The mistake was to not turn it into an aspic.

I gew up in a small town in Quebec but moved in Montreal in 2009 and kind of fell in love with the region. Being an island surrounded by water, and two lakes, it’s certainly not the ocean but there’s plenty of water activities to do. Not only in Montreal but in all the towns and villages of the region around the river and the lakes.

Boating is made easy by a network of canals, like the Lachine canal and the Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue canal. It’s possible to go kayaking or paddle boarding in multiple places around the island or others, like the Boucherville islands. You can camp on those islands too. There’s an extensive network of dedicated cycling paths in, but also around the city, going deep in the countryside.

Admittedly, the only thing missing might be the beaches. We some nearby like the Oka beach, or the St-Zotique beach, but it’s not comparable. Otherwise, I think the Montreal region has much to offer, in summer.

Oh don’t worry I think we also have our lot of strange and/or mentally ill people.

There are select places where this more concentrated than other parts of the city. Like on Parc between des Pins and Sherbrooke, where there’s a lot of homeless people in a doubtful mental state. Or park Émilie-Gamelin over the Berri station.

We even have infamous scam artists. I don’t know if he’s still doing it but there was a guy with a hernia that was telling a whole story a out how he’s from another province, lost his stuff and needs money for the treatment, or some shit like that.

There are several posts about this guy on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/19zff6/anyone_else_run_into_this_guy_claims_hes_from/

https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/833o77/tumor_scam_guy_lives/

https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/asvxvj/tumor_hernia_scam_guy_still_around/

Uh, FYI right on red is also generally not permitted in New York City.

Unlike many North American cities, Right Turns on Red (RTOR) are severely restricted in New York City.

And as someone walking and cycling in Montreal, I’m remembered how dangerous right turns on red are every time I exit the island. I’m glad Montreal is resisting to this car centric abomination.

I can’t help with the article but his sentence seems to be translated from French, or built like it was. It’s much clearer if you can imagine he said it in French.

If he said, or thought “Il n’est pas question de négocier…”, it translates to “there’s no question”, but it means there is no possibility, that it’s not on the radar, that it won’t change. It’s an expression that just implies a strong no.

Pretty sure he’s not sweating it.

I could care less.

I’m not a native English speaker but I think you may want to use peaked, as piquer is from French and means to jab, to prick, or to sting.

You can say something piqued your interest, or that something someone said piqued you the wrong way.

Or if you want to use it in that way, you can also say that nothing piques you, or that you are not piqued by this comment.