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There is nothing more exciting than watching a film and suddenly realizing the backdrop is the city you live in. If you feel me on this one, you will be excited to know that a new film coming out in 2022, Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts, is being filmed in Montreal and it seems as though shooting could be currently underway.

While we cannot confirm that the following photos are definitely part of the new Transformers set, all signs lead to it being very possible that it is.

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It's the return of the bagel wars. The longstanding Twitter debate — in which New Yorkers, Montrealers and sometimes New Jerseyans (???) fight over their local recipes for bread with a hole in the middle — has reignited. 

And Montrealers aren't going down without a fight.

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With the late-afternoon darkness seeming more gloomy than ever, the Ontario Legislative Assembly has just passed a bill to stop the clock change for good, and now the province is waiting on Quebec to do the same.

According to a statement shared with MTL Blog, Bill 214, the Time Amendment Act, "will enable the Attorney General of Ontario to end bi-annual clock changes and move Ontario permanently to daylight time."

But it's contingent on Quebec and the state of New York coming along with it.

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