WARNING: This story contains vulgar language.
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 city of about 33,000 is grappling with resentment from residents over homelessness and petty crime, a situation that appears to be pitting leaders against each other and reopening painful old wounds.
“I was utterly shocked and in disbelief that in 2023, the population has
