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• Lone tenant in a $400-a-month apartment could hold up major Montreal condo project

  Carla White is the only remaining tenant in her building, which is slated to be demolished to make room for a 176-unit condo project. But in order to move forward, the developer must reach an agreement with White -- and she says she won't leave until she's provided with a home that offers the long-term stability she needs to ensure she won't end up back on the streets.

  

• See recipes from the new SoBo cookbook, featuring dishes for the summer

  Author Lisa Ahier's follow-up to The SoBo Cookbook is Together at SoBo, was recently published by Penguin Random House, which includes a number of mouth-watering dishes. Below is a selection of three for those looking for a cocktail, main course and/or dessert.

  

• Can Montreal's CDN-NDG become more bike-friendly?

  Residents in Côte-Des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-De-Grâce expressed their desire for bike-friendly infrastructure Sunday during their borough's first-ever local bicycle festival. "The people of Cotes-des-Neiges-NDG want to be able to use bicycles as means of transportation," said Borough Mayor Gracia Kasoki Katahwa.

  

• Chateauguay school brings back football program after nearly 50 years

  Howard S. Billings High School is turning on the Friday Night Lights, bringing back its tackle football team after a nearly 50 year hiatus.

  

• This young West Island makeup artist's looks will make your skin crawl

  After Montrealer Adrian Morot's Oscar win for make-up on the film "The Whale," local artists are feeling like the road to Hollywood may be more accessible than they thought. Christine Long caught up with Jeremy Hubscher, a young west-island makeup wiz exploring the world of special effects makeup.

• 'Pay attention': Family of struck Montreal 10 year old pleads with motorists to drive safely

  The family of a 10-year-old girl who was hit by a car almost two weeks ago is appealing drivers and pedestrians to be more careful on Montreal’s roads. Kyaa Guinto is still in a coma at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. “She’s slowly come out of the induced coma, she’s moving her hands, she was able to squeeze our hands, and we’re waiting patiently,” said her mother, Stephanie Ledesma.

• Quebec trucker subdues runaway injured horse on Highway 40

  Quebecers are used to congestion headaches on Highway 40, but Saturday’s hold-up was nothing if not out of the ordinary: a horse broke free from its transport container and ran free in the fast lane. Marco Lelievre, a trucker, stopped his vehicle while driving through Repentigny, Que. after he saw the runaway horse.

• Meet Diandra D'Alessio, the Montrealer who won Jeopardy! Friday night

  Who is Diandra D'Alessio? She's a Montrealer, a technical writer, a history lover -- and she's last night's Jeopardy winner. The self-proclaimed trivia buff made it out on top with $3,299 under her belt.

• Is your pool up to code? Here's a review of Quebec's rules

  Summer weather is fast approaching. But before you dip a toe in the backyard pool, make sure it's up to code with Quebec's safety regulations.

• Montreal elementary school expo shows over 6,000 works from young artists

  Students at Lasalle Elementary School showed off a year's worth of work at an art exposition Thursday. Featuring over 6,000 individual and collaborative pieces by students ranging from kindergarten to grade six, the exhibition gave front-row access to parents, teachers, and community members.

• New Montreal-Toronto studio developing 80s-inspired open world video game

  A new video game studio in Montreal and Toronto is developing a franchise and hopes to change the way studios are set up and run. China-based NetEase Games launched Bad Brain Game Studios in the two cities to develop a new AAA "open world, multi-platform experience built with Unreal Engine 5 and is inspired by cult 1980s movies, mixing elements of adventure and horror."

• Meet the Montrealer keeping analog film projectors alive in a digital world

  In a time when digital is king, Robert Miniaci works tirelessly to make sure film keeps on rolling. The Montrealer is one of the few projectionists left in the world who can repair, maintain and even build analog film projectors. Most of his contemporaries are now in their 80s, so Miniaci's work is in high demand.