NATIONAL TREE DAY 2021: 100 TREES PLANTED BY THE CITY OF DEUX-MONTAGNES FOR ITS 100 YEARS
During the week of September 20, 2021, the City of Deux-Montagnes carried out the planting of 100 trees in parks and public spaces in the territory. This planting coincides perfectly with the 100th anniversary of the city and the 10th anniversary of National Tree Day celebrated on Wednesday, September 22.
Of these 100 trees, 25 were planted thanks to the program A birth, a book, a tree, a healthy environment and the parents who have chosen the option of having a tree planted in the name of their child by the city in one of the municipal parks.
This planting undoubtedly contributes to the aesthetics of the city’s landscape, but above all improves the quality of the environment in Two-Mountains through the multiple benefits provided by trees. All citizens are also invited to increase the tree cover of the territory by planting trees on their property according to the principle of “the right tree in the right place”, which allows a choice that resists the passage of time and the seasons. To help the population make the right choices, Tree Canada offers a Planting Guide as well as a short video produced by its staff: https://youtu.be/efdvGF7saGw
Situation at Saint-Eustache Hospital deteriorating
Following months of announcements from the CISSS des Laurentides about the difficult situation in the emergencies ward of the Saint-Eustache Hospital, a new press release is highlighting the ever-deteriorating situation of the overworked ER.
The Integrated Health and Social Services Center (CISSS) Laurentian asks the population to avoid the emergency of the Saint-Eustache Hospital for non-urgent health problems and instead using the alternatives to emergency in order to ensure that each person consults in the right place, depending on the nature of their problem.
Residents are asked to consider the following options, regardless of the emergency situation:
• contact Info-Santé 811 by phone to speak to a nurse;
• consult your family doctor;
• see a doctor in a walk-in clinic;
• consult your pharmacist.
As always, the CISSS insists that a person whose situation requires urgent care should not hesitate to go to the emergency room to receive the essential care they need.
The list of medical clinics offering walk-in consultations by place of residence is available in the resource directory: sante.gouv.qc.ca/repertoire-ressources which also allows patients to get an online appointment depending on the time of day.
If patients have symptoms similar to COVID-19, they should get tested at a screening clinic near them.
The CISSS des Laurentides, thanking its teams for their work with the patients and the population for their collaboration, remains in action to improve the current situation and reassures that every effort will be made to put in place exceptional measures for the retention and attraction of personnel aimed at better meeting the needs of the health and social services network in terms of nursing and cardiorespiratory care, recently announced by the Government of Quebec.
New pediatric clinics for children without a family doctor in the Laurentian region
The Integrated Health and Social Services Center (CISSS) announced the opening of three new clinics for children from 3 months to 16 years old in need of minor health care.
The child, for whom a parent wishes to obtain an appointment, must meet all these criteria:
– Not have an appointed family doctor or specialized nurse practitioner.
– Have a minor physical health problem.
In order to allow greater access to the population, these clinics are accessible by appointment
only, in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Saint-Jérôme and Boisbriand.
These designated pediatric clinics aim to offer an additional alternative to families in the
Laurentians. By the same token, these clinics will help support emergencies andclinics
family medicine in the region.
Strict prevention measures are deployed in the clinics. The CISSS des Laurentides is asking for everyone’s collaboration in order to respect the measures in place.
Directors of Youth Protection: Protecting children is OUR PRIORITY!
In its 18th annual report, under the theme “Children are our priority!”, the Directors of Youth Protection showcased their resolute determination to improve what must be improved and highlights their renewed, unflagging and unshakeable commitment to combat child abuse.
The report emphasizes the tremendous work accomplished in the last year by the caseworkers and their colleagues. With great devotion, they proactively worked to support and to stay in touch with the children and their families. Thanks to their attentive presence and their interventions the children were well taken care of and many tragedies were avoided.
