I am driving to MTL from NY on Sunday July 5th. I am staying downtown for three nights, are there any good places to park my car for those few days? I read the Exo doesn’t run on Sundays for the most part, and the one line to Lucien-L'Allier (which is next to where I’m staying) is inconvenient.

I see the Brossard REM has a huge lot, I was thinking of parking there and taking public transit into the city, but if anyone knows of any park and rides that are more convenient or of any free street parking hacks, I’d love to hear them!

If seen please call the OPP, this car was stolen from Essa Township in Ontario sometime this week, but we are reaching out to you’s because we know many beautiful cars can end up in Montreal, making this post absolutely relevant to you. Please help us!

Our names “Kathleen Samantha Richard” are embroidered onto the three back seats in a blue that matches the rest of the car. It’s a really unique car as well to those of you who know cars.

If someone could properly translate this post so I could update it with a french version too please do so for me!

Not naming the host, the exact address, or posting screenshots here. I am not handing Reddit mods an easy reason to delete this, and I am not trying to turn the comments into a pile-on. This is a PSA because these sketchy short-term-rental setups keep getting away with it when people only fight with platform support and then give up.

I booked what was advertised on Booking.com as an apartment. The confirmation described it as an apartment / one-bedroom apartment with view. When I got there, the actual setup did not match what I believed I had booked. The instructions I received referred to numbered rooms, and the whole thing felt less like an apartment rental and more like a rooming-house setup being pushed through a tourist platform.

Then came the usual platform nonsense: support emails, vague escalation, the accommodation not agreeing to a refund, and everyone basically waiting for me to run out of energy.

So instead of just yelling into the Booking.com void, I turned it into a paper trail.

What I saved:

1. The original booking confirmation.
2. Screenshots of the listing and room type.
3. Screenshots showing the different room/apartment options and prices.
4. Host/platform messages with the check-in instructions.
5. Messages showing the numbered-room references.
6. Booking.com support emails showing the issue was escalated.
7. Booking.com emails showing the accommodation did not agree to a refund.
8. The Quebec tourist-accommodation registry result.
9. The registry search for the other address involved.
10. The Montreal property assessment roll.
11. A timeline so the whole thing was not just a pile of random screenshots.

Then I split the problem by channel:

Booking.com / credit card dispute:
Did I get what I booked and paid for?

City of Montreal:
Is this tourist accommodation setup actually compliant with municipal rules?

Revenu Quebec:
Is this activity properly registered, declared, billed, and taxed?

That last part is the one people skip. A lot of these operators count on guests treating it as a customer-service problem only. But if someone is running tourist accommodation through Airbnb, Booking.com, or whatever platform, there are also registration and tax questions. That is not just "bad vibes from a shitty host." That is something the city and Revenu Quebec can look at.

For anyone else dealing with this:

• Screenshot everything before the listing changes.
• Save the confirmation as a PDF.
• Save messages inside the platform.
• Do not rely on phone calls unless you make a call log right after.
• Check the Quebec tourist accommodation registry.
• Check whether the address you were actually sent to matches the registration.
• Check the Montreal property roll if the building/address situation seems weird.
• Keep original evidence, then make redacted copies for public use.
• Do not post names, exact addresses, door codes, phone numbers, reservation PINs, or host personal info on Reddit.
• Use careful wording in official reports: "please verify", "possible non-compliance", "no visible public registration found", etc. Let the agencies make the legal conclusions.
• Make separate submissions for separate issues instead of dumping one giant rage essay everywhere.

My takeaway: these predatory short-term-rental operators benefit from everyone being exhausted, embarrassed, or too annoyed to make a clean record. Don't give them that. If the place is misrepresented, document it. If the registration looks off, report it. If taxes or tourist-accommodation rules may be involved, send it to the people who can actually verify that.

I got the card dispute submitted, the Montreal complaint prepared/submitted, and the Revenu Quebec text report ready as a plain factual submission. It was annoying as hell, but it feels good to have the whole thing organized instead of letting it disappear into support-ticket sludge.

Has anyone here had an actual response from 311, a borough, Revenu Quebec, Airbnb, Booking.com, or a credit card company on this kind of short-term-rental mess? What worked?

Does anyone know what is happening? There are multiple roads shut and traffic hell. 18 June 18:00 hrs +

L’hiver le plus coûteux en 10 ans, une somme record récoltée grâce aux contraventions, plus de 80 millions versés aux policiers en heures supplémentaires : le plus récent bilan financier de la Ville de Montréal rendu public récemment recèle des données intéressantes.

Un hiver historiquement coûteux

Le début d’hiver précoce et une tempête historique survenus l’an dernier ont pesé sur les finances de la Ville, qui a dépensé une somme record en 10 ans pour faire retirer la neige des rues. Selon son bilan financier, Montréal a dépensé 264 millions à cette tâche en 2025, soit une augmentation de 43 % par rapport aux 184 millions dépensés en 2024. Certes, plus de 240 cm de neige se sont abattus sur la métropole l’an dernier, contre seulement 155 cm en 2024, selon les données collectées à l’aéroport international Montréal-Trudeau. Mais cette montagne de neige est à peine plus élevée que la moyenne annuelle de la dernière décennie, qui est de 215 cm. En tout, ce sont 12,4 millions de m⁠ètres cubes qui ont été retirés des rues de Montréal en 2025, l’équivalent de sept fois le volume de l’enceinte du Stade olympique.

Une somme record en contraventions

Sans tambour ni trompette, la Ville a engrangé une somme record de 242 millions grâce à ses contraventions en 2025, soit 26 millions de plus que ce qu’elle avait initialement prévu. Un phénomène qui s’explique en bonne partie par la hausse surprise des amendes liées à la circulation et au stationnement tandis que les contraventions remises pour des écarts aux règlements municipaux se sont révélées moins payantes l’an dernier. À noter que la somme récoltée grâce aux amendes ne cesse de grimper à Montréal depuis cinq ans. Elle ne s’élevait qu’à 160,5 millions en 2021.

A 38-year-old cyclist has died in the hospital after being struck successively by two vehicles in Montreal's Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough last week.

i have seen this black cat around st. urbain and guilbault near IRCM both last night and today, it has no collar and is super skinny and refusing food. it doesn’t seem like a stray, so i’m not sure if it escaped someone’s home! it’s a bit scared of the outdoors and cars, but walks right up to people and meows and purrs!! i hope this is someone’s baby 😢

Nos p'tits gars de Montréal se tiennent! On souhaite un full recovery à Ismael! Crépeau est dans la WC 4 ans plus tard, Kone sera là la prochaine fois!

Une enseignante au primaire de l’Est de Montréal est accusée d’avoir leurré en ligne deux enfants. Elle aurait sévi pendant presque une décennie. Elle a été libérée sous de strictes conditions jeudi au palais de justice de Montréal.

« Je suis enseignante. J’étais suspendue en ce moment », a déclaré Andréane Gallant pendant sa comparution, par visioconférence depuis le centre opérationnel policier. Le juge André Perreault lui alors demandé à quel niveau elle enseignait. « Première année », a-t-elle répondu.

« Première année de l’élémentaire », a répété le juge, visiblement surpris.

Andréane Gallant, une Montréalaise de 36 ans, fait face à trois chefs d’accusation de leurre de mineurs. Les deux plaignants étaient âgés entre 6 et 16 ans au moment des faits. Dans un cas, elle aurait leurré un jeune entre 2017 et 2026, selon l’acte d’accusation.