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Street Sleeper
Riding my bike home one morning, around 7AM, I came upon this dude taking advantage of the late August moving day purge. This is the alleyway just west...
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How much private involvement in our transit?
Yesterday, La Presse revealed that the Agence métropolitaine de transport has awarded a private company a contract to operate two “luxury”...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Hydroelectricity’s Landscape
Les Escaliers des Géants: Spillway of the Robert Bourassa Hydroelectric Dam. Photo by Lily Pan, June 24th 2008. Used with permission. 1300 kilometers...
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Montreal’s public washrooms
La Presse has taken upon itself to evaluate the state of Montreal’s public washrooms. While this might seem, in some respects, like an exercise in...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montrealers don’t have equal access to pools
If you want easy access to a good and spacious pool, you’re better off living in the west end or a demerged suburb, La Presse reported on Sunday...
By Christopher DeWolf -
New recycling bins at the Jean-Talon Market
Last Saturday, as some friends and I wandered through Little Italy in the muggy afternoon, we stopped by the Jean-Talon Market. I noticed that new...
By Christopher DeWolf -
New initiative to increase downtown gardening space
A group of undergraduates at McGill University are working to give downtown students, and others, access to gardening space and a better connection to...
By Pamela Shapiro -
Re-thinking waste: municipal composting
Montreal is taking steps towards becoming a greener city, but we still have a long way to go. According to Montréal’s First Strategic Plan for Sustainable...
By Pamela Shapiro -
Gaz Métro to the Main: we’re sorry for ripping you apart
If you’ve been following the news over the past few days, you’ll know that, just as the nearly two-long makeover of St. Laurent Boulevard...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Ville-Marie’s war on the homeless
Mario Paquet, target of a law preventing people from walking more than two dogs at once in Ville-Marie; photo by Ben Soo Under the leadership of mayor...
By Christopher DeWolf -
More community gardens to be closed
Soil contamination has forced the Southwest borough to close two community gardens and part of a third. The Gazette has more: The borough said it took the...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Toronto putting out Montreal’s fires
This city has a tendency to be one of those places where, so often, you will see something that just doesn’t seem to make any sense whatsoever...
By Chris Erb