Category Archives: Social commentary

Griffintown co-op to be rebuilt; residents offered accommodation at nearby condo project

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Taylor C. Noakes

Some late breaking good news. It appears the now homeless former residents of the Saint Anne housing co-op in Griffintown have caught a break after several days of devastating news. To recap, the residents were evacuated from their homes this … Continue reading →

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Tourisme Montréal actively soliciting Ripley’s to build aquarium, believe it or not.

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Taylor C. Noakes

A La Presse exclusive reports Tourisme Montréal is actively pursuing the Jim Pattison Group to develop an aquarium here in Montreal. Pattison owns the Ripley’s Aquarium in Toronto, as well as Ripley’s Entertainment of Orlando. As Réjean Bourdeau points out, … Continue reading →

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Children’s Hospital Field at Cabot Square®

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Taylor C. Noakes

Urban development news of the day: the former Montreal Children’s Hospital building at Cabot Square has been sold to real estate developer Luc Poirier for an undisclosed sum. The MUHC’s asking price, as reported a few months back, was about … Continue reading →

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The human cost of school segregation in Quebec

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Taylor C. Noakes

In my estimation and opinion, there’s no better demonstration of Bill 101’s flaws than the current local controversy concerning the project to settle Syrian refugees, and the Quebec government’s outright refusal to allow Anglophone school boards from participating. The situation … Continue reading →

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Flushgate: where do we go from here?

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Taylor C. Noakes

#flushgate… You can be forgiven for finding this whole affair rather annoying, though I will happily point out we’ve collectively never given as much of a shit about sewerage and sewage treatment as we do right now. Flushgate, as it’s … Continue reading →

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Sabotaging Viger Square

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Taylor C. Noakes

Here’s a hypothetical situation: A city builds a park costing x millions of dollars with the intent to rehabilitate a given sector of its urban environment and cover over an exposed highway trench. It hires leading landscape architects and local … Continue reading →

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