Elaine Chuli made 21 saves for her fourth win in as many starts as Montreal defeated Minnesota 2-1 in the Professional Women's Hockey League on Sunday afternoon in Laval, Que.

"The choice we made to invest massively in public services will have financial consequences," warned Quebec Premier François Legault ahead of next month's budget. 

L’article Babies of 2023 est apparu en premier sur Sherbrooke Record.

One day after winning silver in the men's 500-metre race at the World Cup event in Gdansk, Poland, Steven Dubois added a gold in the second 500m final on Sunday.

Over the past 15 years, soccer — or football as it’s known by the rest of the world — has seen an unprecedented rise in popularity in North America.

This growth is evident through various lenses: increased attendance in stadiums, rising viewership numbers, an influx of international stars and booming youth participation. 

At the grassroots level, soccer has become a staple of youth sports. Youth soccer organizations in the U.S. and Canada have reported a consistent increase in participation. This uptick is partly due to the sport’s inclusive and global nature, allowing children of all backgrounds and financial status to partake.

Cities across North America have invested in soccer facilities, leagues and training programs, reflecting a growing infrastructure that supports and nurtures young talent. (Province of Quebec and City of Montreal, we need more facilities please!)

Major League Soccer (MLS) has expanded from 10 teams at its inception in 1996 to 29 clubs. Cities are clamouring for franchises, and the league has seen a significant increase in attendance and viewership. The introduction of marquee players like David Beckham in 2007 and, more recently, stars such as Zlatan Ibrahimović, Gonzalo Higuaín and of course the GOAT of them all, Lionel Messi, have brought international attention and credibility to the league. 

The success of international competitions such as the CONCACAF Gold Cup and the Copa America Centenario, held in the U.S., shows an increasing hunger for high-caliber soccer.

The growth of women’s soccer has also been pivotal in the rise of the sport’s overall popularity in North America. The United States Women’s National Team and Canadian Women’s National Team have been particularly influential, as we’ve seen in these past FIFA Women’s World Cups. The team’s successes have not only created a massive following but has also highlighted crucial issues of gender equality in sports.

When I tell you I’ve never felt an energy like the one I experienced at November’s friendly match-up of Brazil v Canada in Montreal, I am not kidding — it was truly brilliant.

Now media rights deals have skyrocketed, with networks and streaming services trying to get matches to your eyeballs wherever you are at any time. The English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, Serie A and other international leagues now have substantial followings in North America, with games being broadcast in prime slots all week long.

This exposure has created a more knowledgeable and enthusiastic fan base. Additionally, sponsorship deals, pop-up events and merchandise sales have seen a considerable boost, showing again the commercial interest in soccer.

Soccer’s integration into the mainstream also reflects significant cultural shifts. Demographic changes, immigration and the easy mix of cultures have led to a more diverse and connected population, particularly in cities where soccer’s popularity is seen the most. Come on cowboys… get on board.

Soccer’s global vibe and energy aligns well with the way society is going and is making it a natural choice for a new generation of sports fans.

With the FIFA World Cup coming to North America in 2026, it will be game over!

By the time this goes to press, we will be a few days away from the start of the 2024/25 MLS season. CF Montréal has a new coach in Laurent Courtois, a former French professional footballer. (More on him to come.) Coach has taken 32 players to the warmth for training camp this month. CFM will kick off the 2024/25 MLS season at Exploria Stadium against Orlando City SC on Saturday, Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m. ■

Check out The 1st Half podcast (about soccer and football culture in Montreal and beyond) here.

This article was originally published in the Feb. 2024 issue of Cult MTL.

For more Montreal sports coverage, please visit our Sports section.

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Wim Wenders has directed some of the greatest films of the past half-century, including Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas and Pina. He’s a filmmaker who embraces the moment’s spontaneity, equally working in documentary and fiction. He prefers a barebones style even within his fiction projects, with a minimal script written as the film progresses. The characters and the scenery guide the story as they work.

As he said in an interview with The Progessive Magazine earlier this year, “I like storytelling on the road and I like it because the road is the only way to allow you to shoot in chronological order. And if you shoot in chronological order, you have the freedom to turn the story around, whenever you want. If you shoot your ending in the first week, you cannot change anything anymore.”

