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Gun violence: Montreal has a problem
PHOTO PATRICK SANFAÇON, THE PRESS
Police were on Wednesday outside the Napoli restaurant on rue Saint-Denis, where a man in his 50s had been shot dead the day before.
Tuesday, two murders in thirty minutes. We can relativize. Minimize. Denounce media sensationalism. We can. Montreal, after all, is not on fire. It is not a question of giving in to panic, but of admitting that the metropolis has a problem. To refuse to allow these shootings to become the new reality. To refuse to get used to this violence.
Social housing: The 10 largest cities in Quebec are committed
PHOTO SARAH MONGEAU-BIRKETT, THE PRESS
Closing press conference of the Housing Summit, with the mayors of the 10 largest cities in Quebec
The ten largest cities in Quebec pledged on Friday to implement all kinds of social and affordable housing projects over the next year, following their participation in the Housing Summit in Laval. Revitalization, tax on land speculation, community living environment are notably on the menu.
100 years since the birth of René Lévesque
INFOGRAPHIC THE PRESS
On each anniversary, on each election campaign, there is no shortage of it: regardless of the inclination, the members of Quebec’s great political family are inspired, each in their own way, by a piece of the heritage of René Lévesque, who would have been 100 on Wednesday. From 1922 to 1987, our journalist André Duchesne compiled 11 dates that marked the career of the former premier of Quebec.
Election campaign: The starting shot given on Sunday
PHOTO ROBERT SKINNER, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
Premier Francois Legault
They have been unofficially underway for a few weeks already. But the elections will be officially called on Sunday, August 28, Prime Minister François Legault announced on Tuesday. Quebecers will go to the polls on October 3 – 36 days after the start of the election campaign – as planned by the Fixed Date Elections Act.
Ullivik Center: Two mothers caught up, one after the other
PHOTO FRANÇOIS ROY, THE PRESS
Ullivik Center in Dorval
“I feared it would happen and I think it will happen again. That is what is deplorable. These remarks by the mayor of Dorval, Marc Doret, show to what extent all the elements were united for a tragedy to occur at the Ullivik centre, an establishment intended for patients from the Far North and their companions. In less than 24 hours, two young Inuit mothers from Nunavik, Mary-Jane Tulugak, 22, and Nellie Niviaxie, lost their lives in the middle of the highway at night, one in a wheelchair, the other on foot. .