Monthly Archives: October 2007
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Quelques exemples de restaurations
Au cours des dernières années, certains propriétaires ayant à coeur la sauvegarde du patrimoine ont accomplis des ouvrages de restaurations remarquable...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
Photo du jour : Le sang des banlieues
Photo prise à Kirkland, au coin des boulevards St-Charles et Brunswick, le 6 octobre 2007.
By Cédric Sam -
One-storey houses in Hochelaga
Montreal developed as a geographically disparate patchwork of independent municipalities. Many of these old towns and suburbs were long ago absorbed into...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Outremont scotch and the City Hall schism
You must have already heart of the Outremont booze scandal. No? Well, let me refresh you: on September 27th, Le Devoir and La Presse revealed that...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Slutsky and Buller do Mile End
“Mile End sucks it,” wrote one respondent to the survey at our launch party last month. That person might want to avoid General 54 on Thursday...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Crossroads
St. Denis and Jean Talon. February 3, 2007
By Christopher DeWolf -
Two strips of dirt: my favourite laneway
The other day, Christopher DeWolf asked us all to think of our favourite laneways and I think I happened upon mine this week. I always knew there existed...
By Chris Erb -
L’amour au dernier regard / Love at last sight
photo par The Irish Samurai The delight of the urban poet is love — not at first sight, but at last sight. -Walter Benjamin, “Charles...
By Thomas-Bernard Kenniff -
Photo du jour: Back to the burbs
Rush hour commuters at Parc Station. April 21, 2006
By Christopher DeWolf -
Election Signs: Votez bleu!
Vous voyez rouge? Votez bleu! It was a catchy PQ electoral slogan that tried to capitalize on Jean Charest’s profound unpopularity in late 2005...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Election Signs: Defend NDG!
In the provincial elections last winter, the Green Party’s candidate in NDG, Peter McQueen, ran a campaign that appealed to neighbourhood angst more...
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Photo contest: Montreal’s “green oases and toxic hotspots”
The Lachine Canal: green oasis and toxic hotspot, all in one package The National Film Board, Maisonneuve and CBC Montreal have teamed up, once again, to...
By Christopher DeWolf