I was at the Sud-Ouest Borough council meeting tonight where they announced a series of public consultations on the Griffintown project. The first will be on Feb. 21 at the ETS (on Notre Dame and Peel). At the meeting I met Chris and Judith Gobeil who live in the area and are starting up a committee to take a stand against Devimco's proposal. They're having a meeting tomorrow, open to all. Here are the details: Open meeting: Wednesday February 6, 7:00 P.M. 741 des Seigneurs (just north of St. Jacques) The Committee for the Sustainable Redevelopment of Griffintown is having a public meeting for ...

Hello readers, I need your help! On my bike ride home from campus this evening, I passed a PT cruiser on the corner of Metcalfe and de Maisonneuve. There was a projector on top throwing a huge Nike ad onto the side of a building across the street. There was no company name on the car and I unfortunately didn't have my camera to grab the scene. I've gotten used to seeing ad trucks rolling through the downtown (see above) but this "temporary" ad is a first. Has anyone else seen this or know anything about it?

Here are some stories from other media that Spacing Montreal finds interesting. Good news for car owners CBC reports the city will let people park for free in some private parking lots after snowstorms. They hope this will speed up the snow-clearing process. Does this mean those annoying alarm trucks will stop waking me up in the wee hours reminding people to move their cars? Waiting in the cold The Gazette asks why Montreal's buses are so full. One dedicated public transit rider is questioning his decision to leave his ...

Montreal has launched a new protection plan for Mount Royal. It's effective immediately once it goes through council this week. Helen Fotopolous, who's the City's executive committee member responsible for environment, says this isn't just another exercise in planting bushes. Rather it is a $30-million plan to be rolled out over five years. It deals with everything from improving public transit access to the Mountain, to protecting views of the mountain from about 100 points in the city. Ruining the view, ...

Saturday is the Global Day of Action Against Climate change. A demonstration starts at 2:30 p.m. from Dorchester Square and will move through downtown to Place des Arts. Demos are taking place in 30 other cities in Canada and 70 countries around the world. For more information on tomorrow's protest, email climat@syc-cjs.org, environment.ssmu@gmail.com or call 514-562-5809. South Shore dwellers might be interested in another intervention taking place in Brossard earlier that afternoon. From 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, the Youth Climate Action Committee will stage a rally in support of the Bali talks on ...