#montreal suburb

[patriciastrike]

#Lachine Canal #Montreal #Montreal suburb #spring #original photography

[spockvarietyhour]

Ice Storm '98

#Montreal #1990s #1998 #Ice Storm 98 #photography #vintage #suburbs #Hide and Queue

[murderballadeer]

i am never falling for "come to toronto, you can stay with me in richmond hill" again. toronto is so much more urban sprawl-y than montreal and i had no idea how far richmond hill is from well. literally everything

#soapbox #i also just don't do suburbs generally like i'm a city kid who has spent a lot of time in the countryside #so i can handle both of those environments but suburbs do not do it for me #last winter i stayed with my mom's family for a week in scarborough #which made me a montreal city kid trapped in suburban toronto. hellish

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Quebec health officials are reporting two more measles cases, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the province to 12. The new cases are both in Montreal, adding to the seven that were previously reported in the public health jurisdiction that encompasses the city and its on-island suburbs. Quebec’s Health Department says two cases have been reported in Laval, Que., located north of Montreal, and one case is in the central Mauricie region. Montreal’s public health agency says that seven cases in its jurisdiction, including the two new infections, are due to community transmission and two are linked to international travel.

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#Measles #get vaccinated #Quebec #Montreal #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics

[mikerickson]

Lifting my self-imposed embargo because I'm weird and don't like posting on social media when I'm on vacation.

I'm at a point in my life where I can financially justify at least one international vacation a year and figured I'd finally cross off the Great White North from the bucket list. I'd never been and Andrew hadn't been back in a very long time despite having dual citizenship. Anyways, just got back, and a bullet-point breakdown of the highlights is after the cut:

I wish every international flight was under two hours; EWR to YQB was almost comically fast.

Had my first French conversation with the very nice lady at the car rental counter for about ten minutes. She complemented my pronunciation and grammar, and wished me luck on the trip. Every French interaction after this point was a linguistic battle for my life that I lost (Toutes les Québecois parlent trop vite pour moi).

We had some time to kill before the hotel check-in so we went to a mall in the suburbs just so we'd have a food court with some options. Turns out shopping malls are not only alive and well but fucking thriving in Canada. I haven't seen a mall that packed with people outside of December since the nineties.

Quebec City was very dense with old architecture which made it feel very European. It was also apparently built on a fucking cliff with streets at 60 degree inclines, which also felt very European.

Took a tour of the Quebec Parliament building (beautiful structure), and apparently they used to be bicameral, but voted to abolish their Senate in the 60's and they were the last Canadian province to do so. What a concept.

It's one thing to know on paper that Canada has about 1/8th of the population of the US, but I was not prepared for just how empty the countryside felt. For someone like me, living in the northeast my whole life, the idea that cities in close proximity to each other not having continuous stretches of suburbs and other smaller cities connecting them was completely foreign.

On the highways I kept thinking I was speeding because I'd look down at the dashboard and see the number "100", but 100 km/h is only like 62 mph, which is nothing.

Similarly, I kept getting sticker shock every time I spent money, and kept having to remind myself that $1 CAD was like $0.73 USD while we were there.

It was really cool to see that the complex for the 1976 Montreal Olympics is still maintained and actively used (we stumbled upon a skateboarding competition and I did not feel cool enough to be in that crowd). Sometimes you hear horror stories about Olympic villages bankrupting cities and falling into disuse afterwards, but that's definitely not the case here.

Montreal is apparently known for their local bagel culture, but their bagels have enormous holes in the middle of them, so you have less cross-sectional area for spreads and they don't really work for sandwiches. My faith in NJ/NY bagel superiority remains intact.

Every city we went to had dedicated bike lane infrastructure and young families with kids, but Montreal definitely had the most of both. Tons of parks, too. Simultaneously felt like a larger and smaller city than I was expecting.

Poutine is okay, but I wasn't prepared for the cheese to squeak when you bite into it. Very odd sensation.

