A little-known waterway on the island of Montreal, the Ruisseau de Montigny, is meant to be cleaned up and made more presentable over the next few years. Unless I’m mistaken, it’s the creek that probably originates from the pond in the middle of Anjou sur le Lac then surfaces again north of Henri-Bourassa and eventually flows into the Rivière-des-Prairies, as shown above.
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Another demo in support of the popular uprising in Egypt was held this afternoon near the consulate.
Meanwhile, Belhassen Trabelsi, brother-in-law of the recently deposed Tunisian dictator, has applied to be a political refugee which will put the brakes on any intention Canada had of deporting him and his family.
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Alanah Heffez thinks radically about Meadowbrook: is preserving it as a golf course necessarily a categorical good if a well considered green project has been proposed? But what do you do about the fact that the area is almost completely boxed in by train tracks? Good piece.
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Chris
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Andy Riga compares the fate of the Redpath and Lafontaine mansions in a city that doesn’t seem to have much good sense what to do with heritage buildings. Either you claim them, keep them in good shape, turn them into museums or otherwise repurpose them – or you forge ahead, demolish them and make something new and sparkling (you can’t save everything from the past) and life goes on. Instead of which, we have let these two terrific buildings fall gradually into an irrecoverable decrepitude.
We really need to get a handle on the whole thing about building something new that people love, though, instead of things people grit their teeth and learn to tolerate.
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Anthony Calvillo, finished with this thyroid cancer treatment, has signed on again with the Alouettes and has talked about the stress of his health problems.
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Henry Aubin asks whether the proliferation of tall buildings is good for the city, since they don’t appear to attract families. As with other problems Montreal has, I’d ask: what do other cities do? No kids grow up in high rises?
Also in the Gazette today, a consideration of how climate change is affecting cities, particularly Montreal. What can cities do when the federal government ignores or denies climate change? I guess we’ll find out.
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Martin
In reference to Henry Aubin’s column, we’re talking here about ONE 40-storeys tower under construction, downtown. I would hardly call that a proliferation. What else is there? The Altoria is just a proposal. Meanwhile, in Toronto, there are about 100 towers under construction, many of them 50 storeys+ high. When did Montreal get so provincial?
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Shawn
A recent NFB interactive webdoc Out My Window looks at life in highrise apartments in 13 cities around the world: http://interactive.nfb.ca/#/outmywindow
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Stefan
in vienna high rises are typical for new developments (more the 10 stories height), so it is typical for families to live there. each high rise has a small but significant green space (building base is <50% of total space) attached, including facilities not only for kids, but also the other generations. sharing this space is sometimes problematic, but still density is well exploited in my opinion.
shawn: this documentary is really cool.
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A sample of China’s terracotta army will be on display at the Museum of Fine Arts soon, alongside other artifacts of the Qin dynasty.
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Iouri Goussev
Wow, terracotta army invades Montreal ;-)
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Montreal rates very high in a journalistic test of access to information across 39 Canadian cities.
It needn’t be one or the other. It could be made into a park!