Le Cagibi News Today

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Whelp, COVID-19 strikes again. The city is losing one more of its unique spaces. Montreal café Le Cagibi will be closing its doors after over four years in its Little Italy location and 10 years before that in the Mile End. The café and boutique — which features work by queer and trans artists — has experienced difficulties in the last few years, everything from a collapsing ceiling to pandemic-related lulls in business.

Pandemic lockdowns, a collapsed ceiling, and — mostly —an eviction notice prompted Le Cagibi’s closure announcement

The Chinatown Working Group is calling for the area to be designated as a protected heritage district. Author of the article: Marian Scott  •  Montreal Gazette Publishing date: Apr 26, 2021  •  3 hours ago  •  5 minute read  •  Karen Cho, foreground, and Jonathan Cha, left, with members of the Chinatown Working Group, are seen at the corner of de la Gauchetière and Côté Sts. in the heart of Montreals Chinatown on Friday, April 23, 2021. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Mont...

Article content As a francophone who has lived in the Mile End for more than a decade, Stéphanie Bourbeau rarely visits the S.W. Welch bookstore. And yet, when the teacher saw the ‘For Rent’ sign recently in the window of the venerable independent business, she was determined to act, especially after witnessing the closing of the café venue Le Cagibi in 2018. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Mile End residents hold read-in protest over risi...

Mile End residents angry that developers are pushing out indie stores "These businesses are closing not because theyre not working, but because they have a landlord who is raising the rent in unreasonable fashion." Author of the article: Brendan Kelly  •  Montreal Gazette Publishing date: Mar 04, 2021  •  March 4, 2021  •  4 minute read  •  Projet Montréal councillor Richard Ryan has lived in the Mile End for 35 years and currently lives just around the corner from the...

Article content There’s a sandwich I’ve been dreaming about for years. Spicy Hungarian salami on a fresh, soft cheese bun, with lettuce, tomatoes, extra pickles — the whole thing fairly dripping with mayonnaise and yellow mustard. That was my sandwich at Boulangerie Clarke, the beloved Mile End shop that closed in 2015. How exactly this came to be my sandwich, I couldn’t tell you. In the regular course of things, it never occurs to me to eat spicy salami. But that’s what I chose off t...

Article content There’s a David versus Goliath battle going in the heart of Mile End, and it looks like Goliath has the upper hand in this all-too-familiar tale of gentrification in a hot hip neighbourhood. Goliath in this case is Montreal real-estate firm Shiller-Lavy Realties, which owns several buildings on St-Viateur St., and the underdog fighting for its life is the venerable independent bookstore S. W. Welch. The used bookstore is currently paying $2,000 a month in rent and owner Stephe...

Long-running Mile End bookstore says it will be forced to close after landlord demands rent hike Dan Spector © Dan Spector / Global News S.W. Welch Books says it has been hit with a 150 per cent rent increase, and will need to shut its doors. Feb 26, 2021. A growing number of Montrealers are expressing outrage about the fate of a small independent book store in the Mile End. S.W. Welch Books has been operating for nearly 40 years. But because its landlord is imposing a huge r...