Old Skool Crafts Holiday Bazaars/Movember Party
Get a jump on Holiday shopping!
When you’re done spending, eating a great lunch and filling your belly with Cupcakes and Treats, why not step into our mini massage parlor for a well deserved back rub?
MOVEMBER PARTY!
We are accepting donations for Movember (Prostate Cancer Canada)
Visit our Movemer table or Bake Sale Girl table to enter the “Best Moustashe” Contest!
4:30pm-5:30pm Win some Fun Prizes!
Present yourself near the stage at 4:30pm.
Old Skool Crafts Holiday Bazaars
Nov. 27th – 28th & Dec 11th – 12th
11am-6pm
St.Michael’s Church – 105 St.Viateur W. Montreal, Quebec. (Corner St.Urbain)
Over 40 Amazing Local Artisans!
Many different styles of Jewelry, Handmade Toys, Vintage & New Clothing, Baby Clothes and linens, Paintings & Prints, Cards, Handmade Soap, Bath & Beauty products, Homemade Chocolate, Cupcakes, Food and more!

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Evereklian delivered a short message to the veterans and their families on behalf of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. “Today, we remember our fallen soldiers, those men and women in uniform, so that their ultimate sacrifice in life is not in vain,” Evereklian said. 
The Pierrefonds-Dollard Conservative candidate, again representing Prime Minister Harper, also laid a wreath at the Veteran’s Wall of Remembrance.  
Evereklian also gave a speech on behalf of Harper to the students and staff at Riverdale High School where an assembly took place honouring Canada’s military for Veterans’ Day. 
 To learn more about Agop Evereklian and his campaign, go online to www.goagop.ca.
Cabaret closed for 35 days
Pierrefonds-Roxboro’s Cabaret Bazaz, a bar and strip club, has been forced to close its doors for the next 35 days after being caught using underage female dancers.

See the full article from “The Suburban”

Operation Nez-Rouge for a safe ride home
As the festive season approaches volunteers for Nez-Rouge (Operation Red Nose) are already preparing their teams for another safe post Christmas party escort service. This unique program is dedicated against drinking and driving and this year celebrates its 25th year of service in Laval. Operation Nez-Rouge will provide a volunteer driving service between December 3rd and 31st to all drivers who have been drinking or who do not feel fit to drive their own vehicle back home. The free service is available from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. but donations are accepted and will be returned to Laval’s minor sports associations.
Sports Laval, a nonprofit corporation, will organize the service for the 12th year in a row in the Laval and lower Laurentides regions. The operation is now recruiting volunteers to fill different positions, including drivers.

See the full article from “Laval News”

Sirois is full of stories about cases he’s seen in this city. A few years ago, he saw only three or five bedbug cases a month; now it’s between 100 and 125 a month. One time, he and his buddies went to a sports bar in the Plateau Mont Royal, plunked themselves down on an upholstered cubicle and to their great surprise, saw bedbugs crawling up the seams. Another time, they got a call to rid a Cote des Neiges cinema of bedbugs. They get calls from five-star hotels, from celebrities, from CEOs of multinational corporations, from politicians living in “des grosses cabanas” where the bugs have moved in. They know of CLSCs that swab down their waiting rooms at closing hour, alert for anything the clientele has brought in (a fact confirmed by health officials). They know of student residences where bugs have shown up. And houses of ill repute, too: Greeted at the door one day by two dolled-up dames, Sirois realized he was in an apartment used by an escort agency. “Imagine all the guys going there and bringing bedbugs back.”

See the full article from “Vancouver Sun”

Underage strippers in Pierrefonds
Cabaret Bazaz will be forced to close its doors for 35 days for employing 16-year-old girls to dance there. Photo by François Lemieux.
The Cabaret Bazaz, a strip club located on Gouin Blvd. in Pierrefonds will be forced to shut its doors for 35 days after appearing before the provincial liquor board for employing 16-year-old girls to dance in the establishment.
According to a report filed by the Montreal police to the Régie des alcools des courses et des jeux, routine checks done by policemen in June 2008 had revealed that 16-year-old girls were working as strippers there.
Note that the Cabaret’s license had been revoked in 2006 after the police found out minors had been working as strippers there in September 2004.

See the full article from “West Island Chronicle”

Joseph, who survived an assassination attempt on his life this spring, bought the home for $1,350,000 in 2008. He quickly became the man with the largest unpaid tax bill in Dollard, according to a list of homeowners with unpaid taxes.
QMI Agency revealed this fall that Joseph put the six-bedroom, lavishly furnished mansion on the market this fall with an asking price of $1,600,000 while he was in jail. It remains for sale.
Further investigation found that HSBC Bank Canada had extended a massive amount of credit to Joseph despite the gangsters lengthy criminal history of drug trafficking, physical assaults, and gun violence.
An HSBC Canada branch in St. Leonard, Que., not only gave Joseph the $1,275,000 mortgage, but also provided a $25,000 line of credit and a MasterCard with a $10,000 limit.
Though Josephs crime career includes a case where he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting and forcing a 12-year old girl into prostitution, HSBC declined to explain its dealings with him.

See the full article from “CANOE”

Here’s where things get real: During Random Recipe’s set, there was a knock on my left shoulder. And whom should I see, but venerable Prefix commenter Al. Dude lives down in Toronto (the second “T” is silent, I am told) and he was up with two buddies to spend the weekend in Montreal and meet a real celebrity (that would be me, I guess). For fear of prosecution, I’ll keep the details close to the vest, but let’s just say our night involved Jameson shots, a strip club (which are no joke here, by the way), pool hustlers, discussions about whether or not dunking had made it to Canada (it has, apparently, as proven by a Raptors highlight we saw), and lots of talk about how Daba wimped out by not coming up to party with us.

See the full article from “Prefixmag”

Though Joseph’s crime career includes a case where he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting and forcing a 12-year old girl into prostitution, HSBC declined to explain its dealings with him.

See the full article from “Toronto Sun”

MONTREAL — The title says it all.The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents its new exhibition “Rogue Cabaret: The Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix.” The exhibit delivers on both counts.”Rouge Cabaret” is the first North America major retrospective on the life and work of the German-born Dix. The exhibition features 220 paintings and sketches, 40 of which are considered “very rare, fragile,” said tour guide Doris Manzo. Thematically and chronologically displayed, topics cover “The Trenches,” “The Street,” “The Brothel,” “The Gallery,” “The Exhibition” and “The Lake.”Most of the works were painted by Dix during the German Weimer era between World War I and the rise of the Nazi party and the beginning of World War II.”The exhibit encompasses a very turbulent time,” Manzo said. “Germany was experiencing economic, political and social bedlam. There were strikes and revolts. It was a very unstable atmosphere.”An atmosphere rife for Dix to paint things as he saw them. “His works, his portraits, his nudes were never idealized,” Manzo said. “He presented things as they were. He painted real.”

See the full article from “Plattsburgh Press Republican”

Could there have been a link between the refusal of the Inuk initiative and the development of a luxury condo project at 7400 St. Laurent Blvd., a project that sailed through the borough council?
In May 2010, residents received an anonymous pamphlet in their mailbox that said: “A project proposed by the Montreal Health Agency is threatening to radically diminish the quality of life in our neighbourhood, will put your safety and security into question and might cost you thousands of dollars in terms of the resale value of your house.”
The leaflet referred people to the borough for more information. The politicians, of course, distanced themselves from this tract. But the damage was done. Inuk are the victims of racial profiling. The association is clear. The project equals homelessness, prostitution, alcoholism and criminality.

See the full article from “Montreal Gazette”