Thursday's front page of the province's most popular daily newspaper was denounced by all parties in the National Assembly, who said it stigmatized Quebec's Indian community. The Journal de Montréal featured a photo on its cover of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from his 2018 trip to India. The headline reads, in French: "The Indian variant is here," with a line below that appears to question Trudeau's reluctance to stop incoming flights from India. However, experts advise against calling it the Indian variant — or identifying any variant by the place in which it was first detected — because there's no conclusive proof that it originated there. Journal de Montréal defends front page, union disagreesDespite the criticism, the paper's editor-in-chief, Dany Doucet, refused to apologize for the front page.

Source: CBC News April 22, 2021 17:53 UTC