Centres d’éducation populaire fight to exist

The city’s Centres d’éducation populaire, which for many years benefited from low rent at disused schools belonging to the CSSDM, have been fighting to go on existing since the CSSDM massively hiked their rents.

These six CEPs do a lot of beneficial if non‑flashy stuff – teaching illiterates how to read and write, teaching French, basic computer courses – and now they hope to get funding in the impending Quebec budget. But the CAQ has never given them much help in the past.