Indeed it is. In fact, Montreal (and Quebec as a whole) is infested with the mob. And we're not talking Goodfellas, New York style mob guys - we're talking Sicilians straight from the motherland, bringing in huge shipments of cocaine and heroin.
It's actually a very interesting story, for those interested in orgranized crime. A new book has just come out, called THE 6TH FAMILY, that explains it quite a bit (also, NORTHERN CONNECTION is a pretty good primer on the Montreal-New York-Sicily link).
Thanks. The first two weeks on the stack was pretty crazy, but that's mainly because I had maybe all of 2 cups of coffee in my whole life beforehand, so the caffeine hit me hard.
The key for me was to find a routine. Made eating low carb a habit, and running 3x a week seem 'normal'. Also, allowing myself to cheat every now and then helped too ;)
No problem. In Quebec we have CEGEPS, where students go for 2 year pre-university or 3 year vocational programs after graduating high school (which ends at Grade 11).
Full marks to Ghana, even though they played dirty vs USA, they did what they had to do. No one picked them to progress, as far as I can recall. Certainly not ahead of the Czechs and the Americans.