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It had been at least 20 years since Bruno Blanchet was in Bas-Saint-Laurent when he had the idea of ​​running there to join his good friend Guy.

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A glance at the map was enough to convince him that the 279 kilometers of road to the Parc du Bic, where the La Belle Tour team set out for their Bas Saint Laurent special, wasn’t that big after all. “I looked at the distance between Guy and I and I was like, ‘Okay! It would be fun to join him,” said Bruno Blanchet from his native Thailand. He was also joined by around forty runners on his journey.

For him, Bas-Saint-Laurent, where Highway 20 ends and meets the river, is associated with his first travel memories. “When I was very young, my parents would wake us up in the middle of the night and put us in our big car from the days when they made beds with pillows for us. And when we saw the river, they woke us up and said, “Children, wake up, it’s the sea”. We could see the estuary at sunrise. It was fantastic.”

Originally from Montreal, Bruno would travel through Bas-Saint-Laurent with his family almost every summer to visit his father’s relatives, who were originally from Gaspésie. “We visited the family in Matane, in Rivière-du-Loup, in Cap-Chat.”

Outsmart life with simplicity

The Thailand-based animator, writer and actor, who has traveled to more than a hundred countries around the world, enjoys all the moments that life has in store for him as they are and without hope. “I’ve made the choice to have time over money and I’m enjoying it. Life offers us nothing and has nothing to promise us. It’s up to us to move on and create our destiny,” he said in an interview.

“I don’t collect [de pays visités]. Me, I’ll stay where it takes as long as it takes. There are many places that I love so much that I keep coming back to them. I’ve never been to Italy, Portugal or Scandinavia. I’m a bit more Uganda, Rwanda, Africa, India: places that are touristy in a different way,” said the globetrotter.

Monsieur Bruno back for eat the world

Bruno and his team are currently planning the next season of the show Les vacances de Monsieur Bruno, which is scheduled to go to Africa, India and Asia this year.

Alongside this show, a new season of Manger le monde should also appear, this spin-off series focused on the cuisine of the different countries that Monsieur Bruno visited on vacation.

“It’s the show I’ve had the most instant luck for because I don’t know anything about it and because I’m at the mercy of all the people I meet and who prepare me [quelque chose] like food. It is certain that if we go on Monsieur Bruno’s holiday and we don’t eat the world, there will be a little food of the world on Monsieur Bruno’s holiday,” he assured.

Bruno Blanchet plans to return to Quebec by the end of the summer, notably to compete in the Granby marathon and visit the Belle province to run. He’s always amazed at the friendliness of the Quebecers he meets on the road or while shopping. “Spontaneity, enjoying meeting others; really, sharing our happiness is very difficult to achieve. We’re really, really good at home,” he said.

The La belle Tour’s Bas Saint Laurent special airs this Monday at 8pm on TVA.

NEW YORK, Aug 15 (Portal) – Several major Wall Street banks have begun facilitating trades in Russian debt in recent days, bank documents seen by Portal giving investors another chance to sell assets that were in the red, according to Portal widely regarded as toxic in the West.

Most US and European banks had pulled out of the market in June after the Treasury Department banned US investors from buying Russian securities as part of economic sanctions to punish Moscow for invading Ukraine, according to a Russian investor holding securities and two bank sources.

Following subsequent Treasury Department guidelines in July that allowed US holders to downsize their positions, Wall Street’s biggest firms have cautiously returned to the Russian government and corporate bond markets, emails, client notes and other communications from six banks emerges as interviews with the sources.

Banks now in the market include JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), Citigroup Inc (CN), Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE), Barclays Plc ( BARC.L ) and Jefferies Financial Group Inc (JEF.N), show the documents.

The return of Wall Street’s biggest firms, the details of the deals they offer to facilitate them, and the precautions they are taking to avoid sanctions violations are reported here for the first time.

Bank of America, Barclays, Citi and JPMorgan all declined to comment.

A Jefferies spokesman said it was “working within the framework of global sanctions guidelines to facilitate our customers’ needs to navigate this complicated situation.”

A source close to Deutsche Bank said the bank only trades bonds for clients on request and on a case-by-case basis to further reduce its Russia exposure or that of its non-US clients, but will not do any new business outside of those two categories.

