BIENVENUE Enjoy Montreal

TRANSAT POSTS Q1 LOSS DESPITE HIGHER REVENUE

Was it kindhearted concern for the welfare of their dwindling clientele that saw hundreds of Montreal taxi drivers blockading Dorval last week? They opted to obstruct roads into the arrivals area as opposed to the departure area where they’d have made people miss their flights? Unlikely, but let’s give them the benefit of the doubt.

Montreal taxi and limousine drivers targeted the city's airport Wednesday as part of their protest against Uber. Meanwhile, a newly formed group of Toronto taxi drivers says it will go on strike during Friday's afternoon rush hour.

Air Transat's pilots have voted almost unanimously to support a strike that would hit the vacation airline just before the busy March break travelling season.

Expect 2017 to be particularly festive in Montreal. Having received an unprecedented number of tourists last year, the city could be celebrating tourism numbers.

From British Columbia to Montreal, the low Canadian dollar is proving a boon to the tourism sector. Dragged down by cheap oil and an international slump in commodity prices, the dollar is trading at around 70 cents against the greenback and enticing Americans to travel north of the border.

North Americans love their burgers. They may not be the primary cuisine, but they remain the most consumed food in the restaurants. As a traveller in Montreal, you will also find it hard to resist the appetizing burgers’ aroma from the city’s burger joints.

Agatha Christie didn't much care for Montreal's weather when she visited in 1922, saving kinder words for British Columbia's beautiful Sequoia trees. But despite her less-than-glowing endorsement, Montreal's Pointe-a-Calliere museum is paying homage to the so-called “Queen of Crime” with an exhibit that is as much about the English novelist's life as her best-selling whodunits.