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 […]
Gracia Kasoki Katahwa Enters the CDN/NDG Borough Mayor Race as the Projet Montréal Candidate
Gracia Kasoki Katahwa will run for Borough Mayor of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce under the Projet Montréal banner. Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante made the announcement earlier today at a press conference in the borough alongside Katahwa and seven other first-time candidates whom Plante referred to as the future of her party. Katahwa joins an arguably crowded field which […]
Montreal Arts & Music This Week: Osheaga Returns…On Paper, FME de l’Avent on the Banks of the Lachine Canal & Under Pressure Online
Now that the hybrid Just for Laughs is over, festival season continues. This week, we’ve got two Montreal summer mainstays back in different forms and a Rouyn-Noranda-based festival running a mini-fest in our city for the first time. Let’s get started: Osheaga Through the Ages While it’s sadly true that Osheaga won’t be returning to […]
Sophie Buddle on the Essence of Live Stand-Up Comedy and Returning to Montreal to Film Her First Comedy Special
Sophie Buddle isn’t a huge fan of the Zoom comedy show, the go-to performance option for many standups during the pandemic. “Yes, I was doing Zoom shows,” she said in a phone interview, “but I will say that doing Zoom shows is almost worse than doing no shows at all for me because, number one, […]