With all the bad news coming down the wire in the past week I was looking for something positive to report on. Thursday night I […]
Category: City
Montreal Victory Party: Civic Pride from Roosh V’s Beer Shower
Bon Voyage parties are bittersweet celebrations for a friend who is leaving town. It’s a chance to wish them well in their travels while secretly […]
UPDATE: Noted Misogynist Roosh V Welcomed Montreal-Style, with Beer in the Face
Yesterday, I told you about how Roosh V, the US blogger and “pick up artist” who thinks rape should be legal on private property was […]
We’re #2! Montreal ranked second best city in the world to live…after Toronto
The Economist just ranked Montreal as the second best city to live. What do you think?
‘There is no right to protest’: Montreal police deny Charter rights
“This is approaching absurdist comedy,” tweeted Montreal Gazette reporter Christopher Curtis Friday night, trapped in a police kettle…
Three Fantasy Montreal Metro Expansions
We need to prioritize public transit expansion in our city. We need to transition off of our over-reliance on automobiles, cut down considerably on local […]
Interview with Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
Ethan Cox is the Quebec Correspondent for Rabble.ca where this interview with Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, the former spokesperson for student group CLASSE originally appeared.. Ethan Cox: You were recently […]
NDG cyclists and pedestrians and transit users rail against MUHC super-hospital traffic plans
Emily Campbell speaks with Projet Montreal City Councillor Peter McQueen (Notre-Dame-de-Grace) and community activist Marlo Turner Ritchie who aren’t impressed with traffic plans surrounding the new McGill University Health Centre Super-Hospital. They and other local pedestrians, public transit users and cyclists don’t want to be cut off from an entire neighbourhood…
728 minutes of fame
Some cops think they’re above the laws they are charged with enforcing, that’s nothing new. But now it looks like the Montreal Police force (SPVM) thinks it’s above the unwritten laws of celebrity and fame. Warhol said that everyone gets 15 minutes in the spotlight. Stéfanie Trudeau, better known as Constable 728, used those up well before the Maple Spring went on its summer break. So why did she turn up again in the news mid-October…
Fattal Loft’s Uncertain Future
By the muddy banks of the train tracks there is a loft the locals call Death House. A venue used by punks and many others in the underground scene to express anger, confusion and rage at social inequalities and lack of justice in the system…