The family's lawsuit comes five months after a Gazette investigative series documented the suicide and five other deaths at the Lakeshore ER.
The family of a retired Sûreté du Québec officer who hung himself in the overcrowded emergency room at Lakeshore General Hospital in 2019 is suing the West Island health authority and a psychiatrist for $310,000, claiming they failed to prevent the suicide and then covered it up afterward. Read More