Neighbourhoods / Quartiers
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Remembering 6/4, the Tiananmen events, in Montreal’s most Chinese public space
Almost naturally, Parc Sun-Yat-Sen, also called Zhongshan Park by some, was the location of Montreal’s presumably only public commemoration of 6/4...
By Cédric Sam -
Rally for community centre squat ends in eviction
Last Friday, a group called the “Centre Social Autogéré” stated their intent to occupy an abandoned building and appropriate it as an...
By Alanah Heffez -
What happened to rue St-Norbert?
My friend recently picked up a copy of the book “Picture this! Posters of Social Movements in Québec (1966-2007)“. While leafing through the...
By Chris Erb -
The latest on the Lower Main
Spacing commentor Louis Rastelli called me out on this one: it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to critique the plans for 2-22 Ste-Catherine East...
By Alanah Heffez -
2-22 Ste-Catherine – A whole new street
2-22 Ste-Catherine by night. Image by Société de Redéveloppement Angus, Paul Andreu, Aedifica & Gilles Huot, May 21 (PDF). It may be ugly, it may be...
By Alanah Heffez -
DARE-DARE: Urban art in the making
Seen on the corner of Ste-Catherine and Lambert-Closse, just one block east of the Pepsi Forum / AMC building. It’s still one of the remarkably...
By Cédric Sam -
Have you tried the Bixi yet?
The Bixi, Montreal’s new public bike system, was officially launched exactly two weeks ago. Have you tried it yet? Being a daily user of the...
By Cédric Sam -
The parades of Clark & Mont-Royal
My new Job, which just ended about half an hour ago, has kept me cooped up in an office on the corner of Mont-Royal and Clark for the last two weeks.Â...
By Chris Erb -
De quoi avez-vous rêvé hier soir pour Montréal ?
Au sujet de son arrivée au Canada, il y a presque 40 ans, mon père prétend que : « Malheureusement, je suis arrivé à Toronto ; heureusement, je suis restÃ...
By Émile Thomas -
Tree tuesday: Lilacs in the air
This week’s tree walk: Natives and Outcasts: The Trees on the Fringes of the McGill Campus (see below for details) Lilacs aren’t native but...
By Bronwyn Chester -
Makeover proposed for the Palais de Justice
Back in the dead of winter, I did a short post that included a photo of the austere, East-facing wall of the Palais de Justice. My immediate reaction was...
By Jacob Larsen -
Maguire Meadow Garden Deemed Illegal
I hate to put up a second post about bizarre law-enforcing activities over the weekend, but it has to be said: last Sunday, the Montreal Police broke up a...
By Alanah Heffez