Pleas for help as Montreal's LGBTQ Village falls victim to addiction, homelessness airdriecityview.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from airdriecityview.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The City of Montreal released a plan to revitalize the neighbourhood and deal with homelessness and mental health, but residents and merchants say the measures are insufficient.
MONTREAL - The Village, Montreal's historical LGBTQ neighbourhood, has become the scene of homelessness, addiction and crime, with locals suggesting that its social problems are being imported because of the district's history of being an inclusive space for marginalized people.
Residents and business owners in Montreal’s historical LGBTQ neighbourhood say the city helped create the problem by concentrating services into one area without the necessary investments to properly care for them
The Village, Montreal's historical LGBTQ neighbourhood, has become the scene of homelessness, addiction and crime, with locals suggesting that its social problems are being imported because of the district's history of being an inclusive space for marginalized people.
Tharushan Nirmalachandran was one of two men arrested as part of an investigation into a criminal organization police allege was distributing drugs between Montreal and Toronto.