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Alongside all the amazing stuff (the food, music, culture, friendly people, and incredible nightlife), Montreal is also a city, known for it’s sketchy, corrupt contractors. During the construction of the Big O Stadium for the 1976 Summer Olympics, there were rumours of contractors driving loaded trucks in one entrance, out another, then back through the first entrance to get paid for a second (and third and fourth) time. Then, in 1986, a large chunk of a concrete tower fell onto the Expos playing field, and in 1991 a large concrete slab fell on a walkway (hurting no one, luckily).