Wenders has also been an international filmmaker, the road taking him worldwide. Outside of his native Germany, he’s made films all over the United States, Lisbon, France, Italy, Cuba and even in Montreal in 2015 for Every Thing Will Be Fine. With his latest film, Perfect Days, he returns to Tokyo, where he shot the documentary Tokyo-Ga, about the films of the great Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, in 1985. 

Perfect Days has been an unexpected smash for Wenders. It’s been a festival darling and is now Wenders’ fourth nomination at the Oscars (his first for fiction; the other three are for his documentary work). As Wenders explains, Perfect Days is an homage to a city he loves. It follows the careful routine of its main character, Hirayama (Koji Yakusho), in his work as a cleaner of public toilets. It’s a movie of simple beauty and simple pleasures: the light through the trees, the familiarity of a good book and Hirayama’s curated collection of cassette tapes featuring music from Lou Reed, the Animals, Otis Redding and Patti Smith (among others). 

Wim Wenders sat down to speak with us via Zoom before the film’s release and one month before the Oscar ceremony. 

Justine Smith: How are you?

Wim Wenders: I’m good. I’d rather be in Montreal than Los Angeles, but I’m here because of the Oscars. 

JS: I’d love to start by actually talking about cities. You’ve made so many films worldwide, highlighting different urban environments. Of course, with Perfect Days, you’re shooting in Tokyo. I love that you find ways to showcase cities that feel intimate and personal, not what we expect. How do you find a way to tell the story of a city in your films?

Wim Wenders: Tokyo is a city like no other. I know it very well. I’ve shot there before. I did a documentary there 40 years ago. I’ve known Tokyo for almost 50 years and I love it because I love the people and how they live in their city. Life is very different there; life is more civilized than any other city I know. That’s what interested me at the end of the pandemic. Where I live, in Berlin and Europe, I regret how things unfolded. I suffered because one of the major victims of the pandemic was the sense of common decency. 

In Tokyo, it was the opposite. I was there when the lockdown lifted, and people took back their city. It happened with such kindness and care. There was so much respect for parks and roads and institutions. I was very moved. I was invited to watch this social project, a kind of art project where great architects constructed 15 public toilets. Utopic toilets, public toilets, but they were more like little temples. I was there to see them, and I was supposed to make these short films about the architects and their designs, but instead, I wanted to make a film about Tokyo, this city I love so much, and this moment after the pandemic. 

I decided then to think of a fiction. I needed a script and a great actor. The people who invited me to make these four short documentaries about architects and their work said, “Okay if you believe you can really make a film at the same time, a fiction, we are curious enough to participate.” They asked, “Who would you like as an actor?” And I’m not modest, I told them I wanted the best, the greatest Japanese actor of all since I first saw him in Shall We Dance and Babel. That was Koji Yakusho. So, they called Koji Yakusho, and the next day, they told me he said yes and he’d like to make a film with me. So, I wrote a script just for him and a script for the city of Tokyo. It’s a film for this city.

JS: The film you made in Tokyo 40 years ago was Tokyo-Ga, which is a film about the great Japanese filmmaker Ozu. In some of your other interviews, I read that Ozu was a big inspiration here. Has your relationship with Ozu’s work changed over time?

Wim Wenders: Ozu died 60 years ago, so he’s not really in fashion anymore. It’s a part of the history of cinema, and for many people, it’s a history long past. His last film, An Autumn Afternoon, was made in 1962. It was actually shot in Tokyo, and the main character in the film was Hirayama. So, we called our character Hirayama as well. But we didn’t make a film like Ozu. We made a contemporary film, but in the spirit of Ozu, was really only directed films about ordinary life. He didn’t make elaborate fiction or movies about superheroes. He celebrated family life and the everyday, and so does our film. It’s about the everyday life of someone who has a very simple life cleaning the fabulous toilets of Shibuya. 

