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  • This weekend: Remember Griffintown

    This weekend, members of CUTV (Concordia University Television) will be hosting Remember Griffintown, an event which organisers say is a way to...

  • Photo du Jour: Free-for-all

    In April, a massive fire destroyed this apartment building on ave des Pins forcing over 100 people to move and rebuild their lives elsewhere.  Since then...

  • Photo du jour: Satan’s gas station

    Gas station under construction at Beaubien Rosemont and Christophe-Colomb.

  • Photo du jour: Vive la Commune!

    Corner of St-Hubert and Faillon, Villeray.

  • Photo du jour: Laneway soccer

    Two kids try to play a couple more minutes of soccer in a Villeray alley before yet another unexpected rainfall forced them inside. Photo taken July 20, 2008

  • Montreal’s hotel boom

    The Gazette reported today that, within the next couple years, Montreal will be home to Canada’s first location of the prestigious Waldorf=Astoria...

  • Photo du jour: M9

    Rear end of the M9 condo development (phase 1) on rue Prince in the Cité Multimédia.

  • Odd things around the Darling Foundry

    Everyday, on my way to work, I bike by the Darling Foundry. Being a rather eclectic arts centre, it’s not surprising that the area around the...

  • Council gives green light to Griffintown project

    Monday’s municipal council meeting was the night when Griffintown’s future was finally decided. Despite recent pleas from experts to stop the...

  • The lights go out tonight

    Before and after shot of Sydney Australia participating in Earth Hour from this morning (to us). Tonight is Earth Hour across the planet and Montreal is...

  • Griffintown News Roundup #4: Feb. 21-March 24

    It has been over a month since I’ve done my last new roundup so, because there have been such a large number of news items over such a long period...

  • Toronto putting out Montreal’s fires

    This city has a tendency to be one of those places where, so often, you will see something that just doesn’t seem to make any sense whatsoever...