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How
a few hundred Conservative voters in Quebec helped put Erin O'Toole over the
top
The
Conservatives have some work to do to grow their base in Quebec, where a small
number of members helped give Erin O'Toole his big win over Peter MacKay.
Conservative
Leader Erin O'Toole won his party's leadership with 59 per cent of members'
votes. (Sean Kilpatrick / Canadian Press)
Erin
O'Toole won the leadership of the Conservative Party convincingly, beating
runner-up Peter MacKay by over 27,000 votes. Had it not been for a few
hundred votes cast in
Quebec
, however, it might
have been a lot closer. That's because there weren't many members in
Quebec
to be swayed. The
Conservative leadership vote was decided using a points system that awarded
each riding equal weight regardless of how many members cast ballots in
it. On points, O'Toole defeated MacKay by a margin of 57 to 43 per cent. But
in the raw vote, O'Toole's margin was even wider, at 59 to 41 per cent,
thanks in large part to his 67 per cent vote share in
Alberta
, where there are lots of
members. In the end, the points system cost O'Toole only a little bit — and
not nearly enough to risk denying him the leadership. It would not have
taken much to flip the outcome, however. An analysis of the riding-by-riding
results suggests that as few as 1,210 votes decided the outcome between
O'Toole and MacKay. A small number of party members voted
in 36 ridings in
Quebec
, two in
Newfoundland
and
Labrador
and the single riding in
Nunavut
. If MacKay had run
the table in these 39 ridings, pulling those 1,210 members away from O'Toole
and to himself, he would have won the leadership narrowly. That
narrow margin would not be as thin as it was in 2017, when
(theoretically) 66
ballots were all that separated Andrew Scheer and Maxime Bernier in
the last round of voting. But does show how the points system could
have had unpredictable results. Flipping those 1,210 votes — which
amounted to just 0.8 per cent of all ballots still active in the third round
— would have given the win to MacKay on points, despite a theoretical 58 to
42 per cent popular vote loss.
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Thousands
of Quebec students return to school today
As
students in Quebec's French school system head back to class this morning,
parents grapple with mixed emotions.
Grade
one teacher Xiao Xu arranges plastic trays in her classroom in preparation for
the new school year in
Montreal
. (Paul Chiasson/The
Canadian Press)
Today
marks the start of classes for thousands of students attending French school
in
Quebec
. For Monika
Skonieczny, whose six-year-old son Aleks starts first grade in Notre-Dame-De-Grâce,
the big day brings mixed emotions. "From the point of view of having my
child back and interacting with his peers, I feel very good. He's looking
forward to it and I can see this is an aspect that has been missing
from his life," she said. "What makes me a little bit hesitant and
anxious is not knowing what will happen if we get a second wave." Both Skonieczny and
her partner work full time and had to juggle work and child care for several
months while daycares and schools were closed. She said she's worried that a
second wave will mean a return to distance learning. "Working from home
when the kids are at home is not really working from home," she said.
For
many Quebec teachers, unanswered questions punctuate an already uncertain time
Many
Quebec teachers, already anxious about their own health and that of their
students, also feel that they are heading back into the classroom without
answers to basic questions.
A
staff member prepares the cafeteria at Marguerite-De Lajemmerais secondary
school in
Montreal
's east end. (Ivanoh
Demers/Radio-Canada)
Many
Quebec
teachers, already anxious
about their own health, say that they are heading back into the classroom
without answers to basic questions, such as what will happen if a student is
infected with COVID-19. Nearly 2,000 teachers, principals and other education
workers in public schools filled out an email questionnaire circulated last
week by CBC Montreal and Radio-Canada. More than 700 teachers who completed
the questionnaire detailed their concerns about
Quebec
's back-to-school plan in
an open-ended optional question. There has been a "total communication
breakdown" since teachers and students were sent home shortly after March
break, said Kevin Saunders, a high school teacher in
Montreal
's
West
Island
and a rep for the Pearson
Teachers Union. "There's just so many unanswered questions that we've
been asking, and we just haven't gotten any answers for anything yet,"
Saunders said. He said those unanswered questions include: What, exactly,
happens when a student tests positive for COVID-19? If a teacher is obliged to
stay home because of infection or a quarantine order, do they get paid? Who
will teach online courses? Who will replace a sick teacher in the
midst of a potential teacher shortage?
COVID-19
in Quebec: What you need to know on Thursday
According
to the CSSDM, a total of 77,500 pre-school, elementary school and
high school students will return to classrooms this morning.