JS: I find it interesting that many of the reviews of the film describe it as both “melancholic” and a “feel-good movie.” I think of melancholy as the memory of past happiness. Ozu’s films invoke that but so does Perfect Days. How do you reconcile these seemingly paradoxical emotions within the film?

Wim Wenders: In the films of Ozu and in Perfect Days, we have characters who live in the moment. It’s something he had to learn, maybe. It’s about the feeling of the moment, of being present. (The character) does his work every day as if it’s the first time. He does it with the ethos or the morale of a craftsman. It’s like a man who makes poetry or carves wood — people who work with their hands are highly esteemed, much more than in our society. In Japan, a good craftsperson can be a social hero like our Hirayama. He cleans toilets with that same attitude. He does his best every time, just like a man making vases. Every one needs to be the best he’s ever made. He does his best for others, society and this common appreciation of simple or beautiful things. 

In the movie, we learn to see the world through Hirayama’s eyes. We enter his happy world, where he doesn’t need very much. He’s a man who decides to live very simply. We understand that he was probably very privileged in another life. A businessman maybe, he might even have been rich, but he chose this simple voice and decided to experience the most joy possible from it. There’s maybe a nostalgia there, too. Did he make the right choice? 

He left that life of privilege in exchange for a simple life. He chooses to live a life with more happiness and fewer distractions. He does things he loves. He takes photos. He works cleaning toilets but also takes care of plants and trees. At night, he reads a book. When he’s finished the book, he will buy another one. He won’t buy 10 the way we might. He just buys one $1 book. Then, when he finishes that one, he buys another one. He’s a man who lives in reduction and simplicity. To be happy, he doesn’t need very much. He needs his music on these old cassettes, books and a camera to take photos. He also needs the trees that he loves and the light that he loves. 

JS: The other part of his life is his dreams, these black-and-white sequences. Can you discuss this aspect of the film?

Wim Wenders: In his everyday routine, there is still enormous variation. Unpredictable things happen. But every day, he finishes with his book, and then he sleeps, and we see the end of a dream where see a small reflection of that day. Some are very small memories of that day, the memory of details’ faces, movements and the light in the trees. Or his friend, the tree. They function as little reflection and the sum of his time. It’s the whole day captured in the edge of a dream. 

Read our review of Perfect Days from TIFF 2023.

Perfect Days opens in Montreal theatres on Friday, Feb. 16.

For more film and TV coverage, please visit our Film & TV section.

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Tekaronhiahkhwa Standup is a beadwork artist in Kahnawà:ke who is passionate about encouraging more community members to learn how to create different cultural art.

Tara-Louise Montour is the soloist for the Orchestre classique de Montréal's performance of Quebec composer Louis Babin's Phoenix. She talks about the inspiration for the piece and learning it solely from the sheet music, since there was no recording of the first performance in 2015.

Canadians earned double silver medals in the mass starts on Saturday at the World Speed Skating Single Distances Championships on Calgary's Olympic Oval.

It's a decision that the floor fellows — students hired to help their fellow students navigate life in the dorms — say will make the Montreal university feel less like home.

Canadians Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard and Arthur Margelidon earned medals Saturday at a judo Grand Slam event in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Police say someone in a vehicle opened fire on the 28-year-old victim as he left a nearby building. 

When one metaphorical door closes, another opens. This could nicely sum up the journey Eve Parker Finley took to complete her new LP In the End.

Having grown up playing classical music (her parents are both classical musicians themselves), the multi-hyphenate Montrealer moved here from the 3,300-population town of Campbellford, ON (near Peterborough) in 2011 to study sociology and gender studies at McGill. Since then, she’s accomplished a whole lot in the worlds of music, comedy, social media and beyond.

When I met with Finley at a Rosemont café in January, she was clearly in disbelief that release time was finally around the corner. She even let out a scream when asked how she feels about the album’s impending release, considering she’d begun writing it back in March 2020.

“I can’t believe it’s the start of so many people’s journey with it, and it feels like it’s the end of mine!” she said, laughing. 

Finley began work on In the End within the first couple of days of the pandemic, and also moved into her first apartment alone while on burnout leave from work.

