COPING WITH CURFEW IN MONTREAL.

The curfew's effectiveness was further undermined by the Legault government's decision to open elementary schools two days after the curfew began, and high schools a week later. The night of André's death occurred during Quebec's first curfew since the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and the only curfew in North America against the spread of COVID-19. ON THE MORNING of Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021, Jean-Marc,* an unhoused Mohawk man, watched as the body of Raphaël André was removed from the chemical toilet in which he'd frozen to death overnight, five blocks down Milton Street from the gates of McGill University in downtown Montreal. [Extracted from the article]