Yearly Archives: 2008

Photo du Jour: Canada Malt Plant

Articulated bus seen on Avenue du Parc tonight

While waiting for the bus tonight at the corner of Du Parc and Des Pins, I saw this articulated bus speeding down Du Parc, following a regular #80 STM...

Eugene Yao, 1946-2008: A Chinese Activist

Eugene Yao was born in Shanghai in 1946, and came to Canada in 1969 as a student of McGill University in electrical engineering, where he met his...

Photo du jour: Movie in the ruelle

Alleyway projection during the St. Viateur street fair, June 1, 2007

Photo du jour : Boucherie Sabra

Ontario coin Saint-Dominique, le 7 juin 2005

A peek inside Yiddish Montreal

Yiddish was Montreal’s third language for the entire first half of the twentieth century. Up and down the Main, people gossiped in Yiddish, shopped...

American suburbs the new slums?

In a bizarre reversal of urban decay, many homes and streets in American suburbs are being abandoned due to a number of reasons, including the fallout of...

Photo du jour: In front of Moishe’s

Hanging out at St. Laurent and Bagg, September 4, 2004

An elegy for Griffintown

[youtube]XqxurfvV5bM[/youtube] There’s something remarkably honest about the United Steel Workers of Montreal. Far from being a contrivance, their...

Photo du jour: Craig Street West

Craig Street West, about 1905

Montreal in Dublin

IRELAND: A day trip to Dublin reveals many fine things but none finer than this bus with a Montreal advertisement seen yesterday moving up the...

If Calgary can do it, why can’t we?

I’ve written before about posters and, in particular, the need for more legal postering space in Montreal. My recent trip to Calgary revealed that...