Politics / Politique
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1995 : la mort de l’État-nation ?
Alors. Il y a 15 ans, le Québec a presque voté « OUI » pour son indépendance. Ou, il a presque voté « OUI » pour qu’il devienne souverain, après...
By Émile Thomas -
Election Schadenfreude and Retrospective
Having just spent the weekend in a Toronto ridden with pre-election-angst, I couldn’t help but indulge in a little bit of voter Schadenfreude. Only...
By Alanah Heffez -
Montréal Ouvert : Taking Action for Open Data
The City of Montreal is a vault of important and fascinating information – maps, stats, schedules, and regulations that enable us to understand and...
By Alanah Heffez -
Jean-Dominic Lévesque-René
« Gotta tell you what I heard / From Agent Orange » – Tori Amos À la suite du décès de M. Jacques Cardinal, conseiller de l’arrondissement de...
By Émile Thomas -
Consultation: how well does the City communicate with youth?
The City of Montreal, in collaboration with Montreal’s Youth Council, is holding a series of public consultations to evaluate the lines of...
By Alanah Heffez -
Montreal will Not Contest Postering Decision
The City of Montreal will not contest the decision made last July by the Quebec court of appeal, which deemed their anti-postering bylaw violates the...
By Alanah Heffez -
Event: Social Justice in the City with Peter Marcuse
Institut de politiques alternatives de Montreal (IPAM) feature speaker series presents: PETER MARCUSE “Social Justice in the City: What is it? Who...
By Devin Alfaro -
Villeray–St-Michel–Parc-Extension mayor faces further criticism for racist comments
Anie Samson, Vision Montréal mayor of Villeray–St-Michel–Parc-Extension. Criticism continues to mount against the mayor of...
By Devin Alfaro -
Montreal’s Best Architecture Psychoanalyzed
Special contributor Justin Boulanger, architecture master’s student and psych-architect extraordinaire, delves into Spacing readers’ minds and...
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Court throws out Montreal’s anti-postering bylaw
Stapling a poster to a Saint-Viateur hydro pole A Quebec Court of Appeal judge has ruled that Montreal’s anti-postering bylaw, which prohibits...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Only in Montreal (suite)…
In our Top Spots survey we asked Spacing Montreal readers to tell us what makes this city unique. Some of your answers were posted last Sunday. There...
By Alanah Heffez -
Montreal’s Best Alleyways
When I asked readers to name their favourite alleyway in our survey, I didn’t expect to run up against this roadblock: what is an alleyway anyways...
By Alanah Heffez