The best things to do in Montreal during November bring enough festivals, holiday markets, and cultural programming to make you forget the cold.

"In my first months working in funeral services, I immediately realized it was going to profoundly change my perception of life."

From 2006 to 2016, Mile-Ex's DIY spaces launched Grimes, Mac DeMarco, TOPS, and one of Montreal's most productive music scenes. Then it was all killed off.

A new wave of gatherings in Montreal—dinners with strangers, life drawing, and apartment galleries—is bringing back the risk and reward of unscripted human contact.

Guthrie Drake and Alina Byrne built their dance community on borrowed time, clandestine spaces, and the belief that range matters more than genre.

"Nine years running bars in the neighbourhood has taught me one thing: we're fumbling what should be our greatest asset."

After two decades of wage theft and rip-offs, a Montreal illustrator pens a tactical guide to defending creative work.

A year into the city's first-ever nightlife framework, the future of Montreal's independent venues still hangs in the balance.

Following the Joe Beef co-founder through two days of cold-climate viticulture harvests where hospitality takes the form of al fresco meals, crushed grapes underfoot, and relentless labour.

A deep dive into the belly of the Outaouais.

Ancient technique, unpredictability, and slow, communal craft: Goregama has gathered twice a year since 2019 to feed wood into an anagama kiln for 40 hours straight.

From farm fields to natural wine, Baie-Saint-Paul makes the case for a quick pause away from it all.

From flea markets to pickleball courts, a reporter retraces his roots to find out why Saint-Eustache is suddenly among Quebec’s happiest cities.

Nathan Gawalko left high-end restaurants across the world to bottle ancient traditions of fish, salt, and time on British Columbia's coast.

A coastal escape where every room has ocean views.

When Montreal veterans end up with the keys to a local legend of the region they call home.

An incoming commemorative park design makes the Black Rock accessible for the first time with public space honouring 6,000 Irish famine victims and the Montrealers who tried to save them.

It was chill: ROYALMOUNT’s Urban Park hosted eight brands and a live Milk & Bone set.

Daniel Finkelstein's anti-ego approach to design is what makes his work in restaurants, retail, and beyond authentic to their purpose.

The Montreal designer creating thoughtful garments that critically engage with Canadian landscapes, histories, and identity.

Avenir Vert's Olivia Donahue turned thrift store finds and teenage entrepreneurship into British Vogue features—all while refusing to compromise on a sustainable vision.

André Brown doesn't exist per se, but the branding created under that name shows how hospitality can think differently about storytelling, atmosphere, and emotional design.

Echoes of elegance: Inside a faded “Grand Hotel” that's lost its splendour over time.

The Ville-Marie Expressway cut its city in two. This civic space honouring 21 women with flowers, architecture, and intention stitches it back together.

Lebanese home cooking meets halal Caribbean fusion, natural wine bistros, pop-up delis with house-cured meats, New York-style pizza perfected, and more.

The Little Italy bakery that could: Still hand-rolling loaves in its original 1910 brick oven, still telling real estate speculators it's not for sale, just for bread.

Preserving the Plateau's Tex-Mex institution means proving yourself every single night.

No reservations, only walk-ins, a wall of natty wines, taxes and tips included, and a barstool for an anchor.

Jake Greenberg turned a pandemic side hustle into a Jewish deli centred on house-smoked fish, knishes, and a neighbourhood his family's been serving for generations.

First, a chip company came calling. Then came a year-long R&D process involving professional tasters and corporate NDAs.

Sydnee Wilson hauls grain, checks temperatures, and navigates the demanding physical reality of an industry that has largely forgotten its female origins.

Good faith, mixed results.

The law demanded they learn anatomy but made dissection illegal, so for nearly a century, stolen corpses were tobogganed down Mount Royal to a folk hero janitor who paid cash, no questions asked.

From postwar migration to piri piri chicken, Azorean immigrants transformed an iconic Montreal neighbourhood with enduring community.

From dynasty to drought: a brief-ish look at the making of Montreal's most devotional sports franchise.

For over 60 years, the fully functional home of two circus veterans became a Montreal tourist attraction where everything was scaled down to their three-foot-tall size.

From a Durham County butcher shop and Massachusetts tavern keepers to a global creative district, the real story's one historians got wrong for decades.

A century-long story of how a neighbourhood grew from railroad workers to family legacies everywhere you look today.

When Kon Tiki brought post-war escapism and Hollywood's idea of the South Pacific to Peel Street, it created an exotic escape unlike any other.

The Harlem of the North, Little Burgundy, raised a legend. It took 100 years to say it as loudly as possible from the city's rooftops.