On certain vehicles, the secondary hood latch can potentially disengage due to a tolerance build-up between the latch and catch mechanisms. If the vehicle were to be driven with the primary hood latch disengaged, there is a potential that the secondary hood latch may not hold the hood closed as designed while the vehicle is in motion. If this were to occur, it could compromise the drivers ability to see the road and its users, as well as cause damage to the windshield. These issues could result in a crash causing injury and/or property damage. Correction: Dealers will replace the secondary hood latch catch with a revised component. Note: There would be a visual warning in the instrument cluster to indicate that the primary latch would be disengaged, and for Limited and Ultimate trim models, there would be an additional audible warning.
On certain vehicles, the stop lamp switch may not have been installed properly causing and intermittent contact that could repeatedly cause the switch to cycle on and off. Over time, this may result in the stop lamp relay sticking in the on position, causing the stop lamps to remain illuminated. This could also impair the brake-shifter interlock, allowing the vehicle to inadvertently be shifted out of park position. These situations could increase the risk of a crash or a vehicle roll away causing injury and/or damage to property. Correction: Dealers will inspect the stop lamp switch for proper installation, if the switch is not installed correctly it will be re-positioned and the stop lamp relay will be replaced.
Quaker Canada, a business unit of PepsiCo Canada ULC, is recalling Quaker Harvest brand Quinoa Granola Bars and Spitz brand Sunflower Kernels from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below.
What you should do
If you think you became sick from eating a recalled product, call your doctor.
Check to see if you have recalled products in your home. Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the store where they were purchased.
Food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Symptoms can include vomiting, nausea, persistent fever, muscle aches, severe headache and neck stiffness. Pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems are particularly at risk. Although infected pregnant women may experience only mild, flu-like symptoms, the infection can lead to premature delivery, infection of the newborn or even stillbirth. In severe cases of illness, people may die.
This recall was triggered by the company. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is conducting a food safety investigation, which may lead to the recall of other products. If other high-risk products are recalled, the CFIA will notify the public through updated Food Recall Warnings.
The CFIA is verifying that industry is removing recalled product from the marketplace.
The Food Recall Warning issued on June 3, 2016 has been updated to include additional product information. This additional information was identified during the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) food safety investigation.
Saputo Inc. is recalling Neilson brand Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below.
This recall applies to Neilson brand Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk manufactured by Saputo’s Georgetown, Ontario facility (Plant registration # 1590). The Plant Registration Number “1590” that appear on packages can assist consumers in identifying the affected products.
What you should do
If you think you became sick from eating or drinking a recalled product, call your doctor.
Check to see if you have recalled products in your home. Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the store where they were purchased.
Food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Symptoms can include vomiting, nausea, persistent fever, muscle aches, severe headache and neck stiffness. Pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems are particularly at risk. Although infected pregnant women may experience only mild, flu-like symptoms, the infection can lead to premature delivery, infection of the newborn or even stillbirth. In severe cases of illness, people may die.
Background
This recall was triggered by findings by the CFIA during its investigation into a foodborne illness outbreak. The CFIA is conducting a food safety investigation, which may lead to the recall of other products. If other high-risk products are recalled, the CFIA will notify the public through updated Food Recall Warnings.
The CFIA is verifying that industry is removing recalled products from the marketplace.
Affected products
Brand name Common name Size Code(s) on product UPC
Neilson Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk, 1% m.f. 4 L All Best Before dates up to and including JN22 0 66800 00047 3
Neilson Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk, 1% m.f. 2 L All Best Before dates up to and including JN22 0 66800 00042 8
Neilson Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk, 1% m.f. 1 L All Best Before dates up to and including JN22 0 66800 00043 5
Neilson Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk, 1% m.f. 750 ml All Best Before dates up to and including JN22 0 66800 10068 5
Neilson Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk, 1% m.f. 473 ml All Best Before dates up to and including JN22 0 66800 10023 4
Neilson Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk, 1% m.f. 237 ml All Best Before dates up to and including JN22 0 66800 10017 3
On Sunday, a blaze in a 3-Storey, building in the sector of Chomedey, Laval caused 4500 homes to be without electricity, and at least 20 people had to be evacuated from their homes. When the firefighters arrived at the 8-unit apartment, the roof was in flames. The fire started at about 15:45pm at 760 boulevard Laval and was contained by 18h45pm.
