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Montréal Monday: Garbage, car-free streets, recording discs

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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.

• Quebec’s garbage reduction week just ended yesterday and Alanah Heffez brings us the dirt on some of Montréal’s smelly trash stats.

• The pedestrianization of a major Montréal street over the summer was deemed a success by the city and is now thinking about expanding the pedestrian area for next year.

Here’s a cool look into the history of recorded music and how Montréal became an important site for its development.

photo by Alanah Heffez

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