He rallied a neighbourhood to open its own grocery store

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When Dimitri Espérance moved to Montreal’s Saint-Henri district while pursuing graduate studies, he knew he had found his new home.

“I loved the neighbourhood at first sight,” he said of the fast-changing district in Montreal’s Sud-Ouest borough.

But he was shocked to find out how few places there were to buy healthy groceries.

The western half of Saint-Henri has long been without a grocery store. While the past decade has seen a boom