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Old Bowling Alley – View Blown

September 27, 2014by neath Leave a comment

The old bowling alley on De l’Eglise was turned into condos a few years ago and these people appear to have really nice big galdrys (balconies) and while the view […]

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Dreams, Housing, Photographs

Construction On Gordon Avenue, Verdun

May 12, 2014by neath 1 Comment

After being a vacant lot for 6 or 7 years condos are finally being built at the old CKVL location and also at the former parking lot across the street. […]

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Community, Photographs, Quebec

Goverment Talking Corruption Free Turcot

April 11, 2013by neath Leave a comment

To say I am behind the times on Turcot would be an understatement.  Seems I have drifted into focusing a lot of my online attention into relaying the ongoing tragedy […]

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City Hall, Corruption, Infrastructure

Turcot Meeting Tonight

June 21, 2012by neath 2 Comments

Sorry to post at the last minute but there is a Turcot meeting tonight at CEDA. 2515, rue Delisle, Montréal, Metro Lionel Groulx Ce soir, au CEDA a 19h, c’est […]

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Community, Turcot

Montreal’s Threatened Heritage

April 10, 2012by neath Leave a comment

Thanks to Derek at Mobilisation Turcot.

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Heritage, Montreal

Mobilization Turcot April 3

April 3, 2012by neath Leave a comment

Salut à vous tous et toutes, Lors de l’assemblée publique de Mobilisation Turcot la semaine passée, nous avons pris rendez-vous pour une deuxième rencontre citoyenne de Mobilisation Turcot: mardi 3 […]

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Activism, Turcot

Developer Buys Griffintown Horse Palace

March 9, 2012by neath 3 Comments

Some nice ideas brought up, but basically they can do what they want with it. Developer buys historic Griffintown Horse Palace By Allison Lampert and Marian Scott, The Gazette March 7, […]

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Development, Griffintown Horse Palace, Griifintown

Montreal Failure To Fight Sprawl Is A Corrupt/Inefficient City Hall

February 11, 2012by neath 2 Comments

“It’s odd. City hall has the power to determine a condo building’s number of floors, its number of units and even its number of parking spots. But it doesn’t have […]

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City Hall, Development, Sprawl

Madrid Rio

December 27, 2011by neath 3 Comments

Awesome reclamation project in Madrid, Spain, shows us once again how Turcot is shaping up as a totally blown opportunity. As cities around the world tear down elevated freeways, eliminate […]

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Development, environment, freeway, Madrid Rio, Reclaimation, Video

Turcot Work Under Way

October 10, 2011by neath Leave a comment

Photo: Dave Sidaway, The Gazette And so the sad stupid story of Turcot goes into the next phase – a bad plan that will make some people a pretty good […]

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Construction, Turcot

Devimco Still Playing Games In Griffintown

September 9, 2011by neath Leave a comment

Devimco: Irked by demolition, or competition? Posted by Alison Lampert Residents were supposed to be gathering Wednesday at a Southwest borough hearing over the demolition of a building at the corner of […]

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Griifintown

“District Griffin” Begins…

August 17, 2011by neath 5 Comments

Good friend, Factotum, has some pictures of the first phase of this absurd degradation of one of Montreal’s most fascinating neighborhoods.  If anything distinguishes Montreal from other North American cities, […]

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Climate Change, Griifintown

Tremblay’s City Hall Corrupt? Wow, Surprise, Surprise!

May 18, 2011by neath Leave a comment

Anyone paying even a little bit of attention over the course of the Tremblay administration can see corruption all over the place. Time and time again stories come out how […]

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City Hall, Collapse, Corruption

What’s He Building In There?

May 10, 2011by neath Leave a comment
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Tom Waits, Video

Sauvons le bois Angell – Save Angell Woods

May 9, 2011by neath 1 Comment

We are running out of nature on the Island of Montreal and developers are going after what’s left. We need these valuable green spaces like Angell Woods! “The City of […]

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Activism, Development

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