No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire was due to an electrical fault.
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) would like to remind air travelers that credit card-size utility knives are not permitted in carry-on or checked baggage. These items are concealed knives and, as such, are illegal under the Criminal Code of Canada. Recently, CATSA has seen a marked increase in the number of credit card knives being intercepted across security checkpoints.
When a screening officer finds a credit card knife, the police must be notified. This causes undue delays at the checkpoint for all passengers and can lead to criminal charges and prosecution against the person carrying the item.
Before going to the airport, passengers are invited to consult the CATSA Website for information and tips on how to prepare for security screening. Questions can also be directed to 1-800-294-2202 or on Twitter @catsa_gc.
CATSA is a Crown corporation responsible for:
Pre-board screening – the screening of passengers, their carry-on baggage and their personal belongings;
Hold-baggage screening – the screening of checked baggage;
Non-passenger screening – the random screening of non-passengers; and
Restricted Area Identity Card – the administration of access control to airport restricted areas through biometric identifiers.
(SOURCE: Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) )
If you were training in track and field either for self development or for the more serious purpose of one-day competing in the Olympics, wouldn’t it be nice knowing that your trainer is one of the top three sprinters Canada ever produced?
Six years after retiring from competition, Chomedey-born Olympian Nicolas Macrozonaris – who became the third-fastest Canadian in history behind sprinting legends Bruny Surin and Donovan Bailey – is training a new generation of sprinters out of his Finalpush Athletics Track Club which meets at the Claude Robillard Sports Complex in Montreal.
The making of a sprinter
Since Nicolas’ mentor and agent was Surin himself, who won the gold for Canada in the 4×100-metre relay at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, there’s every reason to believe that Nic – who competed in two Olympics and in 2003 managed to beat then-world sprinting record holder Tim Montgomery – will be giving back to the sports community by helping raise two highly promising sprinters to the best they can achieve.
Nicolas’s top two protégés are Costa Blidjios, a 60-meter junior provincial champion, and Praise Omogbai, a 60-meter and 200-meter juvenile provincial champ. Both are western Laval residents. They went to provincial indoor championships held in Sherbrooke earlier this year where, according to Nicolas, “they competed with the best in the province” and won.
The two sprinters’ times have improved quite dramatically, according to Macrozonaris.
Inspiring athletic excellence
While they’re both Quebec champions now, Nic describes Praise as “amongst the best in the country right now in her age category. Both are phenomenal athletes. Both are extremely hard workers. I feel that sometimes working so hard for such long periods of time just gives them more and motivation to go further. That’s why I’m glad to share the news about them to hopefully inspire other young kids in our region and our communities towards athletic excellence.”
Praise, 13, a grade-eight student at Laval Junior Academy, is a double gold medalist having won medals in provincial 60-meters and 200-meters sprinting events, while Costa, 18, and a second-year student at Montreal’s Vanier College, is a 60-meter champion in his age category.
Before deciding to concentrate on sprinting, Costa played high school football for five years. Prior to that he trained in martial arts. Nicolas Macrozonaris was the catalyst who ignited Costa’s zeal first for track and field and then for sprinting.
Training with the best
“I hadn’t even thought about track and field until I met Nic and he asked me to come train with him,” he said. “I don’t think I could have found a coach that was any better than Nic. I mean he’s been there, he’s done that so he really knows his stuff.”
Praise started to acquire her taste for track and field at an earlier age than Costa, albeit with some reluctance at first. “When I was in grade five and six I was part of a track team, but I wasn’t really serious about it, I didn’t really like it,” she said. Then her parents began encouraging her “and I started liking it more and more.”