Personal
protection equipment is seen on the teacher's desk in classroom in preparation
for the new school year. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press)
Quebec
reported 102 new
cases of COVID-19 and one more death Wednesday. The government says 40 of
those cases are currently being reevaluated because of possible contamination
in the laboratory however. Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 61,945 confirmed cases
and 5,747 people have died. There are 110 people in hospital (a
decrease of eight), including 12 in intensive care (no change). Here's a guide
to the numbers. CBC Montreal is collecting stories from Quebecers who have
recovered from COVID-19. If you would like to share your experience, please get
in touch. Having trouble keeping track of what has reopened? Consult
our list. Today marks the start of classes for thousands of students in
Quebec
's French school system — the first time
Montreal
students head back to
school since the pandemic shut them down last spring. According to the Centre
de services scolaire de Montréal (CSSDM), a total of 77,500 pre-school,
elementary school and high school students will return to classrooms this
morning. As outlined in the government's regulations announced earlier this
summer, students aged 10 years or older are required to wear masks on school
buses and when circulating outside of classrooms. Younger students are not
required to wear masks, but they are allowed to do so. Thousands
of Quebec students return to school today.
An
introduction to the new Quebec nationalism and the tricks it plays on federal
leaders
Quebec
’s Bill 21 was a dominant
theme in the first week of the campaign. Here’s why. The
main proponent of this resurgent nationalism is the provincial government
headed by Premier François Legault and his centre-right party, the Coalition
Avenir Québec. (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press)
By Jonathan
Montpetit · CBC News ·
The
opening days
of the 2019 election campaign have been marked, above all, by the attempts of
federal leaders to navigate the new Quebec nationalism and its most
potent expression, a law on secularism. The main proponent of this resurgent
nationalism is the provincial government led by Premier François Legault and
his centre-right party, the Coalition Avenir Québec. And Legault didn't wait
long before giving the federal leaders a taste. The campaign was barely a few
hours old when he demanded they
renounce support for legal challenges to the secularism
law his government passed in June — not just "for the
moment," as Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said he would, but forever. It
was a warning to steer well clear of a matter he considers to be solely within
his jurisdiction, even though the law has raised constitutional
concerns across the country, not to mention within
Quebec
itself.
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police officer who rammed car in road rage incident won't face discipline
Roberto
Tomarelli won't face discipline, even though a judge has already ruled he was
'negligent', 'reckless', and 'not credible'
Jeffery
Pokora told CBC he was dumbfounded when he heard Roberto Tomarelli, the
Montreal
police officer who rammed
his car in 2015, wouldn't face any discipline over the incident. (CBC
News)
A
Montreal police officer who was off-duty when he rammed another man's car in
2015 will not face any discipline, even though a judge has already
ruled officer Roberto Tomarelli was negligent, reckless and used
unwarranted force the night of the incident. In a decision released earlier
this week, the police ethics commission tribunal concluded that it did not
have jurisdiction to make a ruling in the case. The man whose car was rammed,
Jeffery Pokora, has been fighting for years to have Tomarelli face discipline.
Pokora told CBC in an interview Wednesday he couldn't believe it when he heard
about the decision. "I was completely dumbfounded. It felt like a
big slap in the face," Pokora said. "Where's the justice? Where's
the fairness in that? The last six years of my life have been extremely
difficult, with a lot of therapy. Meanwhile he's still been on the job,
he's still collecting a paycheque, and probably hasn't learned anything,"
he continued. The
Montreal
police confirmed to CBC
Wednesday that Tomarelli is still employed by the force. Video shows officer
slamming car In January 2015, Pokora was driving in LaSalle when he
followed a man he believed was driving dangerously. Pokora didn't know
that the man, Tomarelli, was an off-duty police officer.
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it safe to go back to school?
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History
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Winning
over voters in Quebec high on O'Toole's agenda
Common
concerns about back to school, and how to calm them
Canadiens
coach Claude Julien says he's '100 per cent' after heart surgery
Hundreds
of Quebec teachers express confusion, anxiety and dissatisfaction with
government as schools reopen
$2B
in federal funding aims to help schools reopen safely as COVID-19 numbers
climb
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of worried merchants push back against plan for St-Denis bike path
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a few hundred Conservative voters in Quebec helped put Erin O'Toole over the
top
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their legs. Ms He has now been discharged and is expected to make a full
recovery. Sweat bees, also known as Halictidae, are attracted to sweat and
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by the Kansas Entomological Society. 'They were all alive' Ms
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tomb-sweeping festival, which is traditionally observed by sprucing up loved
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No
alcohol safe to drink, study confirms
The
researchers say that the health risks of drinking outweigh any possible
benefits.
