The Bulletin: Suing the CIA over mind-control experiments, our crumbling downtown, and a new comedy festival [Issue #19]

Montreal is a city of beautiful dichotomies. It is Janus-faced, a split personality balancing beautiful days of beautiful people doing beautiful things with bleak undergrounds, hellish weather, and crumbling city cores.

That's what this issue is all about, the yin and the yang, our underbelly and our upper crust, our triumphs and our tribulations. Case in point: In the last 48 hours, we shed our layers and drank in sunny parks one day, and were sitting in the dark writing this newsletter on a dying battery the next as nearly half the city lost its power in an ice storm.

If Montreal were a Dungeons and Dragons character, it'd be chaotic neutral. Not quite good or bad, it'd be a rebel hedonistically doing as it pleases while trying tnot to infringe on anyone else's good time. Montreal ain't the Joker, and it's not Batman. It's more like Catwoman, watching the action happen.