Punishing Polluters: A Crash Course on Canadian Environmental Law and How it Affects You
Environmental law is a fairly new topic in legal discourse. It is only in the past hundred years or so that humans have been made aware of the environmental consequences of their actions and even now there are forces in our society that demand that said consequences are negligible or worth ignoring. It is, however, […]
It’s A Match! But What Happens When You Know Them in Real Life?
Browsing through the endlessly diverse gauntlet of humans bearing their soul and persona for your consumption. He has real pretty eyes, she has a great smile, welp thats a mighty fine torso shot, fuckable for sho, not looking for a hookup? WTF are you doing here? Is that person even real? Ew, he is holding […]
Montreal Music Shows This Week: Aleksi Campagne, Moonfruits, Paddle to the Sea, The Do Good Badlies and more
Hello Forget The Box Readers, we are back again for another edition of Montreal Live Music Shows This Week. It’s cloudy. It’s rainy. And there’s no sun. But there is hope that the grey skies will clear out for blue ones very soon. In the meantime, Spring Winds are blowing in some nice talent into […]
Win Two Free Tickets To See Hillsburn Play Live in Montreal!
There’s nothing in the world like a band that plays to sold out crowds every single night. Hillsburn’s tour schedule is impressive: booked solid almost every night for the month of April. You can tell right away when a band is about to fly high. Coming to see Hillsburn play live in such an intimate […]
Iconic Cagibi Is Moving This Week—And It’s Now a Co-Op
Café Le Cagibi has long held down the fort as a sort of (meta)physical gateway to Mile End at the corner of St-Laurent and St-Viateur. Yet after more than a decade—and amidst a strip dizzyingly gentrifying—the iconic café and show venue is moving on up. Faced with—among other things—rent spikes north of 200%, Le Cagibi […]
Montreal Music Shows This Week: Jesse Potter, El Coyote, The Firing Squad & Enzo S and more
Hello dear FTB readers and welcome to another edition of Montreal Live Music Shows This Week. We have an eclectic mix of recommendations for you, from avant-guard progressive metal to authentic electro-pop. We also have some great local alt country/bluegrass as well as maritime acoustic folk rock coming your way. Since there’s nothing positive to […]
Controlling Gun Violence: An Introduction to Bill C-71 and Gun Control in Canada
Gun control is a hot button issue right now thanks to thousands of kids in the US. On March 24th, 2018, high schoolers, parents, and teachers across America took the trauma of surviving or hearing about school shootings and turned it into righteous anger at the people who govern them. They marched on Washington in […]
Montreal Music Shows This Week: Naghmeh, Iced Earth & Billie Eilish
Hello dear Forget The Box readers! The clocks have sped up, we just had our first day of spring and things are looking on the up and up. You can feel it in the air as the sun shone the other day and everyone felt anticipation for the good weather on its way in. It’s […]
How the Government Protects Our Endangered Species
Endangered species are a pet cause for many and a nuisance for many others. Social media is regularly flooded with a barrage of memes, online petitions, and articles about species on the brink of extinction due to natural or man-made causes. On March 9th, Quebec’s caribou population came into the spotlight when the Couillard government […]
Montreal St. Patrick’s Day Parade: Meet Me at Ste-Catherine and…Oh, Wait
If you have a regular spot along Ste-Catherine where your friends know they can meet you during the annual Montreal St. Patrick’s Day Parade, you won’t be going there this year. Well, I suppose you can, but you’ll just be standing on a street corner, quite possibly day drinking in public alone, for a few […]
Montreal Music Shows This Week: Earthless, Beth Ditto, Hobo Party & More
Hooray! It’s the last week of winter. Time has sprung forward, the clouds are starting to part ways, and even though it’s still cold outside I swear I saw these dudes wearing florescent shorts the other day. Montreal, as usual, has tons of live shows going on. We made a special effort to fine tune […]
Not Just Another Montreal Indie Rock Band: The Moonlight Club
The Moonlight Club is a Montreal based power trio with exceptional songwriting craft that released their first LP on Feb 2nd, 2018 including two official singles. They possess a refreshing and energizing signature sound that demonstrates strong hooks combined with inspired creativity. You don’t want to miss their intimate album launch at L’Escogriffe this Thursday. […]