EXTENDED ASSETS

About $40 billion in Russian government bonds were outstanding before Russia began a so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine in February. About half was held by foreign funds. Many investors were stranded with Russian assets as their values ​​plummeted, buyers disappeared and sanctions made trading more difficult.

In May, two US lawmakers asked JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) for information on trading in Russian debt, saying they could undermine sanctions. read more The following month, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control banned US money managers from buying Russian debt or stocks in the secondary markets, prompting banks to pull out.

Regulators have since taken steps to ease the pain for investors.

The Ministry of Finance issued further guidance on July 22 to help process default insurance payments on Russian bonds. It also clarified that banks could facilitate, settle and settle transactions in Russian securities if it would help US holders to wind down their positions. Continue reading

Separately, European regulators have also relaxed rules to allow investors to trade Russian assets, allowing them to place them in so-called side pockets on a case-by-case basis. Continue reading

Prices of some Russian bonds have skyrocketed since late July with renewed trading activity. That could make the trades more attractive to investors and also help companies that have sold protection against the Russian default.

For example, US bond manager PIMCO – which was on the hook for a payout of around $1 billion after Russia defaulted on its dollar debt in June – could now save around $300 million, one investor estimated. PIMCO declined to comment.

“For the first time in a while, there is some supply for both local and external bonds,” said Gabriele Foa, portfolio manager of the Global Credit Opportunities Fund at Algebris, which follows the Russian securities market. “Some banks and brokers are using this offer to make it easier for investors looking to exit to exit Russian positions.”

Portal could not determine who bought the bonds.

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MANY RULES

Some banks offer trading in Russian government and corporate bonds, and some offer to facilitate trading in bonds denominated in both rubles and US dollars, the documents and the investor holding Russian securities said . But they also demand additional paperwork from customers and take no chances.

For example, in a research update for clients on Wednesday, Bank of America stated in red capital letters: “Bank of America is now facilitating the sale of Russian government bonds and select corporate bonds.”

But it added that it would act as a “risk-free principal in brokerage deals,” meaning a situation where a dealer buys a bond and immediately resells it. It also warned that there are “many rules surrounding the process” that remain subject to “protocol and attestation.”

Approaches also differ between banks. For example, in some cases banks offer their clients to sell their holdings and other types of deals that would reduce exposure to Russian assets, while others limit trading to asset disposals.

At times they require investors to sign documents before the trade is executed, which would allow banks to cancel trades if settlement fails and banks risk leaving Russian paper on their books, according to one of the officials Documents and the investor.

A bank warned customers that settlements would take longer than usual.

Reporting by Davide Barbuscia in New York; Additional reporting by Rodrigo Campos. Edited by Megan Davies, Paritosh Bansal and Edward Tobin

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The phenomenon of scorewho could be responsible for at least one of the innocent shooting victims in Montreal last week could be growing due to the internet’s lack of vigilance, according to a criminologist.

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“We can’t speak of a practice yet, but we have a feeling that there is something,” believes Maria Mourani, president of Mourani-Criminologie.

Scoring consists of scoring “points” by sometimes attacking random people in an enemy gang’s territory.

This is a practice “very similar to video games” observed in England, among other places, where the perpetrators of these crimes gave themselves points depending on the body part hit by the bullet, among other things by boasting about it on social networks, according to the criminologist .

“Do we need to worry? Difficult to say, Ms Mourani thinks. […] But we sense there’s something there, in the style of the new generation of gangs that I call Generation 3.0, that grew up on social media and certain types of video games. »

According to police sources, this phenomenon could be the origin of the attack that took place in the Rivière-des-Prairies neighborhood on Thursday, where an innocent 25-year-old woman was injured by a projectile during a spate of beatings in the legs. from fire.

The day before, Jayson Colin, also believed to be innocent, was killed by gunfire during a shooting in Montreal North that injured two others.

feeling of insecurity

However, the scoring hypothesis has been put forward a few times since 2020, when it had previously been virtually never examined, particularly to try to explain the murder of young Thomas Trudel.

Attacks on innocent people increase the feeling of insecurity among citizens “many times over,” emphasizes ex-Montreal police officer Stéphane Wall.

Not enough presence on the web

One of Mourani’s main criticisms of the government’s strategy to combat armed violence is precisely the lack of online prevention.

