We've rounded up seven of the most notable Montreal events of the last several years.
How many #MTLMoments do you remember from this list of absurdities?
That time students rocked the city in protest of rising tuition fees
Why It's A Wild #MTLMoment: In 2012, students and teachers from Quebec universities united by the thousands for a six-month-long series of protests against tuition fee increases — the longest student strike in their histories.
This resulted in numerous arrests and general chaos in Montreal. Millions of taxpayer dollars were spent as a result of the protests, compensating for police overtime hours in Montreal.
That time spelunkers found a 15,000- year-old cave in Saint-Leonard
Why It's A Wild #MTLMoment: The Saint-Leonard cavern, located under Parc Pie XII, was the focus of news in 2017 when spelunkers discovered a 250-metre long addition to another cave in the same area.
The pre-existing cavern had been discovered in 1812, but spelunkers had a hunch that there was more to be found. Boy, were they right!
That time massive Montreal flooding wiped people out downtown
Why It's A Wild #MTLMoment: Infamous videos of people being washed away by massive flooding in downtown Montreal circulated on the internet in 2013.
In Quebec's rendition of America's Funniest Home Videos, a video of a woman being washed away by flooding on Rue McTavish garnered over 400,000 views on YouTube.
That time Pauline Marois almost got assassinated during her victory speech
Benoît Levac | Wikimedia CommonsWhy It's A Wild #MTLMoment: Pauline Marois, one of Quebec's most controversial, short-lived premiers, stirred the pot in the province when she was elected in 2012.
In light of her plans for a French-language crackdown and her views on secularism, she was almost assassinated during her victory speech at Métropolis in downtown Montreal, now known as M Telus.
Marois was whisked away by police and the shooter, Richard Henry Bain, was tackled and arrested. He ended up killing a stage technician at the venue.
That time Quebec shut down due to a massive 1998 ice storm
Deb | Wikimedia CommonsWhy It's A Wild #MTLMoment: Most Montreal millennials were young when a severe ice storm hit Quebec in January 1998. However, you might still remember having no power for several weeks and having to stay with family or in a local school gymnasium while the province dealt with the crisis.
Fun fact: Over 10,000 Canadian Forces personnel were deployed to help with the storm in Quebec, and over 15,000 total in Canada — the largest deployment of the Canadian military since the Korean War in the 1950s.
That time Montrealer Luka Magnotta was the subject of a worldwide manhunt
Why It's A Wild #MTLMoment: If you haven't seen Don't F**k with Cats on Netflix or you lived under a rock in 2012, you might not know about Montreal's most recent infamous criminal, Luka Magnotta.
Magnotta made world news when he became the prime suspect of a worldwide manhunt for the murder and dismemberment of Jin Lun, a then-Concordia University student. Magnotta was later found in an internet café in Germany while looking himself up on a computer.
Apparently, the Boulevard Décarie apartment where the gory events took place is currently occupied.
That time Denis Coderre dumped billions of litres of sewage into a Montreal river
Otto Dusbaba | DreamstimeWhy It's A Wild #MTLMoment: Ex-Montreal mayor, Denis Coderre, followed through with a number of controversial plans for the city before being voted out of his mayoral seat.
He effectively dumped eight billion litres of raw sewage into the Saint-Lawrence River in 2015 despite warnings from Environment Canada, Canada's infrastructure minister at the time and a petition with over 55,000 signatures.
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