Bad
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A
large new global study published in the Lancet has confirmed previous research
which has shown that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption. The
researchers admit moderate drinking may protect against heart disease but
found that the risk of cancer and other diseases outweighs these protections.
A study author said its findings were the most significant to date because of
the range of factors considered. How risky is moderate drinking? The Global
Burden of Disease study looked at levels of alcohol use and its
health effects in 195 countries, including the
UK
, between 1990 and 2016.
Analysing data from 15 to 95-year-olds, the researchers compared people who
did not drink at all with those who had one alcoholic drink a day. They found
that out of 100,000 non-drinkers, 914 would develop an alcohol-related health
problem such as cancer or suffer an injury. Does
moderate drinking prevent dementia? Excess
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Brazil
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The
celebrity plastic surgeon vanished after a woman died following buttock
enhancement injections.
A
celebrity Brazilian plastic surgeon known as Dr Bumbum has gone on the run
after a woman died following injections he gave her to enlarge her buttocks.
Investigators
say Dr Denis Furtado carried out the procedure on Lilian Calixto at his home
in
Rio de Janeiro
but she fell ill during the
procedure. Dr Furtado took her to a hospital where her condition worsened and
she died some hours later, police said. He then disappeared and a judge has
issued a warrant for his arrest. Dr Furtado, 45, has appeared on Brazilian
television and has nearly 650,000 followers on his Instagram account. Ms
Calixto, a 46-year-old married mother of two who worked in banking, had
travelled from her home in
Cuiaba
, central
Brazil
, to undergo buttock
enhancement by Dr Furtado on Saturday evening, reports said. The procedure,
believed to involve the injection of acrylic glass filler, took place at his
apartment in the upmarket district of Barra de Tijuca. How
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By Jim Weiss
Stories are spectacularly successful learning tools. Many studies show that
children whose parents tell and/or read stories to them from an early age turn
out to be better readers and students later on.
Furthermore, you are twenty times more likely to remember information if you
learn it in a story than if you learn it simply as data to memorize. In part,
the more stories we encounter, the more effectively our brains learn to work
within the structure that most stories follow. We not only absorb the
stories' contents, but at the same time, our brains get used to organizing
what we learn into a usable form. We learn how to learn through stories.
Other brain researchers have found that different parts of the brain kick in
when we encounter a story that comes with a visual image, such as on a TV or
computer screen, versus when we encounter a story for which we fill in the
visuals with our imaginations, as when we read alone, are read to, or listen
to an audio. These different parts of the brain link with different
forms of creativity, visualization and imagination. They even help us
build the ability to empathize with other people by "visualizing"
ourselves inside characters. We must "exercise" these
different parts of the brain in order to acquire these skills, so introduce
stories to a child through a mix of technologies.
As a professional author and storyteller, a father, and the husband of an
award-winning schoolteacher and counselor, I can attest firsthand that one of
the most effective and most engaging ways to teach and to learn is through
stories. Here are a few tips I want to share to help you integrate
storytelling into your child's daily routine:
1. Start with picture books when your child is very young.
Reading
to children not only offers
the value of the book's contents, but also visually demonstrates that you
value books, which reinforces your child's interest in reading. Read aloud to
your child, or try telling a story you already know in your own words, as you
turn the pages. This allows you to keep eye contact with your child,
while offering you the security of having the book to refer to if you feel
you've lost your way.
2. Introduce stories of historical or fictional people who do what they love.
There are endless resources: books and web sites that tell stories of famous
artists, composers, engineers, athletes, scientists, etc. You never know which
one will resonate with your child and open up a lifetime passion, so offer a
variety. I've had many people tell me "I'm a
scientist/artist/author now because I listened to your recording about
scientists, etc."
3. In addition to telling stories to your child, try to tell with her or him.
First, tell an old favorite together. It gives the child a sense of mastery,
particularly if every so often you ask, "What did she do then?"
Next, try creating a new version by asking, "What if Cinderella hadn't
dropped the glass slipper? Can we think of another way she and the prince
might have found one another?" If you reach a dead-end, go back to an
earlier moment of decision in the story, hae the character make a different
choice, and go on from there.