The main Parliament building for the federal government in Ottawa (Centre Block) is stunning, but closed; apparently it's been under renovation since 2019 and isn't expected to be reopened until 2032! In the meantime, we took a tour of where the lower House of Commons is currently meeting. We learned that their electoral districts are routinely re-drafted by a non-partisan committee and that they occasionally add new seats to the legislature to account for changes in population. I had to seethe jealously in silence for the rest of the tour.

Also toured their Supreme Court building (way more Art Deco than I was expecting). We learned that there's currently a vacancy because a Justice recently retired because they're required to step down when they turn 75. I had to seethe jealously in silence for the rest of the tour.

Every single city had automatic/self-serve parking garages where you didn't have to interact with a human (which I was very thankful for), but in Ottawa they have this little jingle that the machine sings at you when you take your ticket, which I found very amusing.

On the drive to Toronto we took a quick detour into the Thousand Islands (yes, like the salad dressing) and visited Boldt Castle, which is technically in New York state. After seeing it in practice, the idea of living on your own private island is more appealing than ever.

Toronto feels like an exercise in what happens when a nation's largest city is allowed to grow without being hemmed in by ridiculous geography. As someone who grew up in NYC, this is another concept foreign to me. The GPS did get very tripped up navigating a particularly gnarly interchange however.

Toured the Ontario Legislative Assembly (yet another beautiful building). At this point we were really good at asking tour guides stuff like, "so if happens, do you guys have a plan?" To which they would reply, "well, no, but let's just hope that never happens!"

I now understand why the Great Lakes are effectively freshwater inland seas; you really cannot see the other shore, and Lake Ontario isn't even the biggest one!

YYC to EWR was under an hour. That's definitely going to spoil me for future trips going forward.

#life #travel #Canada

[utilitycaster]

it is entirely possible and probably likely that there is no real mighty nein massachusetts au and the caduceus cranberry bog remark was purely a joke, but I absolutely MUST ask about it on the off chance there is more to this concept

There will never be a coherent fic not in the least because I have not actually lived in New England for a decade, but:

Beau is from a wealthy suburb of Boston (in my heart I want her to be from Brookline but the vibe is further out, like Newton or something). Veth is from a not wealthy suburb of Boston, further out than Beau. I was going to say Caleb dropped out of Harvard but actually given his age at the time it should probably be some kind of Frankenstein of Boston Latin with Philips or Groton.

Caduceus is in fact from an ancient line of cranberry farmers in western Mass.

I feel like everything east of the Ashkeeper Peaks should just be like. New Hampshire and Maine, which sort of undercuts the grandeur of the Kryn Dynasty, but I'm really struggling to place Yasha and Essek in Massachusetts.

Actually for peak hilarity Essek should be from Montreal in this analogy which puts Yasha in rural Vermont or New Hampshire.

Technically I think this means Beau dropped out of College of the Holy Cross.

Obviously both Fjord and Jester are from the Cape; she is wealthy old money whose mother decided to live in the summer house all year long. He is a working class townie who is faking the accent and his native accent is just generic non-regional US. Uko'toa is real and I saw him in the Boston Harbor on a field trip in fourth grade. Veth still ends the campaign running a summer camp.

Every joke I had about Molly's death I have rejected for not being nearly funny enough to offset the incredibly poor taste it is in but most involved the violent and unhinged avian wildlife along the Freedom Trail.

Caleb crashing through the window with Cat's Claw but it's the Citgo sign

I was going to also joke that Teleport lets you summon the T after midnight but apparently it runs until 1 and possibly 1:30 now so fuck me I guess.

#answered #essektheylyss #the fact that the T runs after midnight and the metro doesn't really undercuts my joke huh #cr tag

[amtrak-official]

Maybe this is just me but how is Chicago in any way an urbanist city? It has the exact same problem as pretty much every city in north america that isn't New York, Montreal, or Toronto, which is that it just deteriorates into endless suburbs after getting like 10 feet outside of the designated "downtown" district

METRA and the L, much larger downtown, and has actual mixed use within many of the inner suburbs.

