Community / Communauté
-
Tell us about your Mount Royal
La Presse turned its attention towards Mount Royal yesterday with an interesting trio of features on social dynamics of the mountain. Not only is it the...
By Christopher DeWolf -
L’amour au dernier regard / Love at last sight
photo par The Irish Samurai The delight of the urban poet is love — not at first sight, but at last sight. -Walter Benjamin, “Charles...
By Thomas-Bernard Kenniff -
Anti-Semitic graffiti in Mile End
Every so often there is a reminder that Montreal, for all its history as a capital of Jewish culture in North America, still has a problem with...
By Christopher DeWolf -
The ground is falling!
Almost every day I pass the construction on Sherbrooke just below Parc Lafontaine. Work there was started months ago as a result of a large chunk of road...
By Paul Erlichman -
It’s Car Free Day!
Today is Montreal’s fifth annual edition of Car Free Day, known officially (and awkwardly) as “In town, without my car!” The east end of...
By Christopher DeWolf -
The makeshift Dawson memorial
It has been exactly a year and a day since the Dawson College shootings. I remember hearing about them on television, and then heading downtown for work...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Joining the medieval battle on Mount Royal
Most Montrealers know about the tam tams. Hell, the weekly drum circle, market and gathering around the Sir George Étienne Cartier Monument on Mount Royal...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Little mosque, big city
New mural on a mosque near the Main and Ste. Catherine In last week’s issue of the Economist, a couple of interesting articles looked at the challenge of...
By Christopher DeWolf -
“It was too funky to last”
Montreal is quite possibly the largest college town in North America: our four universities, concentrated in the centre of the city, bustle with more than...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Follow the sharrows
Counterflow bike lane on Milton Street, near Lorne Avenue A couple of days ago, Dale Duncan wrote on Spacing Toronto about sharrows, or shared road...
By Christopher DeWolf -
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...
By Misha Warbanski