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Erik Leijon

18 days

Check my LinkedIn if you want to see what I'm up to these days:

After nearly 20 years of experience in print and online media, I've seen just about everything, but I also feel like I'm just getting started. I've had the good fortune of being at the right place,...

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Erik Leijon

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2 months

Mustafa isn't getting dragged into it

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@brendanshowbiz Entitled is thinking you'll have a neverending supply of minimum wage workers at all times for your business, in my opinion.

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3 years

@brendanshowbiz Actually it's because the pay is shit and it's a dangerous job during COVID

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4 years

Some good news: Bar Le Ritz won in court today!

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3 years

Montreal on Thursday if the Habs win

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1 year

WizKid at Bell Centre Nov 8 (new date)

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2 years

Hello. I have a new job. Starting September I'll be running @complexcanada as Content Lead. If you love Canadian hip hop/sneakers/have an interesting idea, you're welcome to reach out.

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3 years

Montreal: use Chk Plz for tonight's takeout. Resto gets the money and without the markups and fees is way cheaper than Ubes.

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4 years

What Backxwash has been able to do so far on a DIY level in two years is remarkable. With a little Polaris cash and increased visibility, she's absolutely going to blow people minds going forward. A deserving winner.

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2 years

Terrible news for Montreal music fans: Cafe Resonance is closing. But they are looking for someone else to buy it if anyone wants to start a new venue.

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4 years

We're probably going to have a tracking app for english before we have a tracking app for COVID...

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4 years

Quebec announces plan to strengthen French language with new OQLF offices, services and inspectors

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3 years

How nice, it's Carey Price hanging out with his kid. Errrr....that flag though...

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10 months

@robrousseau He was also pro-shoplifting from major supermarkets (Peanut Butter Conspiracy) and pro-public transport (God Don't Own a Car). A true man of the people.

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4 months

It has been an absolute honour running Complex Canada ✌️

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4 years

4 important high school albums

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3 years

Maluma played Hawai twice because why the heck not?

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3 years

First show back at the Bell Centre should be Damien Robitaille, his piano and his dog.

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4 years

“It is scandalous that as of Thursday you will be able shop at Chapters, but you may not visit a library. You can go to the mall, but not a museum,” -Mathieu Murphy-Perron, Artistic and Executive Director of Tableau D’Hôte Theatre.

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3 years

Are we going to discuss the fact that Montreal has hit 20 degrees pretty much every day in October so far?

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4 years

I read "this was first reported by MTLBlog" in the National Post so I think I'll go back to bed.

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4 years

Bar Le Ritz has to go to court next week for a pre-COVID noise complaint, even though they've had no money coming in for months. City denied their request for a delay. The city's music venues are being killed one by one.

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4 years

What did they do to the old Cagibi :(

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1 year

Cult MTL

@cultmtl

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Ye Olde Orchard ordered to add French to sign by Office Québécois de la langue française

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Erik Leijon

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3 years

Congratulations to independent music artist Grimes.

The JUNO Awards

@TheJUNOAwards

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Congratulations to all the 2021 INDIE Award nominees, including #JUNOS winner @Grimezsz who has garnered 4 nominations, and #JUNOS nominated @DVBBS , @JJWildechild , and @TheRezKids who follow with 3 nominations each. For more information:

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3 years

Kids say the darndest things. Was walking my dog at midnight and he turned to me and said: "Dad, the CAQ had months to come up with a coherent plan to combat the inevitable second wave, but instead arbitrarily decided on curfews for us while manufacturing remains open."

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7 years

Lorde covering Martha Wainwright

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3 years

When people like Luc Ferrandez bemoan the lack of QCers on the team, it's a dig at people like my family, who originally came here for work and ended up making a home here. Lots of players end of up living here/loving it here. Not Quebec enough for him.

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3 years

Petition to rename the South Shore stop on the yellow line Station Kaytranada

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2 years

The Roots MTL Jazz Fest show is free and it's gonna bring us all together, I hope

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5 years

It me

Montreal Gazette

@mtlgazette

5 years

Eighty pounds lost without losing my love of Montreal food

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4 years

Being a sports columnist is easy

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3 years

Awesome, we'll hear Backxwash at L'assemblé nationale

CTV Montreal

@CTVMontreal

3 years

Only Quebec music to be played in government buildings, minister announces

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Erik Leijon

@eleijon

3 years

How many masks should I layer to prevent catching english?

