Stopped in at the vernissage for the exhibit, La Pointe, by Jean-Francois Hamelin taking place at the Centre culturel Georges-Vanier which runs until January 5. It is a tight little show with some great black and and while photographs taken in Point Saint Charles. Check it out, an interesting exhibition
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Things Are Good: Bike Lanes Save Lives of Non-Cyclists
Cities can improve the health and well being of everyone by simply adding bike lanes. That’s right, drivers not only benefit from faster traffic flow they also benefit from increased health when cities install bike lanes. As Bloomberg reports, cities around the world are catching on and adding bike lanes
Continue readingPostArctica: Stand With Standing Rock – Montreal
Got down late and they had already started marching but I caught up with them on Saint Antoine as they were turning up Saint Alexandre. Going to quote from the organizer’s Facebook page as I go along. “Join us in a peaceful protest in solidarity with water defenders and frontline
Continue readingPostArctica: Heron With Still Life
Taken at Parc des Rapides a few weeks ago.
Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 19 – The Point Part 5 – Rain
Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes, come on, let us sway together, under the trees, and to hell with thunder.” ― Edwin Morgan, A Book of Lives Started out at Bridge and Wellington. I wasn’t sure if Bridge south of Wellington was considered part of The Point or
Continue readingPostArctica: The Rolling Stones – Sweet Virginia
So, around 1972 the Stones were overdue to put out some kind of a lousy album, the 60’s were gone, law of averages, times changing, etc, etc, and they go and make one of the most raw bridge the road between rock and punk with everything American tossed in and
Continue readingPostArctica: Marguerite Duras – The War, A Memoir
A friend recently told me that he likes to save texts, not quotes but texts, larger pieces, that he finds interesting. I am reading this book and thought this was a powerful passage. It is the end of the Second World War and she is wondering if her husband is
Continue readingPostArctica: Autumn Pictures
5 from today in the rain.
Continue readingPostArctica: Not Myself Anymore
Good one! Frank Solanki Every breath is marked to you Every heartbeat is calling out your name Ever since I’ve met you I haven’t been the same … These eyes long for the sight of you These ears long for your voice Ever since I’ve met you I’ve been left
Continue readingThings Are Good: Cities Improve Parking by Removing Parking Spaces
Car culture greatly damaged urban centres the world over and now cities are trying to undo the damage. Smart cities are banning cars from certain areas, installing bike lanes, more sidewalks, and now are removing parking. Cities built too many parking spaces for cars and now they are reclaiming that
Continue readingThings Are Good: Toronto’s Green Roofs Keep Growing
Back in 2006 we first looked at how green roofs were becoming a development issue in Toronto, in 2009 Toronto implemented that green roof bylaw. Then in 2014 we took a look at how North America’s green roof industry is growing. This year, Toronto has become the hub for green roofs! Torontist took a look […]
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Continue readingPostArctica: Roadsworth Mural in Little Burgundy.
Stumbled on to this large mural that was apparently completed yesterday in Little Burgundy. The guys you see in the picture are applying anti graffiti coatings to the work and […]
PostArctica: Walk # 17 – The Point Part 3
“Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, […]
Things Are Good: Trams Win For Moving People
Traffic is a problem in every city, and more and more people are concerned with the most efficient way of getting people from A to B. It turns out we already know the answer: mass transit. The issue in traffic planing is slowly changing from how much space should cars get to how much space […]
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Continue readingPostArctica: Nine Must-Read Texts About European Squatting Scenes
As we run our most recent crowdfunding project, we have taken a dive into the history of squatting as a practice of anti-capitalist resistance. In many parts of North America,…
PostArctica: Walk # 15 – The Point Part 2
“I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” ― Søren Kierkegaard It’s true, walking will […]
Things Are Good: Walkable Streets Solve Nearly Every Problem
Anybody who lives in a city knows that walkability of neighbourhoods is a key reason they live where they do. The attraction to mobility options, safe places, cultural and economic diversity is what keeps cities growing. Walkable spaces makes all of that happen and more! What smoking was to the 20th century car driving is […]
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Continue readingThings Are Good: Incremental Design to Address Housing Inequality
Basically every nation has basic housing problems that need to be addressed. Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena won this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize because of his work on community housing. It wasn’t just the buildings that got him the prize, it’s the fact that he and his team worked with locals to bring change to the community in a new […]
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Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 14 – The Point
“To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to […]
PostArctica: Around Town on Saturday
Despite the constant rain, which I was actually enjoying very much after an intense heat wave, there were events all over the city and I caught a few. West Verdun, […]