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Scroll down this week's edition of the Bulletin, and you'll find some answers to a question that's been on our minds: What are the things that make Montreal special, and that other Canadian cities can learn from?
Highlighted in an opinion piece by Marcus Gee in the Globe and Mail, the author argues that it's the "little things that impress a visitor the most": Our seasonally pedestrianized streets, the vibrant everyday lives lived out in ruelles vertes, an increasingly expansive cycling network, stages set for arts and culture for the public eye—the list goes on.
Maybe you'll think it's nothing but an oversimplification, or that our failings outweigh our perks, but it's hard to argue with Montreal on a good day—and there are a lot of them at this time of year.
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