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renovicted. Now residents of a Plateau-Mont-Royal apartment building in Montreal are declaring victory after their home was purchased by a non-profit organization.It took countless hours of advocacy and protests, but tenants at Manoir Lafontaine say all their hard work has paid off.After two years of anxiety, 78-year-old Francine Goyette is all smiles.“I had happy tears this morning instead of sad tears,” she told Global News.Goyette and others living at the Manoir Lafontaine on Papineau Avenue say they’ve just won a hard-fought battle.“It’s like a dream,” said tenant Renée Thifault, 70.Back in 2021, residents of the 80-unit building right across from Lafontaine Park were plunged into uncertainty when the building owner, Hillpark, told them they’d need to leave their homes for seven months due to renovations.They assumed if they were even able to come back after the work was done, their reasonable rents would skyrocketThey refused to leave.“I told people to fight and I decided to fight,” said Thifault.

COVID-19 transmission is actually happening in schools.“A lot of what we know is based on I would say anecdotal data,” said Dr. Pascal Lavoie of BC Children’s Hospital who is leading a new study into COVID-19 transmission in Vancouver classrooms.“We don’t have large scale data to measure that exposure.