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Historical documents such as birth and marriage certificates, military personnel files, city directories, and immigration records can hold a wealth of information. Many are stored in publicly accessible archives like Library and Archives Canada (LAC). One of the most useful tools for family research at LAC is the Canadian census.
1. Ces vaccins ne contiennent pas le virus de la COVID-19. Les vaccins à base d’ARNm contre la COVID-19 donnent des instructions à l’organisme pour qu’il puisse se protéger contre le virus. L’hôte ne peut pas contracter la COVID-19 à cause du vaccin. Ces vaccins ne peuvent pas non plus modifier l’ADN d’une personne.
Les groupes de parents qui a décidé de reprendre leur avenir en main sont bien motivés à se rendre dans les écoles primaires de la région, en maternelle et en 1re année, dans un projet de lecture de contes pour les enfants.
Tous les mercredis après-midi dans le cadre d’un cours d’insertion sociale, Mme Gaudet rencontre les élèves pour leur donner des idées de contes et des façons pour intéresser leurs futurs admirateurs dans ce projet visant à contrer le faible niveau de littératie chez les enfants. Parent raconte aspire à donner le gout de la lecture aux enfants. Mme Gaudet n’hésite pas à recommander à ses élèves : allez à votre bibliothèque municipale et faites des demandes spéciales. Elle leur propose aussi plusieurs de ses propres coups de coeur.
Le groupe Parent-école est né voilà 3 ans afin de faciliter le retour à l’école aux personnes de la région en se basant sur 3 facteurs : la gratuité, la flexibilité et la simplicité. Les intervenants tentent de faire tomber toutes les barrières afin d’aider les élèves, souvent des mères monoparentales, à accomplir leurs objectifs personnels. Elle facilite la collaboration famille-école, implique plus concrètement les parents dans le parcours de leur enfant et améliore leur hygiène de vie.
La MRC d’Argenteuil compte la plus forte proportion de familles monoparentales parmi les familles avec enfants de moins de 18 ans (32,6 %) pour l’ensemble des MRC de la région des Laurentides. De plus, elle se retrouve en seconde place des populations du Québec sans diplôme (23,8 %) et 32,8% des enfants du primaire de la région ne maitrisent pas les aptitudes et habiletés requises en fonction de leur âge de développement. Le taux de diplomation des jeunes d’Argenteuil est inférieur de 11,9% comparativement aux Laurentides.
Depuis janvier 2018, ce programme novateur a permis à près de 75 parents d’Argenteuil et de Saint-Jérôme de reprendre leurs études. Les frais de scolarité, sac d’école, boite à gouter, manuels et fournitures scolaires sont offerts gratuitement par la commission scolaire de la Rivière-du-Nord. En collaboration avec la MRC d’Argenteuil, le transport peut aussi être assumé, permettant aux élèves qui n’ont pas de moyens de transport de se rendre à l’école. Avec ce programme, ce n’est pas seulement la vie des participants qui est changée, c’est toute la dynamique familiale.
Paul Dubé, Ontario Ombudsman, investigated a complaint to his office that Mayor Paula Assaly and “a quorum of councilors” violated the Municipal Act guidelines on open meetings. The complaint was that on June 15 2020, they talked about and agreed on the dismissal of three town staff members the day before the topic would come up for discussion during a regular session of council. Dubé dismissed the allegation in his report presented to town council during its March 29 meeting.
“Council for the Town of Hawkesbury did not contravene the Municipal Act’s open meeting requirements,” stated Dubé in his report, adding that the discussions between the mayor and the three councilors involved “did not constitute meetings under the Municipal Act.
Ombudsman investigation
The Ombudsman investigation began September 2020 and received “full co-operation” from the mayor, council, and municipal staff during the process.
Investigators reviewed the municipality’s procedural bylaw, agendas for both the open and closed meeting sessions for June 16, the June 16 committee of the whole council minutes, and documents from a special council session August 5 that were related to the issue, along with email provided by municipal staff and council members related to the subject, and other documents. Interviews were done with the mayor, all council members, and the town clerk at the time of the matter.
Staff dismissals
The issue involved in the investigation concerns the events before and during the June 16, 2020 committee of the whole council session. A majority of council voted to approve dismissal of three municipal employees following discussion of the topic during the closed-door in camera part of the meeting. Councillors Raymond Campbell, Yves Paquette and Robert Lefebvre opposed the motion for dismissal and stated during later interviews that they were not aware that the topic was going to be part of the agenda schedule until it was brought up during the in-camera session.
In his report, Dubé noted that the dismissal vote seemed the result of individual discussions between the mayor and three other members of council.
