MONTREAL — Focus Montreal introduces Montrealers to people who are shaping our community, bringing their stories into focus.
It airs on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. and at midnight.
Take a look at who we’re meeting this week on Focus Montreal:
Centraide handed out its Solidaires Awards, with prizes recognizing companies who have been instrumental in Centraide’s fundraising – not to mention the organizations funded by Centraide that do the hard work on the ground to support Montrealers in need.
Pietro Bozzo, the Director of the Dawson Community Centre, was one of the winners of the Solidaire prize for mobilization for the project Un plant de tomate à la fois.
Montrealer Désirée McGraw has earned accolades for her leadership of the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation.
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Now, she is about to embark on a new challenge – as the president of Pearson College in British Columbia.
She’s the first woman ever to hold this post in the school’s 40-year history.
A father is fighting the city of Montreal after his son, Jeremy Horne, died from a drug overdose in a friend’s home in NDG.
He was served a parking ticket that same night.
Horne’s father is asking for he $53 fine to be waived, something the city told him it wasn’t possible.
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