Green Space / Espace vert
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Le mardi des arbres/Tree Tuesday: Last post
It’s with a tinge of sadness that I write this last Tree Tuesday/Le mardi des arbres. Sad, because I’ve enjoyed this past year of observing...
By Bronwyn Chester -
The BAPE Speaks: Turcot report released (and analyzed)
On Tuesday, November 10, a half day after being leaked in La Presse story, the recommendations of the province’s environmental assessment commission...
By Jacob Larsen -
Highways, health and the economy: Political winds on the Turcot may be changing
Opposition to the Turcot reconstruction project has climbed even farther up the ladder. La Presse reported that in a parliamentary committee on Wednesday...
By Jacob Larsen -
Turcot activists to Charest: Be coherent!
With the sun setting on the hazy evening commute home today, activists from the Conseil Régionale de l’Environnement (CRE) on the St. Jacques...
By Jacob Larsen -
Montreal’s Lost Rivers – What Maps Can (and Can’t) Tell Us
A rare view of Rivière St. Pierre, 1956, location unknown. I recently stumbled across a peculiar old map for the island of Montreal showing a rather...
By Andrew Emond -
Tree Tuesday: The cork tree with the lemon scent
TREE WALK THIS SATURDAY ON MOUNT ROYAL: 1 – 5 PM, meet at Georges-Etienne Cartier statue, $15. See here to register. The cork used to seal wine...
By Bronwyn Chester -
Le mardi des arbres: Chêne rouge, chêne montréalais
Pourquoi appele-t-on rouge le chêne rouge? Au contraire de l’idée populaire que ce n’est que les érables et les vinaigriers qui puissent...
By Bronwyn Chester -
Waxing poetic about trash
This is cross-posted from Misha’s blog. Can anyone remember back in 2007 when the City of Montreal handed out 100,000 pocket ashtrays? Yeah…...
By Misha Warbanski -
Turcot, the United Nations and Climate Change
Looking forward to winter smog? (courtesy of the Meteorological Service of Canada) This week at the UN headquarters in New York, the highest level climate...
By Jacob Larsen -
New park to be built on third summit of Mont-Royal
La Presse and The Gazette each reported this week that the city plans to begin the creation of a new park on the northern summit of the mountain in the...
By Chris Erb -
The Turcot is going to heat up
A dull roar of opposition to the MTQ’s Turcot plan has been rumbling through urban planning circles and neighbourhood groups since the Ministère de...
By Jacob Larsen -
Tree Tuesday: Remarkable trees, remarkable people
Next tree tour: Remarkable trees of a Plateau neighbourhood, this Sunday, 10:30 – 1 pm, meet Parc Jean-Jacques Olier, Drolet, south of Duluth, Metro...
By Bronwyn Chester