The Battle for Monk Blvd.

Real estate speculators try to evict two men on the verge of homelessness

Yvan Girard is one of the last holdouts in the boarding house on Monk Blvd.

“Tom! Are you still asleep, you lazy bugger?”

Yvan Girard pounded the door again, hurling another mouthful of feigned outrage at his roommate. Tom and Girard make for an odd pair.

Girard — a francophone born on the Gaspé peninsula — lives in his meticulously kept room where picture…