By Alanah Heffez

Photos du jour: L’Église St-Michel du Mile End

Photo du jour : Mile End Oasis

Flower shop on rue Bernard

Photo du jour: The Win

Saint-Laurent and Rachel: Portugal won a world Euro cup match on Sunday afternoon.

Photo du jour – All the street’s a stage

Avenue Mont-Royal is becoming a pedestrian street this weekend for Nuit blanche sur tableau noir. I was struck this evening by how many kids were enjoying...

Coups de coeur : Coups de casseroles

After months of escalating clashes, violence, and arrests, Montrealers have taken the nightly protest into their own neighbourhoods. As the casseroles...

Photo du jour : À nous la rue

The Forest, a Fortress, and the Future of Participation

Between the tree trunks, I can spot the traffic light at the corner of Cote-Saint-Catherine road. The outline of apartment buildings half a block away is...

Takers and Breakers of Public Space

#manifencours. The students are on the march again tonight, as they have been on the march every night for the past two weeks. This is how we live now...

MTQ to Expropriate Schoolyard for Highway Construction

It may not be the most lush, nor the most welcoming patch of grass in the city, but it is none-the-less the school yard for 200 students who attend James...

Lessons from 311

Montreal OpenFile recently published an article called Tangling with the 311, in which the author critiqued the hotline introduced by the City of...

A Taste for Montreal: A City Built of Stories

The idea of using food as a lens to explore and understand the city is something that Avenue 8 has held dear for a long time. We were initially inspired...

Is the Place d’Armes Redesign a Success?

Three years ago, I lamented that Place d’Armes was just a pretty picture: The public space that had been the heart of  Montreal for over 300 years...