The team behind a grilling festival on Quebec’s North Shore have been pleased to see donations pouring in this week to help them recoup some of their losses from a $22,000 mistake.
Festi-grîles de la Côte-Nord made headlines when organizers asked attendees to be honest and pay up after a bug with its payment system led to hundreds of people accidentally getting free admission.
Within a week, people — including some who hadn’t even attended the festival — donated a total of $13,000, said the event’s president, Hugo Rossignol.
“I’ll be honest, we were expecting the generosity of the public. We knew people wouldn’t let us
