Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.
• Most Torontonians know how crowded a sidewalk can get, especially when obstacles like restaurant tables are thrown into the mix. Here’s a look at a Montréal restaurant that wrestled some coveted walking space for a streetside patio.
• Sparked by a recent ad that’s aimed at keeping young Montréalers from moving out to the suburbs, Alanah Heffez crunches some numbers to see if the high price of living of downtown is really more expensive than in the surrounding suburban community.
• Underwhelmed by Astral’s plans for Toronto’s garbage bins? Wishing for a more Orwellian disposal system? Well Montréal City Hall has just approved a vaccuum-powered collection system for the Quartier des Spectacles area that will whisk garbage, recyclables, and compostables from street level receptacles.
• With Montréal drawing twice as much water than other Canadian cities and losing half of it through leaky pipes, Anders Rasmusson looks at the city’s wasteful water system and how the city plans on putting a stop to the flood of excessive water use.
• In a follow-up to an August posting about the hydro-electrical industry’s environmental impact, Alanah Heffez writes about a displaced Cree community and the changing landscape around a hydro complex powering Montréal.
Photo by Alanah Heffez.
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Our Mayor won’t allow us to have a vacuum garbage system in the Toronto Portlands – he’s thinks the unionised truck method is sucky enough for us.