In addition to her sprinting interest she also plays basketball at Laval Junior Academy and has proven to be fairly proficient at longjump. “I think Nic has really helped me to improve more and more,” she said of her trainer. “I’ve gotten faster. The training really helps.”
Surmounting challenges
Nicolas described how Costa first had to surmount challenges before he could succeed. “When he went to the provincial championships where it all counts and they give out all the medals, that’s where he was able to execute and run the best race of his life.” Costa agreed that faced with reality, it was at the provincials that everything he’d done leading up to the moment finally connected.
Nicolas described Praise as an athlete who has worked “very consistently and very hard and she’s very cerebral as an athlete. She understands quickly. There’s a saying, ‘Learn fast or get left behind quick.’ She understands quickly what needs to be done. She started off with good times and continously has worked hard to become faster and faster.” According to Nic, Praise competed at the provincials with girls three years older and finished a highly respectable third despite the age difference.
Some notable improvements
Since training with Nicolas, Costa’s time in 60 meters has gone from 7.77 secs. to 7.23. “In the world of running that’s a big improvement,” said Nic. For her part, Praise started off the current season at 8.30 secs in 60 meters and has dropped to 7.79, which her trainer calls “a huge improvement.” For the record, Nic’s 60-metre personal best, set in Montreal in 2002, was 6.56 secs.
While Costa’s sprinting dreams are fairly modest (he wants to make the McGill University track and field team) while studying medicine at McGill at the same time, Nic said about Praise, “I think she has potential to do very, very well at the international level.” Looking far ahead, she’s considering medicine as a possible career choice.
What Nic always tells his protégés is that “school is a priority. If they can use the sport to experience things in life, great. But I feel that they both have a bright future in academics, but also in athletics. Athletics is temporary, but education will be with them for the rest of their lives.”
On a stop in Saint-Eustache last week, Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault said in an interview with the Laval News that he’s not disappointed the Liberals decided to kill Bill 86 – the government’s controversial legislation which would have done away with elected school boards across the province.
We spoke to Legault last week just a few days after the Liberals announced they were withdrawing Bill 86. It would have fundamentally changed the province’s education system by replacing school commissions with a new and non-elected form of governance.
“I think it’s a good thing,” Legault said, “because right now we have to focus on services, not on structures. But it’s clear that we have a government that improvises. It doesn’t make sense that after two years – they’re not there since two weeks but two years – and still they don’t know what they want to do with school boards.”
Copy catting the CAQ
Legault noted that new recommendations by Liberal Education Minister Sébastien Proulx, including kindergarten starting at age four, were originally suggestions that had been made by the CAQ. “We had proposed putting in place school starting at four years old like they have in Ontario and many other places,” he said.
Legault speculated on what motivated Premier Philippe Couillard to back down from his earlier hardline stance on education reform which saw the education minister’s portfolio change hands several times. “He saw that after three ministers of education he was still not going anywhere. He didn’t have a clear idea of what he wanted to do.
“You must remember that during the last electoral campaign, he was against our proposals,” he continued. “So he changed his mind to focus on CAQ’s proposals about decentralization, but he still doesn’t know what to do. It’s improvisation in education. It doesn’t make sense. I was minister of education for three years in a row, but now for the last two years we’ve had three ministers of education in a row. This is not good for our children.”
Laval Caquiste Skeete wades in
Christopher Skeete, a Laval resident who ran for the CAQ in 2014 in Fabre and who is currently vice-president of the CAQ’s western Quebec political association, said the government’s emulation of CAQ ideas “is just another example of them copying everything that we propose.
“And what’s really funny this time is that they’re copying us less than a week after,” he added. “What really matters to us is that the right policies get put into place and we’re just happy to make sure that we can deliver for the kids. We’re not worried about who gets the credit. We know that people are aware that they’re our ideas and we’re the ones who are proposing them in the first place.”
When announcing during the QLP’s recent party convention the government’s intention to drop Bill 86, Premier Couillard also mentioned that he felt the province’s English-language school boards were a model of governance that should be looked at as an example by all in the sector. Legault agreed with that assessment.
