I had an opportunity to spend some time on l'Autoroute de la Côte-de-Liesse on foot one rainy day last week. Don't ask — just trust that I sometimes make decisions like these on very little sleep. The picture I posted not only depicts the industrial/commercial blight one is immersed in on Côte-de-Liesse, but somehow also captures the emotional state the area imposes on a pedestrian. So far as I could tell, everything is walkable — sidewalks line the road, and where cross-streets ...

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, started in the 1980s and digitized gradually over the last 10 years, now has over 18,000 maps available online. One of the maps, Montreal 1815, can be overlaid with varying transparency on Google Maps to demonstrate the tiny boundaries of 1815 Montreal compared to today's metropolis. There are so many ways to view this massive collection I can't even begin to make a recommendation (the site itself could use some maps) so start at the home page and ...

4Montreal's Chinatown Olympics celebration not hampered by cloudy skies | Cérémonies d'ouverture: Les yeux rivés sur Pékin The Olympics will be broadcast live at Sun Yat-Sen Park from 10am-10pm every day right up to the closing ceremonies. 4Agression sauvage sur un itinérant Awful. 4Guerre confirmée avec la mafia 4Cellulaire au volant: 1700 contraventions à Montréal This is interesting news. I was just thinking the other day while witnessing guy talking on his phone while ...

Cette fin de semaine, de vendredi à dimanche, La Tohu (une organization qui est associer avec l'École nationale de cirque) sera l'hôte de la cinquième édition de la Fête Bio-Paysanne. Je n'ai pas y allé encore mais cette année je suis heureux d'y aller. La site Web à beaucoup des détails qui je ne vais pas raconter içi, mais attendez le marché, échantillons alimentaires, animaux de ferme, visites guidées du Complexe environnemental de Saint-Michel, et plus. J'espère que le méteo sera coopérer! Maintenant, je voudrais savoir comment y aller en ...

4Artificial soccer turf a health hazard, Jeanne-Mance Park users say [CBC.ca] 4Le tarif réduit passera par l'Opus [Radio-Canada.ca] | La STM cible d'abord les étudiants pour la carte OPUS [La Presse] | Les étudiants feront l'essai de la carte Opus [LCN] | New student bus passes useless to thieves [Montreal Gazette] 4Woman killed by bus [Montreal Gazette] Not many details, but the incident ...