Honestly, after reading this, I think I’d take Bosnia over one of the Montreal bridges, overpasses or tunnels… What a shame. And disgrace. But look y’all, before we in the RoC start feeling all smug-like, start looking at the condition of some of the streets etc. in your neck of the woods. Many of us […]
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Art Threat: One play at a time – Teesri Duniya Theatre challenges the status quo
A fierce non-profit theatre takes provokes through the political and the personal.
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Over 400 “Friends for Life” to thank as they cycle along the shores of my gene pond, river, and canals!
There is some hope that this near-historic hot weather will return to “normal hot” by Sunday. I have no doubt that this will be a great relief to all involved in the annual Friends for Life Bike Rally which leaves Toronto that morning on …
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Political Arrests in Montréal
Statement from the Canadian Revolutionary Communist Party (not the same as the u.s. Avakian group):Update (07/13/11): The four individuals who have been arrested and charged went in court last Wednesday. The Crown disclosed its evidence to the defendan…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Montreal
April and I showed up in Montreal yesterday afternoon, after a few nights in Ottawa. While in the capital, we toured Parliament, and I saw Elizabeth May’s desk, tucked away in the back corner away from the Speaker’s chair. I also used Bixi bikes at $5/24hours to get over to Hull quickly, and took a […]
Trashy's World: U2 vid – the opening number
Shaky vid taken with my iPhone… but that was due to the stands which were shaking and swaying through the whole show! T’was a bit unnerving but once things kicked in, you kind of forgot about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDEb5iioL04
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Continue readingTrashy's World: U2 in Montreal!
What. A. Show.
If you have never had the opportunity to see Bono and the boys, find the time…
80,000 folks in Montreal last night would have enthusiastically agreed with me!
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Continue readingopenalex: Montreal discovers it’s not easy going green: New Economist Green Cities Index
An article that I wrote on the new Green Cities Index (.pdf) released last week by yhe Economist Intelligence Unit is out in today’s Montreal Gazette. It was an interesting one to write. The focus of the piece was Montreal’s poor performance, and…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Gotta gloat…
… about seeing the greatest band in the world over the past 20 years or so – U2!!!!
Yup! Heading to the Hippodrome in Montréal this Saturday to see Bono and the boyz… Been a long time since I took in one of their gigs… last saw them on the 1992 Zoo TV tour in T.O.
Too […]
openalex: Montreal Guerrilla Gardening: "Tour de Guerrilla" Silent Film
OuVert is an open urban sustainability lab that I’m helping to start here in Montreal. Below is an occasionally Chaplin-esque video of our first event – a seedbomb workshop and guerrilla gardening ride – that we ran a few weeks ago.
Before the rid…
Continue readingArt Threat: Montreal group takes over ad space – Artung Collective replaces ads with art all over city
Art takes over ads in Montreal and the result is audacious.
Continue readingArt Threat: St-Henri, the 26th of August – Documentary offers a cinematic look at a vibrant Montreal neighbourhood
Shannon Walsh’s feature documentary À St-Henri le 26 août (known in English as St-Henri, the 26th of August) takes the viewer on a visceral and honest journey through the bilingual, working-class neighbourhood St-Henri in Montreal. The film follows a day in the life of about a dozen diverse residents as they navigate the neighbourhood, each […]
Continue readinggay persons of color: Participate: 2011 Queer of the Year Contest
For some light-hearted fun with serious prizes to be won, consider entering the 2011 Queer of the Year Contest, an annual international competition open to anyone in the world, of all genders and sexual orientations, who has personality, talent, a heal…
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CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT MONTRÉAL:THREE REQUESTS FROM THE MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR:The premier anarcho-event of the year, the Montréal Anarchist Bookfair, is coming up on May 20 to 22. Here are three requests from the organizers. Help out if yo…
Continue readingArt Threat: Poet and performer Kaie Kellough on language, poetry & power – Art Threat TV celebrates National Poetry Month
Art Threat TV caught up with Kaie in his home where he gave Art Threat exclusive performances from his new book.
Continue readingopenalex: Bixi Sighting: New Ads Mark Roll Out of 2011 Bikes
Here are some of the first bixis of 2011, notice anything different? New ads, mounted above the wheel and on the baskets, have raised a lot of criticism on Twitter so far.
Most of the docking-stations around town are still empty. But bixis are startin…
Continue readingopenalex: Bixi Rolling Out for 3rd Season In MTL
If you are in Montreal right now you’ve seen it: the Bixi docking stations are popping up all over the city. Sitting empty they have a strange sci-fi ghost town look. But the bikes are supposed to be back on the streets by April 15th. Ottawa has al…
Continue readingopenalex: New Landmark Greenroof for Montreal
Montreal is set to build a new landmark green roof on it’s eccentrically colored convention center. This summer the Palais des Congrès de Montreal – better known for being clad is huge swaths of neon multicolored glass – will be inaugurating a $20…
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: Tunisia’s Deposed Ben Ali Family: Canadian Immigration’s political statement
Yesterday reports appeared in the Canadian press, TV and radio, about the arrival in Montreal of family members of the deposed Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his wife, Leila, nee Trabelsis. The expatriate Tunisian community in Montreal had already been watching the situation closely as unidentified Tunisian
Continue readingStraight Outta Edmonton: Holy Mountain — Mohand the Jogger
I visit Montreal often. The city seems to have a special hold on me and I feel compelled to spend weeks on end there for no particular reason aside from an urge just to be there. While I’m there, my time is usually spent exploring its streets, soaking up as
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