Noah Ciubotaru

Situated in a heritage theatre from 1913, the Montreal performance hall La Tulipe has been dogged by noise complaints since an investor bought an adjacent building in 2016 and converted it into residential units. In September 2024, Quebec’s Court of Appeal ruled that La Tulipe must not emit any noise audible to its neighbours. Under the continual threat of fines and a mounting pile of legal…

In 1967, the Université de Montréal altered its charter so that graduates of Jesuit-run institutions such as Loyola College and Collège Sainte-Marie would no longer be able to trade their certificates for degrees. In a sign of Quebec’s swing toward secularism, UdeM had recently appointed its first lay rector, Roger Gaudry, who wished to distance his school from the nearby Catholic…