"Festival fans, prepare to be amazed by your new playground! The festival celebrates its return to the downtown core where it was born in February 2000, the heart of the now-completed heart of the Quartier des spectacles around Place des Arts." 
"Best Buy offered a 30-second spot featuring people they called "Phone Innovators." One such innovator was Neil Papworth – the man credited with having sent the first text message ever in 1992." 
#STM #Montreal : How we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way. 
Fun adventures in Montreal during the Winter months. 
Few ‘best of’ lists are emboldened to go to the depths required of a Top 100, we took the bait and compiled our first ever Top 100 Social Influencers List. The Montreal open data portal published this weekend a list of mobile and web apps made using city data. Most of them were developed by citizens. 
"The #Montreal Botanical Garden is considered to be one of the most important botanical gardens in the world due to the extent of its collections..." Well... It sure looks better in the Summer, though :P 
An open house will be organized for all, as part of the opening day festivities for the Impact home opener in MLS against the Chicago Fire. Via the Impact Soccer Schools, the club will also organize a special clinic for young players from around the province of Quebec, giving them the opportunity to play on the same pitch as the pros. Some people think that Montreal's St-Henri is the next Austin, TX, but with snow. Well... I've always preferred San Antonio to Austin but... Austin is OK too! ;) 
Find out why the first day of winter always falls around December 21 and how the shortest day of the year is marked by cultures worldwide. "Igloofest is a winter festival centred on electronic music which takes place every year in Montreal, Quebec." 
"Montreal is a place of considerable appeal for the young and the creative: far less expensive than New York, far more fun than Toronto or Vancouver, it glows with unambitious energy, a place where great things might happen, or might not." 
As world leaders meeting in Durban, South Africa, struggle to agree on an international strategy to avoid catastrophic climate change, elected officials in the Montreal region face a crucial test of just how seriously they take global warming. |
"The application geotags your position and suggests a pickup address. Once your order is confirmed, it is sent immediately to the closest Diamond cab." 
Montreal is a cool city! "A lack of snow made building Montreal's snow village a challenge, but it's now offering visitors from around the world a chance to spend the night in chilly, but comfy accommodations." 
"“What we did for Nine Inch Nails and Arcade Fire was much more complex, technologically. But as far as stress level, the Super Bowl is at the top of the list." The City & Suburb Home Show is opened at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, until Feb. 5, 2012. "The conference will be taking a look at the continued effects of the emerging real-time Internet on business, and systemic changes the worldwide adoption of the real-time web is having on a wide variety of industries, markets and people." 
Feb. 3 & 4 "Direct from China and returning by popular demand, 65 top-level artists will stun audiences with dazzling acrobatic displays, dances, magic and music." 
The idea of venturing to the snow village might give you cold feet, but visitors find that it is a magical... 
Good luck to all those affected. Hope it won't last long. Meanwhile, we have hot coffee for you at the Total Diving Dive Center :P "The areas hardest hit by the storm were Montreal, Laval, the Monteregie, Lanaudiere, Quebec City, and the Laurentians." 
There's an Open House this coming Saturday in Montreal - for the Montreal School of Performing Arts. They celebrate 20 years! Congratulations to them! 
"The disoriented Atlantic puffin, from a bird species that seldom comes into contact with humans, crash-landed last Thursday evening a couple of blocks from Crescent Street." 
A Montreal ice hotel will be a new reality and major fixture of the Montreal Village as of January 2012. Find out everything you need to know about the new Montreal ice hotel. 
“Montrealers have stopped looking at their Métro,” John Martins-Manteiga, author of the new book and curator of the Dominion Modern collection, said the other day, when I caught up with him before the Métro book launch at INabstracto, a gallery of modern design on Queen Street West in Toronto. The gallery’s window displayed one of the Métro’s iconic orange moulded plastic seats, along with a model of the MR-63, the first Montreal subway car, which, Martins-Manteiga mentioned breathlessly, “has never before left Quebec.” |
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