Volume 3, No 17 , 20 pages • CORNWALL, ON • MARCH 13, 2013
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Citizen’s group gets much-needed breathing room for hospital proposal Concerned Citizens Coalition members Josh Welsh, left, and Mark MacDonald pose for a photo next to a lawn sign at Cornwall city hall after a press conference Friday, seeking administrative support from the city for their planned purchase and conversion of the former Cornwall General Hospital. Page 3
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Olymel ready to rebound: Vigneault
CRIME SCENE
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Marijuana seized A North Glengarry man has been charged after SD&G OPP discovered marijuana during a traffic stop on Main Street in Alexandria around 10:30 p.m. last Wednesday. The stop resulted in the seizure (small amount) of suspected marihuana. The 26-year-old driver, Corey Major of North Glengarry was arrested after police seized a small amount of marijuana. He is charged with possession schedule II cannabis marijuana He is scheduled to appear in Alexandria court on April 13. Teens charged Two teens face charges after SD&G OPP seized about 17 grams of marijuana during a traffic stop on County Road 2 in South Glengarry on Thursday. Steve Bell and Kevin Gent, both 18, of South Glengarry Township, face a charge of possession schedule II cannabis mari- juana They are both scheduled to appear in Alexandria court on May 13. The approxi- mate street value of the seized drugs is $170. Guard assaulted Brandon Jacobs, 18, of Cornwall was ar- rested on Thursday. It is alleged that on March 5, he assault- ed a 48-year-old male security guard. The victim was not injured. He was charged with assault and re- leased to appear in court on April 23. Girl hurt in assault A 14-year-old Cornwall youth was ar- rested on March 5 after it was alleged that on March 3, she and a 15-year-old girl were at her residence when they be- came involved in a physical altercation. The victim suffered minor injuries. Po- lice were contacted and an investigation followed. The youth was charged with assault and was released to an adult to appear in court on April 18. Her name is not be- ing released as per provisions under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Caused disturbance Kelly Allen, 49 of Cornwall was arrested on March 5 after it was alleged he was causing a disturbance under the influ- ence of alcohol on Feb. 21. He was charged with causing a Distur- bance and two counts of failing to com- ply with recognizance. He was held in custody until court the following day. He was bound by a recognizance with the conditions to abstain from the con- sumption of alcohol absolutely or being found anyplace where alcohol is sold save restaurants and not to be away from my residence except with surety.
A bacon processor in Cornwall is hoping an expansion to diversify its product line, coupled with the anticipated renewal of its United States export licence, will help turn around the plant’s fortunes. The company laid off 75 workers within the past couple of weeks at its plant be- cause of a reduction of orders due to in- creased U.S. competition that has resulted from the high Canadian dollar. “Temporary layoffs are never a good thing,” said Richard Vigneault, spokesman for Olymel Canada. But he stressed a bright- er future could be in store for the plant once it gets the green light to resume U.S. exports and completes an expansion at the plant to diversify its product line. The company has been subject to “fierce competition from American products for two to three years” that is “flooding the Ca- nadian market” because of the high Cana- dian dollar, Vigneault said. The high dollar makes it cheaper for large grocery chains to import American bacon instead of buying the Canadian-made prod- uct. It has forced Olymel to control costs and become more efficient to compete with the cheaper American products. “Still the Canadian dollar is very high…
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Workers sit outside the Olymel bacon processing plant in Cornwall in this August 2011 file photo from The Journal. The plant recently laid off 75 workers but is work- ing to turn its fortunes around.
it’s an obstacle to exportation most of the time,” said Vigneault, and not just to Olymel but all Canadian manufacturers. But Vigneault is hoping an expansion that will allow the plant to diversify with prod- ucts like smoke ham will help the company regain market share “so we can go back to full capacity.” “It’s a huge expansion,” Vigneault added, but did not have exact figures to provide The Journal . The work is expected to be completed by the end of the year. Some more good news – the anticipated renewal of the company’s export licence to
the United States – should also boost the company’s fortunes, Vigneault said. The company lost its export licence and was shut down by the Canadian Food In- spection Agency in August 2011 after a tainted shipment of bacon was detected at the American border. The plant began re-opening gradually in January 2012 after extensive work to comply with CFIA criteria. The Industrial Drive plant had about 259 employees prior to the layoff. It is now working with 184 employees. Work on the expansion is expected to be completed by the end of the year, Vigneault said.
