Snow in Montréal. From a machine.

Look very closely at this photograph (click on it to enlarge). Look between the two cars crossing in the foreground and down the side street. We're on St. Catherine Ouest in downtown Montréal. It's December. And look: there's a man with a machine creating snow for a film set. Let me repeat the obvious here. We're in Canada. Québec. It's December. Surely the safest place to get some snow to help film that snowy scene for your movie? Perhaps this is the best advertisement there is for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, running in Montréal until the end of this week...

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