“Gangs are no longer just on the territory, they’re also online,” she points out, arguing that 10% of the government’s repression budget should be allocated to prevention initiatives.

“Currently, there is a lot of focus on repression and less on prevention,” agrees Yanick Charette, a professor at Laval University’s School of Social Work and Criminology. A lot more money has been spent on repression and I don’t think that’s the right direction. »

Gunshots in Blainville

• The wave of gun violence in the greater Montreal area continued yesterday as gunshots rang out opposite to 9:10 p.m in a residence on Boulevard du Curé-Labelle in Blainville on the North Shore.
• None of the three occupants of the house were injured. No suspects have been arrested yet.
• At first glance, the residents are not known to the police.

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Skybridge Capital is “fairly bullish” on Bitcoin and Ethereum over the next 12 to 24 months. The founder of the global wealth management firm stated that the world’s largest cryptocurrency could hit $300,000 in six years, urging investors to “just relax” and “stay long-term.”

Skybridge bullish on Bitcoin and Ethereum

Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of global wealth management firm Skybridge Capital, shared his company’s prospects for Bitcoin and Ethereum in an interview with CNBC on Friday.

When asked if the crypto winter is over, he replied, “I would like to caution people to look through the current environment,” citing better-than-expected economic data like inflation and unemployment numbers released last week.

“The crypto market, we believe that most of the leverage is completely outside of this system. So you’re seeing a very strong recovery,” the Skybridge founder described, stating:

It is a reminder for investors not to back down, fight their own fear, be patient and stay long-term.

“We took a break. The pandemic caused this chaos. We put a lot of money into the system which caused some inflation and obviously had the supply chain disruption. But you could very well go back to that fourth quarter of 2019, which was a very strong economy – low unemployment and benign inflation. That’s probably 6 to 12 months away. I think the market is starting to see that,” he said.

Skybridge’s largest crypto positions are in Bitcoin and Ethereum, he noted, adding that the company also likes Solana and has “a very large position” in Algorand.

Sharing his outlook specifically for bitcoin, Scaramucci described “the improvement of the Lightning network, the proliferation of applications, and the ease of transactions using bitcoin,” noting:

You will see a lot more commercial activity there.

Meanwhile “They have The Merge with Ethereum that will lower transaction fees on this network. A lot of traders are probably believing this rumor… They are likely to sell on news of The Merge, which will take place in mid-September,” he said. “I would warn people not to do that. These are great long-term investments.”

The Skybridge founder emphasized:

In the next six years, if we’re right, if bitcoin goes to $300,000 per coin, it won’t matter if you bought it for $20,000 or $60,000. It really won’t matter.

“And I’m just warning people, the future is ahead of us. It’s happening sooner than I thought,” he continued.

Scaramucci then pointed to Blackrock, the world’s largest wealth manager, which recently launched a private Bitcoin trust, citing “significant” demand from some institutional investors. “Finally, Larry Fink [the CEO of Blackrock] sees the institutional demand. Otherwise he would not set up these products and would not merge with Coinbase,” said the Skybridge founder. “If something like this happens, I want to remind people that there are only 21 million bitcoins and you’re going to have a demand shock with very little supply.”

Earlier this month, Scaramucci said the fair market value of Bitcoin is $40,000 and Ethereum is $2,800. In March, he doubled down on his firm’s predictions that Bitcoin would hit $100,000 by the end of this year and $500,000 in the long term.

Scaramucci discourages people from investing based on emotion, noting that the message he’s trying to convey to investors is “see through it.”

“If you’re not in the market on the 10 best days, you’re reducing your return from about 7.5% to 2%. That’s the entire stock market,” he said. “There are a lot of short-time workers, a lot of research departments and different wire companies that react knee-jerk to things and get overly emotional.”

While emphasizing, “We’re trying to tell people, just relax, see through this,” Scaramucci noted:

We see a fairly bullish scenario for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Algorand over the next 12-24 months.

What do you think of the comments from Skybridge Capital’s founder? Let us know in the comment section below.

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As an Austrian economics student, Kevin discovered Bitcoin in 2011 and has been an evangelist ever since. His interests lie in Bitcoin security, open source systems, network effects and the interface between economics and cryptography.