After quitting her job, Eve found herself with plenty of time on her hands, which she spent making improvisational loops for her music — loops that would later evolve into songs heard on In the End. 

One day, she got a text from friend/fellow musician Nick Schofield, who thought some of the loops were good enough for a new album. “We started talking about it. We got a grant together,” she continued. “He came on as producer. We had these phone calls every week for a year sending stuff back and forth, working on the songs.” 

Later recorded at Hotel2Tango and a complex in the Laurentians (the latter arranged by PHI Centre as a residency), In the End is finally ready to be unleashed — four years later. The album — which she describes as “fun indie pop songs, introspective mid-tempo bangers… and a few more contemporary classical ambient moments” — was even in the back of Finley’s mind while making its predecessor, Chrysalia, released in December 2020. Still, Finley feels she’s experienced a tremendous amount of artistic growth between albums. 

“I feel like I’ve learned so many things about what I want my sound to be. I worked on singing a lot, which I was super nervous about doing for that first album. Also, bringing a producer in this time and letting go of that role a little bit was so scary, but so generative. I really feel like we went in a new direction, and found some new sounds.”

In the End’s lead single is “The Mirror,” a swirling introduction to the album that, funnily enough, Finley says doesn’t feel like a “classic” single compared with other tracks. Still, it’s a special song for her in that it bridges her past work with this new era.

Though “The Mirror” is heavily tied to classical music, Finley also drew inspiration from Hans Zimmer-esque film and TV scores while making it. She’s done a series on her socials pairing the track with various TV show openings. “I just really want to create this cinematic, melancholic, optimistic world,” she says.

Part of why the song exists in the first place is thanks to Finley’s therapist, whom she credits in the album’s liner notes. “We were having a session that was really exploring difficulties with dysphoria, and the stress and anxiety of it. She was like, ‘Have you ever tried writing this down?’ Right after that therapy session, I pulled out a notebook and wrote the words to this whole song in two seconds.” 

Adding those lyrics to a chord progression she was already working on fit like a glove, forming the song’s core before adding orchestral violins (“I wanted that moody, introspective, safe texture,” she explained).

Therapy has impacted Finley’s music-making in a number of ways, most directly in terms of both content and her approach to performing. “I still struggle a lot with feelings of inadequacy,” she admitted. 

“It’s so hard to be like, ‘Yes, I can be an artist, and I want to make things and share them with people, and ask them to engage with it.’ My work with her really helped me figure out how to do that in a way that doesn’t feel like you’re feeding an evil ego, or not getting stuck on the ‘Who am I?’ question.”

While first writing the album, Eve figured it would be about pandemic isolation, given the global situation at the time. But as months of staying home and social distancing passed by with no foreseeable end, she knew people wouldn’t want to be reminded of it, and neither did she. 

Three and a half years is plenty of time for one to make some breakthroughs with self-discovery. For Finley, that included discovering she could pursue an interest in comedy. She started browsing TikTok during the pandemic’s onset and that scrolling habit snowballed into creating her own hilarious content. She now boasts more than 75,000 monthly views on the platform.

Finley is someone who wears many hats in general: aside from music, comedy and TikTok, she’s the symposium director at POP Montreal and hosts Ten-Minute Topline on CBC Music. All of this sounds like it could be a recipe for eventual burnout — she does, after all, have a song called “Anthem for a Burnt Out Girl” — but Finley manages it by not focusing on the same thing for too long.

“The way my brain works, a day in the life when I’m working is I’ll be working on the computer on something, and then 20 minutes later, I’ll need to play the piano and sing. Then 20 minutes later, I’ll work on a comedy thing or a TikTok, and then cycle through those things. I’ve never been someone who enjoys doing one thing and concentrating on it. I love having a mix of stuff.”

As for whether In the End has brought Finley closer to where she wants to be in her music career, she says there’s still a way to go. “There’s so much left to do. Being a musician is exhausting!

“I’m a person who’s very ambitious and chronically disappointed. (laughs) I always want to figure out what the next level is. It’s very hard, especially right now… There are definitely lots of things left on my career bucket list; a bunch of things I’ve checked off these past couple of years. But there’s lots left I want to do, and am excited to try.” ■

For more on Eve Parker Finley, please visit her website.

