Simply months after opening to packed crowds and rising pleasure round girls’s sports activities in Montreal, Le Nadia has shut down at its present location.
The Hochelaga sports activities bar opened in December after turning into one of many metropolis’s first venues devoted completely to broadcasting girls’s sports activities.
However final week, the bar abruptly closed its doorways.
“It’s tremendous unhappy for us however I believe it’s the worst is for the neighborhood, who I’m receiving so many messages by our social media, like, ‘The place can we watch [Montreal Victoire] tonight?’” mentioned Catherine D. Lapointe, Le Nadia co-owner.
Followers at Le Nadia sports activities café in Montreal rejoice the Canadian Olympic girls’s hockey staff after they scored throughout first interval of the gold medal recreation between Canada the USA, on the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics, on Thursday, Feb, 19 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov.
“I’m so unhappy, however on the identical time it offers gasoline to discover a answer.”
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Lapointe says the state of affairs is past their management.
In an announcement to World Information, Chantal Gagnon, the borough mayor of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, mentioned “following compliance points associated to noise, the co-founders have determined to relocate their actions to a different website.”
“We’re reviewing the noise by-law to make it extra versatile and higher replicate the cultural vibrancy of the borough.”
“For now what we’re centered on is simply to make sure we’ve got a spot to welcome the neighborhood and nonetheless have a spot the place we will present feminine athletes,” mentioned Lapointe.
Regardless of the closure, Lapointe says help for the idea has solely continued to develop.
The precedence now, she says, is taking a look at different areas close by to proceed serving the neighborhood they constructed right here.
“We simply see it as a foul penalty that occurs generally in a match, and we’re similar to, OK, let’s proceed and we’ll have an excellent recreation,” she mentioned.
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