According to the report here are the provincial statistics for 2020-2021:
Number of reports processed: 117,904, i.e. 323 situations involving children reported each day.
This is a very slight drop in the number of reports processed compared to 2019-2020.
Number of reports pursued: 44,728. This is a 2.7% increase compared to 2019-2020.
The acceptance rate for reports was 37.9%, compared to 36.8% last year and 39.3% in 2018-19.
The majority of reports came from employees of public organisations (33%); the proportions have remained almost unchanged compared to previous years.
The main living environment for children in the care of the DYP is still the family environment
(55.4%). A greater proportion of children remain in their family environment (13%).
The regional statistics for 2020-2021 are as follows:
Number of reports processed: 11,440, a slight increase compared to last year (11,199 reports
processed in 2019-2020).
Number of reports pursued: 4,336, an increase of 429 reports compared to last year.
The acceptance rate for reports was 37.9%, compared to 34.9% last year.
4. The majority of reports came from employees of public organisations (33.3%), followed by schools
(21.1%).
5. The main living environment for children in the care of the DYP is still the family environment
From the RIPTB Mr. Martin Charron, inspector, Mr. Brian Deslauriers, general manager of Place Rosemère as well as Mrs. Diane Brown, director of operations of Place Rosemère, Sébastien Charette, and Éric Huard of the RIPTB.
On September 22, the partnership agreement between Place Rosemère and the Thérèse de Blainville Police Department (RIPTB) was renewed, almost fifteen years after the first agreement signed in October 2006.
This agreement continues year after year, responding to a real need for prevention, partnership and customer service. It makes it possible to offer the services of a police officer from the RIPTB directly on the scene and to work in close collaboration with the security guards of Place Rosemère as well as the employees of the shops and businesses. This personalized service makes it possible to assist citizens, intervene quickly and efficiently with customers and tenants, ensure a reassuring presence during special events, implement prevention projects and offer unparalleled service at Place Rosemère.
“This project is part of the proactive security strategy of the RIPTB, ie crime prevention, proximity to citizens, partnership with Place Rosemère and problem solving through analysis and intelligence of emerging situations. The presence of a police officer at Place Rosemère makes it possible to prevent a big percentage of fraud, shoplifting, theft in vehicles, also allows rapid assistance to citizens and above all increases the feeling of security of customers employers and employees of Place Rosemère ”, said Inspector Martin Charron of the RIPTB.
“More than ever, our partnership agreement is important. This service is, without a doubt, indispensable and essential, especially in times of pandemic! It helped us ensure the safety of our customers, our tenants and our employees.” added Brian Deslauriers of Place Rosemère. “We would like to thank agent Sébastien Charette for the quality of the work accomplished with us over the past four years and would like to welcome the arrival of agent Éric Huard.
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Rosemère Golf course: The Ministry of the Environment will not intervene
In a press release dated September 22nd 2021 the city of Rosemère informed the population that following its request for intervention in the former Rosemère golf course file, the Ministry of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change has responded, after verifying the known facts, that there is no reason for them to act at this time.
In a communication sent to the City’s general management, the Ministry notes that only an activity listed in Annex III of the Règlement sur la protection et la réhabilitation des terrains requires a mandatory characterization of the land and a rehabilitation plan to be submitted to the Ministry. However, the operation of a golf course is not an activity of an industrial and commercial nature listed in Annex III of this bylaw.
Thus, even if a project were to be developed on this land, the owner is not required by law to characterize the land, nor to file a rehabilitation plan, according to the Ministry.
A thorough and independent environmental study required
Although not required by law, the city reiterates that it will require a thorough and independent environmental study at the appropriate time, otherwise the status quo will prevail. This analysis will then be submitted to the public as part of the public consultation process in the event that a development plan is submitted.
Rosemère officials emphasized that the possible decontamination of the land will be subject to citizen consultations since the current zoning of the land does not allow any development on nearly 90% of its surface. Following the consultations, a referendum will be held for the entire population, followed by a referendum for the contiguous zones, at the request of the citizens, in accordance with the applicable law, thus giving Rosemerites the final say in this matter.
