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  'Solidarity garden' in Pierrefonds-Roxboro helps feed families in need

  A "solidarity garden" in Pierrefonds-Roxboro is growing vegetables on public land to share with neighbours in need. The borough inaugurated a newly redesigned garden earlier this week at Gouin Park that will help fill a local food bank.

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  Montreal borough deciding what to do with 10,000 sunflowers

  The Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough in Montreal has a garden with 10,000 sunflowers. As the season ends, the borough now must decide what to do with the plants.

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  Long-time Montreal Canadiens Dr. Mulder retires after a 60-year career

  The Montreal Canadiens announced a number of changes to their medical team on Friday, including the retirement of Dr. David Mulder after a 60-year career with the organization.

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  The Bill 96 effect: CEGEP student warns others to get their English eligibility certificate before it's too late

  A John Abbott College student has learned the hard way that applying for a certificate of eligibility for English instruction before graduating high school has become even more critical under the new French language law in Quebec.

• Days in complete darkness: What it's like to visit an underground retreat in Quebec

  Would you spend up to $1,200 to stay in absolute darkness for three to seven days? That's the invitation from a meditation teacher and personal growth entrepreneur in Quebec's Eastern Townships.

• 'I don't know when we'll go': Montrealer's travel plans upended amid fraying Canada-India ties

  Until this week, Sukhwinder Dhillon was set on making his first trip back to India in years sometime in the next few months. 'My father passed, and my brother passed,' said the 56-year-old Montrealer. 'I want to go now.'

• Why some West Island businesses are furious about a food festival at their doorstep

  Two strip mall merchants in the West Island of Montreal have closed for several days while a festival goes on at their doorstep. The Pointe-Claire Deli and Bramble House shared on social media that while Le Grand PoutineFest is ongoing in the parking lot out front—they are closed.

• Good Samaritan helps reunite Montreal woman with pet bird that flew away from home

  A Plateau woman has been reunited with her pet bird after it flew away in early June and it's all thanks to the quick thinking of a Good Samaritan.

• Montreal man says grandfather's grave marker missing from cemetery

  A Montreal man is wondering what happened to his grandfather's grave marker. It used to be in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery, but now, he says, it’s nowhere to be found. “I was like, ‘this is weird, there's nothing here,’” Andre Drouin told CTV News. “I went up and down 15 times just to make sure I wasn't going loco.”

• Meet the Montreal LEGO artist recreating the city's most iconic buildings

  The Orange Julep, Schwartz’s Deli, and even a Couche Tard depanneur -- they're landmarks in Montreal, but that’s not all they have in common. Enter the world of local LEGO artist Addy Parsons, the Ottawa-born Montrealer with a talent to render the city’s most iconic buildings in brick form.

• Quebec man training for burpee world record in honour of late brother

  Sam Finn is training to do 1,010 burpees in under an hour (that's 17 burpees a minute -- or one every 3.5 seconds) to raise awareness about soft tissue sarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer that claimed his brother Cedric's life in 2017.

• Solar power: This Quebecer pays $50 per month for hydro

  Que. resident Jose Legris pays $557 per year in energy costs. His house is warm in the winter and cool in the summer. He has a modern kitchen, an electric car, and even a summer spa – all for less than $50 a month.