By Misha Warbanski
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Photo du jour: Le pont Jacques Cartier
photo by Misha Warbanski The Jacques Cartier Bridge spans the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Longueuil, Quebec. Here it is on a rainy night from...
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Greening Milton Park
Hutchison Street in Milton Park, aka the McGill Ghetto The neighbourhood of Milton-Parc is tucked into a corner of downtown between McGill University and...
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Today in the News…
The Gazette reported the Ville-Marie borough manager resigned. Guy Hébert held the position for 27 years. This is the latest news in a politically...
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Touring the TOHU recycling complex at St-Michel
This corner of the old quarry and garbage dump in St-Michel is slated to become a pond by 2020. Photo by Misha Warbanski Every Thursday morning...
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Dying for road safety
Montreal has a tradition of using performance art as a means of protest. Back in 1976 “Bicycle Bob” Silverman and his pro-bike cohorts...
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What’s eating your money?
Parking meter coins buy karma for drivers (this is crossposted with The Link) It’s been six weeks since the parking meters started reappearing on Montreal...
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Butting out litter
The City of Montreal and the EcoQuartier of Point-aux-Prairies want smokers to think twice before throwing butts on the ground. And to make it easier...
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Creative moving
When push comes to shove and that stairwell just ain’t getting any wider, try a creative approach to moving. Furniture hooks on the outside of...
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Pizza for the masses
An underused park in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood is getting some attention since some area residents built a wood-fire oven there. Dubbed “The Park...
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New bike stands spotted
For those of us year-round bike riders, one of the things that makes me smile is, despite the traffic, I’ll never have to look for parking. Locking to a...