National Observer: Are seniors being left out of Montreal's bid to make the city more 'age friendly'?
February 12, 2018
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Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante campaigning on a city bus before the municipal election in 2017. Critics are calling on her administration to make consultations on an "age friendly" Montreal more accessible. Photo from Facebook
The Concordia University-based research group Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT) and the Centre for Research on Aging (engAGE) have published an open letter to the Mayor of Montreal that calls for immediate and concrete changes to their public consultation ahead of a new Municipal Action Plan for Seniors 2018-2020 in order to make the process more Age Friendly. The National Observer discussed the open letter in their article today: "Are seniors being left out of Montreal's bid to make the city more 'age friendly'?"