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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

  • Photo du jour: Le pont Jacques Cartier

    photo by Misha Warbanski The Jacques Cartier Bridge spans the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Longueuil, Quebec. Here it is on a rainy night from...

  • Greening Milton Park

    Hutchison Street in Milton Park, aka the McGill Ghetto The neighbourhood of Milton-Parc is tucked into a corner of downtown between McGill University and...

  • Today in the News…

    The Gazette reported the Ville-Marie borough manager resigned. Guy Hébert held the position for 27 years. This is the latest news in a politically...

  • Touring the TOHU recycling complex at St-Michel

    This corner of the old quarry and garbage dump in St-Michel is slated to become a pond by 2020. Photo by Misha Warbanski Every Thursday morning...

  • Dying for road safety

    Montreal has a tradition of using performance art as a means of protest. Back in 1976 “Bicycle Bob” Silverman and his pro-bike cohorts...

  • What’s eating your money?

    Parking meter coins buy karma for drivers (this is crossposted with The Link) It’s been six weeks since the parking meters started reappearing on Montreal...

  • Butting out litter

    The City of Montreal and the EcoQuartier of Point-aux-Prairies want smokers to think twice before throwing butts on the ground. And to make it easier...

  • Creative moving

    When push comes to shove and that stairwell just ain’t getting any wider, try a creative approach to moving. Furniture hooks on the outside of...

  • Pizza for the masses

    An underused park in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood is getting some attention since some area residents built a wood-fire oven there. Dubbed “The Park...

  • New bike stands spotted

    For those of us year-round bike riders, one of the things that makes me smile is, despite the traffic, I’ll never have to look for parking. Locking to a...