SINCE 1963 CITY EDITION Kitchens & Bathrooms $999 (514) 945-5823 www.nisan-kitchens.co m By Joel Goldenberg The Suburban Côte St. Luc may ease up on its longtime restrictions on left turns off westbound Fleet Road, The Suburban has learned. This and other traffic issues are on the agenda of Councillor Dida Berku's upcoming District 3 council meeting, being held 7 p.m. July 8 at Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem Synagogue on Baily Road. Berku told The Suburban Thursday that Côte St. Luc council is considering lessening the restrictions on left turns even further than is currently the case. "We're floating the idea with the residents," the councillor said. For many years, left turns off For all your decorating needs VELK: TOWARDS A NEW QUIET ECONOMIC REVOLUTION, PAGE 15 Fleet heading towards Cavendish Blvd. were prohibited altogether. Now, they are allowed between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. Monday to Friday, and any time on weekends. Berku said the further loosening could involve allowing left turns e ...

2 * THE SUBURBAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010 Around the Towns ITZHAK PERLMAN LECTURE Côte St. Luc's Eleanor London Library is presenting a lecture by Sherry Steinberg, who will speak about the "life, adventures and career of Itzhak Perlman, one of the all-time great violinists and musicians of the world. The lecture takes place tomorrow Thursday, July 8 at 7 p.m.. Tickets are $3. For more information, call 514-485-6900. MEDIA FACILITIES AT CSL CITY HALL Côte St. Luc recently set up a press table at city hall for the monthly council meetings, complete with facilities for media to connect their tape recorders to a mechanism to enable clear sound. For at least 20 years, The Suburban has taken residence at a desk that also contains the meeting agenda, but the recorded sound from that position was frequently unclear because of the position of speakers in the room. Now, thanks to the city and communications director Darryl Levine, that problem has been resolved. Hampstead has a press table at i ...

NEWS AND ANALYSIS Traffic turning people off MUHC By Abby E. Schachter The Suburban MUHC - The McGill University Health Centre is meant to improve lives, reads a sign overlooking one of the hospital's construction sites. However, the irony of such a statement was made clear after local Westmount and NDG residents voiced their disapproval about the current access problems. Anna Rioux, a NDG resident, travels regularly to Westmount to care for her elderly mother. Rioux says that the road closures and construction has added stress to her life. "I'm pretty annoyed. I have to switch routes and improvise. When I'm running late, I get slowed down by construction. It's really inconvenient." Rioux added that closing off roads is not the main problem, "It would be fine if it was properly planned, I mean how much longer do you think this will last?" Glen Road was agreed to be used as an emergency access point only back in 2007. No one expected such disorder. A mass relocation of bus routes and ex ...

NEWS & ANALYSIS 4 * THE SUBURBAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010 Rue Vézina Praw makes his mark at Just For Laughs Boulevard Décarie Avenue Coolbrook Avenue Clanranald Mike Cohen He is one of the key architects of the Just for Laughs Festival, having moved from a small support role six years ago to manager of programming for the Montreal, Toronto and Chicago events. Ask St. Laurent native Robbie Praw how he does it and the immediate response is to share the accolades with his programming team. "We are a team of 12," Praw was telling me last week. "Six in the office and six talent scouts in places like New York, LA and London. And of course there is CEO Bruce Hills and Andy Nulman, who just came back as president. We were just at the Chicago festival together and got on the telephone with Steve Martin and closed the deal to bring him to Montreal. That was cool, especially for me since I am a big fan of his." The Montreal Festival is underway and continues until July 25. Praw attended Gardenvie ...

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6 * THE SUBURBAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010 NEWS & ANALYSIS COUNCIL Cont'd from page 1 meetings. Goldwax and Gonshor opposed the motion to ban Gonshor. "I don't believe the intentions [to resolve the issue] are there," Goldwax said. "I'm shocked." "I thought we were all going to sit down and talk about it!" said Gonshor. Monday's council meeting, where this issue dominated, was very fractious. Former councillor Lillian Vineberg, her husband Stephen Vineberg and council regular Rachel Genziuk were escorted out of the meeting by public security on orders from Mayor William Steinberg for speaking or protesting out of turn from their seats. Catcalls could be heard during the meeting and, at one point, one resident told another to "shut the f--k up." As seen in opinion articles signed by Steinberg and most of council in last week's Suburban and a letter by Gonshor to residents and included in this week's Suburban, Gonshor and most of the rest of council are at odds over part of the Code of Et ...

