Please complete your profile to unlock commenting and other important features.

Please select your date of birth for special perks on your birthday. Your username will be your unique profile link and will be publicly used in comments.
MTL Blog Pro

This is a Pro feature.

Time to level up your local game with MTL Blog Pro.

Pro

$5/month

$40/year

  • Everything in the Free plan
  • Ad-free reading and browsing
  • Unlimited access to all content including AI summaries
  • Directly support our local and national reporting and become a Patron
  • Cancel anytime.

area

A new report from Royal LePage suggests that while Montreal's real estate market might start to cool down, home prices are still projected to increase more overall than any other market in Canada.

The company recorded a 21.7% year-over-year increase in the "aggregate price of a home" ("a weighted average of the median values of all housing types collected") in the Montreal area in the second quarter of 2021, bringing it to $514,000.

Keep readingShow less

Earlier this month, multiple Canadian ministers and Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante announced that the governments would collaborate to fund new low-income housing for students in Montreal.

The 123-unit development, named La Rose des vents, will be a six-storey building located in the Technopôle Angus eco-district in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie.

Keep readingShow less

Videos that appeared online this afternoon showed billowing black smoke emanating from a Plateau Mont-Royal building. Over 2,000 residents in the area are without power.

The Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal's Twitter page advised Montrealers to avoid the area after a third alarm rang on rue de Mentana and ave. du Mont-Royal E. 

Keep readingShow less

The oh-so-loved lavender farm Bleu Lavande's brand new location opened as of June 7 and it makes for the perfect little escape from Montreal.

Bleu Lavande has officially moved from its well-known location in Stanstead to a new home in Magog, in the Eastern Townships.

Keep readingShow less

If you haven't already invested in an air conditioner, now is definitely the time to. There's currently a heat warning for Montreal, meaning "humidex values reaching 40 are expected for the next 2 days."

As of Monday morning, the warning was in effect for Châteauguay - La Prairie area, Laval area, Longueuil - Varennes area, and Montreal Island area.

Keep readingShow less

Ever wonder exactly how much you're going to need to save to buy yourself a home? Well, these Quebec exo train maps show the median price for 3+ bedroom homes near every stop on the six exo train lines to help you get an idea.

Via Capitale du Mont-Royal real estate agent Charlyse Amoussou created the maps and compared "the prices for 2020 and the first quarter of 2021 so you can see the evolution and know the current median prices." Every train stop on the maps "represents a municipality or area." 

Keep readingShow less

An Instagram story recently posted to social media by a medical student shows stretchers set-up in the Montreal Jewish General Hospital garage.

Despite its caption remarking, "So many patients that we have reached [the point] of receiving [patients] in the hospital garage," the hospital clarified that this protocol is not related to Quebec's surging hospitalizations.

Keep readingShow less

Tiffany Aziz is a Montreal interior designer who earned her degree at Parson's The New School in New York City.

Bringing her knowledge and skill back to her hometown, Aziz has an eye for turning any room into an at-home paradise.

Keep readingShow less

December is generally a month spent with loved ones, wrapping up the past year while setting intentions for the new one. But with holiday gatherings cancelled in Quebec red zones, it's bound to be different this time around.

Since 2020 was a rollercoaster shitshow — complete with a global pandemic, devastating wildfires, mass protests and murder hornets — it's safe to assume the world is ready to throw this year into the trash where it belongs.

Keep readingShow less

If you haven't gotten into astrology yet, now's the time.

With Montreal in an extended COVID-19 lockdown for the next two weeks, as novel coronavirus cases continue to climb in Quebec, we could use a little guidance — courtesy of the planets and stars — to tell us what the rest of November will bring.

Keep readingShow less

Montreal real estate prices are going up right before our eyes and if you're looking to buy a property in or around the city, you might want to act fast. $500,000 may seem like a lot of cash, but when it comes to investing in a home it's not as much as you think, especially in the city.

We wanted to show all of our readers what you can buy get a half a million-dollar budget — both in Montreal and some of its surrounding areas.

Keep readingShow less

Drivers, prepare yourselves to swim in yet another sea of orange cones and road closures in Montreal this weekend. The Quebec Ministry of Transport has announced that the city's Turcot Interchange will have even more traffic closures this weekend. Drivers are in for another few days of headaches but hey, unlike the traffic, at least the Turcot project is moving along, right? 

The Ministry said that "major obstacles will be put in place in the area of ​​the Turcot and Saint-Pierre interchanges during the weekend of September 11, including Complete closure of Route 136 (A-720)/Autoroute 20 westbound between the Ville-Marie tunnel and the Saint-Pierre interchange." 

Keep readingShow less