A housing coop located on Avenue du Parc between St-Viateur and Fairmount. Built between 1904 and 1912 the building was originally a private apartment building aimed at well to do singles and childless couples. It was converted into a coop in 1979.

Grafitti in the laneway between Fairmount and Clermont, in Mile-End.

Maybe the best lost cat poster ever. Seen all over Mile-End.

The dust is finally settling from Monday's federal election and Montreal's (and Quebec's) political geography has been radically transformed. A total of 812,000 Montrealers cast ballots and here's how the votes add up on the island: NDP                   38.3% ------------ 10 seats Liberal                27.3% ------------ 7 seats Bloc                    18% -------------- 1 seat Conservative    13.3% ------------ 0 seats Green                 2.3% ------------- ...

The federal campaign has drawn to a close and the polls are open. The politicians have made their pitches and it's now up to the population to decide, and no one really knows what's going to happen. Conservative majority? Conservative minority to be replaced by an NDP-Liberal government? Or even an NDP minority? At this point it's all guesswork. We will find out tonight where the cards lie, but it isn't too soon to look back at the campaign and how it played out in Montreal. For our city this election has been a sharp break from the past. Liberals and Bloquistes have had to scramble to save previously safe seats as a surging NDP targets ridings no one would have imagined two weeks ago. Long a city of chateaux forts, polls suggest that we will see tightly fought races across the city. For the first time in a long while Montréal is a swing region that the federal parties need to court.