News Coverage

      This news feed has been specifically divided into video and newspaper material for easier access.  Below you will discover all video material related to this project and newspaper coverage can be found on the right hand side.   In terms of video coverage, we were asked to do an interview with CTV News's Todd Van der Heyden to explain what we hope to achieve on our day of Public Advocacy on Feb 23rd, 2011.

This day of Public Advocacy was a method of raising awareness about the travesty happening with LaFontaine's Mansion.  We stood outside the Mansion with a group of people in order to try and garner attention from the public. The purpose of such events are not to invoke a change in that instance, yet they will slowly chip away at the barriers which are blocking this Mansion from being restored. We thank everyone who came out that day to advocate and hopefully one day the dream becomes a reality.

The interview in itself was a method of raising awareness about this historical residence, so we would like to thank CTV and Todd Van der Heyden for showing interest in our efforts. The second video was taken on our day of advocacy at the LaFontaine mansion by Montreal reporter and columnist Kristian Gravenor, who is very knowledgeable about the history and politics of Montreal and uploaded the interview on his blog Coolopolis.

Coolopolis can be access here: https://coolopolis.blogspot.com/

 The newspaper coverage of this project can be found on the side bar. Among these is an article written by the Montreal Gazette journalist, Andy Riga.  The Montreal Metro, a French daily newspaper, also covered the project in short detail. Most recently the project was covered by Concordia's very own independently owned newspaper The Link, and we would like to thank them, and reporter Celia St-Croix in particular, for coming to support in our efforts of advocacy.