4. Another form of storytelling is family stories. Sharing incidents from your
life, or those of your ancestors, gives the message to your child that s/he is
important enough to share in this family history, and imbues your child with a
sense of her/his own roots and identity.
5. Always consider to whom you are telling the story, and think of yourself as
"translating" the intent of the story onto a level this person can
understand. You can tell a story differently at different
developmental stages. Think about what you most want the child to
remember. Start simply with what you know, and tell it in your own
words. If you make a mistake say, "I forgot to tell you
that..." and go on; kids find that endearing. Another way to handle
having left out a part is to say, "Now what Aunt Joan didn't know yet was
that Uncle Bill had already bought the tickets." This presents the
information you forgot as a dramatic element of the tale. Storytelling
reinforces reading, too, and adds a rich oral language element, but it
demonstrates something additional.
6. One powerfully positive element of storytelling is that it fosters a strong
bond between parent and child. Through our stories, and the manner
in which we choose to tell them, families and entire societies pass on what
matters most to them. Children come to recognize that you are sharing
your true self, not through a lecture but through a story. Your child
may not retain into adulthood every single detail you taught him/her, but
always will remember that, "Mom/Dad loved me enough to share what s/he
thought really mattered the most."
If you are fortunate, there will come a day when you see your own child, now
grown up, carry on this story tradition with his/her child. It all
starts and ends with love -- and a good story.
Jim Weiss founded Greathall Productions in 1989. To date, Jim is the producer
and reader of 58+ Greathall storytelling recordings featuring classical
literature and history, as well as masterful and thoughtful, unabridged
readings of Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham; Men of Iron by Howard
Pyle; and more. He is also the recipient of 100+ national awards from numerous
prestigious sources. Jim travels extensively across the
United States
,
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shaped the character of a city in the heart of French-speaking
Canada
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Main
was once the symbolic dividing line between the city's
French and English speaking communities, with the boulevard a soft buffer
attracting and absorbing waves of new immigrants. Today, it celebrates a
cosmopolitan city with its array of little villages, from the Quartier Chinois,
or Chinese quarter, to Little Italy and
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What
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With
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mean now?
What
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the country for themselves?” So they say "over
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Quebec
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the editor... MP
Maxime Bernier defends language-law quip -
Quebecers don't need Bill 101, "Not by imposing [French] and by
preventing people from making their own decisions in matters that concern
their personal lives." Quebec
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threats target Quebec English rights group Letters
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- How I Love You
The
tour was to only last one hour. While the other educator and I waited for
their arrival we decided we would not visit the Canadian galleries, since they
were in another pavilion at the other end of the museum. We would choose the
European Art collection to save time. They arrived twenty minutes late. My
group had three mothers with eight children between the ages of two months and
nine years old. Two Muslim mothers dressed in hijab and long over-... Quickly
it was decided, even though time was limited, that we had to go visit the
Canadian galleries. We showed the paintings, sculptures and objects from the
Inuit, First Nations along with the first settlers from
France
and
England
. The children were mesmerized,
listening to the legends and stories of the Canadian people. The mothers asked
many insightful questions. As we toured from one gallery to the next, the
mother from
Benin
began unapologetically to
nurse her son. She didn’t ask for help or lag behind. She did what came
naturally and continued to be an active participant. And the two other
mothers? They held the infant’s head as she went to adjust her top and
looked after her other child. Mothers from different parts of the world,
nurturing, protecting and caring for one another. I witnessed the actions of a
community. Being an Art Educator at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts affords
me the opportunity to meet and interact with many people from all walks of
life. I am very fortunate to live in a country where all people have equal
rights and are valued for their uniqueness. Ennutsiak Nunavik 1896 – Iqaluit,
Nunavut, 1967 Untitled (Birth Scene with Midwives) By Deirdre Potash, 2779
Honore Mercier Vaudreuil-Dorion Quebec J7V 8P5 Deirdre.potash@sympatico.ca (514)
999-8581 www.artwill.ca
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 It's
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will be kept confidential if requested, and no one will ever know.
