Parks / Parcs
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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...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Why is the STM not shovelling the Square-Victoria Metro entrance?
Tonight, while walking home from work through the Quartier International, my co-worker pointed out that the entrance to the Square-Victoria Metro station...
By Chris Erb -
Photo du jour : éléphant mécanique
Photo prise le 16 septembre 2006, au Parc Jeanne-Mance.
By Cédric Sam -
Public hearing: Pine/Park to stay as it is
Yesterday, while a handful of Spacing Montreal contributors sat in a musty church basement with hundreds of other Expozine exhibitors and visitors, about...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Public edifices and places publiques in today’s Devoir
This weekend’s edition of Le Devoir includes a couple of interesting articles on public space in Montreal. On the front page, Stéphane Baillergeon...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Place Monseigneur-Charbonneau
Montreal’s office district, running between Dorchester Square in the northwest and Victoria Square in the southeast, is not terribly exciting...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour : Monument Georges-Étienne Cartier
La phase deux de la restauration du monument construit en l’honneur de Sir Georges-Étienne Cartier s’étirera d’avril 2007 à avril 2008...
By Cédric Sam -
Place Falun Gong
Place Sun Yat Sen, a small square in the heart of Montreal’s Chinatown, is almost perenially occupied by members of Falun Gong, a psuedo-religious...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Fall Ecogardening at (where else?) the Park With No Name
Dare-Dare’s Park With No Name is a busy place, it seems. Not only will Karen Spencer’s Dream Listener project take place there tonight, it...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Tell us about your Mount Royal
La Presse turned its attention towards Mount Royal yesterday with an interesting trio of features on social dynamics of the mountain. Not only is it the...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour : Place Sun Yat-sen
Des parcs Sun Yat-sen, du nom du vénéré fondateur de la Chine moderne, il y en a probablement presque autant que de Chinatowns dans le monde. Celui de...
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Photo du jour : Fin de la saison du boulingrin
Au boulingrin du village de Pointe-Claire, un lieu public de rassemblement privilégié des personnes âgées lors des soirées chaudes d’été. 15...
By Cédric Sam