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Inside C2 Montréal 2025: What to expect, who to see, and how to make the most of It
A practical (and unofficial) guide to navigating three days of ideas, labs, and unexpected connections—this is how to do C2 like a local.
How Montreal's Super Boat People reframes Cambodian, Laotian & Vietnamese narratives
Not your typical heritage project: In kitchens, galleries, and community halls, a louder, richer story is emerging.
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A local's guide to the best things to do in Montreal [May 2025]
Soak up the first signs of spring and shake off what’s left of winter with the best things to do in Montreal right now.
This is Lightspeed, 20 years later: Montreal-made and in its transformation era
Lightspeed CEO Dax Dasilva tells the story of how a design-first POS system became a global commerce engine.
If this factory closes, a century of Montreal's Chinatown history goes with it
For over a century, Wing Noodles has fed Montreal with handmade noodles, fortune cookies, and quiet defiance—one of the last family-run factories still standing in Chinatown.
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The Bulletin: Museum bar service, a latte art throwdown, and Indian ice cream [Issue #127]
The Bulletin is a collection of what's happened, what’s happening, and what’s to come in and around Montreal.
Things to do in Montreal during May
From cider crawls and kimono parades to electro Sundays and neighbourhood street fests—Montreal in May doesn’t slow down.
50 years later, The Word Bookstore has outlived every prediction
Half a century later, The Word is a living argument for why places built on passion outlast everything.
The artist behind Montreal’s most therapeutic street art
Discussing 15 years of anonymity, personal pain, and guerrilla positivity with MAKENOIZE.
A public solar-powered hangout lands in the Olympic Park this summer
Aire commune’s Espace solaire is an evolving vision of urban design—and it's got Wi-Fi.
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The Bulletin: Falling 210 feet in the Old Port, double-decker pub crawls, and back alley birthdays [Issue #126]
The Bulletin is a collection of what's happened, what’s happening, and what’s to come in and around Montreal.
Vincent Tsang on Dime MTL's early days, his artistic evolution, and Montreal's creative class
Some of the greatest creative decisions from Dime MTL's artistic director? Refusing to leave Montreal, and betting on joy.
Shop local at Marché ASIASIE 2025, Montreal’s premier pan-Asian market
From pantry staples and K-beauty to calligraphy workshops and Indian dance: Shop local at Montreal’s biggest pan-Asian market experience.
Meet Lewis Mallard, Montreal's psychedelic folk artist
Between performance and very real hallucinations.
Les Aliments Felix Mish is Montreal's best-kept secret for smoked meat
Inside the Ville-Émard neighbourhood deli that's been doing things its own way—no steam, no shortcuts—since 1959.