Egbert Gaye, 67, founder and managing editor of the Montreal Community Contact newspaper, passed away suddenly on Sunday. He founded the bi-monthly newspaper three decades ago.
There isn t a section in Montreal newspaper Community Contact that gets published without Egbert Gaye s input. The managing editor writes, edits and helps with the design process for the community newspaper. Gaye, in his 60s, shows no signs of slowing down.
The city of Montreal is hoping to give local printed newspapers a breath of fresh air through a one-time injection of $85,000 before its ban on Publi-sacs plastic bags of flyers often used as the primary means of distributing community papers.
"We have so many positive stories in our community that [are] not told," says Montreal Black community activist Gemma Raeburn-Baynes. The Contact, a biweekly newspaper and online resource, has been telling those stories for decades.