An editorial in yesterday’s Gazette incorrectly reported that Jean Lapierre, former president of the union representing the city’s blue-collar workers, is dead. We are pleased to report that Mr. Lapierre is in fact alive. We sincerely regret the error and apologize to Mr. Lapierre. Link
From the editorial in question, which remains uncorrected online:
… It turns out that the leadership of this union has, in the past at least, resorted to blackmail, slander and subterfuge to get its own way and to silence its rivals. Dissent, it appears, was as welcome in this supposedly democratic union as it was at the Kremlin. And while the man directly responsible for the horrors uncovered this week – former union president Jean Lapierre – is dead, many of his allies are still in office.
The error was pointed out by Patrick Lagacé, a blogger for the Montreal French-language daily La Presse.
