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Montreal Borough: Parade Organizers and Lubin

montreal borough: But as images of the black teens in tan garb pushing a float carrying only white people spread online, Lubin and parade organizers found themselves vilified, according to CBC. Lubin tried to resign from his coaching job in the aftermath. Sterve Lubin, a coach at cole Louis-Joseph-Papineau in the Montreal borough of had accepted an offer from parade organizers to have his athletes push floats in the June 24 parade in exchange for a donation to their school's athletics department. Video of Quebec history float goes viral amid allegations of racism Dalina Rivera, who is on the football team but was not pushing the float in question, said she was happy to raise money for equipment and uniforms and found the controversy ridiculous. '975650883871', 'playlist Selector' 'container Selector' ' container70154246', 'ciid' 'caffeine14177180' ; Quebec history float draws criticism0 32 At the end of the parade we were all happy. Another student who is on the school's football team but was not pushing the float at the centre of the controversy, Jefferson Suarez, said he, too, saw no problem with the volunteer effort, which will help the teams. Then we saw the video and controversy, she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.