Mayor says he’s not in conflict of interest in closed sessions
Kilger’s statement. Brunning also represented Diane Shay in a case of whistleblower retaliation in 2011 in which the city became the first municipality ever to be convicted under the province’s whistleblower retaliation legislation. Kilger, in his statement, said he received independent legal advice from the national law firm of Blake, Cassels & Graydon indicat- ing he has not been in a conflict of interest situation with respect to the matters dis- cussed at the in-camera meetings. “While I accept my lawyer’s advice that there is no conflict of interest, I do not intend to participate in any of council’s future con- sideration of these specific matters because I would like Council to deal with these matters with as few complications as possible.” Kilger issued the statement to explain his involvement in two in-camera sessions of would eventually hold a press conference explaining why he left his seat. The news release was originally planned for June, when an internal investigation of city hall by lawyer Judith Allen was due to be completed. But the investigation by Al- len was delayed due to unforeseen circum- stances. “I now believe it has been completed or is
city council in February. “There was an in camera meeting of city council on Feb. 19 regarding personnel matters. The same matters were also briefly discussed during a portion of an in-camera meeting on Feb. 11. I did not attend the Feb. 19 meeting and I recused myself from a por- tion of the Feb. 11 meeting while these mat- ters were discussed because I wanted to ob- tain independent legal advice as to whether I was in a conflict of interest,” Kilger said. “If I was in a conflict of interest situation with respect to the matters discussed at these meetings, the Municipal Conflict of In- terest Act states that, because I was absent from the one meeting, I must declare that conflict at the next regular meeting of coun- cil. Accordingly, I did not have a conflict of in- terest declaration to make at the city council meeting of Feb. 25,” he said. nearing completion,” O’Shaughnessy said in explaining the timing of the news release. O’Shaughnessy refuses to refer to the Allen investigation by name, describing it simply as “work” that was initiated “behind closed doors” after he left council. “Everyone knows what it is, but I am bound by the confidentiality of closed-door sessions,” he said.
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Cornwall Mayor Bob Kilger, in a highly unusual move, has issued a news release stating he is not in conflict of interest in a personnel matter being dealt with by city council. But despite being assured by a major le- gal firm that he is not in conflict, he recused himself from a portion of a Feb. 11 meeting a skipped a Feb. 19 meeting during which the matter is being discussed, he said. An Ottawa lawyer has weighed in on the a statement Kilger indicating he is not in con- flict of interest regarding one key personnel issue being dealt with by city council. Fay Brunning, who represents two city employees who filed for whistleblower pro- tection early last year, is taking issue with
City councillor who resigned to issue press release detailing reasons GREG KIELEC GREG.KIELEC@EAP.ON.CA
A city councillor who walked away in frus- tration from city hall last year will issue a news release Monday explaining why he made the unprecedented move. Leslie O’Shaughnessy promised when he resigned from council in April 2012 that he
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RE/MAX CORNWALL REALTY INC. been discovered by the Cornwall Fire De- partment. The remains were sent for a forensic ex- amination at which time they have identi- fied to be remains of the elderly resident of the home who had died months prior to the discovery. The investigation into this matter is com- pleted, according to Cornwall police, and no foul play was suspected.
No foul play is suspected in the death of an elderly man whose skeletal remains were found at a home on Alice Street in Cornwall two months ago. Cornwall police were called to a residence in 300 block of Alice Street, around 2:30 p.m. Jan. 9 after skeletal remains that had
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Group hoping to buy hospital gets time to round up support Councillor David Murphy, left, answers a reporter’s question while fellow council- lor Andre Rivette looks on during a press conference in front of city hall Friday by a group trying to purchase the old Cornwall General Hospital
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support(s) you require,” she finished in the tersely worded letter. The group is hoping to speak to city council at its next meeting to solicit ad- ministrative support for the project. “Our city council has to help (by) providing the administrative and technical support we re- quire to move on,” said Wilson. “The only way this will succeed is if we are pulling in the same direction, making sure this facility is used for the common good and social benefit of the community, with a focus on seniors.” “It is similar to Victoria Village in Barrie and we are following a similar process,” he said, referring to a recent exclusive story on the successful conversion of the former Royal Victoria Hospital into a multi-use, seniors’- focused centre. MacDonald said after the announcement he does not know how much time the hos- pital is allowing the group. But he said the fact the group’s offer was not rejected out- right by the hospital board at its meeting late Thursday afternoon is good news. Two council members at the press confer- ence, David Murphy and André Rivette, said they support the project but are unwilling to see city dollars spent on the former Corn- wall General Hospital site.