Christopher Curtis

@titocurtis

3 years

Why is Bono writing for Le Journal and why are his opinions so fucking stupid?

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3 years

Montreal is a city of producers and beatmakers. Now everyone else knows.

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1 year

Me in Quebec every Family Day:

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Erik Leijon

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2 years

This is my last day of freelancing for the foreseeable future after 18 years or so. Freelancing has been very good to me, I have no complaints.

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Erik Leijon

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7 years

Did not realize this was Terror Jr.'s first Canadian show. Fight and Fuck to close it out

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Erik Leijon

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3 years

Me hitting up my favourite non-essential stores today in the red zone of Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Erik Leijon

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2 years

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Montreal Mirror being shut down by Quebecor

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Erik Leijon

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2 years

Claude Rajotte is the closest thing I have to a hero and I'm glad he's at home listening to music all day

Loin des projecteurs | La haute fidélité de Claude Rajotte

L’instant d’une conversation autour de leur carrière, du temps qui passe et du monde qui les entoure, La Presse prend des nouvelles de personnalités chéries des Québécois, qui vivent désormais plus...

www.lapresse.ca

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Erik Leijon

@eleijon

4 years

It me, award nominated writer (!)

McGill News Magazine

@McGillNewsMag

4 years

Congratulations to McGill News contributor @eleijon . His profile of McGill grad Jade Raymond is in the running for a Canadian Online Publishing Award

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Erik Leijon

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1 year

Me when tonight's 5 cm of snow hits Montreal

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2 years

PEE PU

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2 years

SLM and Skiifall repping Montreal at the inaugural Rolling Loud Toronto.

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Erik Leijon

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3 years

To be honest, I don't think there should be a fourth wave...

LetsGoCBC

@LetsGoCBC

3 years

Vaccine passports are coming to Quebec. How prepared are you? Should there be a fourth wave of COVID-19? We'll have a panel discussion about this.

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Erik Leijon

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4 months

I still want to write about rap music in Quebec and Canada. Lots of video producers and social accounts cover it, but I think Canadian rap is missing words in a semi-permanent place, documenting it all. I'm going back to the lab.

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Erik Leijon

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7 years

How Liam Gallagher makes an entrance

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5 months

Were you chasing cool sliding into every Polaris juror's DMs trying to get on the shortlist?

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Erik Leijon

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3 months

My time at Complex/BuzzFeed is now officially over and I'm back on the market. Give me a call if you need a content lead/editor/writer who's done plenty and seen plenty in nearly 20 years in the biz.

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3 years

Are the Canadiens undefeated since Roy and Tremblay buried the hatchet?

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4 months

Had to rep MTL at the Dune 2 premiere with the Expos cap and Craven syrup hoodie

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Denis Villeneuve chatting with The Man, @eleijon .

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7 years

Family Day to the left of me. Presidents Day to right. Here I am, stuck working in Quebec on a Monday.

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3 years

This Montreal millennial couple makes $31,600 combined. Monthly bone costs? $203.

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3 years

When @EaterMontreal calls you gotta accept. They needed someone to update the NDG Food Map and lo and behold, I've hardly left NDG in two years

The Essential Guide to Eating in NDG

Where to get some crispy fried chicken, upscale bistro fare, and Cajun seafood goodness

montreal.eater.com

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5 years

Hero

Kelly Canuck🍁

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Canadian Road Rage Montreal 🇨🇦 📹 lex_inker

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2 years

@mtlbagelboy Future script for Emily in Montréal

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2 years

My idea for a Montreal summer fest next year: Kaytranada & Friends. Could feature Paak, H.E.R., Tinashe, Kali Uchis, BadBadNotGood, Masego, Mick Jenkins, Teedra Moses etc.

