In the city, we’re bombarded with textures, colors, and smells. Asphalt, screams, sirens, trash cans, a guy who thinks he’s cool for blasting Romanian rap at full volume from his Toyota Tercel with the wi...
The landscapes in northern Quebec are reminiscent of Scandinavia, because the north quickly becomes very Nordic and the boreal forest grows increasingly thorny and sparse. So, of course, Quebec also has i...
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,...
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...
Montreal’s Old Port has a very poorly kept secret: a spa on a boat that’s almost unique in the world, moored year-round at the end of the port, between the Grand Quai and Silo No. 5—a former giant grain s...
Protective glasses for viewing the eclipse It’s not just a fashion statement that belongs in the coolest photos from our childhood and, unfortunately, on the noses of Osheaga influencers, beneath a...
Montreal is an island, and in the summer, it’s dry, muggy, and dusty—and it’s hot, hot, hot. We don’t complain (ever), because winter was so long. But we’re not just going to sit around in our apartments...
Montreal is one of the greenest cities in the world, even if it doesn’t always feel that way. Especially in the summer, especially during heat waves and when the sky is tinged by Canadian wildfires, espec...
This summer, we’re looking to cool off—it’s already very hot in Montreal, not to mention the humidex—and the tons of ice cream we plan to eat to get through the long, sweltering afternoons of the coming m...
Le Cinéma Moderne is the theater where we go to see cutting-edge films, where we attend Q&As with visiting directors so they can explain their work to us, and where we go for a gin martini after an in...