Reddit pulse / page 29
Every post from Reddit, newest first.
Someone's asking if it's cool to bring 7- or 8-year-olds to Piknik Elektronik during daytime. Has been ages since they went, back when kids weren't on their radar.
Ciné-Quartier is running 12 outdoor film screenings in Côte-des-Neiges all summer. Bring a chair and catch movies at dusk—totally free.
Someone booked Hotel St. Laurent through Booking.com for July but can't get the hotel to pick up the phone or answer emails. Reservation line connects, then hangs up. Front desk just rings. Reddit thread is worried it's a scam.
Sound completely cut out during Wednesday's show at Parc Maisonneuve. People in front got nothing. Anyone else experience this?
A firework boat caught fire Wednesday night in Montreal. No injuries reported.
Montreal subreddit asking if people would bail from decent pay for a lower-wage gig if it meant being actually happy at work. Someone's juggling two jobs and seriously considering dropping one. The thread's blowing up — turns out a lot of people feel the same.
Someone's donating seven vintage CUM (Communauté urbaine de Montréal) pins from their late mother-in-law, who worked for Expo. Free to anyone who'll appreciate them — DMs open if you're a Montreal nostalgia collector.
Redditors sharing Quebec French words with no English equivalent — bonhomme (a lil' guy, not just a snowman), and the realisation that anglophones have been saying "stickman" like it's 2003. What's your favourite untranslatable word?
Political parties set up recruitment tables at Parc Ahuntsic's Saint-Jean festivities—even using kids' activities like face painting as bait to talk to parents. Mixed feelings about it.
Canada plays Switzerland today and there's a watch party set up in Outremont with a giant screen. It's the game that matters right now.
A Montreal surveillance company is using George Orwell's 1984 as advertising copy—spotted in the Miami restaurant window in the east end. Peak irony.
June 24 is here — patios filling up, long evenings stretching to 9pm, and that specific Montreal energy when summer actually arrives. Fireworks, shows, and blue-and-white everywhere.
Street cleaning is still on for Wednesday, so move your car if you're parked on a collection route — rare parking out there with everyone working from home.
IGA Dupuis is known for putting bruised fruit and vegetables near expiry dates under the nice ones — whole baskets just rotting underneath. Every other IGA in the suburbs has proper stock. Something's going on with this location's produce game.
Téo Taxi installed massive bright-ass screens in all their cabs blasting ads at full brightness. Supposed to be a low-luminosity alternative to Uber, but now you're getting blinded by ads for the whole ride. Brutal for night trips.
Canada-Switzerland match is on screens at Place Alice-Girard in Outremont at 15h today. Weird timing on St-Jean, but at least the weather looks decent.
Someone on Reddit just dropped their essential list of 10 Québécois films worth watching for Saint-Jean. Good reminder of the culture worth celebrating.
A building collapsed on René Lévesque Boulevard Monday evening. Still early details — local redditors sharing what they saw.
Building evacuation at Complexe Desjardins on June 23, police and first responders on scene around St-Urbain area. Still gathering details on what triggered it.
Someone's asking about taking the REM with a bike to Deux-Montagnes and cycling to Oka for the day — sounds like the kind of thing locals are actually doing now that the weather's good. If you've done it, the trail's apparently solid.
