History Lesson

Behind Quebec’s bring-your-own-wine restaurants is a decades-old conflict between cheaper nights out and the economics of staying open.

History Lesson

North America’s largest non-profit housing community grew out of decades of tenant organizing. Half a century later, there is still nothing else like it.

History Lesson

Opened unfinished and deep in debt in 1893, the Monument-National went on to host Yiddish theatre, Chinese opera, public education, and generations of performers.

History Lesson

On the origins of Expo’s grand humanist theme, and how it lived on for 17 strange summers after the fair ended.

History Lesson

The nightlife of clandestine cabarets and roving parties alike created essential queer space of belonging and resistance over generations in Montreal.

History Lesson

Fifty years later, Montreal’s forgotten Olympic infrastructure hides in plain sight.

History Lesson

Behind Quebec’s bring-your-own-wine restaurants is a decades-old conflict between cheaper nights out and the economics of staying open.

History Lesson

North America’s largest non-profit housing community grew out of decades of tenant organizing. Half a century later, there is still nothing else like it.

History Lesson

Opened unfinished and deep in debt in 1893, the Monument-National went on to host Yiddish theatre, Chinese opera, public education, and generations of performers.

History Lesson

On the origins of Expo’s grand humanist theme, and how it lived on for 17 strange summers after the fair ended.

History Lesson

The nightlife of clandestine cabarets and roving parties alike created essential queer space of belonging and resistance over generations in Montreal.

History Lesson

Fifty years later, Montreal’s forgotten Olympic infrastructure hides in plain sight.

History Lesson

What began as a complaint about grading bias escalated into a two-week occupation, a fire, and one of the most consequential reckonings with institutional racism in Canadian higher education.

History Lesson

Jazz legends, burlesque queens, and organized crime made it one of the most alive corners in North America. Then Montreal decided it had a reputation to protect.

History Lesson

Were the Summer Games a triumph, a total failure, or somewhere in between?

History Lesson

Raised in Little Burgundy, the pianist took Montreal jazz around the world and helped the next generation carry it on.

History Lesson

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

History Lesson

As Mount Royal Park turns 150, the story of its creation reveals how Olmsted's vision for the mountain was compromised almost from the very beginning.

History Lesson

What began as a complaint about grading bias escalated into a two-week occupation, a fire, and one of the most consequential reckonings with institutional racism in Canadian higher education.

History Lesson

Jazz legends, burlesque queens, and organized crime made it one of the most alive corners in North America. Then Montreal decided it had a reputation to protect.

History Lesson

Were the Summer Games a triumph, a total failure, or somewhere in between?

History Lesson

Raised in Little Burgundy, the pianist took Montreal jazz around the world and helped the next generation carry it on.

History Lesson

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

History Lesson

As Mount Royal Park turns 150, the story of its creation reveals how Olmsted's vision for the mountain was compromised almost from the very beginning.