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2 years

Quebec on March 14

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3 years

Oui the North

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4 years

Halle Berry shouting out Cunningham's in St-Anne

Halle Berry (@halleberry) • Instagram video

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4 years

Repentigny is basically Manhattan

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3 years

I'm happy to report the photo studio at The Bay is still POPPING

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3 years

Play poorly all season so you can surprise the Leafs in the playoffs

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3 years

Your Canadian politician COVID trip is (the fanciest place you've ever been to) in order to sell (the most expensive thing you've ever held) as a favour to (the most famous person you're related to).

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4 years

Bar Le Ritz is going NOWHERE

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3 years

Every street in Montreal right now has a guy who was too lazy to clean his car yesterday and now he's trying to rev his way out.

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2 months

Tonight's the night:

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4 years

Festival International de Petit Chien a la Maison de Montreal

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4 years

I know it doesn't mean that, but this is a weird headline for an article about the whitest rapper in Quebec.

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Erik Leijon

@eleijon

4 years

A year ago today I married the wonderful @Miss_Mel181 . At the time I didn't think we'd spend 1/3 of our first year isolating in our apartment, but if we haven't driven each other crazy by now, we never will. Happy anniversary!

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1 year

Door to door, my flight to Toronto will take longer than if I had just driven. This country desperately needs high speed rail.

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3 years

You didn't think I was eating fried chicken only for fun, did you? My @mtlgazette story on fried chicken taking over the city

Fried chicken takes flight for Montreal restaurants at a challenging time

montrealgazette.com

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Erik Leijon

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5 years

At my wedding last night to @Miss_Mel181 , there was a mariachi band, open mic w/live pianist, giant blocks of cheese, a giant box office poster and smoked meat. Cried like a baby. Almost certainly the first and last wedding they'll ever have at the Segal Centre. It was lit.

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Erik Leijon

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21 days

Enough time has elapsed that I can say some people forgot how good PK Subban was for the Habs.

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2 years

Idée Fixe and now Primetime gone? Nothing but fond memories of my Parc Ave drinking days

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3 years

Richard finally writing about what he knows

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2 years

Life no longer has meaning

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4 years

We did it!

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Le Québec conquis par l'anglais. Ma chronique du JdM.

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7 years

Montreal is a world class city because of its creative people. Not bridge lights, casino restaurants or billion dollar year-long parties.

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4 years

@jeremydlarson Imagine being so sheltered from criticism that you think a 6.5/10 is bad.

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4 years

Montrealers today: "There are Whole Foods in Canada?"

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3 years

Bar Le Ritz back in biz Oct 2. Let's go!

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3 years

Celebrating the victory as one does, with a Pool Room steame in the Leonard Cohen room of the Uville Hotel

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4 years

I didn't know Boustan meme'd

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Deleting the Vice website is a completely deranged thing to do. It'll be like the 2000s never happened...

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3 years

My wife got the jab!

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10 years ago today...

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2 years

Going out

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4 years

If you're a talking head on a TV panel about racism and there are no POC on it, hang up your Zoom.

Patrice Roy

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#LePanel Université d’Ottawa : le recteur répond à la polémique «J’ai l’impression que M. Frémont abdique totalement. (…) Il suffit que quelqu’un se dise offensé pour qu’on conclut qu’il y a eu offense. Ca ferme la porte à tout débat, à toute discussion.» - @HBuzzetti

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3 years

Montreal's youth centres are producing more interesting music right now than any of the city's labels.

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3 years

Throw the book at Scheifele. The puck was already in the net and he clobbered him.

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Erik Leijon

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4 years

Sorry for not posting much. I'm teaching this little guy to pee outside

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Erik Leijon

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2 years

Had a top 5 poutine in Longueuil tonight

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Erik Leijon

@eleijon

1 year

Some people in Montreal/Canada may not want to hear it, but they NEED to hear it. @yaraelsoueidi spitting facts about Win Butler

After allegations against Win Butler, an existential crisis lingers for Montréal

Ever since frontman Win Butler was accused of sexual misconduct by several people in 2022, Arcade Fire's hometown scene has struggled with how to respond.

www.npr.org

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Erik Leijon

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1 year

St-Laurent mainstays shuttering. Old Montreal buildings neglected. The Airbnbification of everything. I don't like what I'm seeing.

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