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Vitriol in Val d’Or: How homelessness and petty crime have reignited racial tensions

Most municipal council meetings go unnoticed. Not so for one recently in Val d’Or, Que., when fear, anger and racism bubbled to the surface and a shouting match erupted with hate on full display.

“There’s an Indian pissing outside!” cried one man, a resident.

“It is always the Indigenous,” a business owner said, outraged.

The French seem to have no difficulty expressing themselves.

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