Green Space / Espace vert
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Montreal in the latest issue of Spacing
Even Torontonians like to hear about other places from time to time. That’s why the latest green-themed issue of Spacing features articles from...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Public hearing on Turcot reconstruction tomorrow
Turcot Interchange near completion in 1967, looking north. Photo from Walking Turcot Yards I recently wrote about the threat posted to the western part of...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Marché Central going green? Yeah, right
Marché Central, the big box power centre that has emerged recently around the corner of Acadie and Chabanel, just north of the Metropolitan, is installing...
By Christopher DeWolf -
A river flows to it: The Charles J. Des Baillets water filtration plant
Beneath the streets of our city lies two vast networks of pipes and conduits. One to ensure a steady supply of fresh water is always on hand and another...
By Jacob Larsen -
Photo du jour : Éco-quartier Peter-McGill
Photo prise devant l’Éco-quartier Peter-McGill, le 21 octobre 2007.
By Cédric Sam -
Touring the TOHU recycling complex at St-Michel
This corner of the old quarry and garbage dump in St-Michel is slated to become a pond by 2020. Photo by Misha Warbanski Every Thursday morning...
By Misha Warbanski -
Fall Ecogardening at (where else?) the Park With No Name
Dare-Dare’s Park With No Name is a busy place, it seems. Not only will Karen Spencer’s Dream Listener project take place there tonight, it...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo contest: Montreal’s “green oases and toxic hotspots”
The Lachine Canal: green oasis and toxic hotspot, all in one package The National Film Board, Maisonneuve and CBC Montreal have teamed up, once again, to...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Dying for road safety
Montreal has a tradition of using performance art as a means of protest. Back in 1976 “Bicycle Bob” Silverman and his pro-bike cohorts...
By Misha Warbanski -
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 -
L’évolution d’une rue #3
Vers 1900-2003 Cette propriété fut construite en 1891 pour Robert Stanley Bagg à l’angle de la rue Sherbrooke et du chemin de la côte-des-neiges.
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Show your Chinatown how much you love it
This Saturday is the annual Chinatown Clean-Up festival, organized by the Chinese Family Service of Greater Montreal, a non-profit community organization...
By Christopher DeWolf