<p>Coincidentally you picked a very relevant day to post this on:</p>
<p>[Montreal’s</a> wild weather hampers snow-clearing - Montreal - CBC News](<a href=“http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/01/17/montreal-snow-clearing-weather.html]Montreal’s”>http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/01/17/montreal-snow-clearing-weather.html)</p>
<p>As for snow days, I recall a few years back one particularly heavy snowfall, there was a city bus stuck and temporarily abandoned in a large snow bank right in front of the university. McGill postponed (final) exams by (all of) 30 minutes :)</p>