By Jacob Larsen
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The Canadian Recession: The NFB launches the first fully online documentary at RIDM
The fine folks at the NFB have got a new, interactive web documentary that may be of interest to Spacing readers. The project is called ‘GDP...
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New AMT Windsor station hub examined
Image from The Gazette This week the AMT released a plan to build a new transit hub directly south of Windsor Station, whichwould permit the historic...
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Cyclist evades death after being struck by delivery truck on St. Laurent
Photo: Patrick Sanfaçon, La Presse This morning, around 9am, a 22-year old woman was pulled under a delivery truck and tangled up in the twisted metal of...
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The BAPE Speaks: Turcot report released (and analyzed)
On Tuesday, November 10, a half day after being leaked in La Presse story, the recommendations of the province’s environmental assessment commission...
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Someone’s got some ‘xplaining to do: More transit cost overruns
Image from kevincrumbs on Flickr Creative Commons Only one day after the STM announced that the projected cost of replacing its ageing fleet of Metro cars...
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Photo du jour: Ghost sign revealed at Rosemont/St. Michel
I don’t know what building was located here, but it burnt down this summer, revealing a beautiful blue “ghost sign”. Does anyone know of...
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Highways, health and the economy: Political winds on the Turcot may be changing
Opposition to the Turcot reconstruction project has climbed even farther up the ladder. La Presse reported that in a parliamentary committee on Wednesday...
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Turcot activists to Charest: Be coherent!
With the sun setting on the hazy evening commute home today, activists from the Conseil Régionale de l’Environnement (CRE) on the St. Jacques...
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A theatrical take on Quebec’s highway infrastructure
Cleaning up the mess: the de la Concorde overpass (Courtesy of the Daily Commercial News) It is now three years after the collapse of the de la Concorde...
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Turcot, the United Nations and Climate Change
Looking forward to winter smog? (courtesy of the Meteorological Service of Canada) This week at the UN headquarters in New York, the highest level climate...
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The Turcot is going to heat up
A dull roar of opposition to the MTQ’s Turcot plan has been rumbling through urban planning circles and neighbourhood groups since the Ministère de...
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Bikes and buses in traffic: What can Montreal learn from other cities?
Bicycles and buses in Montreal have a fairly intimate, and almost always antagonistic, relationship. This is not news to those who’ve used either a...