If you’re from out of town, you may need a primer on “Montreal Real Estate Speak.” Ask any Canadian – we do things a bit differently here in Montreal. French has infiltrated English, and English has infiltrated French. Most of us love it. Here are a few common expressions and translations to help you along […]
Only in Quebec
Every summer when I was a kid, my parents would pack all 4 of us kids into the car and make the sweaty, stifling 18-hour trip from the east coast where we lived to London, Ontario, where we were born and our extended family lived. My parents somehow handled the sweating, and complaining, and boredom and unending roads […]
Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off This Saturday in Kirkland, Quebec
‘Tis the season for spring clean-up! But please don’t go throwing your old paint cans, batteries, gas cans and medicines into the trash. The chemicals they contain can leach into the ground and contaminate the soil and flow into our rivers and streams and…well…you know what that means: unintended science experiments! With we humans and the plants, animals and […]
