‘We Will Never Be the Same’: Oct. 7 Killing of Montreal Native Leaves Gaping Hole

Raquel Ohnona Look wipes back tears when her eyes fall on the plaque in honour of her son Alexandre, affixed to a bench in a suburban Montreal green space that was recently renamed for him. “Forever in our hearts. Our hero,” it reads above his name and the dates of his birth and death — Sept. 10, 1990, to Oct. 7, 2023. Alexandre Look, a 33-year-old Montreal native, was among the concertgoers who were murdered a year ago Monday at the Supernova music festival during a brutal assault on Israel carried out by Hamas militants. He is among at least eight people, either Canadian citizens or with ties to Canada, who died during the Oct. 7 attacks....