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Remember the Mountain Street viaduct
If you were around before the 1970s, you might still remember the Mountain Street viaduct, which spanned the Canadian National tracks between St. Jacques...
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Photo du jour: Workers of the world unite!
I spotted this protest poster in Park Extension last June. I’m pretty sure it’s written in Bengali, but can anyone confirm?
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Le théâtre de Quat’sous n’est plus !
C’est ce matin vers 7h30 que commenca la démolition de l’édifice situé au 100 avenue des Pins occupé par le théâtre de Quat’sous. La...
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Grumbling about Griffintown
A couple big things happened at the Sud-Ouest borough council meeting tonight. The most important: borough Mayor Jacqueline Monpetit annouced a series of...
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Photo du jour: Park Ex blue
Durocher Street just below Jean Talon, Park Extension. September 28, 2006
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Griffintown: Meetings and more meetings
I was at the Sud-Ouest Borough council meeting tonight where they announced a series of public consultations on the Griffintown project. The first will be...
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Yesterday’s ideas, today’s problems
Savvy Montrealers know that the best place to be on Thursday evenings, post-cinq-à-sept, is the Canadian Centre for Architecture, when admission to the...
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Parking in the snow
Steve Faguy has an interesting post on Fagstein about the creative measures Montrealer drivers take when they need to park their cars after a big...
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Photo du jour: Van Horne Viaduct
The Van Horne Viaduct (also known as the Rosemont Viaduct) is surprisingly unobtrusive as it passes down Marmier Street in the industrial area next to the...
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Using street furniture as a canvas for art
I’m in Calgary right now, visiting my family, and despite the frigid weather (it’s 17 degrees below zero as I write this) I’ve tried my...
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How to not screw up Montreal’s schools
Just as it prepares to invest $140 million in upgrading its schools, the Commission scolaire de Montréal, the city’s largest French school board, is...
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Griffintown News Roundup #2: Jan. 23-Jan. 31
Griffintown continues to make waves in the local media. On the footsteps of our last news roundup, here, in chronological order are many of the news...
By Chris Erb
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered