Sphères polaires at the Place des Festival By the time February rolls around, Montreal has already been buried in snow for a couple of ...

Every winter, the Jacques Cartier bridge's five lanes choke with traffic while metal barriers block access to the separated bike-pedestrian lane that connects Montreal ...

My sandwich could have been a bomb.  More specifically, the hummus destined for my sandwich could have been a bomb, or so I was told ...

The difference between Canada's two central urban hubs, Toronto and Montreal, is never clearer than in winter when all you want to do is ...

Shenzhen from above “China to create largest mega city in the world with 42 million people,” announced a breathless headline in Sunday’s Telegraph, detailing ...

I’m such a procrastinator. It’s really unbelievable. I’ll tell you more about that later, when I get around to it. Yesterday I ...

“Everyone’s talking about the weather,” runs a loose translation of an old German political poster, “except us.” The slogan was used to parody a ...

One day in 1874, Philip Kock was testifying in a Brooklyn court. There were no charges laid against him; he was appearing as an expert ...

Early reviews of Barney's Version (the film) had prepared me for finding the book's most amusing attributes—particularly its skewering of Quebec nationalist ...

I appreciate why outrage is so appealing. There’s something fundamentally human about the way in which we occasionally define ourselves through opposition, finding self-satisfaction ...

Boulevard Exelmans at Rue Chanez, XVIe Arrondisement, 1905-2008. Contemporary photos by Laurent David Ruamps Chat up a critic of historic preservation and the conversation may ...

Lemon Hound: As a non-actor who writes, and has some theater experience, I admit to a certain jealousy of the actor writer combination. Not only ...

It was an early spring morning when Jonathan Midgley met the Bowen Road dog poisoner. “I was going to fly to Singapore later that day ...

Photograph by Noah Stephens. I have spent more time in hospitals than someone who is young and healthy ought to. When I was seventeen, my ...

One night just before the holidays a fellow Montreal Plateau-dweller accosted me outside my apartment for the dangerous, selfish and morally deplorable act I would ...

Villa Besnus in 1922 and 2010. Photo compilation by Laurent David Ruamps In 1922, Le Corbusier was hired by a man named George Besnus to ...

(Previously: 25-16, 15-11) Few voices this year surprised and intrigued me as much as Paul Saulnier’s. With an uncontrolled focus, he sings like the ...

  (From yesterday: albums 25-16) There were a lot of comparisons made between Surfer Blood and Weezer when Astro Blood hit the streets back in January ...

I listen to albums, start-to-finish. If you’re interested in this list, you might do the same on a regular basis. We’re not normal ...

It started with the new white curtains my girlfriend and I bought for our bedroom in Hong Kong. They’re opaque enough to block any ...