Saturday, November 8th, 2025 Montreal, Quebec     Walking in an industrial park area near an airport is not the most glamourous setting.  Yet the air is relatively clean and it’s quiet, so that’s what you want and that’s what I’m getting.   The venue for our AGM Annual General Meetings in Montreal is at the Radisson Hotel where 108 registered leaders from ISKCON meet, sleep, eat, and make friends.  Apart from one of those personal vertigo attacks in our banquet hall, all was quite pleasant...

Friday, November 7th, 2025 Montreal, Quebec     What a beautiful reinforcement!  There we were in the Banquet Hall of the Radison Hotel, 8 AM, singing our hearts out with fellow country men and women, all Hare Krishnas, some mature (been around) and others, newer kids on the block.    This was the start of a beautiful day, the start of an entire weekend when leaders of ISKCON from Zone 1 of North America came together to discuss what is important to them culturally and socially.   One of our...

Thursday, November 6th, 2025 Montreal, Quebec     I arrived safely in Montreal for our AGM Annual General Meeting.  I came upon the following letter by our guru , A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada written August 24 th , 1968, when he was living in Montreal, addressed to the Right Honourable Michener, Governor General of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.   “ISKCON (The international Society of Krishna Consciousness) is a non-lucrative organization, whose purpose is to promote the well-being of human...