Last year’s Montreal Pride parade was cancelled just hours before its set start time, when organizers learned they had insufficient security volunteers
"We will not accept, as a government, that Montreal becomes a shooting range for gangs," Quebec Premier François Legault wrote on Twitter in the aftermath of two deadly, broad-daylight shootings in Montreal on Tuesday. Since those incidents, one inside a downtown restaurant, the other in a mall parking lot, officials at all levels of government have taken to social media to denounce gun violence and commit to, often vaguely, take action to, in the words of the premier, "restore order" in the city.
Newly re-elected Mayor Valérie Plante unveiled Montreal's executive committee at an event at the Marché Bonsecours on Wednesday morning. The mayor proudly introduced a more diverse executive committee full of both new and former committee members. It's headed by Dominique Ollivier, reportedly the first Black person to serve as a Montreal executive committee president.
For the past four years, Valérie Plante and her Projet Montréal party have led Montreal through police scandals, extreme weather events and a pandemic. Now, with a mayoral election underway, Plante is fighting to keep her job.
So, who will it be, Montreal? Valérie Plante, Denis Coderre, Balarama Holness, or someone else entirely? You get to decide! This weekend, advance voting opens for the 2021 Montreal mayoral election. For two days only, you can skip the rush and cast your vote for the mayor of Montreal as well as your borough and city councillors.
CBC's English-language Montreal mayoral debate went off in Saint-Léonard on Thursday night, with each candidate presenting their vision for the future of Montreal.While the debate was mostly tame, Valérie Plante, Balarama Holness and Denis Coderre traded punches on a number of issues including crime, public transit, and Bill 96. Here are the highlights.