Marché Central going green? Yeah, right

Marché Central, the big box power centre that has emerged recently around the corner of Acadie and Chabanel, just north of the Metropolitan, is installing...

For your amusement, a laundry list of Montreal evils

Montreal and Quebec City have long had a rather intense rivalry. Thing is, it’s entirely one-sided. Quebec City exists only on the periphery of...

Les vélos à la fourrière / Bikes to the impoundment lot

Photo du jour: Night lights

Ste. Catherine and Drummond. December 23, 2006

Ma ruelle préférée : alignement informel

En général, on s’attend à ce que ce soient les grands boulevards et les grandes rues qui s’enlignent sur les points de repères de la ville...

Photo du jour: Fiesta-Pilipino

Victoria Avenue near Van Horne. January 10, 2007

Headlines / À la une : 09.11.2007

TRANSPORT TRANSPORTS Montréal à la recherche du vélo idéal (Le Devoir) CULTURE AND COMMUNITY CULTURE ET COMMUNAUTÉ Fresh off the bus, kids are easy mark...

It’s Tempo season!

It’s that time of year when people in many Montreal neighbourhoods start installing much-maligned Tempo shelters to protect their driveways...

Today in the News…

The Gazette reported the Ville-Marie borough manager resigned. Guy Hébert held the position for 27 years. This is the latest news in a politically...

Is Montreal once again bulldozing neighbourhoods?

Montreal has lost a lot of neighbourhoods over the years, thanks mostly to postwar mega-projects. In 1964, Goose Village, a working-class Italian...

Photo du jour: Dirty skyline

Downtown through a dirty window. July 24, 2007

Will the Big Bibliothèque finally open its book market?

When it opened at the end of April, 2005, the Grande Bibliothèque defied expectations when it attracted tens of thousands of people who were eager to...