The sky over Montreal is pitch black in winter and a little lighter in summer—even at the darkest point of the night. This August, the stars transform Montreal’s sky into a cosmic ballet that should—yes,...
It’s hot and sunny in August, and we read outdoors in Montreal. On a beach towel, at the beach, at a campsite, sitting on the benches in the Old Port, lying in the grass at Lafontaine Park, or on a patio...
Summer is long, and by August, we reach that hazy moment when the days blend into one another, punctuated by long naps in the sun, sweltering nights, andlazymornings spent listening to thunderstorms. It’s...
One thought, after seeing the horror film *BACKROOMS* (2026), which came out this spring, stuck with me. More than the jump scares, more than the terror of being trapped in a senseless underground labyrin...
Montreal is a city of culture, just like New York or Paris, and on the streets we run into—sometimes without even realizing it—actors, writers, prominent journalists, activists, athletes, musicians… With the characteris...
Lac Saint-Jean feels like a world away, as if we’d gone for a weekend at the beach—with sandy beaches, the prickly trees of the North, fields full of blueberries, and little houses lined up along the wate...
When you think of Montreal and Quebec, many things come to mind: hockey (Go Habs Go!), artists (Riopelle, of course), the city’s modernist architecture andthe brownstonesof the Plateau, poutine, lakefront...
When you live in Montreal, you live in a semi-historicpatchwork of modernism, cultures, artists, andcool people—a city that never sleeps and is constantly buzzing... And while Montreal is full of museums, heritage...
At the end of the month, we’ll enter the final phase of the Montreal summer: it’s just a tiny bit cooler, the kids are heading back to school, and the corn and sunflowers paint Quebec green and gold. It’s...
When you think of Montreal, you think of the skyline defined by downtown skyscrapers, the red-brick houses with iron staircases on the Plateau, a few somewhat eerie neo-Gothic churches, and many buildings...