The new album is out! Expwy in the sky is a double concept EP. Don’t forget that you can play both EPs SIMULTANEOUSLY. Get it! Have a listening party! Invite your friends! Listen to it together! The first part is about a neighborhood that was destroyed to build the Ville-Marie
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Art Threat: The DNA of a public space: The place, history and activism of a public square – Artists invite Montreals to share 9 day cultural festival
This is an event for everyone intended to give the homeless and other Montrealers the opportunity to get involved as on-site volunteers and participants in “an incomparable atmosphere of mutual aid and social solidarity made possible by support from the artistic and business communities as well as the institutional sector and community-based organizations.”
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: New Mural In Ville Emard
Murale de l’Arche Montréal : un projet inspirant qui réunit des graffiteurs et des personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle New mural at 6115 Jogues, looks to be on the side of the presbytery of St-Jean-Damascène. Before And After And here is the city blurb. Montréal, le 6 novembre 2012 –
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Tremblay Resigns!
One of the things that stands out in my mind regarding the merger of the cities on Montreal island involves former Verdun Mayor, Georges Bosse. After the merger Bosse became a key player on Montreal’s notoriously secretive Executive Committee. Soon after he was the City’s main shill for the massive,
Continue readingImpolitical: André Pratte on Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay
This is essentially a call for the Mayor’s resignation from the influential Pratte. Written in the wake of the tawdry cross-examination of witness Martin Dumont before the Charbonneau commission by the lawyer for Union Montreal. Union Montreal is Mayor Tremblay’s party. Here’s Pratte: Et qui est le chef de ce
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Montrealers Getting Screwed By Tremblay
C’mon, tell us how you voted for Tremblay again and again and how much you thought he was a good mayor. Tell us you had no idea that there was corruption at City Hall. And tell us us how you figured out that voting for a guy who was “not
Continue readingknitnut.net: A road trip and a Jewish wedding
GC and I were in Montreal for the weekend, for his cousin’s daughter’s wedding. It was my first Jewish wedding and I have to say it was a lot livelier than your average Protestant wedding. They sing and dance and break glasses on purpose! At the reception they do this
Continue readingTrashy's World: Did Quebec separate overnight?
Nope. Just looked out the bus window and the Gatineau Hills are still there. I guess Marois’ scheme to pry her province from the RoC using bars and pulleys didn’t succeed. Anyone in O Dot feel the quake last night? Happened around midnight and was centred around Montreal. (6) Trashy,
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: New PQ government cancels tuition hike: victory for student movement
Bottom: Photo from last Saturday’s march in Montreal celebrating victory and calling for free tuition. Pauline Marois, the newly elected premier of Quebec, announced that her government has cancelled the proposed hike on student tuition fees. The hike was repealed by the new Parti Québécois government. Yes it can be
Continue readingopenalex: METRO MTL: The Boardgame!
Montrealer’s and transit geeks will love this. Yes, it’s a boardgame inspired by Montreal’s iconic metro. I discovered the other day at Chez Boris, a hip little Russian Coffeeshop that’s part of Montreal’s nascent ‘nouveau doughnut’ scene. The goal is simple, whoever gets to their destination and back
Continue readingopenalex: METRO MTL: The Boardgame!
Montrealer’s and transit geeks will love this. Yes, it’s a boardgame inspired by Montreal’s iconic metro. I discovered the other day at Chez Boris, a hip little Russian Coffeeshop that’s part of Montreal’s nascent ‘nouveau doughnut’ scene. The goal is simple, whoever gets to their destination and back
Continue readingopenalex: METRO MTL: The Boardgame!
Montrealer’s and transit geeks will love this. Yes, it’s a boardgame inspired by Montreal’s iconic metro. I discovered the other day at Chez Boris, a hip little Russian Coffeeshop that’s part of Montreal’s nascent ‘nouveau doughnut’ scene. …
Continue readingArt Threat: Punk rock video conveys the energy of Quebec’s Carré rouge
A Montreal punk rock band recently released “>Carré rouge, a fast-paced music video inspired by classic punk sounds, and carried by collective chants from the massive street demonstrations sparked by the historic Quebec student strike. “Loi spéciale, refusé! À qui la rue? À nous la rue! Carré rouge! Carré rouge!
Continue readingJohn Laforet: My Day in Montreal
I’m sitting in the airport in Montreal and thought I would share a bit about my day as we wait to board. The reason it took sixteen calls to get a hotel room in Montreal last night, became apparent today after perusing the local media. Montreal’s 32nd annual pride parade
Continue readingJohn Laforet: 16th Time Was The Try For Finding a Hotel Room in Montreal Last Night
Has your significant other ever asked you if you could go somewhere for the weekend or even the day and you make the commitment to do it, before working out any of the details? That was me on Saturday afternoon, when I told my girlfriend we could take the train
Continue readingAlberta Diary: U.S. grain and seed ports will kill a few more Canadian jobs – with a little help from Stephen Harper
Bunge’s $200-million US grain port at Longview, Wash. Below, U.S. police and strikers scuffle at the port. Back in 2009, when the destruction of the Canadian Wheat Board was still just a twinkle in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s eye, work started on a $200-million US grain-handling terminal in the port
Continue readingArt Threat: Montreal-North stand up: part two – An interview with MC Emrical on the fourth anniversary of the death of Fredy Villanueva
While Chuck D’s famous phrase “Rap is CNN for black people,” has been quoted by countless ‘reality’ rappers, there are few artists who have embraced the concept as throughly as Emrical. The only difference is that in this case the Montreal-based emcee reports from the racially diverse low-income community of
Continue readingArt Threat: Duets for Abdelrazik help keep human rights abuses in spotlight
Sam Shalabi joins Stefan Christoff on stage at the June 16 launch of Duets for Abdelrazik. To understand the grotesque, inhuman and criminal depths to which the Canadian government will go in order to deny one of its own citizen’s legal rights, one need look no further than the case
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: CTV Montreal viewers and readers say "No" to La Fête nationale du Québec
La Fête St-Jean or La Fête nationale du Québec is a statutory, provincial, public holiday celebrated annually on June 24, the feast day of St. John the Baptist, a popular event held since the Ancien régime of France. CTV Montreal, the city’s top televised mainstream source for English-language news, asked its viewers
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: CTV Montreal viewers and readers say "No" to La Fête nationale du Québec
La Fête St-Jean or La Fête nationale du Québec is a statutory, provincial, public holiday celebrated annually on June 24, the feast day of St. John the Baptist, a popular event held since the Ancien régime of France. CTV Montreal, the city’s top televised mainstream source for English-language news, asked its viewers and website readers, “Do you do anything to celebrate Fete St. Jean?”
With 92% of those taking part in the survey saying “No” the non-scientific poll reveals the major disconnect that respondents have with the rest of the provincial population. Meanwhile, countless festivities are planned in Montreal, Quebec City, and elsewhere throughout the long weekend, with millions of people expected to participate province-wide.
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