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Ste Anne De Bellevue: Swimming Pools

Facebook Dept: Pointe Claire is our gold standard in everything from orderly tasteful housing, to public transport, shopping, library books, swimming pools and drinking water. If you can't drink Pointe Claire water, you might as well move to Montreal where a nodrinking notice won't throw you into shock because their water system breaks down all the time, according to Montreal Gazette. And the next thing you realize is that your BlackBerry doesn't connect any more and for four days the magical high-tech world of RIM vanishes and you have to use an old abandoned laptop to receive all those Eddie Bauer and Dell promotions. Not only do your RIM shares crumble but your dream of a hi-tech future for Canada evaporates as Canadians fall under the spell of Steve Jobs whose playful network never ceases to amaze us and seriously, when the water from Pointe Claire isn't fit to drink, it's time to question everything in our universe. When I started to get the first whispers from the Ste. Anne de Bellevue Facebook page that Pointe Claire water wasn't fit to drink, even if boiled for hours, I think I realized that there had been a shift in the universe. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.