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By Christopher DeWolf

  • You will listen to our music!

    [youtube]k5rSj8lcDVQ[/youtube] I was walking along the Main with a friend yesterday when he pointed out that music was being broadcast from loudspeakers...

  • Keeping the streets alive in the winter

    As quiet as the city can get in the winter, it never truly goes to sleep, at least not until the windchill dips to something abominable. Montrealers live...

  • Beaminster, Bradford, Campden: three odd streets

    Back in October, on one of those unseasonably warm and humid days we had towards the end of fall, I was on the 129 bus heading west to Victoria Avenue...

  • Privately-run buses on Pie IX?

    Today’s La Presse reports that the Agence métropolitain de transport, which oversees transportation infrastructure in Greater Montreal, wants to...

  • Photo du jour: Centre Street

    This Bengali grocery is part of a new wave of immigrant businesses around Centre Street in Point St. Charles, most of them catering to the area’s...

  • Montreal vs. Toronto: battle of the bus transfers!

    French Panic, a local blogger who may or may not be my neighbour, recently spent some time in Toronto. She came back with some pertinent observations...

  • Montrealers, cherish your clothelines

    Nobody hangs their laundry out to dry in Calgary. In fact, there are hardly any clothelines. My grandmother’s house had one, but I don’t think...

  • East enders oppose the Notre-Dame highway

    East end residents aren’t taking too kindly to the changes planned for Notre Dame St. between downtown and Highway 25. La Presse is reporting that a...

  • Who Killed the Electric Car? Find out tomorrow

    [youtube]MSBykAngDpY[/youtube] WHAT? Screening of the 2006 documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car? WHEN? 7pm, Thursday, December 6th, 2007 WHERE? CCA...

  • The snowplow ballet

    It’s the famous day after the storm, when the snow has stopped falling but huge piles of it remain on the ground. Normally busy streets are quiet...

  • The Main is back and ready to party

    After fourteen brutal months of non-stop construction, the closure of several prominent businesses and some eerily quiet days on a street normally known...

  • 2006 Census: Montreal’s changing demographics

    Statistics Canada released its latest batch of information from the 2006 census today, this time covering the sensitive topics of language and...