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The snowplow ballet
It’s the famous day after the storm, when the snow has stopped falling but huge piles of it remain on the ground. Normally busy streets are quiet...
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Photo du jour : Attention à la déblayeuse, ti-gars!
Photo prise le 4 décembre 2007, sur Ste-Catherine, dans le Village.
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Mon cagibi, mon shed, mon débarras, mon…
J’ai compris à quel point le cagibi était un élément caractéristique de Montréal en visitant les ruelles en compagnie d’un groupe d’amis...
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The Main is back and ready to party
After fourteen brutal months of non-stop construction, the closure of several prominent businesses and some eerily quiet days on a street normally known...
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2006 Census: Montreal’s changing demographics
Statistics Canada released its latest batch of information from the 2006 census today, this time covering the sensitive topics of language and...
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CCTV Fashion Police
In much of Canada, the introduction of CCTV by police to monitor public space is still in its infancy, passionately supported in some quarters, denounced...
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Avant et après la tempête…
En prévision de notre première super grosse de l’année (jugez-en par l’impressionnante liste d’établissements scolaires fermés), je...
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Photo du jour : de l’ancien au nouveau Chinatown
Le vieux magasin d’import-export Swatow, le nouveau complexe commercial Swatow. Photo prise le 9 septembre 2007. Lisez l’article par...
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What? You’ve never seen a bike in the winter?
Snowed-in cars on Beaudry Street. Don’t feel like shoveling? Take your bike! Photo by Misha Warbanski I like the community spirit sparked by the...
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Norman Bethune Square gets a makeover
Norman Bethune is getting a bath. His statue, which normally stands encrusted in bird poop at the corner of Guy and de Maisonneuve, in the most...
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Collège Français, en quatre temps
Fondé en 1959, le Collège Français est un établissement d’enseignement privé situé au coeur du Mile End, sur l’Avenue Fairmount. En 1972, le...
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Street market? No, a railway market
[youtube]xSqNx7vJLDE[/youtube] Spacing reader Mark Slutsky sent us a link to this video today, showing a market lining a railway in Thailand. Within...
By Christopher DeWolf
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered