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Tarnished by corruption? Apparently not
Gérald Tremblay’s Union Montreal maintained control of Outremont in yesterday’s by-election, despite last fall’s booze-and-financial...
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Michel Dallaire to design new downtown street furniture
“Les amoureux se bécoteront sur de nouveaux bancs publics,” reads a headline in this morning’s Le Devoir — “Lovers will kiss...
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Please buy this theatre
The Rialto, a Park Avenue landmark for three quarters of a century, is up for sale. Saturday’s Gazette reported that Elias Kalogeras, who has owned...
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Photo du jour: Craig Terminus
Until Montreal scrapped its streetcars in 1959, the Craig Terminus was one of the hubs of the city’s sprawling tramway network. Located near the...
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La voie est libre sur Hutchison
Sur la rue Hutchison, petite soeur de l’Avenue du Parc sur presque toute sa longueur, il n’est pas rare de voir des skieurs de fond déambuler...
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Maison Radio-Canada to be converted into hotel, condos, offices
Montreal is awash in development. Between the two megahospitals, the Quartier des spectacles, Griffintown, Viger Station and countless smaller...
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Photo du jour: Another day, another snowstorm
This photo was from the other storm this month, on December 3rd.
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La vie urbaine vue par Thien Vu Dang et Yasuko Tadokoro
[youtube]Cf_BkdyxYCk[/youtube] Je Ne by Thien Vu Dang VJ Pillow, whose real name is Thien Vu Dang, is a local videographer who has been making waves in...
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Keep de Maisonneuve closed to traffic
Downtown motorists will have to wait until March to drive down the block of de Maisonneuve Blvd. between Aylmer and Union, the city has announced. By...
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Photo du jour : Statue James McGill
Photo de la statue James McGill, prise le 8 juin 2007 à l’Université McGill.
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Montreal’s vanished synagogues
Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, McGill College near Sherbrooke WHAT? Makom: Seeking Sacred Space, a photo exhibition of former synagogues in Montreal...
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Armchair flâneur: Google Street View
Since that day in 1993 when the University of Windsor gave me my first internet account (that required a bureaucratic sign-up process and a two-week wait...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered