Who needs that New Years kiss this holiday season to warm you from the top of your head to the tip of your toes when you can do it yourself with yoga that’s poised to help!
On Sunday, December 14 at 5pm at the Walker Studio participate in Bikram Yoga Montreal’s third annual holiday karma class. This typical Bikram yoga class, a challenging series of 26 postures and 2 breathing excercises practiced in a heated room, will leave you feeling fabulous.
Not only will you be benefiting your body, but all the donations will be donated directly to the Share the Warmth Foundation. Share the Warmth Foundation “awakens hope and dreams by overcoming poverty and hunger.” While you suffer in the heat, you’ll be working towards helping someone less fortunate keep warm.
If the thought of helping others warms your heart you can easily help without sweating. Leave a donation with either Bikram Studio.
Bring your friends, family and colleagues to discover a new way to stay healthy while helping others! And who knows…maybe you’ll find your New Years kiss as well.
Late Wednesday, six new sandwiches and two sandwich platters were added to the long list of products, including cooked ham and salami sandwiches sold in Sobeys, Foodland and IGA stores in Ontario and two Kirkland Signature sandwich platters sold at Costco.
Unconnected to Maple Leaf Foods, two brands of Quebec-made cheeses — Riopelle de l’Île and Mont-Jacob — have also been pulled from store shelves after officials found contamination from a strain of listeria different from that found in meat products linked to the deadly nationwide listeriosis outbreak. At least nine cases of listeriosis have been associated with the cheeses.
Maple Leaf Foods said Wednesday it shoulders the blame in the listeriosis outbreak, absolving Canada’s food inspection system.
By now, you’ve probably run into someone familar - within one degree of separation - to either the victim or the perpetrator. Last weekend, early Saturday morning to be precise, 26-year-old Thomas Vernis, owner of Santos restaurant in the Old Port, hit François Dumouchel, alias DJ Euterke, and killed him in a hit and run. Euterke means muse in Greek.
Vernis, who is the son of Old River’s founder Edouard Vernis, was arraigned at the Montreal courthouse Monday afternoon on a charge of hit and run causing death. He faces charges in a fatal hit and run case that could land him anywhere from 2 years to life in prison. Some are suspecting that he might get a sentence on the lower end of that range when he appears in court in August. In the meantime, Vernis was released on $5,000 bail, with the condition that he cannot drive a vehicle and must give up his driver’s licence. He is also ordered to stay home between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., unless absolutely required to be at work. Clubs close at 3am in Montreal.
The 36-year-old Francois Dumouchel was struck and killed at the corner of St-Laurent and Villeneuve. Vernis’ SUV hit his scooter, threw Dumouchel several metres. Vernis, meanwhile, kept going with his SUV, dragging the scooter for six blocks. Allegedly, he got out of his SUV on Esplanade and Rachel to get rid of the scooter. If you are familiar with the city, you know that’s a couple of blocks northbound, a couple West. Vernis was arrested hours later in Old Montreal, at Santos.
The cops didn’t bother to give him a breathalizer, because this was way after the fact, and his results would have been tainted; when was he drinking? Before the hit and run, or afterwards, when he emerged at his bar.
Anyway you dice it, this is sad. People don’t wake up thinking: I’m going to plow through someone on a scooter. On the other hand, no one deserves a death like Dumouchel’s either… who allegedly was sent off by his girlfriend/wife as he crossed that fateful street corner where he met his fate.
Vernis’ fate remains to be determined, according to a story in the Montreal Gazette:
Victor Carillo was parking his car on Villeneuve at the time of the accident. In an interview at his home, he stood up from his couch and pointed to the ceiling to show how high the man flew off his scooter before landing on the sidewalk.
“He was bleeding from his head and his ears,” Carillo said.
He said strangers immediately started giving the man mouth-to-mouth and pumping on his chest.
The driver of the SUV almost hit his wife, who was standing on the sidewalk as the vehicle sped off with the scooter underneath, Carillo said. He said she ducked behind their car and recorded the licence plate number of the SUV and gave it to police.
“If you hit a dog, you stop,” Carillo said. “This guy hit someone and didn’t even slow down.”
Montreal criminal lawyer Marc Giroux said the crown could charge the man with manslaughter, but it is unlikely.
“It’s tougher to prove manslaughter than hit and run causing death, for sure,” he said. In order to show manslaughter, the crown would have to prove that the driver was driving fast with the intention to kill someone.
This being the age of social media, the entire episode leaves a trail of sorrow across the Web. A quick search for Dumouchel lands you on his professional profile on LinkedIn, the popular social networking website that connects employees and employers. When he was not DJing, he was helping the Laurentian bank step into the 21st century, apparently.
Closer to his passion, Dumouchel - who went by the DJ Euterke handle - also had his YouTube page. Since his tragic passing, friends and fans have been leaving their condolences and best wishes on his Facebook page.
Vernis on his end is no stranger online, either. Apart from the countless of stories on mainstream media sources since the incident, he conducted an interview talking about his background and his new restaurant. Catch it on Veoh, or the popular French social networking site Daily Motion:
Notice that the comments on Daily Motion have been disabled; the comments are enabled on Veoh, and understandably, unkind to the 26 year old.
This all begs the question: why. Why didn’t Vernis just stop? Was he drinking? Maybe. Who knows. And based on the events that took place, maybe we will never find out. Vernis is slated to appear in court in August… but instead of leaving you on that somber note… let’s sign off on something worthwhile, an impressive and memorable appearance by Dumouchel at the popular Mont-Royal haunt Patro Vys, enjoy.
Use of the terms has also been eliminated from marketing in the European Union and Australia, but not in the United States despite recommendations in May by an expert panel.
Canadian Health Minister Tony Clement announced the proposed regulations, which will carry a 75-day comment period.
“Research has shown that many smokers incorrectly believe that smoking ‘light and mild’ cigarettes is less harmful to their health,” Clement said in a statement.
“These proposed regulations would put in place a mandatory — and permanent — ban on these deceptive terms.”
More than half of all smokers in Canada report smoking “light,” “mild,” “ultra light” or other similarly labeled products.
The Montreal International Dragon Boat Festival is currently recruiting for volunteers to help out at their event on July 28, 29 2007 at the Olympic Basin located at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal. They also organize a free Children Drawing
Contest during the Festival weekend, and are currently looking for children of age 3 to 14 to apply in the contest. Thank you very much.
Amelia Fong
Montreal International Dragon Boat Race Festival
112 de la Gauchetiere Ouest, suite 200
Montreal, Qc. H2Z 1C3
e-mail: amelia@montrealdragonboat.com
Office: 514.866.7001
Fax: 514.878.6302
Quebecers, many of them descended from a handful of families who arrived from France, could hold the key to medical breakthroughs as their tiny gene pool provides the perfect testing ground for researchers and pharmaceutical firms.
John Hooper, chief executive of Genizon BioSciences Inc., a privately owned Montreal biotech company, told Reuters in an interview on Friday that the population of the French-speaking Canadian province has remained relatively isolated over the last 250 years. The small gene pool is a dream for scientists seeking cures for genetic diseases, he added.
“Almost all French Canadians today are derived from that group that expanded essentially in isolation until the 1950s,” Hooper said.
