Neighbourhoods / Quartiers
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Is the Place d’Armes Redesign a Success?
Three years ago, I lamented that Place d’Armes was just a pretty picture: The public space that had been the heart of Montreal for over 300 years...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du jour: Chinese Jump-rope
Patch of grass on the edge of Chinatown, Easter Sunday, 2012
By Alanah Heffez -
Berri Square: Keeping Our Common Ground
Last week I wrote about how, after three years of volunteering with Dans la Rue, I came to see Berri Square as one of the few places where...
By Alanah Heffez -
Le goût de Montréal: chronique alimentaire d’un baby-boomer
Mon père est né en 1944, il n’est donc pas techniquement un baby-boomer. Mais alimentairement parlant, c’est tout comme: il a vécu, avec les Québécois et...
By Joel Thibert -
A Taste for Montreal: Anticipation
Most Montrealers are so accustomed to he lineup on the sidewalk outside of Schwartz’s deli it may as well be part of the street furniture. Just...
By Alanah Heffez -
Square Chaboillez and the Dangers of Precedent
The images and some of the content of this post has been adapted from Montréalités Urbaines with the author’s permission. Can the City sell a park...
By Alanah Heffez -
A Taste for Montreal: Hot Dogs for Humanity
For three years I volunteered with Dans la Rue van, handing out hot dogs to Montreal’s homeless on Monday evenings. The first thing volunteers learn...
By Alanah Heffez -
My First Time
I am not ready for a career in politics. Not that I was ever planning one; but after attending my borough’s council meeting for the first time last...
By Émile Thomas -
A Taste for Montreal: How Santropol May Have Saved St-Urbain & Duluth
Garth Gilker moved in to the third floor of the triplex on the corner of Duluth and St-Urbain street around 1970. An anglo Gaspésien, Gilker says that he...
By Alanah Heffez -
Why the demise of big box stores is not necessarily good news for main street shops
Considering that the SAQ announced last June that it would close two of its smaller outlets in the Southwest borough of Montreal (presumably to open up...
By Joel Thibert -
Photo du jour : Homogeneity in the city
A homogenous landscape is a rare bird in Montreal’s downtown neighbourhoods.
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du jour: J’aime ma ruelle
Bonne St-Valentin! Graffiti près de de la Roche et Saint-Joseph.
By Alanah Heffez