Just a week after gaining control of Québec’s provincial government, Canada’s Parti Québécois announced that it will keep its election promise to shut down the Gentilly-2 nuclear reactor in Bécancour, the Montreal Gazette reports. The announcement, by a PQ spokesperson, came just hours before the premiere of a new documentary by two Montréal filmmakers about the health and safety concerns of residents living near the nuke plant along the St. Lawrence River.

Staff Writer Ken Picard is a senior staff writer at Seven Days. A Long Island, N.Y., native who moved to Vermont from Missoula, Mont., he was hired in 2002 as Seven Days’ first staff writer, to help create a news department. Ken has since won numerous regional and national awards for his features, profiles and investigative stories and had his work picked up by international news outlets. He was the first journalist to shine a light on the thousands of undocumented workers in Vermont’s dairy...