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Photo du jour : Nuit blanche à Montréal 2008 (2 de 8)
Hall des pas perdus, Place des Arts. Photo prise le 1er mars 2008.
By Cédric Sam -
Karine Giboulo: Of Pig and Men
Like every year for the past three years, I did the Montreal All-nighter, and like a lot of people, I stopped by Karine Giboulo’s All you can eat...
By Cédric Sam -
New blog: The Transitive
Local blogger Steve Faguy recently wrote a post about some new Montreal-based blogs that were all created as part of a citizen journalism class at...
By Chris Erb -
Frozen commuters at Berri-UQAM
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53jXg7kUqRU[/youtube] Overlooking a sunny Victoria Harbour and enjoying the perfect spring breeze blowing in from...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Eugene Yao, 1946-2008: A Chinese Activist
Eugene Yao was born in Shanghai in 1946, and came to Canada in 1969 as a student of McGill University in electrical engineering, where he met his...
By Cédric Sam -
A peek inside Yiddish Montreal
Yiddish was Montreal’s third language for the entire first half of the twentieth century. Up and down the Main, people gossiped in Yiddish, shopped...
By Christopher DeWolf -
The songs of Montreal’s banished street vendors
Montreal did away with a big chunk of its cultural heritage when it started cracking down on street vendors in the 1960s. Food vendors were the first to...
By Christopher DeWolf -
The baby cops’ debut
Every summer, Montreal’s police department sends its most fresh-faced cadets to patrol Ste. Catherine Street. For police headquarters, it’s a way to train...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Soccer break
Jeanne Mance Park, July 29, 2007
By Christopher DeWolf -
Police response to pedestrian safety: stop jaywalking
Yesterday’s pedestrian safety dossier in La Presse seems to have launched the issue into the public spotlight. Today, the Gazette reported that the...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Trombone
Italian marching band member after the parade, St. Viateur street festival, June 1, 2007
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour : Rendez-vous à « Park Ex »
Rue de Liège, Parc-Extension, le 23 juillet 2007
By Christopher DeWolf