#asks #Chicago #urbanist cities competition

[2goldensnitches]

remnants of Molotov cocktail found outside Montréal synagogue

#antisemitism #canada

[patriciastrike]

There was a flock of wild turkeys in our neighbour's yard yesterday. This is the first time in over thirty-five years that I have seen them in our neighbourhood. Last week I saw a hawk, which was unusual too.

#wild turkey #wild turkeys #montreal suburb #original photography

[spockvarietyhour]

Montreal in Una Magnum Special Per Tony Saitta (1976)

#Una Magnum Special Per Tony Saitta #Shadows in an Empty Room #Montreal #1970s #1976 #PVM #McGill University #suburbs #Hide and Queue

[murderballadeer]

richmond hill is probably the most evil place i have ever been like not bc people there are evil (in fact one of my dearest friends lives there) but the energy. and i think it's the combination of toronto (evil) and suburbs (extra evil) but i was puzzling over why richmond hill felt so much more evil than scarborough (the other toronto suburb i have spent significant time in) and i've come to the conclusion that scarborough is improved by being physically closer to montreal

#soapbox

[floralcrematorium]

Ooooo what are your headcanons about Alfred's insecurities!? 8)

oops! i get really infodumpy. there's Migraines in Margaritaville context at the beginning and headcanons for this AU's Alfred's insecurities alllll the way at the end. if you just want to skip to it there's be a header in pink that says Woe, Insecurities Be Upon Alfred. anything that i talk about in the context section is stuff I've already talked about in the prologue and first chapter of the fic, found here, or information that isn't relevant enough to be mentioned in the fic and is more fun fact

okay so I came up with a really funny way to refer to Migraines in Margaritaville whenever I'm mentioning that fic casually

I will now refer to anything regarding that fic as The Margaritaverse

Anyway, to give a quick recap on Margaritaverse Alfred and Matthew:

Alfred (Kirkland-Bonnefoy) F. Jones is a popular Youtuber living just outside of New York City. His channel is all about food. You could consider him a food critic, but he also tries strange vintage recipes, debunks Tiktok recipes, and explores the cookbook left to him by his Papa when he and Alfred's dad moved back to Europe (The prologue actually starts off with him cooking a cake from his childhood that will be relevant later). He lives alone and doesn't have many friends aside from his old college roommate and Kiku Honda, a fellow popular food Youtuber (and full time surface design illustrator) who he met at Vidcon the year prior. His entire life right now is making content for Youtube because even though he's got a double degree in finance and marketing, he can't manage to find a job in his field

Matthew (Kirkland-Bonnefoy) Williams is a hockey star who moved to Montreal, Quebec immediately after college. Fun fact, he actually lives in Kirkland, which is a suburb of Montreal (I literally only chose it because of the name). He's been playing hockey practically his whole life and spends as much time outdoors as possible. He's doing really well for himself; He's got a lovely Samoyed dog named Kumajirou, a house (in this economy???), and his girlfriend of three years, Kateryna (I'm still not set on a last name for her, but I've been using Chernenko because that's what I've seen floating around. I'm up to suggestions!)

Alfred and Matthew are identical twins who grew up in Massachusetts. Never been quite set on how the boys came to be other than being born in 1998, so whether they're fully adopted or related to just one of their dads is up in the air. Regardless, they grew up unable being to escape being compared at home, at school, and anywhere really.

