“She taught everyone new forms of dignity, new ways of caring,” said Francis Scarpaleggia, Liberal MP for the Lac-Saint-Louis riding.

The Basilica has sold a part of it to HEC, Université de Montréal's business school, which plans to construct a complex for classrooms and offices.

This week on Focus Montreal, Montreal Gazette writer Lesley Chesterman discusses the Et maintenant manifesto, and Dave Dumouchel and Yannick Potvin sit down to talk about the impact Dans la rue founder Father Emmett Johns had on their lives.