Update: Trois-Rivières Mayor Yves Lévesque resigns for health reasons

Yves Lévesque, the mayor of Trois-Rivières who has been courted by the federal Conservatives for a possible 2019 run for the party, is resigning from city hall for health reasons.
His spokesman, Yvan Toutant, says the mayor made the announcement Thursday by letter to council.
Lévesque has been on sick leave since October under his doctor’s orders.
Toutant says councillors discussed the news Thursday at city hall during a special meeting that Lévesque did not att