In the nearly two days since a deadly earthquake killed more than 2,000 people in Morocco, Montreal's Café Amistad has become a gathering place for people seeking answers, or at least support.
As news of the deadly quake trickled in on Friday, Chorfi Zouhir kept his shop open late into the night, as customers stayed glued to news channels and tried frantically to call home.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his condolences to the people of Morocco in a social media post, and said Canada is ready to help however it can. There are roughly 100,000 Canadians of Moroccan decent, according to the latest census. About 81,000 Moroccan Canadians live in Quebec, and nearly half of that population is in Montreal.
John Norman, the mayor of Bonavista, N.L., said he was getting ready for bed on Friday when the room began to shake."The ceiling began to move, and dust began to come down," he said in an interview."The ceiling light fixtures in the bathroom fell out of the ceiling and I said, 'we're leaving.'"
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