“The mayor told my office that on the afternoon of June 15, 2020, she individually spoke with three councilors at various locations to determine if they were in favour of terminating identified municipal employees. The Town of Hawkesbury has seven members of council, so confirming the support three others would mean a majority supported the terminations.”
Dubé noted that after getting their support, Mayor Assaly asked each councillor to sign a “confidential” two-page typed document “setting out the steps they wanted the municipality to take during a planned closed session discussion the following day.” A copy of the document, with the signatures of the mayor and the three councilors was given to the Ombudsman’s office.
“The document identified specific individuals to terminate, as well as an employee who would take on new responsibilities. It also set out the rational for these actions.”
Dubé noted that the three councilors whose names were not on the document told his investigators that “they were not approached by the mayor prior to the June 16 2020 council meeting” and that “they had no idea that the mayor and other councilors were intending to introduce new business at the June 16 meeting that would lead to the termination of certain employees.” He also observed that the mayor “confirmed to our office that she did not approach the other three councilors because she did not believe they would support the terminations.”
Voting bloc
Dubé reported that the mayor justified her actions because “she thought this was acceptable under the Municipal Act because the (individual) discussion did not involve a quorum of council” and that no actual decision was made and also any of the three councilors could have changed their mind before the June 16 council session took place.
Dubé reviewed the Municipal Act guidelines on open and closed meetings and noted that a quorum is needed for a discussion “that materially or significantly advances council’s business or decision-making.” The pandemic has forced municipal councils to use virtual meetings for their business now but that does not change the definition for a “meeting” under the Municipal Act.
“The mayor’s individual discussions with three councilors did not amount to a ‘meeting’ under the Act,” stated Dubé, “because the sequential nature of the discussions meant that a quorum was never present.”
He also noted that “it is important that council members be able to speak freely with one another outside the structure of a formal meeting” and the Municipal Act does not forbid that either.
“However, the discussion in this case went beyond members sharing information informally,” stated Dubé. “Instead, the mayor effectively organized a voting bloc of councilors, who strategically agreed ahead of time about how to deal with a specific matter. This denied other councilors, who weren’t approached, the opportunity to participate in the discussion, and meant that meeting minutes and other municipal records would not record this discussion.”
Dube stated that Mayor Assaly “could have acted in a more transparent and accountable fashion by introducing this matter at a formal council meeting.” He also noted that the Municipal Act does not forbid this type of action but indicated that the provincial government may need to consider the issue of “pre-arrangements by a majority of council” during its next revision of the Municipal Act guidelines on open meetings.
Council accepted the Ombudsman’s report without comment. The report is available at www.ombudsman.on.ca.
The two pharmacies – Pharmacie Jean Coutu in Hawkesbury and Embrun Remedy Rx’s, were named on Thursday morning on the province’s website as administrators of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Residents could check the covid-19.ontario.ca/vaccine-locations website for days when appointments would be made available. Those aged 55 and over, who held an Ontario health card or other form of government-issued identification were eligible for the free dose.
While the pharmacies were listed on the province’s websites on Thursday morning, the stores themselves had not been informed at the time that they would receive the vaccines. Staff at the Jean Coutu pharmacy, located at 80 rue Principale in Hawkesbury, have received phone inquiries since Monday from people wanting to get vaccinated.
While vaccines have since arrived, Claude Corriveau, the store manager, said during an interview on Thursday that the outlet was still waiting for official confirmation from the provincial government that it is one of the two pharmacies in the Prescott-Russell region designated for vaccine distribution.
“It’s pending,” Corriveau said at the time. “We’re still waiting for the (official) go-ahead. We don’t even have the vaccine yet.”
The pharmacy has since offered vaccines by appointment. The two pharmacies were part of a wider rollout of an earlier trial of pharmacy administration of doses, which had been limited to Toronto, Windsor-Essex and the Kingston area.
Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU) Medical Officer of Health Dr. Paul Roumeliotis said he had only seen the spreadsheet with the list of pharmacies shortly before a media briefing on Thursday afternoon. He said the local health unit did not have any say in the pharmacies the government chose.
“It’s kind of a disconnect in the system and I’ve raised my concerns about that,” he said. “I think pharmacies are important and we should have more connectivity and a way to understand it. I’m hoping that will improve in terms of communication.”
Meanwhile, the EOHU’s mass vaccination clinics have opened to those aged 70 and over. Anyone born in 1951 or earlier can apply for their vaccine at ontario.ca/bookvaccine. Those who require assistance can also call 1-888-999-6488. Those who book will receive appointments for both their first and second doses, which were currently scheduled to be held six weeks apart.
