Some Verdun residents took their anger to Verdun borough hall Tuesday evening following a decision by Transcontinental Inc. to stop printing English content in several bilingual weekly newspapers.
Borough Mayor Claude Trudel read out a letter that he has sent to the Montreal media company, decrying its decision to publish Messager de Verdun in French only.
Some residents are worried that they'll lose an important public service given that bilingual borough notices often appear in the paper.
"Our borough depends on Transcontinental to print the information," said resident Catherine Blake.
"But now that Transcontinental isn't printing the vital information in English, the anglophones aren't getting it."
Trudel did say the borough would continue to advertise legal notices in both languages.
An issue of space?
The publisher says bilingual articles were taking up too much space though it says English translations are still available online.
But people in Verdun see the decision as another blow to a struggling community in which not everyone has a computer.
The French-only decision also affects four other Transcontinental weeklies covering Dorval, LaSalle, Lachine, and Nun's Island.
