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  • Policing our parks

    In last week’s edition of Hour, Jamie O’Meara in last week’s Hour touched on the behaviour of Montreal’s police in city parks, and...

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  • Making the ad creeps pay

    In an interesting case from the Pacific Northwest, the city of Portland, Oregon, is suing employment-classifieds site Jobdango for the almost $5500 it...

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  • Crosswalk pranks

    Thanks to Fagstein, I’ve been introduced to Improv Everywhere’s new Urban Prankster blog, including its latest post, with video footage of...

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  • The Moving Day mess

    115,000 households packed up and moved on Tuesday, making it quite possibly the single largest instance of a mass moving day in North America. Even on...

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  • Some mid-week news

    Night flights to end over Laval, St. Laurent The agreement, made in 2006, was to merely test night flights over those areas, and the airport has decided...

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  • Street party for Spain

    This morning, my friends—all of them Spain supporters, except for one, who kept quiet—decided to watch today’s Euro Cup final between...

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  • A couple of cautionary tales

    ⋅ Man dies in hit-and-run in Montreal | Délit de fuite mortel | Le conducteur d’un scooter meurt dans un délit de fuite An SUV hit and killed man on...

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  • Some weekend headlines

    Les cols bleus à la disposition des déménageurs | Moving is a dirty job – for city crews: one of the several down-sides of having a coordinated...

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  • Montreal’s hotel boom

    The Gazette reported today that, within the next couple years, Montreal will be home to Canada’s first location of the prestigious Waldorf=Astoria...

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  • Shoes in the Sky

    When I began writing for Spacing Montreal I planned to write an exposé on mysterious shoes hanging from power lines. Just a couple of days prior I’d...

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  • Rebranding Park Avenue

    The first banner was incongruous enough: “Avenue du Parc,” it read in a vaguely Hellenic font, set to a pale blue background. Underneath was...

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  • Spring revelations

    One of my favourite passages from Leonard Cohen comes from his 1966 novel Beautiful Losers. “In Montreal spring is like an autopsy,” he wrote...

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