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While many leading coins have blown up by double-digit percentages over the past seven days, there has been relatively little celebration on Crypto Twitter. Much of this week’s social media commentary instead concerned the US Treasury Department’s decision to ban American citizens from using crypto-privacy mixer Tornado Cash or transacting with Ethereum addresses linked to its community.

The Treasury Department said these actions were taken because criminals had used the service to “launder more than $7 billion worth of virtual currencies since its inception in 2019.” A tweeter emphasized that roughly the same amount of money was trapped in Tornado when sanctions were imposed.

Twitter user Harry.eth (@sniko_), who works for security at MetaMask, said the Treasury Department cannot sanction the entire tornado. It still exists on layer 2 protocols.

It also appears that the US Treasury Department is unaware that Tornado cash is present on multiple L2s. They only sanctioned addresses on the mainnet – and those flagged on Etherscan

For example, Arbitrum 0.1ETH Pool is not on the listhttps://t.co/uAlP416QoY

— harry.eth 🦊💙 (whg.eth) (@sniko_) August 8, 2022

On Tuesday, Ethereum founder and Russian citizen Vitalik Buterin admitted he used the protocol to donate money to Ukraine.

I will come out as someone who used TC to donate to this very cause.

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) August 9, 2022

The tornado ban could prove difficult for enforcers. Reports surfaced Tuesday that despite the ban, an anonymous Tornado user dusted off “hundreds” of Tornado wallets and sent small amounts of Ethereum to industry leaders and celebrities.

The infamous on-chain welly Fat Man Terra provided a list of the benefactor’s previous celebrity recipients.

Notable people/companies who have just received funds from a government-sanctioned entity:

-Jimmy Fallon
– Shaquille O’Neal
-PUMA
– Randy Zuckerberg
-Logan-Paul
– Brian Armstrong
-Steve Aoki
– Ukraine crypto donation
-Dave Chappelle
– beep

Field day for investigators. https://t.co/9HDJmppzT2

— FatMan (@FatManTerra) August 9, 2022

TRON CEO Justin Sun has been blocked from Aave due to Tornado’s mysterious benefactor.

UniSwap inventor Hayden Adams emphasized his belief in the need for privacy tools in our lives. Adams also called the sanctions a “free speech issue,” echoing several industry leaders on Twitter who cited the 1996 federal court case “Bernstein v. U.S.,” which designated “source code as speech” protected by the First Amendment.

2) Sanctioning an immutable smart contract as opposed to individuals/organizations feels like a huge free speech issue and a bad precedent

— hayden.eth 🦄 (@haydenzadams) August 9, 2022

It should also be noted that Github — the code platform that hosted Tornado Cash’s code — also took action on Monday. Github removed Tornado’s code and suspended the account of Tornado Cash founder Roman Semenov.

Finally, on Friday, the Dutch criminal investigation agency (FIOD) reported the arrest of a “suspected” developer of Tornado Cash. The news made waves on Twitter, with the crypto community and privacy advocates denouncing the move as a declaration of war on programmers.

Elsewhere…

Joel Miyazawa, a governance analyst at crypto intelligence agency Messari, cannot understand why the UniSwap community is so divided over a $74 million proposal to create a UniSwap foundation separate from the exchange.

Uniswap’s treasury is worth approximately $2 billion 🤯

The Uniswap Foundation’s proposal calls for $74 million. That’s ~4% of Uniswap’s treasury…

And the Uniswap community is divided. Why?

— Joel Miyazawa (@Ichiro_JJ) August 10, 2022

The tornado cash sanctions resulted in the USDC Issuer Circle freezing all USDC in wallets on the government sanctions list. This prompted MakerDAO to reconsider its exposure to Circle, USDC’s centralized issuer. MakerDAO’s DAI stablecoin is currently pegged to USDC.

But Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin was quick to comment on the proposal, calling it “a risky and terrible idea.”

Errr, that seems like a risky and terrible idea. If ETH falls sharply, the value of the collateral would fall sharply, but the CDPs would not be liquidated, so the entire system would risk becoming fractional reserve.

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) August 11, 2022

Chinese blockchain journalist Colin Wu elaborated on the story on Friday.

Hit by the tornado sanctions, MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen said he was seriously considering moving away from using USDC as collateral and converting USDC to ETH. Vitalik said non-ETH collateral should be allowed to exceed 20% of the total. pic.twitter.com/x3ocsCq6KH

— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) August 12, 2022

Finally, The Ethereum Merge now has a specific date.

