MONTREAL — It's 2:55 a.m. on a recent evening at Blue Dog bar, in Montreal's Plateau district. A bell rings, the bartender shouts,"last call," and a handful of people wander to the bar for one more drink.
And while artists and venue owners are interested in the idea, they have some reservations. Some worry whether staying open all night is worth the trouble; others question whether city-sanctioned 24-hour events will be expensive and crowd out the underground parties for which Montreal is famous. But Da Silva doesn't want to regularly stay open past 3 a.m. because by that time “people have already done what they’re going to be doing. They’re either a little too high, or a little too drunk, and it’s just time to get everybody home and be done with it.”
Da Silva says he worries that if city-sanctioned 24-hours events become more common, they would threaten the underground parties.“When someone else has an investment in it, they’re going to be like, ‘Well, I don’t want you throwing these authentic, cool, underground raves. I want you to come to my rave.’”
Halkiw says Montreal has enough of a cultural pull to succeed in attracting more night tourists. “Montreal is a city where so many people come to party … I kind of view it as the New York of Canada.”
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