NEWS & ANALYSIS Westmount's pro-active graffiti fight By P.A. Sévigny The Suburban Even if Westmount's $70,000 cannot match the $700,000 the CDN/NDG borough is spending to fight the city's taggers, Westmount city managers are confident they can hold their own against the city's ubiquitous taggers and their insidious graffiti. "If we're going to deal with this problem," said Westmount Public Security Director Richard Bourdon, "the city will have to develop a proactive partnership with its own population." In a word, Bourdon believes presence makes a difference. As long as city residents remain vigilant and report damage done to their property as soon as it occurs, authorities believe the taggers will soon begin to look elsewhere for what a few describe as an urban art form and what everybody else describes as a pathetic and self indulgent waste of time and money. When asked why Westmount seemed to be less affected by the problem when compared to its neighbors, Bourdon said people made a ...

8 * THE SUBURBAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010 NEWS & ANALYSIS FRUITERIE GREEN CANADIAN * Farm Fresh Fruits & Vegetables * Cheese * Dairy Products * Nuts * Bread VISIT OUR OUTDOOR MARKET * Grocery & Kosher Grocery BANANAS $1.30 kg CHERRIES $4.38 kg 6444 Somerled (near Cavendish) FREE DELIVERY RED SEEDLESS GRAPES $2.84 kg "We had a vision for the neighbourhood to transform it into a residential sector," said Applebaum. He added that new homeowners could benefit from rebates and grants totalling as much as $16,000. He also sees an eventual tramway route running from Blue Bonnets (where more housing development is possible), through NJT, along Côte des Neiges Rd., into the downtown core. The NJT development plan is facing criticism from housing and community groups. Denyse Lacelle, the coordinator of the Corporation de Développement Communautaire de Côte des Neiges (CDC), recently told The Suburban that she fears NJT projects are geared, not toward families as the borough is suggesting, but to ...

NEWS & ANALYSIS CDN/NDG was well prepared for moving chaos By P.A. Sévigny The Suburban As usual, July's holiday weekend is often reduced to a logistical nightmare as Montreal's moving day madness takes over the city's normally quiet residential streets. While some tenants are moving out of their old apartments, others are moving in and a lot of snap decisions are made about mattresses and dressers. Within hours after the trucks are gone, everybody's knocking back a beer while waiting for some pizza, but the streets are still piled high with tons of decrepit and broken furniture which means the borough has to pick up the mess. While some of the city's boroughs admit they were overwhelmed by the tsunami of moving day detritus, experience has taught CDN/NDG borough managers how their failure to plan almost always guarantees their plan to fail. "We paid a lot of people overtime," said borough spokesman Francois Puchin. "Over the moving day period, we had four extra trucks on the road pick ...

10 * THE SUBURBAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010 NEWS & ANALYSIS Henri-Bradet Centre receives Quebec funding for renovations By Joel Goldenberg The Suburban The Henri-Bradet Residential Centre will be undergoing $1.487 million in renovations thanks to funding from the Quebec government, D'Arcy McGee MNA Lawrence Bergman announced last week. Bergman made the announcement on behalf of Lise Thériault, Quebec's min- ister for social services. The centre is part of the Cavendish Health and Social Services Center (CSSS). According to the CSSS website, the NDG-based centre is "a community day program that provides preventative and therapeutic activities for seniors living at home who have lost some autonomy whether physical, cognitive or psychosocial." "For residents, the Henri-Bradet Care Centre is their living environment," Bergman said in a prepared statement. "The investments we are announcing today will help improve their quality of life, enhance the work environment of staff members, and make ...