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Sainte-Rose Art Symposium takes place from Thurs. July 22 to Sun. July 25

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Sainte-Rose Art Symposium takes place from Thurs. July 22 to Sun. July 25

Come experience all the charm and atmosphere in Vieux Sainte-Rose

For four days this month, hundreds of appreciators of quality sculpture and art from all over eastern Canada will gather in Laval’s picturesque Vieux Sainte Rose village for an annual event that many now accept as one of Quebec’s most respected and esteemed outdoor art shows – the Sainte-Rose Art Symposium.

Fifty artists in 2021

Fifty artists will be exhibiting their works at this year’s symposium on Thursday July 22, Friday July 23, Saturday July 24 and Sunday July 25, organized as always by the members of the Corporation Rose-Art artists’ collective.

Although more than 90 artists usually participate in the Sainte-Rose Art Symposium, the 2021 symposium is somewhat smaller, with 50 artists, due to relaxed but still ongoing sanitary restrictions mandated by the provincial government because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A chance to see great art

The Saint-Rose Art Symposium is regarded by some as one of Canada’s most successful gatherings of visual artists and their works. Each year, attending the symposium is seen by connaisseurs of art as a great opportunity to enjoy the creations of many different artists who express themselves in many different styles.

The Saint-Rose Art Symposium is regarded by some as one of Canada’s most successful gatherings of visual artists and their works

For many patrons, the Saint-Rose Art Symposium has become an annual pilgrimage to an art show where they know quality art works can be purchased to enhance the home, or as lasting gifts for family and loved ones.

Admission to the symposium is free, and attending offers the additional opportunity of being able to explore and experience all the charm and historic atmosphere of Laval’s Vieux Sainte Rose village, which was home at one time to world-renowned artists.

Art in an historic setting

The hours during which the symposium will be open are Thursday July 22 and Friday July 23 from 1 pm to 8 pm, Saturday July 24 from 10 am to 8 pm, and Sunday July 25 from 10 am to 5 pm.

As is the case each year, your starting point can be at Corporation Rose-Art headquarters in the Vieille Caserne Art Gallery, 216 Boulevard Sainte-Rose, Laval, QC H7L 1L6, where Rose-Art volunteers will provide complete information.

Laval police investigate after two men shot at supper lounge

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Laval police investigate after two men shot at supper lounge

Laval Police officers were waiting earlier this week to meet two young men who were shot during the night last weekend in a Chomedey neighbourhood resto-bar, but who failed to report it.

The two, both in their 20s, checked into hospitals in Laval and Montreal for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Police had responded around 1:20 a.m. after reports of gunshots fired at the Aztec Supper Lounge on Curé-Labelle Blvd.

“When they arrived on the scene, no victims were located by the police,” said LPD spokesperson Stephanie Beshara. “However, we were informed a little later that two victims were taken to two different hospitals for gunshot wounds.”

One of the two young men was released from the hospital and both will eventually be interviewed by investigators.

“It is certain that when the situation allows it, when they are able to talk to us, the investigators will go to meet them,” added Beshara. “Now it remains to be seen if they want to cooperate with the police or not.”

Four-year-old dies after falling unconscious from heart issue

The Laval Police have confirmed the death of a four-year-old boy who was found unresponsive inside a residence Saturday night in Laval’s Pont-Viau district.

A 911 call, received at 6:40 p.m., led emergency services to Bazin Ave. where a young boy was reported to be unconscious. The child was in cardiorespiratory arrest when police arrived.

“Our officers began CPR (resuscitation) and paramedics took over,” said Beshara. “He was taken to a hospital where unfortunately he was pronounced dead.”

Several hours later, few details were available on what happened inside the residence, but information circulating on other media suggested it was an accident.

“All hypotheses are being investigated,” added Beshara. “At the time of the event, three people were on the scene and these three people were met by the police.”

According to TVA news, the child died after apparently strangling accidentally. The network claims that a member of the child’s family found the boy in the basement of their home, while the father-in-law was outside next to a swimming pool.

Upon arrival, police tried to resuscitate the boy who was in cardio-pulmonary arrest, while waiting for paramedics to arrive. The boy was then taken by ambulance to hospital where death was confirmed. At least one of the parents was said to be in deep shock and an autopsy was scheduled.

LPD seeks two suspects in aborted home invasion

The Laval Police are looking for two suspects nearly a month after a home invasion that took place in Laval’s Sainte-Dorothée neighbourhood. The incident happened around 9 pm on June 18 on des Géraniums Ave.

