Some of the pomp and circumstance of Saint-Jean Baptiste Day will be subdued today as a Montreal neighbourhood grieves three people killed this week in a horrific shooting.
The Côte-des-Neiges Business Development Corporation says it has cancelled planned Fête nationale celebrations “out of respect” for the community.
The city also ordered municipal facilities in the borough closed after the Monday shooting that killed Montreal police officer Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, civilian bystander Michel Mizrahi and alleged gunman Seth Scott Hatfield.
Quebec media have reported the 25-year-old suspect from Lethbridge, Alta., wrote a manifesto expressing hatred toward women and called for more violence….