Cops seek missing toddler
A three-year-old girl has been missing from Lasalle since Sunday morning, although she could be somewhere off‑island.
Monday evening, police have found the missing girl’s dog – dead beside autoroute 30.
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MarcG 09:52 on 2025-06-16 Permalink
Here’s another horrible story about a 3 y/o and their 34 y/o mother drowning in a residential pool in Lasalle a few days ago (“A source told CTV News it seems the boy fell in first and his mother jumped in after him but could not swim.”)
Kate 11:06 on 2025-06-16 Permalink
Yes, I saw that, but didn’t blog it because it was just sad. Every summer there are drownings and there’s not a lot to be said about most of them.
MarcG 13:27 on 2025-06-16 Permalink
Quebec has a law that requires all in-ground pools to have a fence around them by end of September this year. Too late to save these lives but shows that it’s a good idea.
Kate 16:02 on 2025-06-16 Permalink
Has it taken this long? The only person I know with a back yard, in‑ground pool has a serious fence around the area and has mentioned that it was a legal requirement – but maybe that was a suburban municipal bylaw?
(And once again, only useful if inspected and enforced.)
Andrew 16:14 on 2025-06-16 Permalink
The CBC and CTV articles have been updated that it’s her mother who reported her missing and can’t remember what happened, which is very disturbing.
I’ve gotten used to the geographic vagueness of local media but it’s pretty frustrating when there’s a missing kid and the location is “near Newman”. That’s the entire width of LaSalle, from Ville Emard to the Mercier Bridge.
jeather 16:50 on 2025-06-16 Permalink
Backyards containing pools have had to be fenced in for as long as I know of. This new law prevents access from the house exits to the pool, via a fence between the two.
This law came into force around 2010, but existing pools were grandfathered in. They removed the grandfathering in maybe 2021, but with the pandemic and supply chain issues and, probably, arguments from pool owners, they kept pushing the date back.