Sighted on a walk last weekend:
Seen above, the Bloc’s Marcela Valdivia’s no-nonsense visage has become a bit less no-nonsense with a slight modification on St. Viateur (and elsewhere).
Meanwhile, Conservative Lulzim Laloshi seems to have lost his visage altogether on Bernard in Outremont.
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Why not just take them off? If something is more visually polluting than unoriginal election signs, it is unoriginally vandalized unoriginal election signs.
Marcela Valdivia a l’air TELLEMENT bête sur la photo originale!
Googly eyes look good on her ;-)
Au contraire, je trouve Mme Valdivia très belle (et je suis plutôt partisane de Mulcair)… Est-ce que les femmes doivent sourire en montrant les dents?
J’avoue une envie FOLLE de vandaliser les affiches du fils-à-papa Trudeau, dans Papineau. Silly rich twerp.
Hey that’s a nice street pole! (the green one)
I’ve been seeing a few melted Trudeau signs that were set on fire around here. The “Pas de Trudeau dans Papineau” sticker campaign is interesting too.
The “Pas de Trudeau dans Papineau” stickers are well-designed and clever, but the real battle in Papineau will be over the immigrant vote, not the francophone vote, which will be heavily Bloc in Papineau as in adjoining Rosemont/La-Petite-Patrie. A lot of people will be voting Bloc and Barbot who aren’t necessarily sovereignists at all, but Trudeau does have a lot of $$$ and a big machine. Will be interesting to see.
I just heard on the radio that it is no coincidence that all the Conservative candidates I’ve seen are in their party blue. The party actually had a wardrobe for the candidates: identical blue shirts and darker-blue ties for the men; blue blouses for the women. Strange.
Adolfo, forgot. The lampposts and other urban furniture in Outremont are very distinctive, and very beautiful in a classic style. You will find many examples in parks and along streets.
There is a wonderful clin d’oeil to Outremont’s many parks and dinctive lampposts in the Outremont métro station, adorned with a tall – underground – Outremont lamppost!
I love the lamposts of Outremont but I don’t like the giant street signs. Tacky!
Thanks for the info Maria :)
I saw the best one the other day on Parc Lafontaine just south of Rachel. The letters of Gilles Duceppe’s “Present pour le Quebec” had been blackened to read:
Sent le Q!
Next to Gilles’ smug mug, it was a dream.
I’m not surprised the Conservatives’ sign was effaced – what kind of slogan is “Québec takes power”, really? (The few bilingual signs I’ve seen from them use a more innocuous English translation, but I’m not fooled.) “Hey, we Conservatives, who stand against the progressive values dear to many Québecois, have the reins of power, so join us and we’ll get things done for you”? Sorta matters what those things to be done are… Cutting funding for (French-language as well as English) cultural programmes?