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The business of dying
Article online since October 11th 2007Passing away does not always mean “resting in peace,” especially with a strike at one of the biggest cemeteries in Canada. For nearly four months, the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery pushed back about 500 burials due to a lock-out. In Montreal, about 15,000 people die every year, compared...
Hundreds of corpses locked out
Article online since October 8th 2007Spring 2007. Unable to come to an agreement with its 130 employees, the Notre-Dame-de-Montréal parish began a lockout on May 16 that would last four months, until the Charest government threatened to force the cemetery workers back on the job at the beginning of September. Since then, the...
Accommodating all religions is a "question of survival"
Article online since October 7th 2007With the Bouchard-Taylor Commission bringing the issue of reasonable accommodation to the forefront, people in Montreal’s funeral industry say being able to accommodate all religions is a must if you want to survive in such a cosmopolitan city. “On a busy weekend at our office on Sherbrooke...
Business, American style
Article online since October 6th 2007Thanatologist and founder of the Aaron Funeral Home on St. Denis Street in Montreal, Benoît Chagnon has been operating his business independent of American multinationals and big Quebec brand names for the past 17 years. According to Chagnon, Service Corporation International (SCI) of Houston,...
Second annual photography contest launched
Montrealers invited to take part in the contest, whose theme is 'Montreal, At Your Service'
Article online since August 23rd 2007Last year, in the first-ever edition of the Transcontinental Media/City of Montreal photography contest, more than 1,500 photos were submitted by Montreal residents with the theme of cleanliness and neatness of the city in mind. After such an overwhelming response, the two principal partners...
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