According to the police report, a resident at that address told the suspects that a closed-circuit camera was built into the doorbell of her home, which apparently caused them to flee.

The LPD says one of the suspects was a woman of apparent South American origin, around 25 years old, who spoke Spanish. She was wearing a camouflage-pattern hoodie with an Adidas logo on it, and the inscription HU Hiking written on the back, as well as grey slacks, black shoes and she had a black bag.

The other suspect was man of apparent South American origin, around 20 years old. He also was wearing a black hoodie with white writing in front, black slacks, black shoes and a black cap with a logo.

Anyone with information on the pair is asked to contact the Laval Police Department’s confidential Info-Line at 450 662-INFO (4636), or call 911. The file number is LVL 210622-042.

Students from Laval and North Shore among those awarded Rogers Scholarships

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Students from Laval and North Shore among those awarded Rogers Scholarships

Vanessa Catena and Sara Tessier are pursuing studies in marketing and business

Two young women from the Laval and North Shore areas who are pursuing post-secondary studies in marketing and business administration are among 26 students from across Quebec who have been awarded Ted Rogers Scholarships to help pay for their studies over the next four years.

In spite of the pandemic

Although it was the second year in a row that traditional rites of passage for graduating students were muted by the COVID-19 pandemic, for 26 deserving students for Quebec who received the Ted Rogers Scholarships the virtual celebration on June 23 was a moment to recognize their achievements and look forward to what the future holds next.

Vanessa Catena is from Laval, while Sara Tessier is from Rosemère. Both were awarded their scholarships during the webcast. According to Rogers Communications, the Ted Rogers Scholarships help reduce education barriers, offering $2,500 renewable scholarships for up to four years or $10,000 to recognize young leaders nominated by 18 community partnership organizations.

Students/volunteers

Vanessa is entering her first year at Bishop’s University in Lennoxville this fall and hopes to work in marketing after her studies. In the meantime, she volunteers with Big Brothers and Big Sisters and is hoping in the future to offer her marketing experience to help the organization continue its mission.

Sara is currently finishing CEGEP while pursuing a sports program and will be starting at HEC Montréal this fall. She volunteers with Gris-Montreal and has her own podcast, where she invites young guests to speak about different LGBTQ+ topics. Inclusion and diversity are important topics for Sara.

In video interviews with both winners posted online by Rogers, Catena and Tessier talk about some of their hopes and aspirations, while also speculating on what they see themselves accomplishing later in life.

A decade from now

Where does Vanessa see herself in ten years? “I realize that where I see myself has a lot do with what my values and passions are,” she said. “I see myself working in the consumer goods industry in the marketing world. This upcoming school year I will be majoring in marketing at Bishop’s University. It is something that I am really interested in as it is going to allow me to utilize my creative side.”

For her part, Tessier said she would like to be able to expand on the links she has established with the LGBTQ community while pursuing her goal to succeed in business. “In the future, my ultimate goal would be to launch a company that would have a culture of inclusion and diversity where everyone would feel accepted and would be listened to,” she said.

From all over Quebec

The Rogers Scholarships 2021 recipients represent more than 12 municipalities across Quebec including Laval, Rosemère, Brossard, Côte Saint-Luc, Gatineau, Longueuil, Montréal, Pierrefonds, Québec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, St-Colomban and Terrebonne.

According to Rogers, reports show that youth from low-income households, equity-seeking groups or remote communities are less likely to pursue post-secondary studies due to barriers like affordability. They say that Rogers Scholarships help reduce those barriers, offering $2,500 renewable scholarships for up to four years or $10,000 to recognize young leaders nominated by 18 community partnership organizations.

A diverse generation

Rogers says that nearly three-quarters of recipients nationally self-identify as members of equity-seeking groups including Black, Indigenous, People of Color, LGBTQ2S+, and young women. “These scholars reflect a vibrant and diverse generation which will propel Canada forward with ideas and innovation and power our growth and economy,” the company says in a statement.

Rogers says it has invested more than $406,000 since 2017 to support over 250 Quebec youths pursuing post-secondary studies

Since launching Ted Rogers Scholarships in 2017, Rogers says it has invested more than $406,000 to support over 250 Quebec youths attending post-secondary studies, with the program now celebrating its first cohort of university and college graduates.

