Etiket: LacMégantic
Lac-Mégantic, exemplary figure of a resilient community
Since the publication of my book Adapt. Tomorrow: resilient cities, last September, I had the opportunity to host conferences in various cities and regions of Quebec as well as in…
Work on the Lac-Mégantic bypass is moving forward
Ottawa will move forward with the Lac-Mégantic railway bypass project. This is what the Minister of Transport, Pablo Rodriguez, announced today during a press briefing accompanied by the mayor of…
Lac-Mégantic | Work on the bypass begins
Preliminary work on the bypass is beginning in Lac-Mégantic, despite opposition from several elected officials. They will be carried out by the City, but paid for by Ottawa. An agreement…
Work begins on the Lac-Mégantic bypass
More than ten years after the Lac-Mégantic rail tragedy, preliminary work on the bypass is beginning, federal Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez announced Friday. Ottawa pays for the work, but the…
Opinion – The population of Lac-Mégantic forced into a non-choice
I had been coordinating a community organization in Lac-Mégantic for about a month when the tragic train incident occurred on July 6, 2013. It seems that, in life, we receive…
Energy transition in Lac-Mégantic | A barracks powered by the sun
With its six huge fire-engine red garage doors, the new Lac-Mégantic fire station is one of the most impressive buildings in the municipality. Its most breathtaking attractions are however invisible…
Lac-Megantic | The request for an injunction from the expropriated parties has been filed
(Lac-Mégantic) The lawyers representing the people who will be expropriated with a view to building the Lac-Mégantic bypass have officially filed their request for an injunction to immediately suspend the…
Lac-Mégantic, 10 years later | The Musi-Café, epicenter of the drama, marks the anniversary
(Lac-Mégantic) The Musi-Café in Lac-Mégantic, where some thirty people perished on July 6, 2013, will mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy on Friday evening. Posted yesterday at 4:14 p.m.…
In pictures | Commemorations of the 10th anniversary of the Lac-Mégantic tragedy
3 Thursday morning, at 1:14 a.m., in front of the Saint-Agnès church | A silent procession sets off from the forecourt of the Saint-Agnès church, from where the railway tracks…
Bypass of Lac-Mégantic | “I know it was very long,” says Trudeau
(Lac-Mégantic) Justin Trudeau recognizes that the bypass was a “very long” process for the people of Mégantic, but believes that ten years after the “trauma” that was the Lac-Mégantic tragedy,…
Day of sober commemorations in Lac-Mégantic
The doors of the Sainte-Agnès church in Lac-Mégantic are wide open Thursday morning for a special mass which marks the 10th anniversary of the worst railway tragedy in Quebec. On…
Ten years since the tragedy | “3650 days later”, Lac-Mégantic remembers
Lights carried by walkers like so many little stars, silence: at a time when the rail tragedy struck 10 years ago, Lac-Mégantic remembered those who disappeared last night. Posted at…
Course | Redefining tourism after a tragedy like Lac-Mégantic
On July 6, 2013, the life of the Méganticois changed. That day, a train derails and causes the death of 47 people. In the aftermath of the tragedy, tourists and…
Opinion – The honorable resilience of Lac-Mégantic
It has now been 10 years since the town of Lac-Mégantic was shaken by the derailment of a train that exploded in the middle of its town centre. An unprecedented…
In Lac-Mégantic, choose remembrance tourism to avoid macabre tourism
“Where was the Musi-Café?” “Did you know people among those who died?” “Where were you that night?” “After the tragedy of Lac-Mégantic, whose 10th anniversary is highlighted on Thursday, the…
Lac-Mégantic is preparing to gather in a procession tonight
“Lac-Mégantic 2023: a time to remember, support each other, tell each other. This is what is written on luminous stars that citizens are preparing to shine during a silent and…
Ten years of the Lac-Mégantic tragedy | “Forward, without forgetting”
Lac-Mégantic begins Wednesday three days of commemorations to mark the ten years of the railway tragedy which claimed the lives of 47 people. In the community, we are sometimes torn…
The Lac-Mégantic drama as a catalyst for innovations to clean up oil
Ten years ago, a young Montreal student, Nivatha Balendra, watched with horror on television the images of the burning oil convoy in Lac-Mégantic. She was shocked by the loss of…
Lac-Megantic | The best moments of the interview with Colette Roy-Laroche and Pauline Marois
A look back at the tragic Lac-Mégantic rail accident ten years later, with our head of political division, Marco Bélair-Cirino, Colette Roy-Laroche, Mayor of Lac-Mégantic from 2002 to 2015, and…
Ottawa considers that all questions about Lac-Mégantic have been answered
Transport Minister Omar Alghabra refuses to say whether the federal government has — or not — its share of responsibility in the Lac-Mégantic rail tragedy. He still finds it pointless…