Politics / Politique
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Montreal moves on Open Data
For just over a year, Montréal Ouvert has been pressuring the city to provide data to citizens that is readable by a computer program, centralized in a...
By Alanah Heffez -
The Regionalist: Is Regionalism an Ideology?
The recent (and current) discussions regarding the MMC’s proposed regional land-use and development plan have exposed (but not addressed) an important...
By Joel Thibert -
Corruption, Cartels and Crumbling Infrastructure
Images all Flickr Creative Commons, courtesy of MPD01605, lestudio1, mechanikat & theseoduke With allegations of corruption and collusion in the...
By Jacob Larsen -
Compteurs d’eau : un jeu dont vous êtes le héros
Un Winnipégois utilise en moyenne 187 litres d’eau par jour. Un Vancouvérois? 358. Un Montréalais? 504! Dans un rapport publié en 2008...
By Jonathan Lapalme -
The Regionalist: Why Haphazard Urban Development is a Moral Failure
Two weeks ago, I wrote an Op-Ed which was published in La Presse and which stirred some controversy – at least in the Facebook/Twitter world. The...
By Joel Thibert -
The Regionalist: Do we need a new “new regionalism”?
So it looks like the real reason IQT Solutions shut down its Laval operation (in addition to its operations in Trois-Rivières and Oshawa) and put 450...
By Joel Thibert -
“Mixité sociale” in defence of gentrification
The Ville-Marie borough’s decision to approve a 300-unit condo project in the Centre-Sud is creating controversy. The project, to be built on the...
By Devin Alfaro -
The Regionalist: Why we need a regional plan
The council of the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM) has released in May the first draft of its regional planning and development plan for the...
By Joel Thibert -
Le MTQ peut-il s’inspirer de la gestion des entraves dans le Quartier des spectacles?
Le projet du Quartier des spectacles jouit d’une très grande visibilité, ce qui fait sorte que le moindre problème de gestion, de coordination ou de...
By Joel Thibert -
Spacing Montreal Votes on the Bixi Bailout
Last week, Montreal’s city council voted to financially back The Public Bike Service Co. (société de vélo libre service), the non-profit...
By Alanah Heffez -
Spacing Poll: The Bixi Bailout
Tuesday night, Montreal’s city council voted on whether to financially back Bixi to the tune of $108 million. The Public Bike Service Co. (sociétÃ...
By Alanah Heffez -
How Montrealers voted
The dust is finally settling from Monday’s federal election and Montreal’s (and Quebec’s) political geography has been radically...
By Devin Alfaro