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this section. All Rights reserved. Copyright 2007 Conrad David
Brillantes. All Questions or inquiries submitted are not
edited...posted as they are received. Question: Why on earth the
Separatist government of the late Rene Levesque created the
language law known as Bill 101? Answer: Actually, Robert
Bourassa, Quebec Premier then started the controversial language
law (Bill 22) which was duplicated and made it more complicated by
government of Levesque. Note that Bill 101 was declared not valid by
the Supreme Court of Canada but because of the veto option given to
all provinces under the unfinished Canada constitution headed by Brian
Mulroney, precipitated when Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of the day
brought home the BNA (British North America Act - Canadian
Constitution) to Canada, Quebec was able to maintain the law (Bill
101) ...
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Forger jailed for
bogus paintings
Munch's
The Scream sold for $120 million
Painting
sale sets $300 million record
Gauguin
painting breaks sale record at nearly $300m
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Van
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A
floral masterpiece by Vincent van Gogh, painted in the closing stages of his
life, sells in
New York
for $61.8m (£38.7m).
Van
Gogh's striking canvas is dominated by the red of the poppies
A
floral masterpiece by Vincent van Gogh, painted in the closing stages of his
life, has sold in
New York
for $61.8m (£38.7m). Still
Life, Vase with Daisies, and Poppies exceeded its estimate of up to $50m (£31.3m)
at the Sotheby's auction. A 1951 piece by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti
fetched more than $100m (£62.7m), but fell just short of the record $104.3m (£65.3m)
for the artist. A sculpture by Amedeo Modigliani set a new benchmark for his
work. Tete, an elongated head created in 1911-12 from a block of limestone
scavenged from a
Paris
building site, was sold for
more than $70m (£44.2m). Van Gogh's painting was created at the French home
of his doctor just months before his death in 1890 and was one of the few
works he sold during his lifetime. But it fell far short of the auction record
for a piece by the Dutch artist, which stands at $82.5m (£51.6m). Sotheby's
said the painting was bought by a private bidder from
Asia
. Portrait of Dr Gachet -
the physician whose flowers he captured in this latest work to sell - went
under the hammer for a record in 1990.
Germany
to release confiscated art
- Owner
gives up on 'Chagall' painting
Stolen
Rembrandt found 15 years on
A
17th Century painting by Dutch master Rembrandt is recovered in
France
, 15
years after it was stolen. - The
painting measures 60cm by 49cm and was said to be in a good condition
A
17th Century painting by Dutch master Rembrandt has been recovered in
France
, 15 years
after it was stolen. L'enfant a la bulle de savon (Child with soap bubble),
valued at 3.2m euros (£2.7m), was taken from a museum in the southern city of
Draguignan
in 1999.
Two men were arrested in Nice on Tuesday, according to the Agence France
Presse (AFP) news agency. Police said they received information that a
transaction was due to take place in a hotel the following day. The men, aged
46 and 53, one of whom was described as a former insurer, appeared in court in
Nice on Thursday, AFP said. They were reported to be known to police for
previous petty crimes. Police are still looking for other suspects.
Anyone looking for
this painting?
Accepting
Open bidding for the "Flower" (left)
Monet
and Picasso among art theft
Paintings
by artists including Picasso, Matisse, Monet, Gauguin and Freud have been
stolen from a museum in
Rotterdam
. Police
in the
Netherlands
said the
works were taken from the
Kunsthal
Museum
early on
Tuesday morning. The museum is showing works from the Triton Foundation as
part of its 20th anniversary celebrations. The paintings include Monet's
Waterloo
Bridge
,
Picasso's Tete d'Arlequin, Matisse's La Liseuse en Blanc et Jaune and Freud's
Woman with Eyes Closed. Monet
water lilies sells for $43 million
Monet
artwork bequeathed by reclusive heiress
"Madame
Leon Clapisson": The visualization (right) is produced using advanced
image processing software - Conservation
scientists in
Chicago
produce
a stunning visualization of how they think a Renoir painting might have looked
before its colors faded. Researchers
in
Chicago
have
produced a visualization of how they think a Renoir could have looked before
its colors faded. The picture of Madame Valentine Clapisson was painted by the
great French Impressionist more than 130 years ago. The original's impact has
been degraded and dulled by the action of light. But by using the latest
analytical tools, conservators have been able to recover a sense of Renoir's
rich reds."When we first brought this picture into the conservation
studio for examination and removed the frame, we noticed that at the top and
at the left-hand side there was a sliver of very intense colour," recalls
Dr Francesca Casadio from The Art
Institute of Chicago. "This tipped us off to the fact that the mood
of this painting that is now pretty cool and restrained with light purples and
blues was once far more vibrant," she told BBC News.
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