Christopher Curtis

1 day ago | therover.ca | Christopher Curtis

Thousands of garbage bags sat in the beating sun for six hours on Thursday morning, going uncollected by workers who organized a sit-in at Montreal’s Sud Ouest borough. Some 50 union members refused to leave the garage as of 6 a.m. after management threatened to dock a half day’s pay if they didn’t attend an “employee appreciation barbecue” next week. Sources in the union say the threat was the “straw that broke the camel’s back” amid budget cuts and worsening labour conditions.

2 weeks ago | therover.ca | Diamond Yao |Christopher Curtis

Situé au cœur du Quartier chinois de Montréal, le Service à la famille chinoise du Grand Montréal (SFCGM) offre depuis 1976 des services à la communauté chinoise montréalaise. Ce centre communautaire et un centre similaire situé à Brossard — le Centre Sino-Québec de la Rive-Sud (CSQRS) — sont parmi les seuls qui offrent des services en mandarin et en cantonais pour les membres de la diaspora chinoise de la région montréalaise qui parlent uniquement ces langues.

3 weeks ago | therover.ca | Yara El-Soueidi |Christopher Curtis

When I wrote my last piece about Arcade Fire, I thought it would be the last we’d hear from them for at least 10 years. Win Butler was accused of serious misconduct. Artists were pulling out of their tour. CBC Music stopped playing their songs. Everyone in Montreal and the indie scene seemed bent on not wanting to hear about them or anyone accused of sexual misconduct anymore. We had gone through a reckoning of sorts. Our cultural scene had facilitated abuse for years; it was time to change.

1 month ago | therover.ca | Savannah Stewart |Christopher Curtis

In case you didn’t notice, The Rover went pretty hard this election. It was the second federal election that The Rover’s covered since its founding, but back then “The Rover” equalled “Chris in his kitchen,” not “Chris and Savannah in Chris’ basement supported by a rag-tag group of the city’s finest young journalists.” Naturally, we got a lot more done this time, and I hope you appreciated the work we put into it.

1 month ago | therover.ca | Eanna MacKey |Christopher Curtis

As the mid-April spring breathes life into the thawing permafrost, a lone goose returns home after another brutal Quebec winter. But where it once found shelter in a lush forest, it now sees only ruin — millennia of habitat shredded by the woodcutter’s blade, splinters flying like shrapnel, as the scent of sap hangs in the air. It lets out a haunting cry — a lonely wail for its vanished flock, echoing across the scarred landscape. Something sinister is unfolding in Blainville.