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La Poutine Week is officially back.

The week-long poutine festival has returned to Canada and will run from February 1 to 7, 2024 across all 10 provinces in cities including Montreal, Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, and Winnipeg, to name a few.

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Madonna performed not one, but two shows in Montreal this week at the Bell Centre and it's safe to say she vogued her heart out.

The Queen of Pop announced the Celebration Tour last summer, and while she was expected to touch down in Montreal in August 2023, Madonna was forced to postpone the first leg of tour dates due to illness.

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Cheese, fries and gravy. A simple trio that when combined creates the classic, mouthwatering dish we all know and love as poutine. Now, grabbing the iconic Quebec meal at one of Montreal's must-try spots is how to really do poutine right. But sometimes, a poutine from one of the big fast-food chains just has to do.

So could a quickie from your fave drive-thru chain approach the poutine calibre of the real deal dishes that you'd find at Montreal restaurants such as La Banquise, Chez Claudette and Decarie Hot Dog? That's what I wanted to find out.

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Google unveiled a Quebec poutine-themed doodle in Canada on Friday, May 19, to mark the ninth* anniversary of the entrance of the word "poutine" in the English Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

The doodle depicts a steaming bowl of fries, gravy and cheese curds in front of a redesigned Google logo evoking the folky font of a roadside casse-croûte. A smiling, dancing fork clutching a single, gravy-soaked French fry replaces the 'L' in "Google."

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The views expressed in this Opinion article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Narcity Media.

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