By Christopher DeWolf
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Photo du jour: Craig Street West
Craig Street West, about 1905
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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...
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The songs of Montreal’s banished street vendors
Montreal did away with a big chunk of its cultural heritage when it started cracking down on street vendors in the 1960s. Food vendors were the first to...
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Sammy Forcillo dead set against pedestrianization
When Ville-Marie mayor Benoît Labonté came up with a plan for the seasonal pedestrianization of Ste. Catherine Street in the Gay Village, between Berri...
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Norman Bethune Square’s makeover confirmed
Pretty much anyone who spends time in the west end of downtown will agree that Norman Bethune Square, at the corner of Guy and de Maisonneuve, desperately...
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Photo du jour: Hangul
La Maison Bulgogi, Ste. Catherine at Chomedey, February 4, 2006
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Photo du jour: Calories
Summer evening at Ste. Catherine at Gladstone, Westmount. July 13, 2007
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The baby cops’ debut
Every summer, Montreal’s police department sends its most fresh-faced cadets to patrol Ste. Catherine Street. For police headquarters, it’s a way to train...
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Photo du jour: Soccer break
Jeanne Mance Park, July 29, 2007
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POLL: Are Montreal’s boroughs too big?
One of my professors at McGill used to refer jokingly to “NDG angst,” which is what people who lived in NDG felt when they compared their...
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Police response to pedestrian safety: stop jaywalking
Yesterday’s pedestrian safety dossier in La Presse seems to have launched the issue into the public spotlight. Today, the Gazette reported that the...
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Photo du jour: Trombone
Italian marching band member after the parade, St. Viateur street festival, June 1, 2007