Neighbourhoods / Quartiers

Une ville sans trous

J’ai toujours été fasciné par ces trous et ces interstices dans la trame urbaine qui surgissent un peu partout dans la ville et qu’on...

EXCLUSIVE: STM Shuts Down Municipal Shuttle to Metro

Shuttle bus owned and operated by the town of Montréal-Est. Photo courtesy of Montréal-Est Town Hall. Backed by a law that grants them a public transit...

Bike Path Reverts to Parking in Westmount

While the City of Montreal will attempt to clear the bike path on de Maisonneuve for year-round cycling, Westmount has no such intentions.  The section of...

Photo du Jour – Shell Empire

This Shell building at 10501 Sherbrooke East caught my eye, although I suppose any kind of architecture stands out amid the sea of smokestacks and...

Photo du Jour – Port de Montréal

Vue de la rive du fleuve, près de l’avenue Broadway à Montréal Est. Photo prise le 26 novembre.

Roerich Garden highlights abandoned site’s value in the face of St-Viateur expansion

Sprout Out Loud! gardening collective in the Mile End meadow on November 2nd 2008. Photo by Melissa Campbell. In an abandoned CP Rail lot in the Mile End...

Photo du Jour – Griffintown Sculptures

For a few days, I passed by these curious carved heads on my way to work, and then on Monday I had a chance to meet the artist, Tuto. Between my basic...

Photo du jour: Bellechasse sous la pluie

Rosemont Viaduct & Capitol Industries Inc. at 5795 Avenue de Gaspé (Zinc die casting specialists). Photo taken November 13th from the 12th floor of...

Photo du jour : Une vue depuis le clocher de l’église St-Pierre apôtre

Hopeful about Les bassins du nouveau havre

“Actually, they are the basins of the ancien havre but that ‘s what happens when the branding guys get hold of this,” commented Mark...

Devimco Griffintown project on ice

In our current economic climate where even hundreds of billions of dollars don’t make problems go away, it has been increasingly difficult to secure...

By-law passed against cat owners in Rosemont – La Petite Patrie

Be advised: according to this morning’s CBC Radio broadcast, the Rosemont – La Petite Patrie borough has passed a by-law that limits each...