Unpublished Newswire

It sometimes feels like the only thing English- and French-speaking Montrealers agree on is that we all love the Canadiens. Of course, it’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s not that far from the truth. Hugh MacLennan published his classic novel, Two Solitudes, in 1945, forever cementing the phrase in the lexicon in Quebec and in Canada, but things have changed big time in the decades since. English Montrealers speak a lot more French than they did in 1945, and the two communities are more closely knit than they were back then. But—and it is a gigantic “but”—the solitudes...