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The pandemic offers us a life-size test of the immobility of as many people as possible. This text offers a brief immersion, in Montreal, in the world of the deprivation of displacement. The text describes the mobility issues in Montreal before the pandemic and then specifies the new challenges that arise from living in isolation. What emerges from reading these pages is the predominance of inequity when it comes to thwarting the perverse effects of forced immobility. We were also charmed by the invitation to imagine the world after, Montreal post-Covid-19. This is why the conclusion draws up two major trends that stem from our new way of existence: pulling the world up to oneself & appreciating the sense of place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of an increasing number of cinema and television productions focusing on or including nonheterosexual characters, as well as of the expanding scholarship surrounding gender, sexuality and space, this article explores the rapidly growing format of the webseries as sites of representation and creation of lesbian spaces. For this purpose, we will analyse two productions Féminin/Féminin (ROBICHAUD, 2014) and The Foxy Five (NEWMAN, 2016) which focus on nonheterosexual female interaction in Montréal and Cape Town. These series offer a complex perspective on the ways in which lesbian, bisexual and trans women (of different races) experience, question and attempt to disrupt geographies of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Due to the presence of several groups of Spanish speakers of various backgrounds, a language contact environment exists among different varieties of Spanish in the Canadian city of Montreal. Despite the possibilities that this situation offers to the field of American Spanish Linguistics, no study, as far as we know, has been undertaken to determine the effects of dialect contact on first- and second-generation migrants' Spanish. With this article, we aim to make the first contribution to this area of study; in particular, we focus on the Spanish of Chilean migrants. Using a corpus of naturally-occurring conversations, we analyze the verbal voseo feature in the speech of these migrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the construction of metropolitan legitimacy on the basis of three dimensions: output-oriented (outcome of public policies), input-oriented (citizen representation and accountability) and throughput-oriented (the process of decision-making). The debate on efficiency and democracy has been conceptualized by three schools of thought (reform, public choice and new regionalism), discussed in the first part. These approaches promote their own models of metropolitan governance with alternative views on legitimacy. However, the debate on the metropolitan legitimacy has focused on the dimension of the outcomes at the expense of the democratic dimension. The comparison between Barcelona and Montreal in the second part of the article explores the reasons for the democratic deficit in metropolitan areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]