By Alanah Heffez

How Other Folks See the City

Last fall, I had a friend visit from Rimouski. I knew he wasn’t a city boy, and yet I was convinced that when he saw my spacious old NDG flat, when...

Photo du Jour : The Last Days of the Seville

It was an ugly day, but I has a sudden urgent need to snap a picture of the abandoned Seville Theatre on Ste-Catherine and Chomedy. Despite attempts to...

Photo du Jour – “Downtown”

Sainte-Catherine street lights aglow on a rainy evening, March 6th 2009.

Cité Jardin : A Suburb Done Differently

There was a time, I can imagine, when suburbs were not such a terrible idea. Ignore for a moment the gluttonous land consumption and slothful...

McTavish Revisited…after $9M in security measures.

This blog is generally in favour of accessibility and a flexible attitude to public space, but perhaps there are some corners of the city that should...

Photo du Jour : Olympic Proportions

Photo du Jour : Gilford & Drolet

Photo du Jour : Superhero

Graffiti seen in the Turcot Yards, Feb 27th 2009.

Photo du Jour : Busted Sewer

After my visit to the waste water treatment plant, the state of our fresh water distribution and waste water collection infrastructure is weighing on my...

Our sewage plant is (unfortunately) bigger than yours

Living in a city, I find it disturbingly easy to remain blissfully unaware of the resources we use and the wastes we produce. So I jumped at the...

Quiz : Name this job

What does the city of Montreal pay this guy to do? Update: Thanks for these insightful / hilarious comments. Ignacio Campillo nailed it right off the bat...

Photo du Jour – Maison Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine

Once the residence of Prime Minister Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, this house was declared a historical monument in 1987 which effectively saved it from...