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A community group hoping to purchase the former Cornwall General Hospital has been given a little bit of a precious com- modity – time. The announcement was made by coali- tion members Mark MacDonald and Ian Wilson during a highly symbolic press con- ference in front of city hall Friday afternoon. “We are thrilled with this latest develop- ment,” said Ian Wilson of the community group “This is a huge step forward. We have to put politics aside and work together.” The granting of time for the group was indicated in a letter to Mark MacDonald of the Concern Citizens Coaltion from Helene Periard, chair of the Cornwall Community Hospital’s board of directors. “As you know, we are engaged in a pro- cess where we have made commitments which involve timelines. These will be re- spected for all involved,” said Periard in a somewhat cryptic letter. “We expect that the timelines will per- mit opportunity for you to pursue the
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Quilters to meet The Cornwall Quilters Guild will hold their monthly meeting on Monday, March 18, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in St. Matthews Lu- theran Church Hall located at 1509 Sec- ond Street West, Cornwall. Nomination meeting Brian Lynch, president of the Stormont- Dundas-South Glengarry Provincial NDP riding association, has announced that the local provincial NDP riding association will be holding their nomination meet- ing on Wednesday March 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Navy Veterans Association, 30 Sixth St., E., Cornwall. Everyone is welcome to attend the NDP nomination meeting and AGMs on March 27. Smoking issue The Ontario Coalition for Smoke Free Movies, the Youth Ambassadors of the Eastern Ontario Health Unit and Cana- dian Cancer Society volunteer youth will be hosting a free movie event Thursday, (March 14) for teens between the ages of 13 and 18 to raise awareness of the ef- fects of smoking in movies. The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Galaxy Cinemas in Cornwall. In Transition 2.0 The public is invited to join Transition Cornwall+ at the Cornwall Public Library on March 24, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. for the first public screening of the film “In Transi- tion 2.0” by the originators of the Transi- tion movement in Totnes. It will give ex- amples of how people from around the world, are responding to uncertain times with creativity, solutions and engaged op- timism, this film is a story of resilience and hope in extraordinary times. Also shown will be an inspiring short clip called “Start Something Together”. Student fundraiser A fundraiser will be held April 6 for Up- per Canada District School Board Student Brody Froats. The 17-year-old was born with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS), a debil- itating disease that causes obesity, severe muscle atrophy, and heart and respira- tory problems. The fundraiser will be held at the Matilda Community Hall in Dixons Corners. Admission is by donation only. Call 613-543-3841 or 613-543-3983 or email myrnaanderson@xplornet.com to make reservation. Email your coming events to lyse.emond@ eap.on.ca. // Envoyez vos événements à lyse. emond@eap.on.ca. communautaire Le lien community link The
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There has been ample reason of late to worry about the state of our democracy in Cornwall. I question if democracy, in the true sense of the notion, as so aptly laid out in our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, even exists to its fullest extent, the way those who crafted Canada’s cher- ished document had intended. The conduct of some – not all – at city hall, and their often selective interpretation of the law at all levels, came to a fore at the Feb. 25 when a reporter was evicted from council for wearing a T-shirt that Mayor Bob Kilger found offensive. Then, protesters saw signs they had respectfully left outside the council chambers disappear after manhan- dled by city Councillor Syd Gardiner only to show up a week later bent and creased at police headquarters. Both events were disturbing in that they were basic attacks on two major and cher- ished tenets of our charter or rights: the freedom of the press and freedom of ex- pression, that includes the right to peaceful protest, even in the city of Cornwall’s hal- lowed halls. But while the events of Feb. 25 may have been shocking to some, they are no surprise to those who have been following the tri- als and tribulations of those at city hall over the past few years. The protesters may have been the unfortunate canaries in the coal mine, but the noxious odour of a democ- racy gone bad has been slowly smothering
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Above is a photo of one of the damaged protest signs posted on Facebook by Chris- topher Cameron from the Feb. 25 protest at Cornwall city hall. No charges were laid against the councillor accused of damaging them.
