Living in Laval - La vie à Laval

The City of Montreal has recently launched its offensive against the suburbs of Greater Montreal, partnering with various condo developers and other real estate industry types to promote the charms of living in Montreal, and debunk myths that living in the city is infinitely less convenient.
Since we (mostly) work, live and play in Laval (which […]

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Leonard Cohen isn’t coming by his hometown to play during his North American tour.

But if you can, try buying tickets to see him in Quebec City this spring. You can buy tickets at www.leonardcohen.com.
Source: The Montreal Gazette

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We never thought this would happen, nepotism being what it is…but, it’s true! The king of crampons is now back in charge of community cultural affairs, Jean Drapeau Park, and throwing a giant birthday party for Montreal in 2017.
Here’s hoping, for our neighbour’s sake, that his successor Luis Miranda, gets it right(er).
Sources: Montreal Gazette, and […]

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Whoa!
Source:  CBC.ca

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The Montreal Gazette’s Henri Aubin wrote this article about our mayor, admiring him for essentially making Laval as important and prominent a city as Montreal, not just be one of its suburbs, by being its champion among all levels of government and “getting things done.” Unlike what one would think about suburban sprawl, kudos must […]

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After reading this in the Gazette, and having listened to a mouthy Benoit Dutrizac tear into Marcel Tremblay on live radio yesterday, I couldn’t help but flash back to when we lived in Montreal last year, had a monster storm hit us, and I was stuck trying to get my car, buried under 4 feet […]

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That’s the running tally taken by the Montreal Gazette this past Thursday, though by my math, it looks to be at least a couple hundred thousand more. Only in Quebec is it considered normal information, as normal as consulting the weather, to check out CAA’s list of where to find all gargantuous potholes, aka nids de poule, so […]

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It’s been awhile since I’ve personally come across any famous actors in Montreal. I think it has lot to do with the fact that I’ve been spending more time cocooning in Laval and less so at the supper clubs. But kudos are due to those who invested in Old Montreal in its infant […]

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Well, kids, we finally did it. We got a condo outside of Laval up for sale. It is rather beautiful, I must admit. Laval has a lot of things going for it, but only Nuns’ Island is the type of place where you can live the suburban life, sans big box shopping, avec more […]

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Here at mar-vo, we like to keep up to date with what’s printed in the local papers. And when the papers publish a great series of well-researched articles that are real-estate-related, we let the world know that they should read it. This past spring, the Montreal Gazette ran a fantastic series on the ins and […]

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