Montreal Murmurs

Photo credit: Quartier des Spectacles Do you find something both appealing and appalling about surviving an apocalypse? How many movies...

This Montreal winter is a hard one, mainly because it has the hallmarks of an on-again off-again relationship. Things freeze over and...

I stepped into 2018 hopeful. But, no matter how grand it seemed that first morning - each new year inevitably promises better things to...

My grandfather, God bless his soul, used to shout, when he was upset about something that we children were up to: “You donkey! You bear!”...

You must have seen them peering at you from windowsills graced with lace and from old storefronts on Boulevard St-Laurent. You’ve seen...

We're all immigrants on this land. First, second, third, fourth, maybe fifth generation. Not absolutely all of us, but many, most. July...

Today I stood in what I truly hope is the last life-altering queue of my life: the one in front of 1035 St-Jacques, for people waiting to...

Montreal based writer Su J. Sokol writes about a not-to-distant future where Montreal designates itself as an official 'Sanctuary City.'...

Last week, I left Montreal to go on vacation. Although I was heading to what some would consider a dream destination, I felt a little...

Tommy is located close to where I labor and spend my precious time, in the Old Port on rue Notre Dame. Tommy is a cool place to be. It...