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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.

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  • How Montreal’s ice storm chasers hope to improve our weather forecasts

    How Montreal’s ice storm chasers hope to improve our weather forecasts
    Mar 12 2026

    When the rest of us head inside, a crew of researchers from McGill and UQAM gear up and brave the freezing rain, to try to better understand the wildly unpredictable cocktail of precipitation that can happen when the temperature hovers around zero. The goal is to help cities and citizens be better prepared when an ice storm is looming. But just capturing that data can be a big challenge.
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    20 m
  • ​That time Britain hid its fortune in a Montreal basement

    ​That time Britain hid its fortune in a Montreal basement
    Mar 5 2026

    ​In the ​spring of 1940, Nazi Germany had gone on the offensive. France and other European countries had been invaded and Britain could be next. So​ Britain devised a plan to secretly ship its wealth out of the country to keep it from Nazi hands and help finance the war. A top secret plan was born and one downtown Montreal basement would play a starring role. Producer Craig Desson brings us this story.
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    18 m
  • Montreal hopes to get more affordable housing built, by requiring less of it

    Montreal hopes to get more affordable housing built, by requiring less of it
    Feb 26 2026

    The city of Montreal’s new administration is promising to do more to accelerate the pace of building affordable rentals, even as it softens the requirements for private developers to invest in or build social housing. Host Ainslie MacLellan sat down with Caroline Braun, executive committee member in charge of housing for the city at the end of January to hear more about her administration's vision for how to get housing built.
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    22 m
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