Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre says the city is committed to helping families affected by Italy's devastating earthquake via a co-ordinated effort through the Red Cross. Montreal City Hall flew the Italian flag at half-mast, as well as the city's own, following the magnitude 6.2 earthquake which shook central Italy. "We all know that we have a vibrant community here and when our brothers and sisters suffer, we suffer too," Coderre said. Local Italian community worriedMembers of the Italian community in the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough say the area is popular with immigrants from the Lazio, Umbria and Le Marche regions which were heaviest hit by the quake. Pina Petraccone said she didn't sleep at all the night she heard about the quake.

Source: CBC News August 26, 2016 10:41 UTC