The Ethereum mainnet merge has been tentatively scheduled for April 15/16. scheduled for Sept.

The merger is coming 🐼

— sassal.eth 🦇🔊🐼 (@sassal0x) August 11, 2022

Well… more or less.

The overall difficulty of the terminal has been set at 5875000000000000000000.

This means that the Ethereum PoW network now has a (roughly) fixed number of hashes left to mine. https://t.co/3um744WkxZ predicts the merge to happen around May 15. pic.twitter.com/9YnloTWSi1

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) August 12, 2022

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Armed violence in Montreal must be a key campaign issue, according to the Parti Québécois, which notably promises to hire 100 new police officers in its plan to combat this scourge.

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“We want to sound the alarm on the problem of gun violence. We are clearly losing the calm, peaceful and secure character that makes Quebec what it is,” argues PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon in an interview with the Journal.

The Independence Party has unveiled a solid plan to tackle gun violence in the province ahead of October’s elections.

“We want to make it a campaign theme that resonates,” explains Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon, who runs in East Montreal’s Bourget riding.

centaur

The Parti Québécois (PQ) is proposing to double the amounts already invested in the Centaure provincial strategy to hire about 100 new police officers to fight gun violence.

Developed in September 2021, this strategy has produced results that hardly impress Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon.

“We managed to confiscate only 400 guns. The pace is clearly not fast enough given the proliferation of firearms in society. »

At the borders

The party’s pledged increase in resources would target Montreal, PQ said, but also the frontiers where the provincial government can do more if it doesn’t have the powers of an independent country. In particular, he suggests forming a mixed squad along the borders in cooperation with local police to improve patrols.

The PQ also pledge to create a “new envelope” for prevention initiatives in schools in violent neighborhoods, without specifying the amount.

Eventually, the party promises to pass Quebec law establishing a registry of criminal organizations. A proposal by the Bloc Québécois had already failed in Ottawa and would have imposed prison sentences of up to two years for anyone identifying with a criminal group.

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• Nikkei rises, S&P 500 futures fall
• PBOC cuts interest rates, China data misses forecasts significantly
• Eyes on Fed Minutes, US Retail Sales, Earnings

SYDNEY, Aug 15 (Portal) – Asian stocks were mixed on Monday after China’s central bank cut interest rates as a raft of economic data missed forecasts and underscored the need for more stimulus to support the world’s second-largest economy.

Both retail sales and industrial production rose less-than-expected in July, contributing to a disappointing number of new bank loans.

The rate cut helped cushion the blow somewhat, keeping Chinese blue chips (.CSI300) steady while yuan and bond yields fell. Continue reading

“These are further signs that the post-Shanghai lockdown growth spurt is fading rapidly,” said Alvin Tan, strategist at RBC. “Monetary policy is losing traction, except possibly on the exchange rate, with exports being the only bright spot in the economy.”

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific stocks outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) was flat after rising 0.9% last week.

Japan’s Nikkei (.N225) rose 1.1% as data showed the economy grew an annualized 2.2% in the second quarter, just slightly below estimates. Continue reading

Investors remain curious whether Wall Street can continue its rally as hopes that US inflation has peaked will be tested this week by likely hawkish comments from the Federal Reserve.

“Wednesday’s FOMC minutes should reinforce the hawkish tones of recent Fed speakers that interest rates and inflation are far from over,” warned Tapas Strickland, economics director at NAB.

Markets are still implying around a 50% chance that the Fed will hike 75 basis points in September and that rates will rise to around 3.50-3.75% by the end of the year.

Hopes of a soft economic landing are also being tested on their health by US retail sales data, which is expected to show a sharp slowdown in spending in July.

There’s also a risk that earnings from major retailers, including Walmart (WMT.N) and Target (TGT.N), will be littered with warnings of a drop in demand.

Geopolitical risks remain high for a two-day trip by a delegation of US lawmakers to Taiwan. Continue reading

EUROSTOXX 50 futures were up 0.4% and FTSE futures were up 0.5%. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures are both down about 0.2% after last week’s gains.