Alfred's insecurities stem from Matthew receiving a lot of attention from their dads. I thought it'd be fun to play with the idea that Alfred was accidentally ignored rather than Mattie and see what That Does To Him. Alfred's not a quiet kid -- he kinda just has a hard time fitting in. Not gonna lie, he probably has the Neurodivergent Kid Experience of being isolated from your peers for being "different." We see this in Chapter One of MIM when Alfred is excluded from a birthday party by their peers when Matthew is invited and he doesn't really fit in with the group his brother hangs around (Mattie tries to include him, to limited success). When Matthew picks up hockey, everything suddenly becomes about Matthew because he needs to be driven to practice, he needs equipment, oh no! he got hurt, and he also turns out to be pretty dang good at this thing.

Unintentionally, Alfred gets shoved to the wings.

Both Francis and Arthur have separate things they like to do with both sons. Alfred and Francis' thing is cooking. Alfred picks up a love for anything in the kitchen thanks to Francis, who is more than eager to teach him anything he knows. My favorite thought is that Alfred is the better cook but will eat almost anything, while Matthew can cook to get by but has a more refined taste (unless he's high, which in that case anything goes).

By the time of the events of MIM, the boys are estranged. I can't tell you everything just yet because spoilers, but they haven't seen each other in three years and Alfred's a bit resentful about it. He's tried to contact Mattie, but he's always too busy and eventually Al gave up.

Woe, Insecurities Be Upon Alfred

☆ Alfred's inability to get a real job makes him majorly jealous of Matthew. He spent years studying to get a double major degree to impress their parents in something he doesn't even like for none of it to pay off. Francis and Arthur aren't disappointed in Alfred, but they don't take his job as seriously as they do Mattie's

☆ Follow up to the point above, when Matthew got drafted into the NHL (I never name the team but I know Montreal has their own team so it's up to the reader if he plays for them or someone else), it felt like a shot in the heart to Alfred. He wonders if he could've had something like something Matthew's career if his dads poured everything into it like Matthew's hockey training

☆ Matthew was able to make so many friends when they were younger whereas Alfred couldn't. Nobody wanted to talk to Alfred about the things he liked, which made him really upset, because he knew sooooo much about those things! Matthew excelled socially because he's witty and thinks before he speaks whereas Alfred had to learn how to do those things. He's a bit blunt and when he tries to make jokes they really only make sense to him

☆ Alfred doesn't think his parents love Mattie more than him, but sometimes it felt that way growing up. Their schedules revolved around Matthew's games because he was the team's best player

☆ Alfred is jealous that Matthew's taller. This is literally the smallest thing, especially since he's only shorter by a couple of inches, but it's still something

☆ Alfred puts on an entirely different persona for his Youtube channel. He's more animated, he writes jokes, he does things that cater to his audience, and ultimately isn't entirely himself. I think it's a form of masking because he had to figure out a way to make himself more likeable to other people

☆ He doesn't know much about Matthew's partner except for the fact that they've been together for three years and she's from Ukraine. He doesn't know her name or what she even looks like until the Prologue/Chapter One. There's some contention here for reasons I can't mention yet ;)

☆ Matthew is a very private person because of his fame. Alfred also is (they both use fake last names for their careers so they can maintain some sort of privacy in their day-to-day). Alfred doesn't understand why this privacy also extends to him. He's Matthew's brother. His twin. Why is he shut out?

☆ Alfred's channel being food related calls back to his favorite past-time with Francis. His designated bonding activity with Arthur was watching bad old movies (I think they both love Monty Python and the Holy Grail, though), but he can't really do much with that. Maybe occasionally he recreates food from shows and movies his Dad likes, to bring both of his parents into one activity. Anyway, cooking and food is a way for him to feel connected to his Papa in a way Matthew never was. It's like something untainted by Matthew's success since he was never too interested in the complicated meals Francis cooks. Alfred wonders if he would feel different if he went to culinary school instead (he didn't go because being stuck in a kitchen for so long and at odd hours like Francis didn't seem appealing not like business is any better)

