Tenants in some of Montreal s co-ops say they ve noticed a concerted effort by their board of directors to bar certain types of people from moving into their buildings.
MONTREAL Multiple residents living in Montreal s co-ops, some of whom have resided there for years, are claiming they are the victims of racism and discrimination by their neighbours and nothing is being done to protect them.
CO-OP MILTON PARC Sascha Astles has lived with her family at the Coopérative d habitation Milton Parc, near McGill University, since 2009. She says it didn t take long for significant signs of racism to rear their ugly heads, including members of her family being called the N word. My name was written Sascha Caribbean in the minutes of a meeting, she told CTV News. Prior to that, it was Sascha Antilles, like the island. It was giggled off as a typo at the time.
Childhood
Albert was the son of a successful fabric merchant, Sylvan Gleizes (himself a keen amateur painter). His maternal uncle was Léon Commerre, an academic painter who won the
Prix de Rome in 1875, while his father s brother, Robert Gleizes, was a successful collector-dealer specializing in eighteenth century paintings. The Gleizes lived a comfortable life in Courbevoie in the Paris suburbs. Albert was very close to his two sisters, Suzanne and Mireille (he had an elder brother who sadly died in infancy), and they frequently appeared in his first paintings. Albert did not take to academic life and often played truant from his bourgeois school in