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Free parking for non-residents to end in Plateau
The newly elected Projet-Montréal borough council in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal have indicated that they plan to phase out free parking spaces in favour of...
By Chris Erb -
Rizzuto funeral
The funeral service for Nick Rizzuto Jr., son of mob boss Vito Rizzuto, at Madonna Della Difesa Church in Montreal’s Little Italy this afternoon...
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A Montreal whodunnit: How to make sense of all these firebombings
Photo from mtlp‘s photostream on Flickr While a whodunnit may sound fun, it’s disquieting and mysterious to think who’s throwing all...
By Jacob Larsen -
Someone’s got some ‘xplaining to do: More transit cost overruns
Image from kevincrumbs on Flickr Creative Commons Only one day after the STM announced that the projected cost of replacing its ageing fleet of Metro cars...
By Jacob Larsen -
Google Street View launches across Canada today
To the detriment of a great deal of work that needed to be done today, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Google Street View had finally been added...
By Chris Erb -
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 -
Patronage, Corruption, Underworld: the movie
Well, it can’t be ignored. Montreal City Hall sketchiness has reached such astronomical proportions that The Economist ran a piece about it on June...
By Alanah Heffez -
The World Wide Web of the Turcot Interchange
Courtesey of Signé Turcot While many Montrealers wait with baited breath as the hearings of the Bureau des Audiences Publiques sur l’Environnement...
By Jacob Larsen -
Il est interdit d’interdire
« La loi nous oblige à faire ce qui est dit et non ce qui est juste. » – Hugo Grotius What’s going on with our police forces in Canada? From...
By Émile Thomas -
Montreal will have the greenest highway ever
rue Cazelais before rue Cazelais after The MTQ released its latest renderings on the future Turcot interchange for the first BAPE information session...
By Jacob Larsen -
Commemorative graffiti
Location in Montréal-Nord where Freddy Villaneuva was killed in the summer of 2008 An anonymous group has been drawing attention to the conduct of the...
By Jacob Larsen -
The annual march against police brutality
Police making their way up de Pins. This photo courtesy of Benoit Falardeau By now anyone paying attention to the news knows that there was a...
By KC Bolton