soprano Marie-Josée Lord pays tribute to artists Leontyne Price, Billie Holiday, Shirley Bassey, Édith Piaf, and Diane Dufresne, June 19, 8 pm, Bourgie Hall.

Clarinetist David Krakauer leads his fun-loving Klezmer Quartet, June 20, 8 pm, Bourgie Hall.

Australian Baroque violinist Eliza-beth Wallfisch presents a Vivaldi program, including seven con-certos from the L’Estro Armonico series, and one of J.S. Bach’s Vivaldi arrangements for solo harpsichord, with 2012 Canada Council musical instrument bank winners, harpsi-chordist Hank Knox, cellist Denis Brott, and Sylvain Bergeron on theorbo (bass lute), June 21, 3:30 pm, Bourgie Hall.

Info: 514-489-7444,festivalmontreal.org

Virtuosi set to shine at chamber music festival

The 20th Montreal Chamber Music Festival is curated by cellist Denis Brott.

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Times and PlacesBarbara Moser

Riobamba — the name itself suggests exotic, rhythmic dancing. For us, it was a place to cool down from the steamy coast of Ecuador, and our three beach towns: Sali-nas, Montañita, and Puerto Lopez. Getting there by bus was arduous!

First we taxied to Guayaquil, Ecuador’s biggest port and city, spend-ing the night at a downtown hotel to break up the long trip into central Ecuador. The next day we went through a complicated maze at the huge, disorienting, multi-level bus station before we boarded what was supposed to be an air-conditioned “Executive” bus. The air conditioning never really worked. It was hotter inside than out-side and there was literally no air near our seats— reserved front row behind the driver. You get what you pay for and that was $4.50 each for a 5-hour ordeal. And seemingly there is no more luxurious public-transit option.

The driver stopped every 10 or 15 minutes to pick up five to ten vendors at a time selling every-thing from chicken-on-a-stick to fruit salad, mangoes, big and small, plantain patties, and drinks. There was even some kind of preacher but we didn’t understand either the message or the messenger.

On the subject of drinks, para-doxically the bus doesn’t do toilet stops. We discovered that after three hours. It took an appeal from me, actually demand, for the driver to announce after 3-1/2 hours that due to a request from a lady, we were stopping. There was a mad rush by the elderly to get to the bathroom before any accidents happened. We could barely fight our way out from the front seats.

Eventually we arrived at the termi-nal in Riobambo and marveled at the cool air! We grabbed a taxi for $2 to a hotel that we had discovered in our guidebook.

Montecarlo is a charming, old world, two-level hotel with the rooms surrounding a courtyard. We took a second floor room with four beds, one double bed, and paid $39 for the two of us. For four people, it’s $60. We had a small balcony overlooking the main street, excellent for people-watching in this city that seems to have more indigenous residents than any we had visited. This is expected because Rio-bamba is in the mountains where the indigenous people live.

We discovered that the colourful costumes represent different tribes, but the women all wear fedoras and capes of different colours and carry children and belongings wrapped around their backs. As far as we could see, the women do all the schlepping. The men wear colourful capes, but do no heavy lifting.

There was a parade on when we arrived and we quickly took pictures of the colourful costumes, mixing Catholic and aboriginal traditions.

We basically did nothing for two days, except search out restaurants, including Chinese/Ecuadorian fare and Andaluz where we had their $3.25 lunches and salads.

There is a charming train station and old-fashioned train that trav-els to Devil’s gorge south of the city, but we declined because we were still in recovery mode from the bus trip.

The nice thing about Riobamba is that it’s a genuine town, almost devoid of tourists, and the people are friendly and helpful, but some Spanish is necessary. Even then you can be easily misunderstood.

There is a flourishing Chinese presence, both in food and clothing shops. We noticed this because the newly-elected president of Ecuador was visiting Beijing. The buses are manufactured in China.

Like Quito, there is a vista around every corner, varied and interesting neo-classical and Spanish colonial architecture and city squares.

Unfortunately, it was a bit depress-ing on Sunday when it rained all day and most everything was closed. But Monday morning, the city came to life. We loved the food market with its fresh and cheap produce and lovely women vendors of all ages. The strawberries are out of this world!

But the cheese — forget about it! The coffee for some reason is not the greatest. It seems the best Ecuador-ian beans are exported. Trout is the fish of this central sierra because it’s found in the rivers. Rio, of course, means river.

Riobamba is the place to go to experience how the average Ecua-dorian lives. There’s nothing touristy about it!

After three nights and two days, we hired Joel, known to the hotel receptionist as a good driver, and took off through the mountains to the fabled town of Baños, nestled among the hot springs and waterfalls and surrounded by towering green, lush mountains.

Rivers and valleys of colour in Riobamba

My Riobamba is a parade of smiling people and dancing children under

blue skies — and don’t forget those out-of-this-world strawberries.

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