Neighbourhoods / Quartiers

Photo du jour: Gilford curves

Gilford and Grand-Pré. May 30, 2007.

Norman Bethune Square

Norman Bethune Square, a tiny triangle wedged between the intersection of Guy St. and de Maisonneuve Blvd., is Montreal’s shittiest square. I mean...

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...

Photo du jour: Evening portrait

Outside the Adams Building. McGill University. May 22, 2007.

What do you want at the Pine/Park interchange?

By Montreal standards, it was a remarkably quick construction project. Perhaps that is because it mostly involved deconstruction: an entire interchange...

Photo du jour: Triplex evening

Triplexes. Clark near Duluth. May 30, 2007.

Photo du jour: Atwater Market at sunset

Photo du jour: Au Revoir

This eclectic block of Ste-Catherine at Jeanne-Mance will soon be demolished to make way for a souless mid-rise office building housing a Best Buy at...

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...

Photo du jour: Bicycle gang

Athena Square, Park Ex. April 21, 2006.

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...

Photo du jour: Sikh, Greek

Athena Square, Park Ex. April 21, 2006.