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While we already know that having a Montreal OPUS card can make getting around the city a breeze, many of us often forget that our OPUS can always get us cool discounts, too. 

From day cruises on the water to trips on La Grande Roue de Montréal, OPUS card additional discounts really set us up for a great year.

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As police across the province hand out tickets in line with the Quebec curfew order, there has been a lot of talk about whether some fines have been fair.

MTL Blog reached out to Cara Zwibel, director of the Fundamental Freedoms Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), to learn more about the curfew and the delicate and intricate situations in which the governments and courts find themselves when it comes to the new protocols.

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With a virus ruling our lives at the moment, many of us are thinking about germs: Where are they? How do we avoid them? What spots in Montreal are dirtier than others? 

Dilhan Perera, a PhD candidate in experimental medicine at McGill University and local TikToker with 670,400 followers, decided to investigate by conducting an actual experiment and posting the results to TikTok.

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Last weekend, a lottery ticket purchased in Montreal was deemed the winner of an impressive $70-million Lotto Max jackpot. The problem? The jackpot has not been claimed yet — which means Loto-Québec is still looking for the person who bought it.

If you bought a lottery ticket and it's lying around on the kitchen table without having been verified, you should probably look into it!

The winning combination of this draw, held on October 9, is 04-06-12-30-32-33-34, with a bonus number of 29.

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