There has been much criticism of the City’s and the AMT’s half-hearted ‘journée sans voiture’ which took place Monday. Perhaps rightly so, given its toothless roads closures (timed not to interrupt rush-hour traffic) and the fact that the STM was not even willing to support the event by offer free rides for the day, as in past years. Those displeased with this lackluster showing should have come to the ‘Die-In’, an annual cycle advocacy event ...

Performers from last year’s festival This weekend, the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood is hosting its sixth annual street festival, entitled ‘5 continents, 5 sens’. The event takes place along chemin de la Côte-des-neiges from noon-5pm, Sunday, September 7. Its theme this year highlights historic trades and craftspeople and will feature an artisans village, a shuttle tour of historic sites and street sales. In the words of the organizers, it is “[u]n événement festif visant à rassembler le ...

I’m in Calgary at the moment, en route to Hong Kong, where I will be doing a master’s degree for the next couple of years. This is a fast-growing, fast-changing city, and there are a couple of interesting changes that I noticed while I was here. One of them is the introduction of two new scramble crossings in the Eau Claire neighbourhood of the city’s downtown area. Often associated with Tokyo’s famous Shibuya Crossing, scramble ...