Neighbourhoods / Quartiers
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Les seringues usagées, les humains jetés
« Oh mama, I didn’t know life was this hard Oh mama, my innocence has been tarred » – Paula Cole L’utilisation de drogues injectables : je...
By Émile Thomas -
Photo du jour: Ghost sign revealed at Rosemont/St. Michel
I don’t know what building was located here, but it burnt down this summer, revealing a beautiful blue “ghost sign”. Does anyone know of...
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 -
Campus Martius – Champ de Mars
« I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It’s about...
By Émile Thomas -
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 -
Place d’Armes – Just a Pretty Picture?
Spend a half an hour in the square and you’ll watch this scene on repeat: A tour bus wheezes up to the curb and releases a flood of tourists into...
By Alanah Heffez -
St-Henri residents take their candidates for a walk
Have you ever wished that your local politicians could walk a mile in your shoes? That’s what group of St-Henri citizens achieved today when they...
By Alanah Heffez -
La quartier de mon enfance : Lacey Green, Kirkland
Y’é tombe une bombe su’a rue principale. Depuis qu’y ont construit le centre d’achat. Les Colocs, 1993 En fait, le quartier de mon...
By Cédric Sam -
St. Henri Art Walk
Featured in an article in the Gazette, the St. Henri Art Walk begins today. The tour of over 70 artist studios takes you behind the scenes of “this...
By Timea Jakab -
St-Laurent et Mont-Royal : Le centre-ville d’un quartier
« It’s really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don’t have a downtown, you really don’t have anything. It’s hard to...
By Émile Thomas -
Bread, Circuses and Public Spaces
The winter gloves came out in full force the first night of October; any trace of a possible Indian summer has coldly been erased from our minds. Some are...
By Émile Thomas -
Mary to Descend from Dawson Tomorrow
If you’re passing by Sherbrooke West tomorrow morning (Thursday Sept 24th), keep en eye out for the descent of Mary and Jesus. Dawson College...
By Alanah Heffez