A group of undergraduates at McGill University are working to give downtown students, and others, access to gardening space and a better connection to their food. Access to green space is difficult for downtown dwellers and even more difficult with the recent (temporary) closing of 167 community garden plots. It is especially difficult for the city’s many university students, who are much more likely to be apartment dwellers, and much less likely to be in town long enough to get access to the increasingly rare garden ...

The new smart card is being launched today...but may not be available until September. Although the Gazette published an article about the launch with a photo of a smart-card being used, according to various STM info sources the card will be available either in July or the fall. Magnetic-strip ticket cards, different from the re-useable Opus card, are now available for purchase at some locations. As already discussed on this site, ...

Montreal is taking steps towards becoming a greener city, but we still have a long way to go. According to Montréal’s First Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development/Premier plan stratégique de développement durable de la collectivité montréalaise, compostable matter comprises 40% of residential waste in our region. Recently, Westmount and Côte St. Luc announced plans to expand their existing kitchen waste pick-up, however for now even these extend to only part of the respective municipalities. Montreal is planning to launch ...

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