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The Moving Day mess
115,000 households packed up and moved on Tuesday, making it quite possibly the single largest instance of a mass moving day in North America. Even on...
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Photo du jour: Hasidic celebration
Bernard Street in Outremont. June 27, 2008
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Public art
As usual, Jeanne Mance Street is closed for the jazz fest, but this year the parking lot on its west side has been replaced by a large construction site...
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Some mid-week news
Night flights to end over Laval, St. Laurent The agreement, made in 2006, was to merely test night flights over those areas, and the airport has decided...
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Photo du jour: Verdun Plymouth
1960s-era car, triplexes and unusual rowhouses on a sidestreet in Verdun. September 21, 2002
By Christopher DeWolf -
Toronto Tuesday: Murmur, the Bike Train, and new maps.
Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share with you some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will enable constructive dialogue on the...
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Photo du jour: Happy Moving Day
Also known in some parts of the country as Canada Day. Sherbrooke and Ste. Famille, July 3, 2004
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Close, but no cigar
I frequently notice that parking posts with bike rings are installed as far out of the way of pedestrians as possible. I don’t disagree with this on...
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Photo du jour: C.W.A.C.
Until the 1960s, signs and advertisements were far more loosely regulated than they are today, as you can see in this 1943 photo of Papineau and Mount...
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Street party for Spain
This morning, my friends—all of them Spain supporters, except for one, who kept quiet—decided to watch today’s Euro Cup final between...
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Photo du jour: Vacant lot sculpture garden
One of my favourite things about the area around the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks in Mile End is that they seethe with life: there’s always...
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A couple of cautionary tales
⋅ Man dies in hit-and-run in Montreal | Délit de fuite mortel | Le conducteur d’un scooter meurt dans un délit de fuite An SUV hit and killed man on...
By Julie Fournier
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered