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Tranna Wintour Threw Some Hilarious — & Honestly Well-Deserved — Shade At Pierrefonds

Tranna Wintour appeared on CBC Gem's Comedy Night back in September where she threw some not-so-subtle shade at the oft-maligned suburban Montreal neighbourhood of Pierrefonds.

During her interview with Rick Mercer, Wintour shed some light on her upbringing — sharing with viewers that she was actually born and raised in the Montreal neighbourhood.

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Do You Really Live In Montreal? This Map Shows All The Confusing Definitions Of 'Montreal'

City of Montreal. Island of Montreal. Agglomeration of Montreal. Montreal metropolitan community. All called Montreal. Not all the same thing.

A diagram and map of Montreal by local researcher Raymundo Cassani illustrate all the official definitions that divide the urban area.

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A Montreal West Island Disney Movie Shoot Ravaged A Green Space & Residents Are Pissed

Some Pointe-Clarie residents are raising hell after a shoot for a Disney movie in Montreal's West Island ravaged a local green space. The Montreal Gazette was the first to report this story.

In a March 17 Facebook post, Pointe-Claire City Councillor Erin Tedford said calls and emails have been pouring into her office concerning the incident in which production for the upcoming movie The Naughty Nine poured gravel over a grassy common area in an attempt to make it easier for trucks to access the site.

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Montreal Area Home Prices Rose 20% (!) In The Last Year — Here's Where Prices Are Highest

If you happened to blink at any point in the last two years you might have missed the moment when your dream of homeownership in the near future slipped away. The latest market report from the Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers shows Montreal home prices are still going up.

In February 2022, the median price of a single-family home in the Montreal area was $550,000 — 20% higher than it was in February 2021.

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A Montreal Suburb Was Named 6th Best City In Canada To Work From Home

Notre-Dame-de-L'ÃŽle-Perrot, the largest municipality on the eponymous ÃŽle-Perrot just west of Montreal Island, was named the sixth-best city in Canada to work from home by PCMag.

The site examined home prices, broadband availability and prices, proximity to coworking spaces and major metro areas, home sizes, median incomes, and the "percentage of local workers in the arts" to find the 10 Canadian cities that offer the best quality of life for remote workers.

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A Group Of Montreal Island Mayors Is Asking Quebec To Keep Their Cities' Bilingual Status

The Association des municipalités de banlieue (AMB), a group of 15 mayors of suburbs on Montreal Island, has unveiled its list of recommendations to the Quebec government as part of the Bill 96 hearings and is pleading with the government to allow bilingual municipalities to retain their status should the bill become law.

Bill 96 states that a municipality that currently has "bilingual status" could have its status revoked by the OQLF if the area's English speakers don't represent the majority of the population — the threshold required by the Charter of the French Language for a municipality to obtain the status.

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