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These 7 Montreal Boroughs Are Giving Away Free Plants & Soil In May — Here's Where To Go

Several Montreal boroughs are issuing a playful call-to-shovels, inviting its citizens to sprinkle their own brand of magic on their balconies and gardens. The annual city-wide plant giveaway is set to sprout at the end of the month.

The weekend of May 27 and 28, areas of the city from Rosemont and the Plateau to Hochelaga and Outremont have a diverse selection of free plants, from hearty vegetables to whimsical ornamental vines and edible flowers.

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Montreal's Plateau Is Permanently Closing Some Street Sections To Cars & Making Others One-Way

Montreal's Plateau-Mont-Royal borough is about to become even more pedestrian friendly. Its borough council has committed to six changes to its road network aimed at making surrounding neighbourhoods safer for cyclists and people travelling by foot. Among the changes to select street sections are direction reversals, pedestrianizations and the institution of one-way traffic.

The complete list of traffic tweaks, per a borough council press release, is as follows:

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Montreal Is Finally Going To Redo One Of Its Most Wretched Underpasses

You probably know and avoid it: the 60-year-old underpass between Rosemont–La-Petite-Patrie and the Plateau-Mont-Royal on avenue Christophe-Colomb — three wide lanes of car traffic, narrow sidewalks and a bike path smushed together in a long stretch of concrete and asphalt. It's ugly and it's dangerous. Montreal counted 95 collisions involving cyclists and pedestrians on Christophe-Colomb between 2018 and 2022. The city knows it sucks. So it's going to redo it.

Montreal's Executive Committee announced on February 17 that it had awarded a $23,588,576.72 contract to renovate the underpass. The city says the work will "contribute to the safe sharing of the underpass' road space" and will include new and improved bike paths, better "user-friendliness" and urban integration, new vegetation, more accessible sidewalks, and a new "stopping and relaxation area to reduce heat islands and to promote a more appropriate sharing of the area between pedestrians and cyclists."

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The Montreal Plateau Terrasse Scene Could Explode In 2023 — Here's Why

After several pandemic summers during which the number of terrasses nearly doubled, the city of Montreal is granting the Plateau lower rates for reserving terrasse space in the hopes that it will help maintain the area's thriving commercial streets.

The rates had already been lowered during 2020 and 2021 as a temporary pandemic relief measure, so the new discount is measured against the 2019 rates. In some cases, it's almost a 50% decrease compared to 2019.

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I Tested My Montreal Apartment Tap Water & The Results Shocked Me

This Opinion article is part of a Narcity Media series. The views expressed are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Narcity Media.

It's 3 a.m., you wake up completely athirst, you head to the fridge and f*ck...you forgot to re-fill the Brita. You said you'd fill it up after you did the dishes but you totally forgot. You forgot to do the dishes, too.

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An STM Bus Crashed Into A Building After It Apparently Got Hit By A Car (PHOTOS)

An STM bus crashed into a building near the corner of rues Beaubien and Clark in Montreal's Plateau-Mont-Royal borough after a collision with another vehicle early Thursday morning.

Photos shared with MTL Blog and its sister outlet Narcity Québec show significant damage to the façade of a one-storey brick structure.

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Peek Inside This Enviable Montreal Home For Sale On A Postcard Plateau Street (PHOTOS)

Nestled between buildings on one of Montreal’s picturesque residential streets lays a brick home with teal accents that invites you into its airy wooden rooms.

This property, built in 1885, formerly housed a bed and breakfast, perfectly suited to travellers with its many bedrooms. Now, the home is split into two apartments: first, at 3945, avenue Laval, a sprawling three-story dwelling with seven bedrooms and three bathrooms; second, at 3949, a comfortable one-bedroom apartment with its own office space.

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7 Things About The Plateau I Quickly Realized After Moving Here

This Essay article is part of a Narcity Media series. The views expressed are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Narcity Media.

As someone who has lived in Montreal for quite some time, I've come to appreciate the differences from one borough to the next, and I believe that variety is what makes the 514 one of the best metropolitan areas in all of Canada.

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The Plateau Mont-Royal's Main Drag Is Getting The Urban Paradise Treatment This Summer

The Plateau Mont-Royal's thoroughfare between the Olympic Stadium and the mountain will soon become the longest "linear park" in the city. On June 8, over 2.5 kilometres of avenue Mont-Royal will be closed to cars. By June 20, it will be transformed into an urban paradise filled with art installations, cooling stations, and other creative social stops.

The route between boulevard Saint-Laurent and rue Fullum will be punctuated with greenery, a wave-shaped platform, mist machines, a food garden, and "a pool of air currents," among other fun elements that put the 'art' in artery.

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A Serious Fire Broke Out In Montreal's Plateau-Mont-Royal Neighbourhood (VIDEO)

A fire broke out in Montreal's Plateau-Mont-Royal this afternoon leading to a four-alarm crisis that is currently being handled by the Montreal fire department.

On May 7, 2022, around 1:30 p.m. the Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal (SIM) alerted the public of the Montreal fire outbreak in a building between the Saint-Laurent and Prince-Arthur intersection of the city borough.

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At Least 4 Montreal Boroughs Are Giving Away Free Plants To Residents This Spring

Free plant giveaways are returning to at least four Montreal boroughs this spring. Three others are either hinting at forthcoming giveaway plans or will give out other gardening items.

So far, the Plateau Mont-Royal, Rosemont–La-Petite-Patrie, and Ahuntsic-Cartierville have shared giveaway details on their official Facebook pages. Ville en Vert, a local organization that advocates for sustainable development, has also published plant giveaway plans for Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension.

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A Montreal Depanneur Closed After A Video Showed Rats Climbing Through Candy

This article contains graphic content that might not be suitable for some readers.

If you regularly go for dep runs in the Plateau, you might need to commute for your Gatorade and Doritos for the time being. A video, posted on Instagram by Jesse Walker, of rats scurrying around a Montreal depanneur is causing a stir on social media.

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