Rising floodwaters force more than 6,500 to evacuate homes

April 29, 2019, Montreal – Emergency workers urged another 1,500 residents of a flood-ravaged suburb west of Montreal to leave their homes Sunday, one day after floodwaters broke through a natural dike northwest of the city and forced some 5,000 others to flee with only the clothes on their backs. The Montreal Gazette reports. | READ MORE