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Dear Montreal, I still love you.<\/p>\n

They<\/a> may call you corrupt and crumbling, a disaster and a disgrace. But they don’t know what it feels like to awake each morning cradled between your rows of triplexes.<\/p>\n

They may call us pathetic<\/a>, brain-dead, lazy, or just plain l\u00e2che<\/em>. But they aren’t thinking about the heart-thumping thrill of cycling up the Main on a Friday night.<\/p>\n

For so many Montrealers, what matters isn’t what goes on in city hall, its what goes on in the parks and the alleyways and the bars. The mafia may build the roads and the city councillors’ friends may build condos, but it’s the stories, and of course the crazy nights out on the town, that give Montreal its soul.<\/p>\n

And so it is definitely time to launch this “coups de coeur” column highlighting art, music, theatre, film and literature that celebrate – and even create – this city and its neighbourhoods. I’m sure I’m not the only one who got to know Montreal’s history and neighbourhoods by reading Mordecai Richler and Gabrielle Roy novels. And it was Michel Tremblay’s characters who invested the Lower Main with meaning that led me to defend it against new proposed developments.<\/p>\n

When it comes to creating places that people care about, books and films and songs are a better way to our hearts than even the best urban planning policy.<\/p>\n

So to kick it off, here’s a music video from the United Steelworkers of Montreal<\/a>. According to front-man Gern F., the song \u00c9mile Bertrand is inspired by Griffintown\u2019s 100 year old, history-rich hot-dog and spruce beer joint of the same name (which sadly closed its doors in 2006).<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object>Emile Bertrand’s famous spruce beer is still available at Paul Patates in Pointe-St-Charles, the restaurant that provides the yellow-checkered casse-cro\u00fbte backdrop for much of this music video.<\/p>\n

The video is an ode to the South-West neighbourhood that the film production company, Urban Handed Works<\/a>, calls home, with beautiful, nostalgic footage of the Lachine Canal in grimier times. Felicity Hamer’s whisper and Gern F’s rumbling voice come together with a gorgeous warm glow that feels like coming home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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