Last Sunday’s Montreal Protest Against Police Brutality in Solidarity With Black Lives Matter (PHOTOS)
Protests against systemic racism and police brutality continue as thousands gathered at Place Emilie Gamelin last Sunday. Protestors spent their sunny afternoon marching peacefully in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, reignited by the death of African American man George Floyd, who died in police custody for a harmless infraction on May 25 after […]
An Ode to a Festival That Never Was: Amy Blackmore on This Is Not a Fringe Festival
We are in the midst of a global pandemic. With death rates on the rise and public gatherings of more than ten people banned to prevent the spread of COVID-19, performance artists and festival organizers are trying to make the best of a bad situation despite cancellations of their events. One of the artists trying […]
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2020 came in without much fanfare for me. This despite a friend and I planning all the things we would do to bring in the New Year. The days and weeks leading up to it we had planned to do everything from going to fancy bars, fancy dinners, clubs, you name it. However on New […]
There’s Another March in Montreal This Sunday Because Police Racism Isn’t Just An American Problem
Last Sunday, approximately 10 000 people took to the streets of Montreal demanding justice for George Floyd and all the other victims of racist police violence. This Sunday there’s another local protest against police brutality. Before we go any further, I’d like to address what I knew every newscast would lead with the following day […]
Three Way Agreement Marks Steps Forward For Traditional Wet’suwet’en Land Rights
“We have a lot of work ahead of us, a lot of catching up to do,” said Chief Gisday’wa. “A hundred and fifty years of it.” At a virtual Zoom meeting held on May 14, the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs met with the federal government of Canada and the provincial government of British Columbia to sign […]
Theatre in the Time of Covid-19: MainLine Theatre Announces This Is Not a Fringe Festival
Even though the 30th Edition of the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival won’t happen until June 2021, MainLine Theatre hopes to remain engaged with the community during these difficult times. With that in mind, they are planning This Is Not a Fringe Festival. “Just because we’re pressing the pause button on the Fringe doesn’t mean that […]
COVID-19: Quebec to Allow Small Outdoor Gatherings (with Restrictions) as of Friday and Healthcare and Personal Care Businesses in June
Small outdoor gatherings in backyards or parks will be permitted in Quebec as of this Friday, May 22nd. They can have no more than ten people who come from a maximum of three households Quebec Deputy Premier Geneviève Guilbault, sitting in for Premier François Legault at the government’s daily COVID-19 briefing, made the announcement and […]
COVID-19: Montreal Announces New Safe Active Transportation Circuit to Help Pedestrians, Cyclists and Merchants This Summer
Montreal will be temporarily converting 327 kilometers of city streets into what the city is calling the Safe Active Transportation Circuit. These will last throughout the summer and possibly into the fall, depending on the progress of the COVID-19 pandemic and containment efforts. At a press conference this morning alongside Éric Alan Caldwell, the Executive […]
COVID-19: Montreal Schools Will Only Re-Open in the Fall, Quebec Will Help Provide Masks
Quebec Premier François Legault is in Montreal today. Speaking alongside Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante, Quebec’s National Director for Public Health Horacio Arruda, Public Health Regional Director Mylène Drouin and Transport Minister François Bonnardel, he announced that Montreal-area schools won’t re-open until the fall. Primary schools across Quebec, excluding the Greater Montreal Area, re-opened on Monday, […]
Legault Finally Sees the Light: Reopening of Montreal Schools Delayed Until May 25, 2020
We are in the midst of a global pandemic due to the Corona virus aka COVID-19. Montreal is not only the epicenter of the outbreak in Quebec, but in all of Canada. In a move that Montrealers have been begging for since Quebec Premier François Legault announced his harebrained idea of reopening the province on […]
COVID-19: Quebec Delays Re-Opening Non-Essential Businesses in the Greater Montreal Area One Week
Schools and non-essential retail businesses across Quebec are re-opening today, except those in the Greater Montreal Area. While schools in the 514, 438 and 450 area codes are on track to re-open in two weeks, Montreal-area businesses will not re-open on May 11th as planned, but May 18th. Quebec Premier François Legault announced during the […]
Fantasia Film Festival Will Return This Summer in Online Format
With pretty much every major Montreal summer festival either cancelling for 2020 or rescheduling until the fall due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we can happily report that the Fantasia International Film Festival will take place this summer with only slightly different dates (August 20 – September 2). The only other difference is the festival […]