Tag Archives: 2013 Montreal Municipal Election
Your City, Your Candidates – Mary Ann Davis
Part of an on-going series I’m contributing to. Mary Ann was a joy to interview. The original, as with a lot of other things I’ve written, can be found on Forget the Box. *** Mary Ann Davis has lived in … Continue reading
Posted in Kondiaronk - My Montréal Experience, Let's make this an election issue, Perspectives on the City
Tagged 2013 Montreal Municipal Election, LGBTQ History of Montreal, Montréal Culture, Montréal mayoral election 2013, Montréal Politics, Montréal Society, Montreal boroughs, Nun's Island, Projet Montréal, Sex Garage Raid, Verdun, Your Candidates
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Your City, Your Candidates
Part of an on-going series of interviews of local candidates I’m doing with Forget the Box, an excellent Montreal blog. This is the full version of the interview I did with Jimmy Zoubris, a local businessman looking to represent Projet … Continue reading
A short list of what the candidates aren’t talking about…
Admittedly this article isn’t based on the results of scientific polling, or polling of any kind really. It’s just a compilation of various ideas that various friends and acquaintances have recommended when asked what they thought was particularly important vis-Ã -vis … Continue reading
Projet Montréal’s 2013 Platform & A Soft Landing for the Montreal Real Estate Market
Projet Montréal, the only clean political party left in Montreal, is first out of the gate with a campaign platform. With a dozen weeks or so left before the November 3rd municipal election they are so far the only party … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural commentary, Economic commentary, Kondiaronk - My Montréal Experience, Let's make this an election issue, Perspectives on the City, Social commentary, Urban Redevelopment
Tagged 2012-2013 Montreal Political Crisis, 2013 Montreal Municipal Election, Denis Coderre, Marcel Coté, Montréal public-transit, Montréal Real Estate, Montréal Urban Living, Montreal Housing Market, Projet Montréal, Richard Bergeron
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Repurposing Institutional Space in Montreal
What should we do with this building? I ask what we should do because I believe this building, like all public and institutional space, belongs to the citizenry, and not the government or any of its ministries. The government exists … Continue reading
Posted in A modest proposal, Commentary, Cultural commentary, Economic commentary, Let's make this an election issue, Perspectives on the City, Political commentary, Social commentary, Urban Redevelopment
Tagged 2013 Montreal Municipal Election, Atwater Avenue, Cabot Square, Hospitals of Montreal, Institutional space in Montreal, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal municipal politics, MUHC, Québec Politics
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Monsieur (ou Madame) le Maire – Tear Down This Cross!
Today the PQ’s secularism charter was unveiled, detailing the party’s plan to prohibit public servants, everyone from judges to nurses, corrections officers to daycare workers, from wearing overt and conspicuous demonstrations of their faith. In real terms this means wearing … Continue reading →
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