This article was originally published in the Feb. 2024 issue of Cult MTL.

For more Montreal music coverage, please visit the Music section.

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Winter in much of Quebec has been unusually warm and there hasn't been much snow. And that's got winter sports enthusiasts feeling down about their inability to go out and break a sweat and worried about what future winters may look like.

Residents of a new development in Ottawa-Gatineau are using industrial waste to keep their homes warm: specifically, waste heat from a local paper plant. Heat is being thrown away all around us — but it can be captured to heat buildings in a more efficient and climate friendly way.

Historian and professor Dorothy Williams talks about her conference at Montreal's Pointe-à-Callière museum called the Afro-descendant History of Saint-Henri. She speaks with guest host Dionne Codrington.

Michaelle Sergile works with a Jacquard loom to create large-scale woven artworks. But there are only three or four of those looms in Quebec, so she moves to different spaces and cities in order to execute her vision. The vision is so powerful already that Quebec's museum of fine arts has one of her works in its collection. Working with archival photos, books, music or videos, Sergile says she's trying to bring those stories - especially Black ones - from the edges to the centre.

The Concordia women's hockey team became the first women's U Sports hockey team since 2012-13 to record a perfect season.

Friday night's Professional Women's Hockey League game between Toronto and Montreal at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto set the attendance record for women's hockey with 19,285 fans.

In a conversation with CBC Montreal News host Debra Arbec, Samar Alkhdour talks about finally getting a call from Global Affairs Canada to say her 13-year-old daughter was cleared to leave Gaza. But that call came two weeks after her death.

Benzodiazepines are often prescribed to treat anxiety, among other disorders. However, there are concerns that doctors in Quebec could be overprescribing and not doing enough to inform the patients about the serious risks.

Fabio Puglisi is accused of killing his mother Élisabetta Puglisi-Caucci, 68, and his neighbour, Manon Blanchard, 53.

A trucker who plowed into traffic on Highway 440 in Laval, Que., causing a massive pileup that killed four people has been found guilty of dangerous driving causing death. 

The Innu First Nation of Pessamit on Quebec’s North Shore will be holding a referendum following a framework agreement that was signed between the Quebec government, Hydro-Québec and the community. The deal has been the subject of debate within the community as it involves the shelving of a $500 million lawsuit.

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The Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal 24-hour emergency shelter opened in July 2021 as a temporary relief measure. Those staying there say they're worried it will have to close at the end of March.

The misuse of benzodiazepines is sparking concern in Quebec, and prompting the college of physicians to increase its scrutiny of doctors who overprescribe them. 

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By Ruby Pratka

Local Journalism Initiative

Grade 6 students at Lennoxville Elementary School (LES) are addressing life’s big questions through art as part of a project aimed at supporting youth mental health.

Catherine Malboeuf-Hurtubise, a Bishop’s University professor and psychologist specializing in the intersection of child psychology, the arts, education and climate change, is part of the team coordinating the project through the Institut universitaire de première ligne en santé et services sociaux (IUPLSSS) and the CHUS research centre. She explained that the project has been running since 2019 and now covers several English- and French-medium elementary schools and nonprofits working with elementary-age students in Estrie, in the Laurentians and in the Montreal region. Phelps Helps in Stanstead also participates in the program.

Malboeuf-Hurtubise, whose research interests also include preventive care, explained that the workshops are aimed at preventing normal existential questions from giving rise to more serious mental health problems, by discussing such questions frankly and openly.

“Oftentimes as adults, we’re afraid to kind of dive into these questions, and we seem to be even more afraid when these questions come from kids – but everyone asks themselves existential

questions, right? They’re not the same questions if you’re four, if you’re 15 or if you’re 45, of course, but you still think about death [at any age],” she said. “Kids do ask themselves questions about existential issues, about life and death, about love, about climate change, and they don’t have the space to explore it. But if you don’t have the space to explore the questions you’re asking yourself, that’s where anxiety can come in. If you do have the space to express how you feel, it has a calming effect.”

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When a new baby is born, there’s a flurry of excitement. 

