Days after reporter and editor-in-chief Marc Cochrane attended a municipal council meeting in Île d’Orléans, his paper, Autour de L’‘île, was threatened with legal notice and his article scrapped.
The warning came from a lawyer representing the village of Sainte-Pétronille, Que., located east of Quebec City.
Cochrane had attended a meeting Dec. 11 with plans to report on a letter from residents demanding an investigation into the town’s new general manager, Nathalie Paquet.
Residents say they learned through an access-to-information request that she had been accused of serious offences in her previous role in the municipality of Val-des-Lacs — located near Mont-Tremblant, Que. — and wanted to