pattern that has consistently emerged from city hall since the Diane Shay whistleblower case, and perhaps even before. One only needs to look back 11 months ago, to last April, when a damning report from closed meeting investigator Stephen Fournier sanctioned the mayor and city council for an ambush of Councillor Andre Rivette that was allowed to take place dur- ing a closed section of council, in clear viola- tion of the Ontario Municipal Act. Fournier also laid out a detailed road map on how council should adopt best practices used by other municipalities to bring its ac- tions within the law and ensure the utmost transparency and accountability for Corn- wall ratepayers. But what really has changed? The Journal has learned there are now two more closed meeting complaints filed against the city that are being investigated by Fournier, who readily admits that while he can make recommendations to council, he has no power to enforce them. Since late 2011, the city has been convict- ed of retaliating against a whistle-blower, has been criticized for improperly treating an employee by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, has been slammed by an inves- tigator for improper conduct during an in- camera session and has lost a sitting coun- cillor who resigned over frustration with the lack of information given councillors during decision-making processes. Please see “CITY’S”: Page 5
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Cornwall police Service are investigating a Break & Enter that occurred Friday, at a Tollgate Road East rear residential shed. The suspects gained entry and removed a large amount of tools, including a digital vernier caliper, and socket and wrench sets. Variety of tools stolen in Tollgate Road break and enter
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pal Act that municipalities give the most information possible about in camera ses- sions – including the names of those in at- tendance -- without divulging the private information. It is evident when the city released the terms of its settlement of former human resource manager Robert Menagh, but to this day still refuses to release information pertaining to the settlement granted for- mer Glen-Stor-Dun Lodge administrator Donna Derouchie, despite a recent order from adjudicator Diane Smith of the Infor- mation and Privacy Commissioner of On- tario’s office to do so. So where is the accountability, where is
What we have in Cornwall – and I have witnessed it first-hand and through a vari- ety of inside sources over the few years –is an executive branch that has seized power from the democratically elected body to use it as it wishes, not unlike the unprece- dented powers seized by the White House during the two presidencies of George W. Bush. It is one thing for council to make bad decisions on information it receives from administration, lawyers or outside consul- tants. It is quite another thing for council to be left in the dark, forced into making decisions during closed sessions not knowing whether they are getting the full story. One thing is quite his vice-president Dick Cheney – do not feel that the laws of the land are applicable to Cornwall, and more specifically to Corn- wall city council and its top bureaucrats. They treat the law with disdain, like an unappealing suggestion which they may ignore if it does not suit their needs. It was evident when protesters signs were maligned and a reporter was evicted for a rather inoffensive T-shirt on Feb. 25. It was evident when until recently, coun- cil ignored a requirement in the Ontario Municipal Act that all meetings begin in open session, even those held specifically for in-camera discussion. It was evident when on two occasions mail sent to individual councillors citing concerns about the operation of Glen- Stor-Dun Lodge was intercepted by the executive branch and never arrived in the hands of city councillors It is evident when the city clerk refuses to reveal who even was in attendance during an in camera meeting of council, despite a requirement under the Ontario Munici- clear, this adminis- tration, and some members of council – much like Bush and
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of their mouths? Are the terms account- ability and transparency meaningless eu- phemisms for business as usual? Much of what happens in front of the television cameras is a well-rehearsed charade to keep the eyes of the media and the public off the ball. It is, what they call in politics, “optics”, or “messaging” – a concerted campaign to keep the public focused on what the powerbrokers want them to know, not what the public really needs to know. Power can have different shades and dif- ferent meanings depending upon who is using it and the context in which it is used. Power is often equated with money. It is also equated with political influence. Of- ten the two sources of power – money and political station – combine in a way that benefits both sides of the equation, but often at the expense of the average citizen who has access to neither. It is time that the power is turned back to the citizens of this great city and their duly elected council.
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From left, Lancaster Optimist Club life member Kevin McLeod and club president Anne Donkers presented a $1,000 cheque to Tish Humphries of the Cornwall Com- munity Hospital Foundation. The presentation was made during the club’s 25-years- plus anniversary celebration. The money was raised during normal fundraising held by the club which has been serving Lancaster and area for 27 years.