Encouraging potential

“We are proud to support the next generation of Quebec leaders and changemakers by giving them well-deserved encouragement to achieve their highest potential,” said Edith Cloutier, president for the Quebec Region of Rogers Communications.

“Our youth have shown incredible resilience this past year and it is inspiring to know that Canada will move forward and grow with young leaders who have a vision for community, inclusivity and diversity,” added Paul Davidson, president of Universities Canada which provided support.

Laval Citoyens mayoral hopeful Michel Poissant promises a nature trail if elected

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Laval Citoyens mayoral hopeful Michel Poissant promises a nature trail if elected

Eight-kilometre pathway would travel through several of Laval’s wetlands

Despite a current lack of support from the city for his project, Laval Citoyens leader and mayoralty candidate Michel Poissant is pledging to build an eight-kilometre nature trail through some key wetlands in Laval if he becomes mayor in the November municipal elections.

Poissant, the city councillor for Laval’s Vimont district, made the announcement last week during a press conference held outside the Quintessence high-rise condo building complex on St-Elzéar Blvd. on the northern edge of Chomedey.

An electoral priority

A large group of residents came out to express support with placards calling on the city to protect Laval’s wetlands from development. The proposed trail was mapped out and designed by Georges Pelletier.

Placard-holding Quintessence complex residents expressed their support for the nature trail project.

The condo buildings on St-Elzéar are located next to a wetland. Poissant is pledging to make the nature trail – to be known as the Parc linéaire Ruisseau Papineau-Lavoie et rue des Charmes – a priority should he be elected on Nov. 7.

‘Citizen project,’ says Poissant

While addressing the crowd, Poissant maintained that the trail should be relatively easy to complete since the land it would travel across is owned largely by Hydro-Québec and the City of Laval. “It’s a project that is very interesting from the standpoints of being economical and citizen-driven,” he said.

‘It’s a project that is very interesting from the standpoints of being economical and citizen-driven,’ says Poissant

“Thanks to the creativity and perseverance of a resident of the area, Mr. Georges Pelletier, we are pleased to present one of the many projects of our program, namely an eight-kilometre nature trail that will be carried out during our first term,” he added.

Bike and walking path

“The vast majority of the land used is already owned by the city and/or Hydro-Québec and therefore acquisition costs will be minimal. As soon as we take office, we will begin negotiations.”

For the areas under power lines where there is more space, Poissant said they will develop a path for pedestrians and cyclists. “We can then move or rearrange certain bike paths nearby,” he continued. “This trail will be the biggest in Laval and can be compared to those of several cities of the north shore.”

Making Laval greener

He noted that the route of the proposed path would contribute to the Laval region’s growing green heritage. “The pandemic made us realize the importance of having access to nature as a prized resource,” he said.

While explaining the route of the path, Georges Pelletier acknowledged that there could be some obstacles to overcome.

He said there are some private tracts of land where it would have to pass across. In all, the path would cover 90 hectares of land.

He said they would try to buy the private tracts, while paying as little as possible.

Sonia Baudelot unsure whether she’ll run for mayor under her own banner

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Sonia Baudelot unsure whether she’ll run for mayor under her own banner

Says she split from Action Laval after a merger with her party broke down

While insisting that she is still surrounded by volunteers and candidates after leaving Action Laval, former AL mayoralty hopeful Sonia Baudelot told the Laval News earlier this week that she hasn’t made up her mind yet whether she’ll be running for mayor under the banner of her own party.

The underlying cause

Baudelot, who had been tagged by Action Laval last November to run as their mayoral candidate, issued a statement last week questioning the veracity of the Laval city council opposition party’s assertion that she had dropped out after citing a lack of available time because of family obligations.

Baudelot, who has also been a candidate in Laval for the federal Conservatives and who ran her own Avenir Laval municipal party in the 2017 election, suggested instead that a failure to achieve harmony between her faction and long-standing members of Action Laval was the underlying cause.

Unsure whether running

“I don’t know if I’m running again – I really don’t know,” Baudelot said last Monday in a phone interview with TLN. “The decision is not taken at a hundred percent,” she said. “I have doors that are open with people and I’ve been talking with people. But I just don’t know what I’m going to do.”

Although Baudelot has so far not succeeded in winning an elected office, there is good reason to consider her politically “bankable.” In the 2017 election, when she ran for mayor, she managed to garner 17,155 votes for 15.6 per cent support overall.

