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If you're a boba lover in Montreal, start stretching your hands. Why? Because One Babo's bubble teas come in chunky cups that you won't want to put down.

To celebrate its new location in the Old Port of Montreal, One Babo is serving up $2 bubble teas all day Saturday starting at 12 p.m., as long as you follow its Instagram page. The first 50 people will actually get their boba totally free. 

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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.

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CA LEM Creamery — home to ice cream flavours, such as "London Fog," "Orange Creamsicle," "Vietnamese Coffee," "Matcha Crème Brûlée," "Cookie Monster" and "Mojito" — has just opened a new location in Montreal's Old Port.  

If you ask us, the more ice cream this city has to offer the better! Especially with summer weather fast approaching. 

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There's nothing Montrealers love more than exploring the natural beauty all around, like the dreamy fields of Bleu Lavande. Moving to a new location less than an hour and a half from the city, it's the perfect place to go when you're in need of an escape not just in the summer, but now throughout the year.

MTL Blog reached out to Bleu Lavande to learn all about its plans for the new season and its new location.

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If the past year has taught us anything, it's that home is a haven like no other.

And while your immediate living space should be a place that brings you joy, your neighbourhood is equally as important. As the saying goes: it's all about location, location, location — and that's especially true of Quartier des Spectacles, which has a little something for everyone at any time of the year. 

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As the weather warms up in Montreal, it's only natural that you'd find yourself dreaming of summer days. For many of us, summer means going hiking in Quebec — and the best hikes lead to hidden waterfalls

We could all use something to look forward to right now. So grab your bucket list and add these six hikes that lead to waterfalls deep within Quebec's forests — because everyone should see the beauty of these falls at least once in their lives. 

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Following the success of UNIQLO's first-ever Quebec location in downtown Montreal, the Japanese clothing retailer is set to open a new store in Cadillac Fairview Carrefour Laval. UNIQLO Laval will open at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 26.

The store will occupy 15,000 square feet of space.

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Laval cannabis lovers, rejoice! A new Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC) location is set to open in Laval this spring — which means residents of Laval and the surrounding areas will finally be able to pick up cannabis locally in the coming months. 

This is Laval's first SQDC branch. It will be located in the Sainte-Dorothée district.

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Finding a job in Quebec may not always be an easy task, especially if you're looking for something with a high salary. But at the end of the day, we're all searching for a good job in a field that we love, and, if it pays well, that's just a major bonus.

Making six figures is definitely something one can be proud of, and luckily for us, there's a myriad of job openings throughout the province that are currently offering salaries of $100,000 or more annually.

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Costco has announced that a new store will replace the current Costco Wholesale centre in Anjou on Rue Bombardier — but it won't be any old Costco. Rather, it's a special Costco Business Centre with items you can't find at regular Costcos

This will be the second Costco Business Centre location in Quebec and the first on the Island of Montreal.

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Agrikol, one of Montreal's favourite Haitian food spots, announced on December 19 that it would be joining a number of other local restaurants in closing its doors for the foreseeable future.

Montreal real-estate group Duque Simms has listed Agrikol's charming former location in Ville-Marie — and it's for sale for a cool $1.35 million. 

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Grocery stores in Montréal, along with other essential Quebec businesses, will remain open this holiday season as part of Premier François Legault's two-week lockdown between December 25 and January 11.

According to Santé Montréal's data on COVID-19 outbreaks in Montréal, as of December 8, 38% of total outbreaks in the city were found in workplaces.

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