{"id":3499,"date":"2008-08-25T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/08\/25\/montreal-monday-very-local-produce-23-skidoo-and-a-question-of-private-involvement-in-montreals-public-transit\/"},"modified":"2008-08-25T17:00:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T21:00:34","slug":"montreal-monday-very-local-produce-23-skidoo-and-a-question-of-private-involvement-in-montreals-public-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/08\/25\/montreal-monday-very-local-produce-23-skidoo-and-a-question-of-private-involvement-in-montreals-public-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"Montr\u00e9al Monday: Very local produce, 23 Skidoo, and private involvement in Montr\u00e9al&#8217;s public transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3230\/2737572344_91effea34a.jpg\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/\"><em>Spacing Montr&eacute;al<\/em><\/a><em>. We&#8217;ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fermeduzephyr.ca\/en\/about\/\">Ferme du Z&eacute;phir<\/a> is one of the last remaining farms on the Island of Montr&eacute;al, selling their vegetables direct to consumers by delivery or at their weekly veggie stand.  Alanah Heffez looks at the success of this local produce provider with her post about <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/08\/23\/very-local-produce\/\">Z&eacute;phir&#8217;s very local produce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; If a catastrophe suddenly obliterated people from the city, what would become of the city&#8217;s streets and buildings?  Julian Biggs&#8217; 1964 NFB film, 23 Skidoo, surveys Montr&eacute;al as though the human population is mysteriously eradicated, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/08\/22\/from-the-nfb-archives-23-skidoo\/\">documenting the traces of humanity left in a now lifeless city<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; How much is too much when it comes to private involvement in public transportation?  Agence m&eacute;tropolitaine de transport has contracted a private company (instead of the publicly funded STM) to operate two new express bus lines with luxury coaches, sparking concerns <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/08\/20\/how-much-private-involvement-in-our-transit\/\">over a two-tiered transit system with too much private involvement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Christopher DeWolf <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montr&eacute;al. We&#8217;ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto. &bull; Ferme du Z&eacute;phir is one of the last remaining farms on the Island of Montr&eacute;al, selling their vegetables<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/08\/25\/montreal-monday-very-local-produce-23-skidoo-and-a-question-of-private-involvement-in-montreals-public-transit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Montr\u00e9al Monday: Very local produce, 23 Skidoo, and private involvement in Montr\u00e9al&#8217;s public transportation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[10069,1582,10070,38,857,10071,19],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spacing","tag-10069","tag-christopher-dewolf","tag-julian-biggs","tag-montreal","tag-public-transportation","tag-skidoo","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Montr\u00e9al Monday: Very local produce, 23 Skidoo, and private involvement in Montr\u00e9al&#039;s public transportation - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/08\/25\/montreal-monday-very-local-produce-23-skidoo-and-a-question-of-private-involvement-in-montreals-public-transit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Montr\u00e9al Monday: Very local produce, 23 Skidoo, and private involvement in Montr\u00e9al&#039;s public transportation - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montr&eacute;al. 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