Profile of Marc Lalonde

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• Pearson shuts down Greendale Pre-K
  Parents ofGreendaleelementary school pre-kindergarten students will no longer be able to send their kids to half- or full-day pre-K at the ...
• Dorval residents speak out against proposed ‘jail’
  The proposed expansion of a Batshaw Family Services group home in Dorval is too much for some residents, who are now speaking out against the ...
• Dorval man challenges locals to step up to plate
  Dorval resident Murray Levine is a lot of things – a dedicated, passionate advocate for the less-fortunate and charities, a thorn in the side of ...
• Homework reax: We're on to something here!
  Last week's column bemoaning the amount of homework my seven-year-old daughter deals with on a daily basis strick a nerve with some readers, ...
• It’s Cloud 9 for new security company
  Two West Island natives are the brains behind a new company that will allow property and business owners to keep an eye on their property – ...
• Demers grabs district 4 seat in byelection
  Pierre Demers bested two challengers – Kate Coulter and Anna Patoka, to win a byelection April 1 for the Beaconsfield district 4 seat ...
• Police files: Crash kills distracted 61-year-old...
  Station 3 (serving Pierrefonds, Roxboro, Ste. Genevieve and Ile Bizard): A 61-year-old Ste. Genevieve man died after losing control of his car ...
• The lessons of homework
  I cannot simply believe the way life is today. No sooner do you arrive home at the end of the day, but then you get in the house, and have to ...
• Meaney, Worth still united on 440 extension
  The key to unlocking traffic congestion on St. Charles, St. John’s and Sources boulevards is extending the 440 down through Pierrefonds and ...
• Charge! Electric-car charging stations up and running
  At the Metro grocery store on St. Charles Boulevard in Kirkland last Friday morning, the weather was sunny and brisk – but it didn’t look ...
• The Duffer's Guide: getting ready for the season
  With the advent of an early Spring, I’ve decided that this is my year to finally take that big step forward in terms of my golf game. Two summers ...
• Two arrests made in politically-motivated vandalism...
  Station 3 (serving Pierrefonds, Roxboro, Ste. Genevieve and Ile Bizard): Police made a pair of arrests after Quebec Families Minister and ...
• Train de l’Ouest plan on track
  More than a dozen West Island mayors and local opinion leaders got on a bus Tuesday morning to go to Quebec City, and when the bus returned later ...
• Williams reflects on honour
  Beaconsfield High School graduate Dave Williams dreamt big when he was a ‘very average’ student at the institution until his graduation in 1971 – ...
• Pearson to raise pre-K fees
  The Lester B. Pearson School Board will no longer be subsidizing its network of pre-kindergartens due to expected cuts in provincial ...
• New bus line is ‘very, very good news': Worth
  A new bus line coming into effect April 2 will allow West Island commuters to get downtown by bus from the Fairview Pointe Claire shopping ...
• Making the most of summer weather in March
  Sunday's high of 23C made last weekend our family's spring 2012 coming-out party - literally. It all began Saturday around noon. The sun ...
• Police files: Dollard senior thwarts fraudsters by...
  Station 4 (serving Dollard des Ormeaux): A vigilant 80-year-old resident was the victim of an attempted fraud last week, but his ...
• BHS to name science wing after Williams
  Beaconsfield High School will name its science wing after distinguished alumnus Dave Williams - the first Canadian to live and work in space and ...
• Life on the front lines
  Dealing with mentally ill people is one of the hardest parts of police work, and there is still very little in the way of training for ...
• The annual thaw
  It's that time of year again - it's hard to quantify my excitement at the spring thaw, but there is no single word that describes it ...
• Fighting taxpayers with taxpayer dollars has to stop
• New semipro team helmed by West Islander
• McGill series tells seniors what they need to know
  The difference between handing over power of attorney to an individual and signing over a mandate in the event of incapacity for an ...
• Trading Facebook for face time and other parenting...
  It's a different world than the one we grew up in; parents today didn't have to worry about their teenage exploits being filmed surreptitiously, ...
• Helping ideas grow
  A tool developed by a local youth-employment agency to help young adults learn to be entrepreneurs and figure out which career is right ...
• How do you beat the winter blues?
  The temperature outside may have hovered around -20C, but the mood inside John Abbott College last Wednesday afternoon was tropical as ...
• No ifs, ands or buts about it: my sister is an...
  My daughter thinks she's got it pretty rough. Her bedtimes are sort-of enforced, her candy consumption is regulated, especially these ...
• Marjorie Raymond bullying tragedy could've been avoided
  The tragic suicide of a teenager in Ste. Anne des Monts last week has given me pause, and not just because it's yet another young life ...
• Stomach flu derails work week
  The end of the week couldn't come soon enough for my wife and me. I know it's obvious, but the work week we had just gone through would try ...