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With a musical festival hitting the Plateau fast and hard, snow sculpting in Parc Frédéric-Back, luxury Black art pop-ups and fried plantain workshops for Black History Month, and strange-yet-intriguing politically charged news bites, The Main’s Montreal Bulletin—a collection of what has happened, what’s happening, and what’s to come in and around Montreal—is a scattershot of local curiosities.
Oh, and tuck your pants into your socks if you go out this weekend: Montreal has seen a serious uptick in rats. Fun!
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