However, the S&P index is nearly 17% above its mid-June lows and just 11% above its all-time highs, amid bets that the worst of inflation is over, at least in the United States.

PEAK INFLATION

“The leading indicators we’ve been watching are supportive of moderation, with supply pressures easing, demand weakening, money supply collapsing, prices falling and expectations falling,” analysts at BofA said.

“Key components of headline inflation, including food and energy, are also at an inflection point. Both Wall Street and Main Street now expect inflation to moderate.”

The bond market still appears to have doubts that the Fed can pull off a soft landing as the yield curve is still heavily inverted. Two-year yields are 3.26%, 42 basis points higher than 10-year bonds.

Those returns have supported the US dollar, although it fell 0.8% against a basket of currencies last week as risk sentiment improved.

The euro stayed at $1.0249 after recovering 0.8% last week, despite balking at resistance around $1.0368. Against the yen, the dollar stabilized at 133.23 after losing 1% last week.

“We remain of the view that the dollar rally will resume shortly,” argued Jonas Goltermann, senior economist at Capital Economics.

“It will take a lot more good news on inflation before the Fed changes course.

The dollar’s decline gave gold, which was trading around $1,794 an ounce, some breathing space after gaining 1% last week.

Oil prices eased as China’s disappointing data fueled concerns over global fuel demand.

The head of the world’s largest exporter Saudi Aramco said he was ready to ramp up production as production resumes at several offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico after a brief outage last week.

Brent fell 99 cents to $97.16 a barrel, while US crude fell 89 cents to $91.20 a barrel.

Reporting by Wayne Cole; Edited by Sam Holmes and Raju Gopalakrishnan

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A young Quebec woman must begin the battle of her life to face an inoperable brain tumor just weeks before her 20th birthday, while her grandmother is swept away by the same illness, which could be partly hereditary.

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“When I learned that my daughter was going to be put in the same bed my mother had been in a few days earlier at the Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus, the sons touched. I couldn’t believe this was happening to us,” says Anne Harvey emotionally.

With kind approval

Marianne Genois on her grandmother’s sickbed.

Her 19-year-old daughter, Marianne Genois, had severe headaches for several weeks, which her relatives attributed to migraines. But in mid-July the pain was so severe that she had to go to the Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus for appropriate treatment.

At that time, he was diagnosed with diffuse midline glioma. This is an advanced and inoperable brain tumor, partly because of its location.

“The sky has fallen on our heads like a bunch of bad news. It’s one thing to bury your parents, but another to bury your children,” breathes the mother of the family.

A genetic prevalence?

With kind approval

Louise Gaudreault celebrates her last birthday. She died a week after her granddaughter was diagnosed with a similar incurable cancer.

A few months earlier, Marianne Genois’ grandmother herself found out that she was suffering from a similar brain tumor. Louise Gaudreault finally died on July 24 at the age of 72, barely a week after announcing her granddaughter’s diagnosis.

“Nevertheless, he was treated for at least a year and a half. We like to think she left earlier to look after Marianne,” says Ms Harvey, surrounded by the flowers used at her mother’s funeral the day before.

Doctors also believe that genetics may play some role in the prevalence of this disease in the family. One of her cousins ​​recently received a similar diagnosis.

Given the situation, Anne Harvey, who has suffered from migraines for years, needs to receive the results of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan within a few days to check if she has inherited this “gene”.

Head full of projects

Her daughter, meanwhile, is undergoing numerous chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments aimed at slowing the spread of the tumour, although they will never cure the 19-year-old girl.

Despite the situation, she refuses to feel sorry for herself and says she enjoys life surrounded by the people she loves. His relatives also refused to know the prognosis made by the doctors.

“I try to be the same Marianne as before, but I live from day to day. I have no choice,” the main prospect suggests.

As a fashion lover, she wants to use her last moments to start her own clothing business for extraordinary people or visit haute couture cities around the world.

A fundraiser started by a family friend aims to help her achieve her dreams. This also relieves the financial burden on her mother, who had to close her day care center for a few months to look after herself and her own mother.

Diffuse midline glioma

• Also called infiltrating brainstem glioma
• Aggressive brain tumor that starts in the brainstem
• There is no cure
• Radiotherapy and chemotherapy from a palliative perspective
• The median overall survival is 11 months

Source: Merck Manuals and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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