Still absorbing the exhilarating barrage of words and music (and hip-hop) of @hamiltonmusical.bsky.social, which finally touched down at Place des Arts this week with a little help from evenko and is sticking around til Sept 7. Don’t throw away your shot!

“This is a layered story for all of us as Montrealers. It’s the story of a building, a neighbourhood, the history of the settlement of Montreal and all the groups that moved through that area."

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Phillip Baugniet faces 17 sexual offence charges in Ontario Court involving eight former students at Victoria and FACE schools between 1973 and 1991. Baugniet was a teacher and principal at both schools.

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A man in his 60s testified Monday at the trial of former FACE and Victoria School principal Phillip Baugniet, saying he felt compelled to bring “out in the open” what happened to him and his brother on trips to Baugniet’s farm in the early 1970s.

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A witness recalled sexual touching by a former FACE and Victoria School principal in the 1970s during the second day of Phillip Baugniet's Ontario trial. The witness, in his 60s, recounted being sexually assaulted by Baugniet on four occasions.

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Two 60-year-old men detailed the sexual touching they say they suffered at the hands of their former principal at Victoria and FACE schools in Montreal in the 1970s as the trial of Phillip Hart Baugniet began Monday in Ontario Court.

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