Dr. Roumeliotis said about 40,000 more doses were expected to be sent to the EOHU during April. More AstraZeneca was also expected to be delivered to primary care providers in the region. Eight mass immunization clinics have been planned per week for the next four weeks between April 9 and the start of May.
“With all these numbers… we’ll be able to vaccinate substantially more people between now and the end of the [four-week] shutdown,” he said. “That’ll have a real positive impact on the numbers.”
Automne 1992. Première session au cégep. Premier appartement. J’habite à 7 minutes de trois cinémas, dont celui au centre Laval qui présente les films de répertoire qu’on ne peut même pas se procurer dans mon club vidéo de campagne. Je vais voir, seule, Les pots cassés, de François Bouvier, un film mettant en vedette Gilbert Sicotte et Marie Tifo. Le film n’est pas passé à l’histoire, mais j’ai compris ce soir-là que le monde s’ouvrait à moi. J’avais accès à la culture, enfin!
Je n’aime souvent pas les films que tout le monde aime. J’aime ceux qui gravent mon coeur pour m’avoir fait vivre de grandes émotions : Violon rouge, La Vita est bella, Babel, Monsieur Lazhar, et même, A star is born.
Hier, j’ai repris contact avec la salle avec le Club Vineland. Dans le contexte, le bien que ça a produit est indescriptible. J’ai pleuré, j’ai réfléchi, j’ai été interpelé. Des tonnes de phrases coup de poing qui inspirent, des images inoubliables et des acteurs incarnés.
On nous parle de cette différence qui fait la différence. Elle salue la verve de Père Jean, non-orthodoxe qui, comme plusieurs enseignants, réussissent la transmission du savoir en donnant le gout aux enfants d’apprendre. Nous sommes dans un collège privé de Charlevoix.
«Jusqu’en juin vous êtes dans ma classe, pas dans un moulin à papier», d’avertir le Père Jean au petit nouveau du collège. Il deviendra celui qui allume le réverbère et qui sera tant apprécié par la mère qui veut le meilleur pour son enfant, qui ne cadre pas trop….
L’annonce du retour à l’école à temps plein au Québec et des écoles ouvertes en Ontario, malgré la pandémie, fait jaser. Mais les enfants ont ce besoin et ce désir d’être en classe, d’être auprès de ces leadeurs qui les poussent à se surpasser et à trouver leur voie.
Je suis de celle qui plonge allègrement dans les opportunités de la vie et ça se traduit aussi par la frayeur des pages blanches et par le plaisir d’écrire avec enthousiasme. En 6e année, c’est Francine Raymond, qui m’a donné cet amour pour le français.
Qui sont les enseignants qui ont été l’étincelle de vos parents, vos amis et vos enfants? Dans ma vie, tout près de moi, j’ai un frère qui a changé la courbe de bien des jeunes d’ici. À la fin de l’année scolaire, il recevait des lettres de ses élèves qui pouvaient, souvent, lui tirer une larme. Il enseignait les mathématiques. Fallait le faire, être tant aimé alors qu’on enseigne la matière qui pousse la logique. On m’arrête souvent pour me dire : «Et que j’aimais ses histoires ou bien il m’a permis d’obtenir mon diplôme!»
Pour mon plus vieux, c’est un enseignant du primaire, un des rares hommes à fouler les corridors des écoles primaires dans un autre contexte que dans les gymnases, qui lui a permis de prendre son envol. Marc-Antoine Bergeron est la vedette de bien des enfants qui ont côtoyé les classes du bain linguistique.
Ces enseignants dévoués qui montrent à nos jeunes comment sortir du cadre, c’est tellement primordial. «Notre société change, avertit Père Jean. Le monde va changer pareil, avec ou sans nous.»
Notre société évolue encore en 2021.
Malgré la crise sans précédent que nous vivons, nos enfants sont ce que nous avons de plus précieux. La vie continue. Et comme le dit Père Jean d’entrée de jeu : «Le vrai courage, c’est d’avoir peur, mais d’y aller pareil.»
The two pharmacies – Pharmacie Jean Coutu in Hawkesbury and Embrun Remedy Rx’s, were named on Thursday morning on the province’s website as administrators of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Vaccines had not yet arrived at either of the locations, but residents could check the covid-19.ontario.ca/vaccine-locations website for days when appointments would be available.
UNE VERSION EN FRANÇAIS DE CET ARTICLE EST DISPONIBLE
Les pharmacies recevront des vaccins pendant la fermeture de la province
