The city is alive.

Summer has finally shown its face and the first truly hot day finds the people of Montreal packing the streets, cafes, terraces bars and parks. The pavement shimmers and pulses as if trying to keep time with the echo of the Tam- Tams. Downtown people are milling along rue St-Catherine and Rene-Levesque. There appears to be a common goal as the crowd masses in the same direction. A familiar scent floats on the warm breeze