At a press conference on September 14th, the mayor of Saint-Eustache, Pierre Charron, supported the Coalition Santé Laurentides and the other towns in the Laurentians so that the population has appropriate access to health care.
The Laurentian Health Coalition (CSL) continues its tour of the Saint-Eustache Hospital, with the objective of making known the urgent needs in health care and social services of the citizens of the Laurentians. Although it is fortunate and necessary that the hospital modernization and expansion project benefits from the acceleration measures provided for by PL-66, the critical increase in the last decade of the population of the Basses-Laurentides that the hospital serves, in addition to the population of the Laval-Ouest territory and the Mohawk nation of Kanesatake, has weakened seriously its capacity, due to a lack of funding and adequate resources.
For members of the CSL and the Saint-Eustache Hospital community, the situation is so alarming that the construction schedule must start now and not lose another day.
“The members of the CSL’s steering committee spoke with elected officials, users, healthcare staff and doctors to take stock of the current situation at the Hôpital de Saint -Eustace. Of course, the pandemic was at the heart of our discussions. But it only highlighted the inadequacy in terms of capacity for welcoming and treating patients which existed long before and which has reached its limits. This is a completely unacceptable situation, given the importance of the population of the Basses-Laurentides, the hospital thus requiring a significant upgrade, to allow it to fully fulfill its role ”, said Marc L’Heureux, prefect of the MRC des Laurentides and member of the CSL steering committee.
The sustainability of the hospital and the area is serves depends on increased hospital capacity
“The Hospital of Saint -Eustace had already reached a critical point more than a decade ago, particularly regarding the incongruity of its er and the significant lack of technical facilities and intra-hospital care. Already its modernization will come 5 years too late, our hospital is struggling to adequately receive specialists, severely affecting patients. To ensure a solid service corridor to adequately serve a pool of nearly 300,000 people, the Saint-Eustache Hospital must be able to ensure complementarity with the Saint-Jérôme Regional Hospital, and this through a significant increase in its hospital capacity, ”says Dr. Lino Gianni Birri, specialist in general internal medicine at Saint-Eustache Hospital.
Calling on stakeholders to find an innovative local solution
“Let’s be clear: every week for two months, people have been asked not to come to the emergency room at Saint-Eustache Hospital. We are near the breaking point. This might lead to a domino effect on the other hospitals in the region, which are also fragile. We cannot sit idly by until the government’s announced solutions to address the health workforce crisis begin to take effect – which may take weeks and month: we need to act now and go off the beaten track. We call for a concertation of all parties to imagine simple, clear, and rapid solutions aimed at better supporting nurses and caregivers. In the short term, let’s try a local innovative solution in Saint-Eustache, in collaboration with Saint-Jérôme,” says Dr. Lyne Couture, family physician, member of the CSL steering committee and vice-president of the Association des médecins omnipraticiens Laurentides-Lanaudière (AMOLL).
Reminding Laurentian members of the Cabinet of Ministers of their commitments
“Barely 4 years ago, the MNA for Deux-Montagnes, then in the opposition, now a member of the Cabinet, rightly argued that It is unacceptable that the citizens of the Laurentians have to travel outside their region to receive basic secondary care. This is still the case today, sorry to say. The funding, as he said at the time, did not follow the patient. The unanimous motion of May 6th in the National Assembly gives him today all the legitimacy, as well as his other fellow ministers and deputies of the region, to deliver the necessary financial catch-up and have a game plan to accelerate the modernization and expansion of all of our six hospitals in the region, ”said Denis Martin, Prefect of the Deux-Montagnes MRC and Mayor of Deux-Montagnes.
