Riverview Avenue, in Westmount, located just north of the Ville-Marie Expressway.

Concordia's John Molson School of Business looms large over heritage townhouses on Pierce Street.

High-rise apartment buildings on de Maisonneuve between Chomedey and du Fort, in Shaughnessy Village.

Anie Samson, Vision Montréal mayor of Villeray–St-Michel–Parc-Extension. Criticism continues to mount against the mayor of Villeray–St-Michel–Parc-Extension, Anie Samson, for her handling of the possible new Inuit patient residence at 7500 St-Denis. In a press release sent out this morning, Projet Montréal came out strongly in favour of the project. Party leader Richard Bergeron harshly criticised Samson's previous comments on the topic: "The defensive strategy of the mayor is an insulting approach as much for the Inuit as for Montrealers. Demanding a moratorium (on the project) is excessive, and it's part of a profoundly unhealthy, slippery slope towards ethnic and social profiling." As previously covered in Spacing, for the past few months there has been a divisive debate going on in Villeray about the possible conversion of the former Chinese Hospital on 7500 St-Denis to an Inuit patient residence. This proposal ignited an opposition movement which destributed flyers throughout the neighbourhood and put together a website entitled "Imminent Danger". Their arguments were based on little more than thinly-veiled "drunk Indian" stereotypes and they attempted to incite opposition to the project with alarmist predictions. Thankfully, their appeals were not well received by many Villeray residents. According to one resident: "I was so scared when I received that flyer in my mailbox. I felt sick to my stomach; it was so racist, so demagogic, and it said such horrible things about the Inuit." Supporters counter organised and successfully packed a public consultation with residents favourable to the project. According to group spokeswoman Geneviève Beaudet, "“I want the Inuit to know that it’s not everyone that shares these ideas. We want to welcome them the best we can.”

Over three years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, the Îlot Voyageur still sits unfinished.