POP Montreal 2021: SUUNS and Montreal Represent at This Year’s Festival
Just because we’ve stuck inside for a year and a half doesn’t mean we can’t have fun…right? With this years POP Montreal taking place in the midst of COVID-19 restrictions, it will be a bit of a leaner festival. It will, however, be a much more local presentation with some major acts coming out of […]
POP Montreal 2021: Literally Anything! and Other Picks
I’d like to start by acknowledging the elephant in the room: writing a preview for a live music festival feels a little strange considering we’ve all been avoiding large public gatherings in enclosed spaces for the last year and a half. It’s probably going to feel even more weird being back at a live rock […]
Montreal Arts & Music This Week: Candyass Cocktail, Tony Rust and the Mudhorses & Cinema Politica
It’s mid-September and POP Montreal is almost upon us. Next week, much of our coverage will be of that festival, so now let’s look at a few events taking place in the days before: Candyass Returns to Café Cléopatra Back in the before times (aka the years leading up to and including 2019), you could […]
FTB Fridays: 2021 Canadian Federal Election
Monday is Election Day in Canada. Host Jason C. McLean and Special Guest Samantha Gold discuss the latest polls, whether or not calling this election was a good idea, the youth vote and more. Follow Samantha Gold on Facebook @samiamart and Instagram @samiamartistmtl Follow Jason C. McLean on Twitter @jasoncmclean Facebook Comments
The Mental Health and Suicide Awareness Walk is Tomorrow in Montreal
September is Suicide Awareness Month and today (September 10th) is World Suicide Prevention Day. Tomorrow, Suicide and Mental Health (SAMH) Montreal will be holding a Suicide and Mental Health Awareness Walk in Montreal. It starts at 1pm in front of the Sir George-Etienne Cartier Monument on du Parc (where the tam tams take place). It […]
Jonathan Bouchard of CBC’s Race Against the Tide on Sand Carving, Sculpture, and Being on TV
Sand sculptor Jonathan Bouchard aka Jobi is trying to make the best of pandemic life. With CBC’s reality competition show Race Against the Tide having wrapped last summer and many travel restrictions still in effect, the Saint Calixte QC native is trying to branch out into other artistic mediums. I had a chance to sit […]
The Quebec Vaccine Passport is Now in Effect
It’s official. Quebecers who want to use certain services or take part in certain activities deemed “non-essential” need to present proof of being adequately vaccinated against COVID-19 to do so. Quebec is the first Canadian province to implement a COVID vaccine passport, but with Ontario, BC and Manitoba working on their own systems, it won’t […]
Canada’s Real Estate Market is in Hyperinflation
At some point a duck needs to be called a duck: Any reliable source will show that Canada’s real estate market has been inflating proportionately higher than all other economic sectors for the past 20 years or so. If we look at the real cause and real effects of this, we’ll see very easily that […]
FTB Fridays: US Out of Afghanistan, Canada Heads to the Polls, OnlyFans Abandons Sex Workers & More
Jason C. McLean and Special Guest Dawn McSweeney go through some of the week’s top news, roundup-style. Topics: The US leaving AfghanistanThe 2021 Canadian Federal ElectionOnlyFans dropping explicit contentForced sterilization of Native women in SaskatchewanGatineau boy’s father denied human rights complaint Follow Dawn McSweeney @mcmoxy on Twitter and Instagram Follow Jason C. McLean @jasoncmclean on […]
POP Montréal Returns with a Hybrid Edition September 22-26
It’s POP Montréal‘s 20th Anniversary this year! The recent (well, the two decades-long) Montreal fall music tradition will be back to celebrate with a hybrid event running September 22nd through the 26th. This year’s lineup, which understandably boasts a hefty local and Canadian contingent, will feature headliners Cakes da Killa, Backxwash and SUUNS as well […]
Canadian Federal Election Called for September 20th
It’s official. After a quick 36 day campaign, Canadians will head to the polls on September 20th. This morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked Governor General Mary Simon to dissolve the current Minority Parliament in place since October 2019, which she did. As Trudeau seeks a Majority, his Government’s handling of the pandemic will most […]
FTB Fridays: Elections in CDN/NDG, Montreal Nord, Across the City and Maybe the Country
Jason C. McLean and Special Guest Samantha Gold discuss the upcoming Montreal Municipal election (with an emphasis on the Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Montreal Nord boroughs), the possibility of a fall Federal Election and Quebec’s new vaccine passport. Follow Samantha Gold on Facebook @samiamart and Instagram @samiamartistmtl See Samantha’s mural outside of the Union United Church Follow […]