A respectable following

In addition, over the years she has managed to develop a respectable network of backroom support from well-established Laval-area politicians such as Chomedey MNA Guy Ouellette, who endorsed Baudelot publicly during one of her past campaigns.

Baudelot said this week that she sensed the volunteers she brought to Action Laval were losing their spirit as they moved more closely into the ranks of Action Laval.

She claimed to have brought at least 40 volunteers to Action Laval, and “they all left with me, candidates have left.” Baudelot didn’t specify exactly how many candidates she took away, but said that she had contributed as many candidates to Action Laval as had the party.

How to run a campaign

In a separate interview, Action Laval president Archie Cifelli insisted the reason why Baudelot and the party parted ways was because of a fundamental disagreement over how an election campaign should be run.

Baudelot claims she brought at least 40 volunteers to Action Laval and “they all left with me, candidates have left”

“The only way to win a municipal election is to be on the ground, talking to people and going door-to-door,” he said, while claiming that Baudelot considered that to be old-fashioned and that modern electioneering should rely much more on the use of social media to stir up support and get the word around.

Told of Cifelli’s reaction, Baudelot took exception to his remarks.

“Politics in 2021 is a team effort,” she said. “It’s teams that work together. Not two sides apart. When I joined, it was a fusion of two parties basically: my team and theirs. That’s what it was supposed to be. But it wasn’t that.”

Opposition parties unanimously denounce city workers’ salary increases

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Opposition parties unanimously denounce city workers’ salary increases

Deputy Mayor Boyer defends 1.2 per cent hike as necessary to retain employees

Laval city council’s opposition members, who are often divided along party lines, were unanimous during last week’s July city council meeting in condemning the Mouvement lavallois administration for a measure that will raise city employees’ salaries by 1.2 per cent, so they won’t be tempted away by the prospect of better-paying jobs.

‘Unacceptable,’ said Revelakis

Leading off the criticism was Action Laval city councillor for Chomedey Aglaia Revelakis. “I believe it is important that the employees of the City of Laval get paid equitably,” she said, while noting though that she didn’t understand why the proposed salary increase is higher than the indexed inflation rate.

As well, she wondered why the salaries are being raised only a few months before voters in Laval go to the polls for city-wide elections, and why the increase is being made retroactive to 2019.

While pointing out that many Laval residents have lost their jobs since the beginning of the pandemic early last year, that businesses have closed and employers are finding it difficult to find workers, she said, “Yet in Laval we are raising raising salaries, which is unacceptable.”

‘Lacking respect,’ says De Cotis

Action Laval city councillor for Saint-Bruno David De Cotis said he fully agreed with Revelakis as well as AL councillors Paolo Galati and Isabella Tassoni. “I have nothing against the employees of the City of Laval who are doing excellent work,” he said. “It’s a question of principle and respect towards the citizens of Laval.

“The last two years have been difficult for our citizens,” he noted. “Granting salary increases that are retroactive, without a strong mandate to do it, shows a flagrant lack of respect for the electoral process that is almost upon us.

“My colleagues Mrs. Revelakis, Mr. Galati, Mrs. Tassoni, Mr. Poissant and Mr. Trottier are all correct: We should let the people decide,” said De Cotis. “In any case, madam president, the increases are retroactive. So, we should let a new administration decide how to deal with these increases.”

‘Perks’ concern Trottier

Parti Laval city councillor for Fabreville Claude Larochelle said he and party leader Michel Trottier had no problem with a mandated salary adjustment, but were more concerned with perks also included in the deal. These included five additional vacation days, and the reduction (from eight years to one year) in the amount of time an employee must be on staff to be eligible for five weeks vacation annually.

“After such a challenging year for society as a whole, this is a little indecent,” Larochelle said, while maintaining that according to recent ranking of municipalities across Quebec, the City of Laval was already in second place for the scale of salaries paid overall to its work force.

A need to retain workers

Mouvement lavallois city councillor for Sainte-Dorothée Ray Khalil, who is responsible for public works dossiers on the executive-committee, justified the proposed perks and salary increases on the basis that the city needs to take the means to hold onto good employees.

‘Granting salary increases that are retroactive, without a strong mandate to do it, shows a flagrant lack of respect for the electoral process that is almost upon us,’ said Action city councillor David De Cotis

“The experience in all public administrations and companies is that you have to offer benefits in order to attract workers,” he said. “While, yes, there are some people who’ve recently been through difficulties, in certain sectors the difficulty has not been finding a job, but rather to not lose employees. And often within our own operations, that is the problem we are facing and the problem for which we must take action.”