The Lancaster Optimist Club was awarded a special scroll from Queen’s Park to mark its 25-years-plus anniversary celebrations at the Lancaster Legion recently. Pictured left is Jim McDonell, MPP for Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry, presented the scroll to Optimist club president Anne Donkers.
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Pop culture is everywhere around us, from political campaigns, to music, to Hol- lywood, and in society as a whole. But for one cartoonist and illustrator, originally from Cornwall, it has become a passion which has garnered him one million fol- lowers on his social network pages. Joel Poirier, a freelance comic illustrator, has a superhero spoof anthology at www. strippedcomics.com and an online game of art and trivia at bigtwinkies.tumblr.com where he showcases his drawings from 80s films. Poirier readily admits he is a junkie for pop culture from the mid-late 20th century. “Movies, music, comic books, video games, pretty much everything ‘cult’. I’m a hipster geek,” said Poirier. Poirier, now married, has a great career in graphic design, and his art is increasing in popularity. He always loved to draw, and it became a big part of his life, and has shaped who he is today. “Art is a never-ending process of self-im- provement,” said Poirier. “When you take up something like drawing, at no point do you ever reach a level where you say “okay, this is the best I’m ever going to be.” There’s al- ways room for improvement. You’re always trying to do better. Having a good inner critic is essential to the self-improvement process and if you’re drawing for pleasure it can be quite helpful. But when you’re creat- ing for a business project, when you have a deadline, the inner critic can be an obstacle. Drawing for a living, and a hobby is the ultimate form of self-expression for Po- irier, and he readily admits it is the easiest way for him to connect with strangers. “It’s a habit as much as a hobby” quips Poirier. “I love to create and my current job as a graphic designer gives me free reign to re- ally flex my brain muscles and come up with unique ideas. When I get passionate about a project I have a laser beam-like focus and I can put a ton of energy into it over a long period of time.” Please see “I’D LIKE’: Page 8 Comic pages to reality LISA ETHERINGTON- RUNIONS
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It will be a Highway 401 series to start the playoffs for the CCHL’s Cornwall Colts. In an anti-climactic end to the regular sea- son, the Colts lost 7-2 to the Carleton Place Canadians Sunday afternoon to drop into third overall, earning them a match up with their river rivals the Brockville Braves starting in Cornwall Thursday night. The Colts hit the ice Sunday without two of their three top scorers, including league scoring title winner Michael Pontarelli, Mitch Zion, Carl Belizario and their captain Stephen Johnson, all but guaranteeing a loss to the Canadians. Had the Colts won, they would have faced the Smiths Falls Bears in the first round. In- stead it will be up to the Canadians to con- tain the feisty Ottawa Valley team. The Colts had an even record of three wins and three losses against both the Bears and the Braves during the regular season. Pietro Antonelli got the Colts on the boad first with a marker from Jake Bannister and Marly Quince 8:33 into the first period, but the game quickly deteriorated over the next two and a half periods. The Canadians scored five unanswered goals – two in the latter half of the first, two in the second and one early in the third to take a commanding 5-1 lead. Marly Quince made it interesting with a power play marker from Kevin Hope and Jake Bannister 8:12 into the third, but were unable to cash in on a subsequent power play at the 10 minute mark.
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Michael Pontarelli of the Cornwall Colts tries a wrap-around move on the Brockville Braves goalie during action at the Ed Lumley Arena in Cornwall in Dec. 6. The Colts will face the Braves in the first round of the CCHL Tier 1 playoffs beginning in Cornwall to- morrow (Thursday).
The Canadians increased their lead to 6-2 with 6:33 left in the game, and the Colts could not reply with Tyson Stewart of the Canadians in the box for roughing one min- ute later. The Canadians added one more with 27 seconds left to play to make the final score 7-2. Pontarelli finishes the regular season with 52 goals and 55 assists to take the league
scoring title with 107 points, seven points ahead of the Braves’ Ben Blasko and 14 goals ahead of the second leading goal scorer. The Cornwall Colts put themselves in a position to snatch second overall over the Canadians with a 7-1 routing of the Nepean Raiders Thursday night in Cornwall. The win temporarily put the Colts back into first place in the Robinson Division, two
points ahead of the Carleton Place Canadi- ans. But a Canadians’ victory over the Brock- ville Braves Friday night saw the Colts and Canadians tied heading into Sunday’s game. Brandon Hope led the Colts in scoring with two goals against the Raiders and Michael Pontarelli stretched his league scoring lead to seven points over Brockville’s Ben Blasko with a three-point night.
