Montreal Articles

Four Dollars and a Microwave – Montreal, Quebec

One good story and two hours of sweatshop labor later, Kyle MacDonald emerges triumphant.

Montreal, Canada – September 1999

This is my first dispatch for BootsnAll, and unfortunately it comes at the end of the summer (summer being the best time to be here). Regardless, this city is alive and well year ’round, so here goes.

September Festivals

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Montreal, Canada – October 1999

Montréal is bursting with colour in October. The trees in the parks and on the mountain (in the middle of the city) are ablaze with yellow, crimson, and yes, green, and the weather is turning cooler so people are starting to wear clothes again!

The city’s extraordinary summer party and festival life is waning and the [...]

Montreal, Canada – November 1999

T.S. Eliot was wrong – April is not the cruelest month, at least not in Montréal, where that honor belongs to November.

November. That cruel angry month that comes after the colorful transition of October, but before the festive year-end of December. Those vicious thirty days when the last warmth of summer lies dead under [...]

Montreal, Canada – March 2000

As I write this, the air outside my apartment is breaking a record for warmth, despite the fact that this was also close to the snowiest February on record, and a mere week-and-a-half ago one couldn’t even walk the unplowed streets without snow shoes.

Three snowstorms in short succession had buried the city, and it [...]

Montreal, Canada – January 2000

The editors at BootsnAll are, no doubt, annoyed at the lateness of this dispatch. My first column of the new millennium and it arrives a third of the way into the month. To make amends, I will promise not to use the word “millennium” again until the year 2999.
In my defense, however, I will offer [...]

Montreal, Canada – February 2000

I sit here in my toasty apartment, gazing out the window at the deep snow and the frigid pedestrians slogging to and fro and wonder why anyone would visit this fair burgh in February. The answer, aside from the esoteric for which only those oddballs deplaning icy widebodies at Dorval airport can tell, can [...]

Montreal, Canada – December 1999

December is the last month of the year, and this December in particular is the last of many things. No, this is not a Millennium blurb! To the contrary, I’d like to mention a few of the lesser-talked about conclusions we are about to reach.

1999 is not only the end of this arbitrarily-numbered Millennium, but [...]

Pretty in Pink – Montreal, Canada

Erik R. Trinidad slips into a bra “just for laughs

Going to Montreal, Just for Laughs – Montreal, Canada

For 10 days in July Montreal will be overtaken by