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Montréal Monday: Antlerheads, gardening space, and a Griffintown update

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Each Monday, Spacing brings you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.

  • Vespa’s guerilla marketing has infiltrated Montréal. Chris DeWolf’s piece, Antlerheads in Montréal, explores the validity of this particular marketing venture as legitimate art.
  • As the weather warms, and gardening season approaches, Campus Crops, a student group at McGill University, are working to improve access to gardening space. Pamela Shapiro looks at Campus Crop’s goals in New Initiative to Increase Downtown Gardening Space.
  • In Council Gives Green Light to Griffintown Project, Chris Erb offers a summary of the vote that approved a controversial $1.3 billion redevelopment in this Montréal neighbourhood. Chris also provides an in-depth look at the Griffintown dilemma in the latest issue of Spacing.

photo by Chris DeWolf

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