I originally thought I was writing a dystopian story. At the beginning, everything pointed in that direction. A collapsing environment.Biological systems escaping control.Administrative absurdity.Media manipulation.Political structures feeding on narrative instability.People slowly losing the ability to distinguish memory from constructed reality. The world of the novel became increasingly strange, humid, fragmented, and emotionally unstable. And yet, somewhere along the way,

This morning, after dropping my son off at the Saint-Henri metro station, I came back to park the car near home. That was when I noticed it. A neighbor’s car door was slightly open. Not wide open.Just a narrow crack. The kind of thing you almost miss unless your eyes happen to pause for half a second longer than usual. My first instinct was immediate and modern:take a photo, record a short video, and post it in the Saint-Henri Facebook group. People do that all the time now.

Last weekend, I attended the funeral of Donald (Don) Robertson. For years, Don had lived in the small square park facing Saint-Zotique Church in Montreal’s Saint-Henri neighborhood — Sir-George-Étienne Cartier Square, though few people around here ever use its full name. To most residents, it was simply “the park where Don lives.” He was one of those figures who slowly become inseparable from a place. Not famous.Not powerful.Not even particularly talkative. And yet, almost ev

For more than a month now, a young guy from the neighborhood has been coming regularly to my little shop in Saint-Henri. He runs a screen-printing business not far from here.Every day, he comes in to print transparent films used for transferring designs onto clothing. His own printer broke down. He already bought a new one, but apparently the installation and calibration are taking forever. So meanwhile, he has been forced into an unusual temporary routine: every day, he walk

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