Here and there – Le Journal de Montreal

Here and there – Le Journal de Montréal

• Special request: Are you not allowed to plant orange cones when there is no work? It seems to me that there are already enough of them.

• For his twins, Georges Laraque met the skating instructor Loraine Ostiguy (from Brossard). A rare pearl.

• On his show, Daniel Lemire says that his girlfriend told him about a threesome. He was excited until he realized he wasn’t interested.

• Florida Panthers assistant coach Sylvain Lefebvre is having a great time and is impressed by the exceptional work of his coach Paul Maurice.

• Long at the Mirage, where he was maître d’hôtel, Nicolas Burns now runs MYO, a premier business meeting place in Laval. Great class.

• With all due respect to his colleague Joseph Facal, who would like to rename it, Dorval Airport has been called Le Montréal-Trudeau for 20 years.

• Explain to me why birds never get out of breath.

• Trump going to prison doesn’t make me angry. It comes out…

• Minister Geneviève Guilbault says: “The REM is fantastic. Clean, fast and what’s more, no need to wear a seat belt.”

• The meeting point of the North Stars is the Maestro restaurant in Saint-Sauveur. What a kitchen!

• After three weeks of vacation (and hockey) in Quebec, Stéphane Talbot returned to the Marrakech Golf Club, which he runs in Morocco. He is waiting for you.

• Emirates is one of the very few airlines flying to Russia despite the war with Ukraine.

• In my opinion the best octopus in Montreal is at Milos on Parc Avenue in Montreal.

• She was born in a Tennessee zoo on July 31 and will be named Kipekee (meaning unique). She is the only flawless giraffe in the world. She was born completely brown.

• Don’t be surprised to see Mario Tremblay on the court at L’Île-des-Sœurs tennis club. A masterpiece by his girlfriend France Néron.

• Did you know that Canada’s first credit card, Chargex, is celebrating its 55th anniversary? Chargex then became Visa, i.e. American.

• Yes, Pierre G., Tim Hortons and Burger King, it’s the same company.

IN THE BUNCH

• It was so hot this week that I walked past a pigsty and it smelled like bacon.

• Bad party at the end of the week. There were so many people that we ended up doing the dishes in the pool.

• “Teacher asked. If possible with a fan.” (Minister Drainville)

• At Serge Savard’s golf tournament luncheon, while Michel Bergeron was eating alone with Jacques Lemaire, Bob Gainey stopped at her level with his plate in hand, looked at her before continuing on his way, and said simply, “Incredible.”

• Only in Quebec are there 5-secondary teachers who have 3-secondary education.

• Why does the young actress Emmanuelle Gagné-Néron prefer to take a bath than a shower? You can keep your cell phone in the bathtub.

• Two toasts in the morning, but one toast every 15 minutes in the evening.

• Nice to see that the REM works without a driver. Better. Even in the evening there are often no passengers.

• It’s not easy to work for unemployment insurance. If you lose your job, you have to come back the next day.

• From Michel Hamelin on the green: My ball is so far from the pin that I had to “call” an Uber.

• It was so hot this week that we went to Rougemont and picked applesauce.

Les eaux seront plus agitees pour le Canadien lan prochain