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Habs Gear You Can Get On Sale If You're As Stoked About Their Stanley Cup Run As We Are

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What a year this has been. We’ve survived lockdown, the Montreal Canadiens are in the NHL Playoffs, nature is healing.

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This Montreal Shop Has Canada’s Biggest Rubber Duck Collection & It's So Joyful (PHOTOS)

Many Montreal companies faced a simple choice when the pandemic hit: get busy closing or get busy quacking.

Pam Petropoulos chose the latter with her small business, Le Petit Duck Shoppe, a novelty store in Old Montreal that sells rubber ducks and rubber duck accessories.

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Frank & Oak Is Under Fire For Using A Photo Of A Montreal Flower Shop Against Its Wishes

Frank & Oak is facing heavy criticism after it used a photo of Montreal's Dragon Flowers shop storefront for a t-shirt design against the shop's wishes.

An Instagram post by Dragon Flowers explaining the situation has more than 10,000 likes.

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Quebec's Retail Council Released Stats On When & How Locals Will Shop For The Holidays

Now that Halloween's over, Quebecers are turning their attention to the Christmas season — and with holidays come gifts. It's always a retail bonanza this time of year, but COVID-19 has made holiday shopping all the more stressful.

When should I start shopping? Where should I shop to ensure my delivery arrives on time? Should I support local businesses? What if they don't deliver and the store's too crowded? Will my loved ones be spending as much this year? 

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We Spoke To A Montreal Business Owner Who Thinks Bike Lanes Are A Good Thing

Bike lanes may be little more than narrow strips of asphalt, but on rue Saint-Denis, they have become fodder for a tense debate over the future of the neighbourhood.   

After a group of shop-owners threatened to sue the city to remove a controversial bike lane through the Plateau over fears that it could hurt business, the borough’s mayor, Luc Rabouin, and a local entrepreneur are saying their fears are misguided.

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Angry Business Owners Have Threatened To Sue Montreal To Stop A New Bike Lane

In the latest sign of opposition to the Plante administration's campaign to remake Montreal into a metropolis of cyclists, a group of rue Saint-Denis businesses is threatening to sue the city to remove a controversial bike lane through the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough.

The businesses — including a furniture boutique, an eyeglass store, and a wild mushroom shop — sent the city a letter threatening legal action on September 15, after months of opposition to the Réseau Express Vélo (REV) cycling network.  

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A Beloved Westmount Shoe Shop Is Closing & Having A Huge Sale With Up to 85% Off

Tony Shoes is a shop where the owner, Tony Fargnoli, and his wife, Kathie, remember the brand and size their customers like, much the same way Tony’s father, Eddie, and his grandfather, Giantonio, did too. A Montreal landmark, it has occupied the same small storefront on Greene Avenue since 1937. But not for much longer.  

The 83-year-old shop first announced it would be shutting down in June and kicked off an "everything must go" sale.   

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16 Hole-In-The-Wall Spots In The Plateau That Every Montrealer Needs To Discover

The Plateau-Mont-Royal is one of the city's most picturesque boroughs between its historic architecture, spiral staircases, and tree-lined streets. But it's not just a looker. It's got substance. The neighbourhood is packed with shops, bars and restaurants which — aside from a quintessential Montreal aesthetic — also embody a quintessential Montreal attitude: hip, artsy and cool without trying too hard to be cool. Naturally, that means the area is brimming with unique holes-in-the-wall that every Montrealer should know and frequent. 

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