Living in Laval - La vie à Laval

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All this during Catholic Easter week.
There is something you can do to help out, whether you’re Italian or not. A group of Italian Montrealers are meeting to come up with plans to send aid to the earthquake victims. You may want to join them!
7:30 p.m. tonight at the Leonardo Da Vinci Centre, […]

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…who is looking into cooking more at home.
Some items of note at our house:

We found these in blue and fuschia at Déco Découverte, and at Winners for about $15,00.
And most of the awesome line of heavy duty cast iron cookware from Lodge, also at Déco Découvert, and at Ares Kitchen and Baking Supplies. Check out […]

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Leonard Cohen isn’t coming by his hometown to play during his North American tour.

But if you can, try buying tickets to see him in Quebec City this spring. You can buy tickets at www.leonardcohen.com.
Source: The Montreal Gazette

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We never thought this would happen, nepotism being what it is…but, it’s true! The king of crampons is now back in charge of community cultural affairs, Jean Drapeau Park, and throwing a giant birthday party for Montreal in 2017.
Here’s hoping, for our neighbour’s sake, that his successor Luis Miranda, gets it right(er).
Sources: Montreal Gazette, and […]

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Whoa!
Source:  CBC.ca

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After reading this in the Gazette, and having listened to a mouthy Benoit Dutrizac tear into Marcel Tremblay on live radio yesterday, I couldn’t help but flash back to when we lived in Montreal last year, had a monster storm hit us, and I was stuck trying to get my car, buried under 4 feet […]

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Yes, we have one.
Turns out that it is conducted by a rather accomplished trombonist, Alain Trudel, who is also the principal conductor for CBC Radio’s Orchestra.
And as culture has become a key point in recent elections, why not support it during the holiday season? A couple of shows makes a perfect gift, and the […]

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So goes our first Halloween in Fabreville Ouest- we carved our first Jack-o-Lantern, laid out a giant spider web on our front steps, and then embedded plastic spiders and skeletons in it, and felt more than ready armed with 2 giant boxes of name-brand candy. We were determined to be ‘the cool house’.

Boy, were we […]

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Space camp. My inner tomboy is having a fit. She is telling me space camp? Why didn’t WE go to space camp back in the ’80s? I try to tell her it probably had to do with the fact that Montreal was too busy nursing its hangover from the ‘76 Olympics, and that the […]

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