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Montreal’s Best Architecture Psychoanalyzed

Special contributor Justin Boulanger, architecture...

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World Wide Wednesday: Maps, Trains, Trikes and Three Million on the A40

Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around...

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La construction de la nouvelle Plaza Swatow : une histoire de 2007 à 2010

Septembre 2007 Mai 2008 Mars 2009 Mai 2009 Décembre...

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To renew or not to renew

Je ne sais pas quoi faire. Renouveler ou ne pas renouveler...

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Églises converties du Québec (suite)

Intérieur de l'église Sainte-Françoise-Romaine aujourd'hui...

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Photo du jour : Riverview

Riverview Avenue, in Westmount, located just north...

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The death of a climbing tree

I came home from a weekend of camping to learn that...

Archives /// Historical / Historique

Églises converties du Québec (suite)

Intérieur de l'église Sainte-Françoise-Romaine aujourd'hui convertie en gymnase De nouveaux cas d'églises converties en Montérégie et en Estrie sont désormais visible ici.

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Final farewell to the Seville Theatre

Demolition under way at the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Lambert-Closse. After decades of neglect and indecision, the Seville Theatre's days are now numbered. Last week demolition began on the western buildings of the Seville Theatre block. The West-End landmark was built in 1929 as a Vaudeville theatre, and it went through several incarnations before finally closing its doors in 1985. It has been sitting derelict ever since, slowly deteriorating until all that remained was its brick exterior. Various proposals to redevelop the building ...

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Filmmakers seek old-time Empress photos

Remember when the Empress was alive and well? Got photos to prove it? A pair of documentary film-makers are looking for photographs of the Empress for a short film about the past, present and future of NDG's long-dormant theatre. Family photos from the '60s, '70s and '80s, of you in front of the building, or inside, or of a movie poster, or anything in that genre would be very useful says Emmanual Hessler of Bis Films. "It is a short doc that will look at the evolution of ...

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Jane Jacobs, Quebec sovereigntist

"While it is quite possible that Quebec would do no better on its own than as a province of Canada, there is little reason to suppose that it would do worse, and there are even some practical reasons for supposing that it might do better.... Dependence is stultifying, and sometimes the obverse is true. That is, sometimes independence releases new kinds of effort, opens up formerly untapped funds of energy, initiative, originality, and self confidence. " - Jane Jacobs, The Question of Separatism The name Jane Jacobs is familiar to just about any person interested in cities and she occupies a place of honour in the pantheon of urban thinkers. Jacobs was made famous by her 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and to this day she is most well known for the influence that she had on modern urban planning. While she focused on urban issues throughout her life, she also intervened on a wide range of other political and social topics. One of her lesser know positions was support for Quebec sovereignty. What better day than La Fête nationale du Québec to take a closer look at her thoughts on the topic?

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Remembering history in our cities

Derrick Lovell, my colleague and political scientist in-training, recently wrote a very insightful piece about how we've allowed our cities to forget our history. I decided to share it with you: A couple months ago, I was reading this biography of Pierre Elliot Trudeau for a Canadian Studies class at university. Like most biographies, it began by giving a little background information - some basic facts about Trudeau's early life. While scanning over the first few pages, I learned that I in fact live about 2 blocks from Trudeau's early ...

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