Reddit pulse / page 40
Every post from Reddit, newest first.
Laval's trying something different to get fewer cars on the road. Details are sparse but locals are already chiming in on whether it'll actually work.
Ottawa and Quebec just inked a deal worth nearly $10 billion for transit upgrades, hospital renovations, and community centre improvements over the next decade. The funding is one of the biggest infrastructure commitments the province's seen in years.
Someone on Reddit just posted photos of sunsets from a Côte-Des-Neiges condo and yeah, they're stunning. The golden hour view from that angle hits different.
Someone's morning coffee got a furry visitor in Ville-Marie. A raccoon showed up on a residential terrace, unbothered and very much at home in the city.
The REM is reducing weekend hours through mid-August for maintenance and technical testing ahead of the new airport extension. Plan your weekend commutes accordingly.
Alcohol-free drinks are blowing up across Montreal. Bars and lounges are expanding their virgin cocktail and mocktail menus, and people are actually excited about the options.
Heads up if you're looking at apartments or renting in Outremont: there's a bed bug infestation at 802 Avenue Dollard. Worth checking your place and being extra careful about secondhand furniture right now.
Pen and paper enthusiasts from across Canada are flocking to Montreal for a convention. If you're into fountain pens, leather notebooks, or just really good handwriting, this is the gathering to catch.
Reddit's blowing up with people complaining about drivers ignoring bike lanes and road rules on the Lachine Canal during rush hour. Same crowd that yells at cyclists for running reds when there's nobody around.
Someone posted a guided tour of Montreal from May 1995 on Reddit and the city's feeling nostalgic. YouTube link in the thread if you want to see what downtown looked like back then.
Someone's hunting for a spot where you can sit down with coffee and actual grandma-style cake — pouding chômeur, gâteau reine Élisabeth, pineapple upside-down cake. Café, not restaurant. Fresh, not frozen from the IGA.
Thread heating up on r/montreal about cyclists who ignore traffic rules. One person almost got hit by a car turning right; another had a bike whiz past them on the sidewalk at full speed. Safety concerns getting real.
A 23-year-old who just moved here a year ago and finished school is looking for reliable spots to hang with people. Everyone's on different paths — different jobs, different cities. The ask on r/montreal: where do you actually meet people who stick around?
City just cancelled another green space in CDN-NDG — Guillaume-Couture placette's gone. locals pointing out how these small parks matter for people to actually hang out and socialize.
Burger King on Decarie served someone a moldy bun. they ate 90% of it before noticing, got sick the whole weekend. heads up if you're hitting that location.
smoked meat deep dive on reddit: people swearing by spots like Roi de Smoked Meat and random pizza joints in Montreal Nord that nobody's heard of yet. whole thread hunting for the "real" best beyond Schwartz and Lester's.
Over 120 illegal short-term rentals were found operating across five new residential towers in downtown Montreal, investigators discovered. City officials are tightening enforcement against unlicensed operators running full-scale networks in condo buildings.
Over 21,000 cyclists rolled through the Tour de l'île de Montréal yesterday — a record for the past five years, organizers said. The traditional island loop started at Parc Jarry Sunday morning and drew the biggest crowd in years.
Storm season's officially back—someone caught lightning on drone footage today, which is basically impossible but somehow happened. Two frames of pure electricity, one second of raw sky.
Someone's been installing trippy flower sculptures at Gilford and Cartier, and Boyer and Marie-Anne. People are trying to map out where else they've shown up. Have you seen one?
