Communication
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“As a second car, consider a duplex”
Despite a whole lot of urban residential development projects lately, Montreal is still losing about 20,000 young people to the surrounding suburbs each...
By Alanah Heffez -
Creatively vandalized electoral signs (Part I)
Perhaps because a by-election was planned for September 8th in Westmount—Ville-Marie before it got canceled by the general election, “vandals”...
By Cédric Sam -
The Lost Village of Fort George
Many weeks ago, in this post about hydroelectricity’s environmental footprint, I promised to write about the Cree community that was displaced by...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour – Fine European Cabinetry
Photo taken today on De Maisonneuve Blvd near Marcil
By Alanah Heffez -
Le Conseil du patrimoine religieux du Québec se met à l’heure du podcast
Récemment, le Conseil du patrimoine religieux du Québec décidait d’innover en matière de diffusion patrimoniale. À l’instar de l’église...
By Mathieu Payette-Hamelin -
Photo du Jour – Urban Language Breakdown
This sculpture entitled “Langage Urbain” by Ken Story has stood in front of the Bank of Montreal Telus building on Réné-Levesque, corner...
By Alanah Heffez -
Election signs: prenez la ligne orange
While SpacingMontreal doesn’t officially endorse any particular political party during elections, we do, however, often focus on election signs when...
By Chris Erb -
Election notes from Hong Kong
As longtime readers well know, I have a thing for election signs, so I was particularly happy to see La Presse dedicate an article last week to their...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Know Hope: Gnome Yo’self Graffiti in Mile End Laneway
By Kimberley Mok The first “Know Hope” installation back in June was a visual reinterpretation of the Mont Royal tam-tams going on in full...
By Kimberley Mok -
Street Sleeper
Riding my bike home one morning, around 7AM, I came upon this dude taking advantage of the late August moving day purge. This is the alleyway just west...
By Sherwin Tjia -
The maybe-not by-election signs in Westmount—Ville-Marie
These signs are in the order at which each candidate’s parties finished in the January 2006 election. Interestingly, none of these candidates ran in...
By Cédric Sam -
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...
By Chris Erb