Solidarity from south to north of the Laurentians region
“We have the same objective, from south to north of our region: it is to obtain what is needed for our population in order to have access to appropriate care no matter the circumstances. I think that our taxes have the same worth as everywhere in Quebec: it is just and normal to have a fair return for the health of the citizens of Sint-Eustache and the Laurentians”, said Pierre Charron, mayor of the city of Saint -Eustace. In solidarity with his colleague from Saint-Jérôme and his colleagues from Mont-Laurier, Rivière-Rouge, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts and Lachute, he also demanded a return to local governance and proximity of access, to improve the recruitment and retention of staff and more generally to strengthen the accessibility of a care offer for comprehensive primary and secondary health throughout the region.
A collective responsibility
“We do not realize to what extent the Laurentides region is an important region in Quebec: the 4th largest region – barely 120,000 people less than the National Capital – and especially the 2nd largest CISSS territory. It is a source of major concern for our region and that is why we are calling for a commitment from the government to improve access to care, through a strong regional hospital with five other satellite hospitals equally strong. Laurentians must be able to benefit from the coverage of all care primary and secondary, which is still far from being the case. This is corrected by a financial catch-up as desired by parliamentarians unanimously on May 6, 2021 ”, concluded Dr. Daniel Picard, nuclear specialist, member of the CSL steering committee and president of the Association of physicians and professionals for the advancement of the Saint-Jérôme Hospital.
The Coalition Santé Laurentides
The Coalition Santé Laurentides (CSL), supported by a steering committee and an advisory committee that bring together elected officials, business people, medical staff and community stakeholders, takes a stand and acts as a voice for decision-makers to obtain the funding and infrastructure to meet health care and social services needs in the Laurentians.
The Laurentians Integrated Health and Social Services Center (CISSS) is announcing the creation of 474 residential caretaker positions.
This initiative follows the arrival of the many new attendants who have taken the accelerated training “Becoming a CHSLD caretaker” set up by the government in order to meet the sustained need for attendants in the various accommodation settings for the elderly. For the President and CEO of the CISSS des Laurentides, Ms. Rosemonde Landry, this news responds to the desire to keep this precious workforce at the CISSS des Laurentides.
“Many newly trained agents work within our organization but await the establishment of a permanent position. The creation of these new positions will be an opportunity for these people to secure their jobs and will also allow us to recruit new people. We are always happy to be able to consolidate our teams and to expand our large family of employees,” she explained.
According to Ms. Rosemonde Landry, the creation of these positions is in addition to the numerous efforts of the organization to ensure the stability of the CISSS des Laurentides teams. This will also allow the CISSS to continue their work with the seniors who reside in their shelters. “The more professionals we have on site, the more we will be able to offer quality services, benevolent support and stimulating activities to the residents in our CHSLDs,” concluded Ms. Landry.
The Sainte Thérèse fire department open house returns at the Sainte-Thérèse barracks! As part of Fire Prevention Week, the City’s Fire Safety Department will welcome the population on Sunday, October 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at 200, boulevard Ducharme.
In addition to meeting the team and visiting the fire station facilities, various activities will be offered during this family meeting: a course where you will live the experience of preparing firefighters, a competition to put your knowledge to the test, different events, an inflatable game for children, the presence of the mascot Yvon Larosé and more. The educational trailer will also be on site to create simulations of emergency situations. The city promises a real physical and sensory experience!
“We are delighted to have returned to this much appreciated day. The whole family is invited to take part! This will be the ideal opportunity to meet the firefighters and preventionists of Sainte-Thérèse, to discuss with them and to ask them all your questions. They will happily share their expertise and demystify their profession! », said the mayoress of Sainte-Thérèse, Mrs. Sylvie Surprenant.
The event is free and no registration is required. The vaccination passport will be required to access the site. Reception capacity will be limited to 500 visitors at a time, so entry will be on a first come, first served basis. As the majority of activities take place outdoors, the event will be canceled in the event of heavy rain or thunderstorm.