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have had the biggest influence on my life, followed by music and comic books. “Movies got me at an early age. I’ve seen so many of them in my life that I can almost plot the course of my life by them.” “My memories of a particular film are often tied to the events and circum- stances of my life at the time that I first saw it.” Re-watching a movie like “Batteries Not Included” takes me back to being 7 years old and playing Fireball Island with my cousins before their babysit- ter took us to see the movie in the the- atre.” Although he is always drawing in his spare time, watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, cook- ing with his wife Dorothy, and scour- ing through books and comic books for inspiration help him to escape and
relax after work. “I enjoy reading sci- ence fiction and fantasy novels. My fa- vourite series right now is George Mar- tin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. I also like to read biographies of musicians, actors and comedians and of course, need you ask, comic books,” said Poirier with a smile. When asked if there is anything in his life he would like to change or do again, Poirier admits he doesn’t know if he would ever want to change any- thing about his life thus far.” “I’m happy now and I wouldn’t be where I am without the good and the bad experiences I’ve had, and the choices I’ve made. In the future I would like to continue making a living at something I enjoy doing. “Being happy, healthy, raising a fam- ily, and being able to live comfortably within my means is what defines suc- cess for me.
Poirier’s Pulp Comics are greatly in- fluenced by movies. Pulp comics have a story, artwork, a series of events, su- perheroes and unique characters that develop the plot and they conclude with a surprise ending. Comics today are in an upward spiral, and have grown in popularity with shows like “The Big Bang Theo- ry” which zeros in on comics and the superhero memorabilia showcased at the annual “Comicon” convention highlighted in that series. Poirier’s site bigtwinkies.tumblr.com plays host to an online weekly Name That 80s Movie contest, a game of art and trivia where Poirier draws some- thing from an 80s film and you guess what it is for a chance to win some original artwork. “I guess you could say that movies
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plancher sur une dictée lue par le journali- ste de CHOD FM, Marc Charbonneau, et qui comportait deux parties. Si ceux des classes françaises devaient la faire au complet, la catégorie des classes de français langue seconde pouvait écrire seulement le premier paragraphe. Suivra après cette étape, celle des trois phrases pour départager les élèves. Cap sur l’international Dans son allocution de bienvenue aux participants, Marc Hurtubise, le directeur de l’école Rose-des-Vents, a dit toute sa joie de voir son établissement accueillir «ce genre d’activité qui permet aux élèves d’exprimer leur potentiel et de contribuer ainsi à la pro- motion de notre belle langue française». M. Hurtubise a expliqué le choix de son école par la forte implication et le dévoue- ment exceptionnel de tout le personnel de l’école pour la promotion de la langue fran-
çaise. L’événement est aussi une manière pour Rose-des-Vents, qui entend mettre le cap sur le baccalauréat international, de sensibiliser ses élèves aux réalités des au- tres pays afin de leur permettre une ouver- ture sur le monde. Jean-Pierre Dufour, le surintendant au Conseil des écoles publiques de l’est de l’Ontario, a ajouté que grâce à la Dictée PGL de la Fondation Paul Gérin Lajoie, plusieurs élèves pourront développer leurs talents et leur fierté d’appartenir à la communauté francophone. Une solidarité internationale en action Représentant la Fondation Paul Gérin-La- joie à la cérémonie, Anne-Marie Lafrance- Lussier a fait comprendre aux uns et aux au- tres la portée de l’événement qui dépasse le cadre d’une dictée et la promotion d’une langue. C’est une grande chaîne de solidarité in-
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FREDERIC HOUNTONDJI frederic.hountondji@eap.on.ca Les Anglais parlaient le Français
Guillaume II de Normandie se fit couron- ner roi d’Angleterre et instaura dans le roy- aume une administration française, où les notaires, les avocats, les nobles et le clergé devaient parler le Français. Cette politique linguistique mise en place par Guillaume le Conquérant a duré 150 ans, précise Madame Hammer, qui ajoute par ailleurs que, à partir de 1362, le fran- çais perd son statut de langue officielle ju- ridique en Angleterre. L’Anglais, qui était toujours parlé par les paysans, a repris naturellement sa place dans le royaume, et ce, jusqu’à nos jours, conclut Geneviève Hammer, qui a axé sa communication sur les recherches d’Andres Kristol, professeur de linguistique histo- rique du français à l’Université Neuchâtel en Suisse, du philologue français Paul Meyer et du professeur Jean Gessler de l’Université de Louvain en Belgique. Quant à l’auteur du manuel de conversa- tion pour les Anglais paru en 1396, le nom de son auteur reste encore entouré d’un mystère bien épais.
