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The rule violated “the right to life, liberty and security protected by the Canadian and Quebec charters (of rights and freedoms),” Masse wrote. “For objective reasons,” she trenchantly noted, many homeless Montrealers fear contracting COVID-19 in the city’s shelters, “which are crowded in this winter period and have been the site of outbreaks.” Homeless people are likely to hide from curfew-enforcing police, and thereby be placed at greater risk of terrible injury or death, she argued — and for no goddamn good reason, I might add. Indeed, rights and fr...

It is said that the quality of a society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable. We have some questions for M. Legault and Mme. Plante on this theme. Raphael André was a homeless man found dead from exposure in a portable toilet down the street from the Open Door shelter which he was asked to leave at 8pm due to the curfew. André had money in his pocket and tried to get a cab to take him to another shelter but no one would pick him up. After this tragedy, Mayor Plante went on television and sounded sincerely moved and committed to finding a solution. She opened a facility near t...

Article content Why does it take a spectacular death for politicians to give a damn about Indigenous lives? If the question sounds unfair to you, think again. Think about the heartbreaking video Joyce Echaquan had to share on her deathbed to spark a conversation on systemic racism in the health-care system. Remember that concerns for homeless people living through the curfew were considered niche before Raphael André’s body was found last week, in a portable toilet, no less. Of all the disheartening places where a person could die alone, this one has to top the list. We apologize, but this...

Forcing those struggling with homelessness to "go home" at 8 p.m. is not only insulting and unrealistic — it is counterproductive.