Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Montreal, officials have been advising us to stay at home as much as possible. But as the weather gets nicer and nicer, staying indoors is getting harder and harder for Montrealers.
On both Saturday and Sunday, Lafontaine Park was full of hundreds of people. In recent weeks, people were mostly just going out for walks.
Gatherings are still banned, but people are now sitting down in parks and hanging out with friends. The vast majority at Lafontaine appeared to be respecting the two-metre distance rule. “I think people are still trying to respect social distancing, but we need to be outside seeing each other,” said 19-year-old Eloise Cauchy-Vaillancourt, sitting two metres from her boyfriend, who doesn’t live