People in Montreal's St-Henri neighbourhood are keeping the pressure on elected officials, to not allow a supervised injection site to open, just metres away from a school.
The city has launched a plan to revamp the land surrounding Montreal's Lachine Canal by making it a bigger destination for businesses and investment. That could mean transformative change is on the way for the three boroughs around the famous waterway. Officials have dubbed the plan Lachine Canal 4.0. It has four goals.
Aubut might just be Montreal's best grocery store.Though it's easily overlooked. Its single Montreal location sits tucked between CN tracks and rue Saint-Ambroise in one of the last underdeveloped pockets of gentrifying Saint-Henri. The area's towering heritage industrial towers literally overshadow the squat warehouse. And it's uninviting; pedestrians have to brave a walk through a sidewalkless parking lot past loading docks and windowless brick walls just to get to the nondescript entrance. But those who do are rewarded. The interior is a labyrinthine warehouse of commercial-grade goods and bulk items: torso-size bags of pasta, tubs of Nutella and ice cream, and refrigerators full of cheese.
Montrealers looking for an intimate couple's experience involving, well, intimates, need look no further than the Workingirls Boutique in St-Henri. The lingerie store offers dozens of designer brands, like Bordelle and Opaak, along with service so personalized you can pick your own luxury dressing room, sip champagne and have the whole place to yourselves.
From August 26 to 28, the Sudbest festival is back with a special edition featuring 30 merchants and a "culinary fair." This time around, the event organizers thought big, as the upcoming market will take place at three different sites: the Atwater Market, Parc Sir-George-Etienne-Cartier and the Lien Nord site next to the Lachine Canal.