Dan Laxer
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Westmount's 13-year-old political gadfly (opens the original)
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After posting only four videos, people started recognizing Izaya Wener on the streets of Westmount. The 13-year-old LCC student has been regularly attending council meetings, and making videos, pointedly criticizing council. He is on his way to becoming the communityâs political gadfly. Public speaking comes naturally to Wener. Heâs been making videos since the age of five. And if his last name sounds familiar, itâs because he is the grand-offspring of Jonathan and Susan Wener, founders of
Homeless baby should not be just an election issue (opens the original)
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The media are falling all over themselves to make hay out of the discovery of a 1-year-old baby in a homeless encampment. And now itâs become an election issue. Itâs a sad truth: some people struggling with poverty, homelessness, and addiction have children. But how many of us ever considered that before this shocking news came out last week? Police received a call on Sept. 11 about the baby and its mother at the encampment in the MercierâHochelaga-Maisonneuve borough. They found the mothe
Breaking: Quebec judge rules voter information must be bilingual (opens the original)
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Ãlections Québec must send out voter information in both languages, says a Quebec Superior Court judge. The agency announced, with weeks to go before the election, that voter information would only be mailed in French in keeping with Bill 96. Anglophone groups brought the issue to court. On Wednesday, Superior Court Justice Sylvain Lussier ruled that for those who might have trouble with French-information, notably seniors, French-only information would indeed hinder their democratic right to
Election roundup: Westmount–Saint-Louis riding (opens the original)
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The WestmountâSaint-Louis riding includes the City of Westmount, most of downtown, and part of Plateau-Mont-Royal. It has been a Liberal stronghold for generations, except in 1989 when Westmount voted for the then-fledgling Equality Party. The riding has a population of 86,250, with 52,574 electors. Almost 50 per cent of the riding is Anglophone, 26 per cent Francophone, and the rest Allophone. Jennifer Maccarone: Incumbent MNA Jennifer Maccarone handily won the 2018 election after Jacques Cha
Make no-pet clauses an election issue: SPCA (opens the original)
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The SPCA de Montréal is taking the opportunity of the election campaign to highlight the issue of no-pet clauses in Quebec, hoping the government and the parties will make it a priority, especially given the high priority â municipally and provincially â of the housing crisis. No-pet clauses are one of the factors that could lead to homelessness. Despite a recent ruling by the Tribunal administratif du logement (TAL), no-pet clauses are still legal in Quebec, and widespread. In Quebec, the
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