“I’ve been saying that for a long time,” said Legault. “We see that success rates are higher on the English side. But I would also suggest to Mr. Couillard to see what’s happening in the Jewish community. In the 10 or 12 schools of the Jewish community in Quebec, the diploma rate is 99 per cent. Why is that? Because it’s a question of valuing education, it’s a question of decentralization also.”
Vehicle registration surtax
On another topic, Legault said the CAQ is aiming to win all provincial ridings in Montreal’s North Shore region as well as in the Lower Laurentians in the Quebec general election in the fall of 2018. If the CAQ does indeed succeed in augmenting its share in ridings where the PQ currently holds sway, some of it may be the result of recently implemented Liberal policies in transportation and public transit, which could end up impacting the common man’s pocketbook.
Last week, as the finishing touches were put on Bill 76, the ruling Liberal government’s legislation to even the field in greater Montreal for the allocation of public transit services while determining who should pay the cost, the CAQ pointed out that the law will force drivers who live on the North Shore to pay a punitive $45 surtax on their usual vehicle registration fee.
A disincentive to drive
The surcharge is a disincentive to North Shore residents for using the car and an incentive for ditching the vehicle and switching to public transportation. In the 2014 provincial election, the CAQ gained four seats to rise from 18 to 22 ridings in the National Assembly. It remains to be seen if the vehicle registration issue will change anything at the ballot box in the 2018 general election.
“When we look at the surveys we are consistently rising,” said Legault. At the same time, he pointed out that there’s a “dissatisfaction” with the government “that doesn’t stop going up.” All in all, according to Legault, the province’s voters aren’t interested in Quebec sovereignty. “But what they need to understand is that we are the alternative – not the Liberal Party,” he said.
The City of Laval won an Ovation Award (UMQ Award) for human resources, management and contract operations during the recent annual gathering of the Union des Municipalités du Québec (UMQ).
In November 2014, a partnership between Laval and the École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP) was formed to study and research the general reorganization of the City of Laval’s administration. The report on the endeavour was judged by the UMQ awards committee to be worthy of an Ovation Award.
ENAP study
“When were reorganizing our administration, we sought out input from experts in order to get a critical examination of our work,” said Mayor Marc Demers. “It turned out to be a good decision and the city has become an example to be followed as a result.
“Above being a revision of ways to do things, it’s also a change of culture that was introduced,” he added. “More important, though, our goal is to give confidence back to our citizens and to our employees. From what I see, that’s what this award is all about.”
Stonework and other repairs to take place this summer
(TLN) Sainte-Rose Liberal MNA Jean Habel has announced a grant of $303,027 from the Quebec government for restoration and repair work to be conducted at Église Sainte-Rose-de-Lima in Laval’s Sainte-Rose neighbourhood.
Sainte-Rose Liberal MNA Jean Habel has announced a grant of $303,027 from the Quebec government for restoration and repair work of Église Sainte-Rose-de-Lima
Religious heritage
“Religious heritage is an important witness to the evolution of Quebec society,” Quebec Culture and Communications Minister Hélène David said in a statement. “Its conservation is essential in order to favour a better interpretation of the contributions of our predecessors.
“By giving out financial aid to ensure the maintenance of these infrastructures, our government wants to ensure they are preserved so that they can be passed on to future generations,” she added.
Habel said he was very pleased to see major restoration work about to begin on the church to ensure the continuation of a magnificent building. “Whoever has entered this place has left impressed by the beauty of this heritage building,” he said. “It is thus part of our duty to make the necessary efforts so that this unique church is kept in a good state.”
Conducted in phases
According to the provincial government, the work at the church will be conducted in two phases. The first will see the stonework on the north and north-west sides of the church repointed. A second phase involving restoration of a covered structure adjoining the church on the west side will take place over the course of this summer.
“We are pleased to announce the beginning of the restoration work on our church,” said church pastor Michel Bouchard. “I would like to thank the government of Quebec for its financial assistance.”
