PHOTO OLIVIER JEAN, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
More and more Quebecers, pushed onto the streets by the cost of living and the price of housing, find themselves forced to live in their cars. Like Roger Migneault, seen in this photo in his 2011 Chevrolet pickup truck.
PHOTO DOMINICK GRAVEL, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
Montreal police officers often have to intervene with people struggling with mental health disorders. The Press accompanied patrollers in the Plateau Mont-Royal to get a glimpse of their daily life.
PHOTO OLIVIER JEAN, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
For five days, including nights, Fady Dagher, head of the SPVM, immersed himself in vulnerable populations and acute social issues. The Press followed him for two days.
PHOTO OLIVIER JEAN, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
Jean-François Bourgon has been living for more than a year and a half in a makeshift shelter on the edge of Brasserie Creek, in Gatineau.
PHOTO OLIVIER JEAN, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
Anne-Marie Jobin has been paralyzed from the waist down since birth. Last November, she urgently needed to find a new place to live, living in Greenfield Park. But with the housing crisis, she couldn’t find an apartment that suited her at a price she was able to pay.
PHOTO MARTIN TREMBLAY, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
A farmer installed a dike in an Oka stream without authorization to irrigate his vegetables in the summer of 2020, which he potentially watered with water contaminated by a toxic spill from the illegal Kanesatake dump (our photo ).
PHOTO OLIVIER JEAN, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
Police officer Israel Meunier-Bouliane and social worker Éric Généreux are part of the Crisis Intervention Unit (UNIC) of the City of Gatineau Police Service. In the photo, they are talking with a woman in the emergency room of the Gatineau hospital.
PHOTO OLIVIER JEAN, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
The 102e cohort of recruits from the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) was deployed during a training day last September. Among other things, they had to handcuff a suspect.
PHOTO MARTIN TREMBLAY, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
Our photojournalist spent several days exploring the streets near Place Émilie-Gamelin and the Village, an area grappling with serious social problems. In the photo, a woman smokes a dose of crack in a forgotten corner.