TLDR: Alfred is a very jealous person because of a variety of factors and internalizes his failures (which aren't really even failures). He spends MIM working through his jealousy for his brother and is constantly back and forth between being excited to see Mattie after so long and feeling inferior to him since Matthew seemingly has it all

anyway. all this to say I really need to start workin on Margaritaverse again. I think they're supposed to go to like. three margartiavilles in that chapter? I'm not sure, I need to refamiliarize myself with my giant Lore doc and make edits with my fresh eyes

#floralcrematorium ask box #migraines in margaritaville #hetalia fanfiction #NA brothers #face family #hws america #hws canada

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Construction on the Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge is being partially blamed for the closure of the only grocery store in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, putting people in the Montreal suburb in a bind.

“Well, the local people with no cars are in trouble,” says resident Valerie Brecknock.

Owners Claude McSween and his wife Lory Vansteene of the Marché Ami announced Saturday morning that they will close later this month, for good. They say they’re too upset to speak publicly about the issue now, and in a press release they blamed economic conditions.

“Despite numerous sacrifices, both financial and personal, the current economic context as well as operational costs unfortunately do not allow us to continue our activity,” they write. “Several elements have worked against us and considerably affected the volume of our sales, in particular the closure of the Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge.” [...]

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland, @vague-humanoid

#cdnpoli #Montreal #Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue #Québec #food access

[tanktopgallavich]

💫Tag Game Tuesday💫

Thanks to @lingy910y for the tag!

name: Ri

when is your birthday? October baby 🎃

favorite social media platform outside of tumblr? Probably Reddit, but I'm only communities related to my hobbies and books so it's pretty free of the scummy parts of Reddit

do you wear makeup? Sometimes. I only do it when I have time so I can try different eyeshadow looks.

favorite board game? Game of Life and What Do You Meme

do you have any tattoos? Nope

which of the seven deadly sins would you say you struggle with the most? I guess sloth. Sometimes I feel like I'm so lazy and tired that turn into an actual sloth 🤣

best vacation you’ve ever been on?

Best solo vacation was a road trip through the American Southeast. It was life changing.

Best vacation with others was Montreal. It was extremely gorgeous and I had the best time with the people I was with.

how do you get around town? (car/bus/train/on foot/etc) Mostly the subway and on foot. When I'm in the suburbs, it's all car.

describe your vibe in three words:

contemplative (or maybe an overthinker lol), passionate, genuine (i try really hard on this one)

share a song rec: seeing Fall Out Boy this week so here's one of my favorite of their new songs

Going heavier on tagging because I've missed these tag games: @francesrose3, @babygirlmickey, @ian-galagher, @metalheadmickey, @gardenerian, @depressedstressedlemonzest @heymrspatel, @auds-and-evens, @vintagelacerosette, @juliakayyyy, @suzy-queued, @lalazeewrites, @jackdanielsxorangejuice, @very-sleepy-head, @flamingbluepanda, @howlinchickhowl, @juliakayyyy, @callivich, @energievie, @thisdivorce, @ardent-fox, @grumble-fish and anyone who wants to participate

#tag game #get to know me #tag game tuesday

[meat-wentz]

pass the rpf can you make me a peterick playlist

akdhdjoskdndjkd here you go. i gave it a real falling asleep next to your best friend on the basement couch playing video games vibe, a real riding home in the backseat way past curfew because your best friend was too in love with the smell of the city to drive you back before you were grounded vibe, a real holy shit set your diary on fire you might be in love with your best friend vibe.

tracklist:

strawberry blond- mitski

chicago- sufjan stevens

dinner at eight in the suburbs- all-time quarterback

tim i wish you were born a girl- of montreal

galaxy of the lost- lightspeed champion

the calendar hung itself…- bright eyes

susie save your love- allie x, mitski

american boyfriend- kevin abstract

school friends- now, now

insert generic name- okay kaya

combat baby- metric

jessica- kaki king

falling in love again- joyce manor

sweet talk- dear and the headlights

thirteen- big star

#ask #anon #playlist