Press clippings: week of June 8, 2009 / Coupures de journaux CSL : semaine du 8 juin 2009
CSL Press Clippings
Coupures de journaux CSL
Prepared by the Department of Public Affairs and Communications
Week of June 8, 2009
Preparé par le Département des affaires publiques et des communications
Semaine du 8 juin 2009
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In this issue / Dans ce numéro
MoWest’s Stuart wants TMR’s Danyluk to lead on airport issues (The Westmount Examiner)
African Bead Expert in CSL (The Suburban)
Obituary: Finestone remembered as equal rights champion (The Suburban)
City reopens deal with recycling firm (The Gazette)
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MoWest’s Stuart wants TMR’s Danyluk to lead on airport issues
By Martin C. Barry, The Westmount Examiner
June 8, 2009
Montreal West mayor Campbell Stuart says he is waiting to see what Town of Mount Royal mayor Vera Danyluk chooses to do next, as she launches an effort to resolve airport issues through a coalition of affected municipalities.
Stuart was among handful of people who turned out for an information meeting held in Town of Mount Royal recently to hear presentations about the impact of the airport on people living under flightpaths.
Citizens for a Quality of Life (CQL), a grassroots group highly critical of the airport’s current location in Dorval, was one of the presenters.
CQL has been asking questions about the airport since international flights were transferred from Mirabel in the 1990s. The group maintains that Aéroports de Montréal, the airport authority, made the decision without impact studies and without consulting people.
After years of leading the effort on its own legally, CQL recently began encouraging all affected Montreal Island cities and boroughs to form a coalition, which would have the clout to challenge ADM politically.
The municipalities and boroughs are Côte St. Luc, Dorval, Lachine, LaSalle, Laval, Montreal West, Pointe Claire, Saint-Laurent, Saraguay-Cartierville and Town of Mount Royal. During the meeting, Danyluk suggested strongly that she is willing to lead the coalition.
“I am very, very interested in finding out how Mrs. Danyluk would like to proceed on this,” Stuart said in a later interview. “I have an enormous amount of respect for Vera Danyluk. She used to run the MUC. She’s been around for quite a while. She is a person with a lot of experience … The reason I was there was definitely to find out what she had to say …
“There are people who hold very, very strong views on this, who have a very well laid out but very rigid, I think, plan of what they would like to do,” he continued. “And I’m interested to know what they have to say, and I’ve very interested to know what Vera Danyluk has to say and where it’s going to go from here. My view, as I told them then, is that I’m going to follow Vera Danyluk’s lead. I want to find out where she’s headed on this.”
Despite that, Stuart insisted he has not been invited to join an actual coalition. “I think it’s fairly embryonic right now and I think it would be unfair to say that Vera Danyluk was actually organizing a coalition,” he said. “I think that what’s really important is that we have a dialogue and that we actually get somebody to say something from the other side on this. I will wait to hear what Mrs. Danyluk has to suggest.”
http://www.westmountexaminer.com/article-346047-MoWests-Stuart-wants-TMR...
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African Bead Expert in CSL
The Suburban
June 10, 2009
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Obituary: Finestone remembered as equal rights champion
By Joel Goldenberg, The Suburban
June 10, 2009
Sheila Finestone, the Liberal Mount Royal MP from 1984 to 1999 and a senator from 1999 to 2002, died peacefully Monday after a battle with cancer.
Before her political career began, she was deeply involved in Jewish and general community affairs, including becoming president of Women’s Federation of Allied Jewish Community Services of Montreal (now Federation CJA) and Les Federation des Femmes de Québec. She was also heavily involved on the No side in the 1980 sovereignty referendum. She also worked for the cause of Soviet Jews. Finestone was the recipient of numerous awards for all her efforts, including the Distinguished Service Award on behalf of the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians in 2008.
Current Mount Royal MP Irwin Cotler said Finestone was “a most devoted MP — a tireless worker — the welfare of whose constituents was always uppermost in her mind. She was a natural choice for Secretary of State for multiculturalism and the status of women — and reflected and represented the cases and causes of her constituents in an exemplary manner.”
Côte St. Luc mayor Anthony Housefather and councillor Allan Levine were both high ranking members of the Mount Royal riding association when Finestone represented the area. Both remembered her activism in many areas.
“I worked with her a long time,” said Housefather, who was youth vice-president of the riding from 1988 to 1997. “She was a very spunky woman. She was very dynamic, assertive and very avant-garde in terms of understanding that women deserved full equality during a generation when not everyone recognized that. She made a huge contribution during her life to the global community of Canada, Quebec, Montreal, to Côte St. Luc, Hampstead, TMR and the Jewish community. If more people put their hearts and souls into the community as she and her family did — they were people who gave back to the community — the world would be a better place.”
Levine, who was vice-president of Finestone’s riding association during her entire time as MP, said she was a “fabulous lady.
“She travelled throughout the world for women’s rights, and she also sponsored a bill against land mines. She headed the commission against anti-personnel land mines — she was a great humanitarian. She had an unbelievable amount of energy. She really loved people.”
Finestone’s funeral is being held today, Wednesday June 10 at 2 p.m. at Paperman and Sons. The family is asking that contributions in her memory be made to the “Minnie and Monroe Abbey Memorial Fund” c/o Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1-416-485-8000.
http://www.thesuburbannews.ca/content/en/1723
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City reopens deal with recycling firm
By Michelle Lalonde, The Gazette
June 11, 2009
The city of Montreal plans to reopen its 10-year contract with the Rebuts Solides Canadiens recycling company to sweeten the deal to ensure recycling services continue in Montreal despite the slow market for recyclable items.
The city of Montreal plans to reopen its 10-year contract with the Rebuts Solides Canadiens recycling company to sweeten the deal to ensure recycling services continue in Montreal despite the slow market for recyclable items.
Photograph by: John Kenney, the gazette
The city of Montreal plans to reopen its 10-year contract with the Rebuts Solides Canadiens recycling company to sweeten the deal to ensure recycling services continue in Montreal despite the slow market for recyclable items.
In the new deal, the city would subsidize RSC when market prices for recycled materials are particularly low, as they have been since the economic crisis began, and the city will share profits when and if prices go up again.
The city has agreed to pay RSC an amount equal to 65 per cent of the difference between $92.05 a tonne and either the monthly price index set by Recyc-Québec or the average sale price attained by RSC, whichever is higher, to a maximum of $35 a tonne. (Recyc-Québec is the government body that oversees recycling in the province.)
The city will not pay more than $3 million in subsidies during the contract.
When the average sale price attained by RSC exceeds $92.05, RSC is to split its profits with the city.
In October, the city signed a 10-year contract that took effect in January, whereby the city was to pick up and transport recyclables to RSC facilities at no cost to RSC; the company would separate, clean and sell the recyclables at no cost to the city.
But in May, as many recyclers across North America teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, the province passed legislation allowing cities to renegotiate their contracts.
“It is not in anybody’s interest to see these companies go bankrupt,” said Alan DeSousa, the city executive committee member responsible for environmental issues.
The city has allowed RSC to stockpile recyclables at the St. Michel Environmental Complex since the market for used paper, metal, plastic and glass tanked last fall, he noted.
At one point, almost 3,000 tonnes of materials were piled around the St. Michel complex, with more in the quarry itself. The market is picking up slightly, DeSousa said, and those stockpiles are being shipped out gradually.
mlalonde@thegazette.canwest.com
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Technology/City+reopens+deal+with+recycli...