School buildings stand boarded and empty

In another story about delayed renovations, school buildings around town are standing empty as funds and manpower to repair them are wanting.

Although the Académie de Roberval is in Villeray I wasn’t even clear on where it was, but I realized after some googling that I’ve seen it. It’s on the eastern spur of de Castelnau in the quiet streets north of Jean‑Talon hospital, and feels like it creates a whole zone of deadness around it. Letting these buildings fall into disrepair doesn’t just inconvenience students and their families, it afflicts whole neighbourhoods.

Google locates the current Académie de Roberval behind another secondary school – the École secondaire Georges-Vanier, a slab of 1970s Quebec educational brutalism on Jarry. Many students will graduate from the Académie without ever having set foot in the building.