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Montreal Monday: Neighbourhood tours, art crawls, and a municipal election

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Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montreal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.

• Last week’s St. Henri Art Walk gave Montrealers  a behind the scenes look at over 70 artist studios in the city’s “west end..artistic hub”.

• In this week’s Dimanche démocratique à‰mile Thomas looks at the role of advertising in politics and the reasons why Montrealers are largely ignorant of the upcoming municipal elections.

• A innovative group of citizens from Montreal’s St-Henri neighborhood discovered an ingenious way to get through to their local politicians — taking them on a neighborhood walk.

photo by Whiny Dancer.

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