He was the energetic and charismatic frontman of one of Canada's biggest acts, a band that

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Hey, it's Justin Leng host of season one and two of the village. We're coming back for season three

and this time delving deep into a series of homicides in the Montreal Queer community

and looking into a community that pushed back, asked for better and demanded change in the shadow

of the HIV AIDS crisis. I'm sitting right here in what's it called again?

Parked at this bar. Parked last bar. I'm sitting here with the host of season three,

France is bored. I'm really looking forward to this season of the show. It's going to be a bit

different. It's not going to be me hosting. It's going to be someone who's actually a little more

plugged into the Quebec community, to the Montreal Queer community. Tell me what your approach is going

to be here. You know, we're going to go back into the 80s and into the 90s. As a world,

was a different place 30 years ago if you were gay or if you were a lesbian. That's part of the

story that we're going to tell. Over this period, you had the failure to deal with the HIV AIDS crisis

on a national and provincial level. Exactly. Back in the day, we didn't know much about this disease

that was described as a cancer targeting gay men mostly. People didn't know what was safe,

what was not safe. There was a stigma attached to it and that affected the gay community here in

Montreal. So we're bringing those issues as well because if you're from a younger generation,

some of those things might be harder to understand. Right. So the village originally happened

initially an investigation into the Bruce McArthur case, an explanation of why the Toronto police

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