Family members want to meet the little one for the first time, everybody wants to see photos, and even acquaintances on Facebook are demanding news about the name. 

It’s easy in the hustle and bustle of newborn life for the feelings and well-being of new parents to fall to the wayside as they battle sleepless nights and complicated postpartum care.

That’s why community member Cheryl Montour has launched a new pilot program named “Helping Hands” aiming to support new mothers and families in the first six weeks after childbirth. 

“It’s for the mother and the parents to get that special bonding time with their baby. I’m able to go to their house and clean, do laundry, whatever they need, do errands, maybe watch other children,” she said. “There’s also a closing ceremony where they can have a pelvic steam or herbal bath and a massage, like a bone closing, which is like a ceremony that closes your healing process and opens you up for motherhood.”

Under the initiative, 40 hours of support will be offered, as well as a basket of items to help new parents, including reusable diapers, wipes, diaper cream, nipple cream, and gift cards to local food businesses. 

She secured funding from Kahnawake Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services (KSCS) to operate the initiative for two months, with the possibility of extending it if there’s adequate demand from families. 

“In the past, we had our extended families living together. We used to naturally take care of our family members, if our daughters or our cousins had babies,” Montour said. “But now, most of the time, those helpers already have jobs too. It’s so expensive to live. There’s not even enough time to be dedicated to somebody.”

Montour said that she is passionate about the intersections of culture and motherhood, having received training from Indigenous midwives in Mexico. She hopes that her initiative will allow new mothers to feel supported within the community, contributing to the overall goal of early childhood care being offered by and for community members.

“I know how difficult it can be in those first couple of weeks, especially if you have other children. You’re trying to focus and make sure everyone gets the same amount of time from you and your newborn is relying on you. It’s difficult,” she said. “Especially if you don’t have help in the house, regardless of the reason.”

Montour said she’s already received positive feedback on her initiative, including from Konwati’shatstenhsherawi’s, a group based in the community made up of trained birth workers providing support before and during the birth process.

“This is such a need in the community, and from our perspective, the work we’ve done thus far in bringing awareness to even midwifery and natural births is just getting the ball rolling,” said Jody Jacobs, a trained birth helper with Konwati’shatstenhsherawi’s. 

“We’re so proud of Cheryl and excited to see this project be a complementary service that we can work together for the betterment of our community.”

Jessie Beauvais, who is currently completing her birth helper training with Konwati’shatstenhsherawi’s, emphasized the importance of connection between caregivers and new parents. 

“To be able to be there in those moments when they are so vulnerable is an amazing feeling,” Beauvais said. “Being in the moment myself is amazing and the best, but being on the other side of helping and supporting someone give birth is something else. It’s so fulfilling for my heart and soul.”

Jacobs said that it is imperative for community-led initiatives to be prioritized so that families are able to access the right kind of support. 

“It’s healing. It’s really about taking back ownership of who we are, our family structures, our family connections, our units, and how to be a community to one another,” she said. 

Joy-Marie Canadian, who previously shared her traumatic birth experience at Anna Laberge with The Eastern Door last year, said that initiatives like these have the power to completely change the birth experience for new mothers. 

“It would be wonderful, because so many people don’t feel comfortable leaving the community to seek help,” she said.

Canadian said support from the community members can prevent trauma during and after the birthing experience.

“I wouldn’t have gotten hurt if I had the support. It made me wish I had a doula from town, because my rights weren’t being met, my needs weren’t being met,” she said. “When I was at my most vulnerable I could barely talk to explain what I wanted or the help that I needed. To have this in town, a safe space with people we know and people who cherish our children, who appreciate our babies, is wonderful.”

For those who have very recently given birth or who will be giving birth soon, community members can contact Helping Hands at 450-632-6134. Konwati’shatstenhsherawi’s is also accepting new clients and can be contacted at [email protected].

Montour encourages all new parents to reach out, regardless of whether it’s their first child or if they’re an experienced mom.

“Don’t be shy to ask for help,” she said. “Everybody can use it.”

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This article was originally published in print on February 9 in issue 33.06 of The Eastern Door.

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