Community / Communauté
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Park Extension gets its due
The Bouchard-Taylor commission on reasonable accommodation has touched down in Laval, the most polyglot city it has yet visited. (About 15 percent of...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Pedestrian Streets: Should MacKay be pedestrian only?
This is the beginning of a series of articles concerning pedestrian and shared streets in Montreal. Each article will either focus on an existing...
By Chris Erb -
For your amusement, a laundry list of Montreal evils
Montreal and Quebec City have long had a rather intense rivalry. Thing is, it’s entirely one-sided. Quebec City exists only on the periphery of...
By Christopher DeWolf -
It’s Tempo season!
It’s that time of year when people in many Montreal neighbourhoods start installing much-maligned Tempo shelters to protect their driveways...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Public space, from Beirut to Montreal
Café in Cairo. Photo by Patrick Donovan WHAT? Discussion, in French, on Arab cafés in Montreal and North Africa WHEN? 6pm, Sunday, November 4th WHERE? The...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Celebrating Halloween in the streets
I don’t really get excited about Halloween, mainly because I hate getting dressed up. But even I have fond memories of trick-or-treating when I was...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Leo’s Horse Palace
Leo’s Horse Palace on rue Ottawa as it looked on October 20th. Although this stable is nowhere near the largest of a handful in and around...
By Chris Erb -
Place Falun Gong
Place Sun Yat Sen, a small square in the heart of Montreal’s Chinatown, is almost perenially occupied by members of Falun Gong, a psuedo-religious...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Bienséance publique / Public etiquette
File d’attente pour l’autobus, métro Mont-Royal. photo par “nothing” for english follow the continue reading link Vous vous sentez...
By Thomas-Bernard Kenniff -
Faulty towers
Most people will say that the idea of an 11.25-metre tall billboard sitting on a sidewalk is offensive to them. But the seeming lack of general opposition...
By Paul Erlichman -
The suburbs finally get their due
“Bridge to Laval.” Photo by caribb A week after the Gazette ran an exposé on downtown’s “black hole” and Le Devoir taught us...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Il fait beau dans l’métro: behind the advertisement
[youtube]DcC31r1BxBY[/youtube] By now, most of you have probably seen Il fait beau dans l’métro, a 1976 television advertisement for...
By Christopher DeWolf