Deputy Mayor Stéphane Boyer denied the administration was moving forward with the salary increases for electoral reasons, insisting instead that they were showing courage and transparency. “I think that what we are doing today is in complete transparency,” he said.

Boyer justifies increase

“We have adopted new collective agreements for the whole of our work force, as well as for our managers and other senior directors. They have working conditions and they have a right to see that we revise them. They haven’t been revised in a while and we are bringing them up to date.”

According to Boyer, prior to 2014 the average City of Laval employee salary increase was 3.1 per cent.

The latest hike, he added, amounts to 1.2 per cent. As well, he maintained that a HEC Montréal study ranked the cities of Terrebonne, Montreal, Gatineau, Québec, Blainville and St-Jean-sur-Richelieu as having senior managers who earn higher salaries than those paid by the City of Laval.

Mayor pledges assistance to Bel-Habitat Homes bankruptcy victims

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Mayor pledges assistance to Bel-Habitat Homes bankruptcy victims

‘This is a drama without precedent,’ Demers said during the July 6 city council

Speaking during the July 6 Laval city council meeting, Mayor Marc Demers pledged on behalf of the city to provide assistance to the dozens of families and individuals who entrusted large sums of money to Bel-Habitat Homes, a company whose owner has declared bankruptcy while vanishing with an estimated $17 million in deposits.

‘Unprecedented,’ said Demers

“This is a drama without precedent,” said Demers, after listening to questions and comments sent in by e-mail by an extensive list of families and individuals from Laval who have been directly impacted by the unfolding financial scandal.

“I am speaking on behalf of all the members of city council to say that we are moved by these events. Yes, we will be taking action to come to the assistance of the people caught up in this litigious issue, this scam, if I may allow myself to use that word.”

LPD is investigating

According to Demers, the Laval Police Department has opened a file and is currently investigating allegations that the law was broken and charges may be pending.

“I can promise you that no effort will be spared in this dossier and we will be asking the police to show diligence. I have already asked them to regularly furnish follow-up reports on the progress of the investigation, up to what is allowed in terms of information they can release.”

Get in touch with GCR

In addition, Demers said the Laval Police have entered into an agreement with Guarantie de construction résidentielle (GCR), a non-profit organization whose stated mission is to protect the interests of buyers or beneficiaries of guarantee plans for new residential buildings.

‘I can promise you that no effort will be spared in this dossier and we will be asking the police to show diligence’

The mayor said all individuals and families impacted by the bankruptcy of Bel-Habitat should get in touch with GCR in order to open a file, as well as to facilitate the investigation being conducted by the Laval Police. “GCR also offers psychological help, for people who might need it, on their site,” added Demers.

City exploring other means

Given the magnitude and extraordinary circumstances of the situation, Demers said he had asked administration officials at city hall to look into what resources are available and within the means of municipalities in order to provide assistance to those impacted by the Bel-Habitat bankruptcy.

“And we would also like to receive clarification from our legal team,” he continued. “They are lawyers who have a specialty in legal law, who may be able to help and provide some useful information.”

He said he felt certain that city council is unanimous in the view that the city should be involved to provide the Bel-Habitat victims with help.

Laval News Volume 29-22

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Laval News Volume 29-22

The current issue of the Laval News volume 29-22 published July 14th, 2021.
Covering Laval local news, politics, sports and our new section Mature Life.
(Click on the image to read the paper.)

Front page of the Laval News.
https://lavalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/TLN-29-22-WEB.pdfFront page of the Laval News, July 14th, 2021 issue.

The Centre Alain-Grandbois is a library once again

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The Centre Alain-Grandbois is a library once again

Laval’s Multicultural Library gets a new location

A municipal building on Samson Blvd. that the City of Laval had designated nearly forty years ago as the Alain Grandbois branch of the library system will be returned to its original purpose when the Multicultural Library moves in.

Located at 4300 Samson Blvd. in Chomedey, the Centre Alain-Grandbois (as it is now known) was built by the city in 1983 as the Bibliothèque Alain-Grandbois.

Good move, says Dib

It ceased being a library building in 1996, five years after the opening of the Multicultural Library. The Centre Alain-Grandbois currently houses the Société d’histoire et de généalogie de l’île Jésus et le Centre d’archives de Laval.

