This is Montreal
Dive into the Montreal stories you’re curious about and the issues you want to understand. From Laval to Longueuil and across the island, host Ainslie MacLellan explores the complexities of our colourful, vibrant and sometimes frustrating, but always interesting city. Every Thursday.
Latest Episode
‘Everybody’s a person’: Montreal’s encampments and the municipal election (09.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- One Montrealer picked a fight over junk mail and changed the law 02.10.2025
- Longueuil Police shot and killed a 15-year-old boy. How will the BEI investigation unfold? 25.09.2025
- What’s at stake in Montreal’s municipal election? 18.09.2025
- The ups and downs (and up again) of Montreal’s outdoor staircases 11.09.2025
- Brave little bees: Vermonters look to Quebec’s experience with pesticide restrictions 04.09.2025
- Quebec parents worry school budget uncertainty could mean ‘a lot of instability’ 28.08.2025
- The miraculous Montreal Melon comeback 21.08.2025
- Big bird, big city: Why more wild turkeys are calling Montreal home 07.08.2025
- The wild ride of Belmont Park: Montreal's long lost amusement park 24.07.2025
- New to This is Montreal? Start here... 16.07.2025
- This is from the archives: Why is the South Shore actually to the east? 10.07.2025
- Should neighbours be able to block housing projects? The Quebec government is asking 26.06.2025
- Montréal-Nord celebrates two hometown heroes in the NBA finals 19.06.2025
- Is Montreal in for more transit trouble? 12.06.2025
- Don’t pop the champagne just yet: Why Quebecers will have to wait for alcohol free trade 05.06.2025
- Should Quebec keep its carbon pricing system? 29.05.2025
- This is from the archives: Why does Montreal have so many potholes? 22.05.2025
- Is Lac Saint-Louis really a lake? 15.05.2025
- How to care about the climate when the rent is due 08.05.2025
- What's needed for Montreal's independent festivals to thrive? 01.05.2025