La langue française a été, à un moment donné de l’histoire, élevée au rang de langue officielle en Angleterre. C’est ce qu’a permis de savoir l’exposé fait par Geneviève Hammer, professeure de fran- çais langue seconde. C’était à la rencontre des Mille Feuilles qui a eu lieu à la Biblio- thèque publique de Cornwall, le mardi 5 mars. À la lumière d’un manuel de conversa- tion pour les Anglais, écrit en Angleterre en 1396 et qui s’intitulait Manières de langage, on revisite les réalités de la société anglaise de cette époque-là. En 1066, rapporte Geneviève Hammer, Guillaume le Conquérant, qui était le duc de Normandie, pensait avoir une destinée royale et décida d’envahir l’Angleterre. Ce fut la bataille d’Hastings qu’il remporta à la tête d’une imposante troupe formée de di- verses nationalités.
Geneviève Hammer, professeure de français, langue seconde.
Prix Trille Or : Dominique Nadia dit tout sur sa nomination Programme chargé pour Dominique Nadia Villemaire. L’auteure-compositrice-interprète, originaire de Corn- wall, sera encore sous les projecteurs de l’actualité le 20 mars, à l’occasion d’un grand rendez-vous qui mettra en valeur la richesse musicale de la francophonie en Ontario et dans l’Ouest canadien. C’est le Gala des prix Trille Or qui se déroulera au Centre des Arts Shenkman à Orléans. En prélude à l’événement, nous avons ouvert nos colonnes à cette vedette de la chanson qui continue de tutoyer les sommets de l’art.
Mise en nomination pour son album Mythe et Mys- tère, dans la catégorie Artiste jeune public par excel- lence, Dominique Nadia, alias DO, se dit très flattée. Elle estime que ce produit n’explique pas à lui seul sa nomi- nation; mais ce serait plutôt l’ensemble de ses œuvres qui l’ont conduite au Gala des prix Trille Or. En effet, elle a prêté sa voix à environ sept albums en France qui ont été distribués par différentes maisons de disques. Elle pense, entre autres, à son travail avec plusieurs compagnies au profit des enfants europée- ns. Sa satisfaction est d’autant plus grande que «peu d’artistes ont cette chance de mettre leur voix sur des projets distribués partout en France», réalise DO qui salue l’existence du Gala des prix Trille Or; lequel est, selon elle, une vitrine indispensable pour la promotion des artistes. Au-delà de cette rencontre, l’auteure-compositrice- interprète au talent exceptionnel, nous a réservé la primeur de son prochain opus Intime humanité, qui sortira dans deux mois avec l’appui du Conseil des Arts de l’Ontario. «C’est un album très personnel qui dévoile plusieurs facettes de ma personnalité, le tout empreint de beaucoup d’humour»’, a-t-elle confié. Projets, ce n’est pas ce qui fait défaut dans l’agenda de Dominique Nadia Villemaire. Elle participera à la ré- alisation d’un album dédié aux écoles et dont les chan- sons sont écrites par Viviane Panizzon, enseignante à la retraite et musicienne. Mais avant, DO sera, le 23 mars prochain, dans sa belle
ville natale de Cornwall pour le lancement de sa chan- son Pour te revoir. Tous les profits iront à l’Association des Enfants et Adultes disparus (AEAD). Comme quoi, Dominique Nadia ne chante pas que pour les oreilles. Elle est au service d’une cause. Une cause noble.
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