The Laurin naming scandal that never was

La Presse’s Isabelle Hachey wrote a must-read Wednesday about the fake Camille Laurin street naming scandal cooked up by Quebecor. In short, the toponymy commission rejected the naming of an Outremont street (or walkway) in the new UdeM campus after Laurin because there’s already a street in the east end named for him. The rejection of the UdeM naming had nothing to do with Valérie Plante or the exclusion of white males. Hachey outlines how Quebecor’s writers blew this non-story up into a big deal, based on absolutely nothing.