“This is excellent news for the residents of the district of Chomedey, where the Alain Grandbois Library will be at the centre of life and more accessible from now on,” said Laval city councillor Aline Dib, who is responsible for cultural dossiers.

“Each year, the Multicultural Library welcomes more than 250,000 visitors,” she added. “By moving its activities to Samson Blvd., we are greatly improving access for residents of the sector.”

A seamless move

According to the city, the Alain Grandbois building is large (1,145 sq. metres) and will help facilitate a seamless transition and transfer of essential services from building to building.

A building enlargement is planned, to bring the surface area up to 2,600 sq. metres, thus offering a place better adapted to the needs of families, including play and gathering spaces, reading and work areas, presentation rooms and digital areas.

The city says that measures are being taken to find new quarters for the Société d’histoire et de généalogie de l’île Jésus and the Centre d’archives de Laval that are better suited to their needs.

Six new branches

According to the city, the reopening of the Alain Grandbois Library was foreseen on a smaller scale in a master plan for the city’s public library system.

The building enlargement work is expected to provide the same amount of area to the public as the former Multicultural Library building on Chomedey Blvd. did.

When fully implemented, the master plan for the library system will build six new library branches in neighbourhoods in Laval, for an eventual total of 16 library branches, including a new branch in northern Chomedey which the city says has been set as a priority.

Cell phone boutiques robbed of high-end smartphones

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Cell phone boutiques robbed of high-end smartphones

A Telus cell phone boutique on des Laurentides Blvd. corner Saulnier St. in eastern Laval is one of several communications services stores in the greater Montreal region which have been hit in recent months by armed robbers who’ve made off with tens of thousands of dollars worth of iPhones and other brands of smartphones.

The wave of brazen thefts by perpetrators armed with handguns has left cell phone boutique owners and staff very nervous – to the point where many cell phone stores stay locked until clients show some I.D. to be allowed in.

According to the Montreal daily news site La Presse, the Telus store on des Laurentides Blvd. has been robbed at least twice – in December and April.

This Telus cell phone boutique on des Laurentides Blvd. in Laval is among the communications retail outlets in greater Montreal robbed of smartphones in recent months.

The perpetrators, who arrived masked and dressed in black, pointed their weapons at employees and demanded access to a safe where smartphones (some, like the iPhone 12, worth up to $1,200 each) were stored.

Developer disappears with $17 million in house-building scam

Dozens of families who made large cash deposits in the hopes of buying new homes in Laval are finding themselves in desperate circumstances following the disappearance of the developer along with $17 million of their deposits.

According to the Montreal daily Journal de Montréal, Luc Perrier, owner of Bel-Habitat homes, solicited the money from up to 106 families, luring them with promises of discounts that increased with the more money they left as deposits.

Families also made deposits for homes in Saint-Eustache and Blainville. In some cases reported by JDM, some individuals and families have lost their life savings.

Summer’s arrived when the LPD’s bike patrollers are on duty

You know summer must really be here when the Laval Police Department deploys bike patrol officers all over the city in public places, parks and bicycle paths. They’ll be on duty all summer long until Sept. 25.

The bike team, which includes a dozen officers, has a mandate to enforce municipal by-laws and the road safety code, while ensuring peace and quiet in neighbourhoods.

The LPD says the bike patrol will also be paying attention in the coming months to seeing that motor vehicle drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians share the public roads and pathways fairly and equitably.

New this year, two members of the LPD bicycle patrol will be trying out some new electric bicycles as part of a feasibility test to see if it’s worth adding more of them to the police department’s bike fleet.

Marine patrol unit

In addition to the bike patrol, the LPD operates another auxiliary unit: the marine patrol. It will be out all summer long on the waters surrounding Laval – the Rivière des Prairies and the Rivière des Mille Îles.

They’ll be watching to see that boaters and other watercraft operators are being safe while having fun. In addition to answering calls for emergency assistance, the marine patrollers will be conducting prevention and surveillance operations.

Some of the hazards to be found on the rivers surrounding Laval are narrow channels, low water levels that expose hazards just beneath the water surface, and deceptively cold water temperatures that can bring on hypothermia quickly should boaters suddenly find themselves unexpectedly overboard.

The marine patrol recommends the following precautions:

  • Never consume alcohol before or while boating;
  • Always have on board mandatory life-preservers;
  • Follow all the marine navigation regulations;

Show respect for those living on the river’s edge by lowering your speed near the shore and lowering the volume of music aboard your watercraft.

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