Environment Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement—not a weather alert, just a heads-up about the weather. Technically, it’s a recommendation to wear crampons tomorrow morning, Tuesday, March 31, 2...
It’s still cold, alas, and we’ve scanned every curb looking for a crocus but saw nothing but old, thawed beer cans and colorful plastic wrappers. Flowers in the streets of Montreal aren’t here just yet. ...
Spring is here (technically, even if it’s still cold) and with it comes something gentle and promising in the sunlight in Montreal. Still bundled up in coats, we can already taste the rain and fresh grass...
Sometimes, we’d love to have the best of both worlds: living downtown, but with a big backyard to grow lettuce, raise a few chickens, lie down in the warm grass in the summer after the rain, and go on Ea...
The best way to dress is like a Montrealer. And the secret to the style of the coolest people we know in town is a semi-secret list of thrift stores and vintage shops. And, of course, we also decorat...
Montreal Airport is great, even though it’s always crowded and hard to get to—because Montrealers are terrified of taking the highway, even if they pretend they aren’t. It’s about 45 minutes to an hour fr...
The seventh art, the artist, migration, and identity are at the heart of a new series of film screenings on the big screen at the Museum Cinema from April 17 to July 11, 2026. A sort of Letterboxd for...
The streets of Montreal, which were almost dry—except for the occasional, nearly invisible patch of ice—yesterday afternoon are now covered with a thin layer of something slippery. According to Météo M...
In true Montreal tradition, the lawns in front of the Olympic Village were almost entirely covered with half-dressed people, eyes closed and turned toward the warm summer sun, during the 1976 Olympics. Th...
Because our ankles are weak and sore from walking in wet snow and on icy pavement, we’re craving a firm grip on the ground now that it’s slowly thawing. And we want to see all that snow, turned into wate...