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  Jasmine Revolutions

  Fatma Daldoul – Updated February 28, 2015 at 10:17pm

  By the end of 2010, young cyber-activists were denouncing the Tunisian dictatorship on various social networks.

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  Le Labo Décolonial: une initiative qui démocratise la connaissance

  Yvonne Pambo – Updated February 27, 2015 at 8:22pm

  La conscience collective du milieu étudiant bordelais s’éveille avec le documentaire Suédois Concerning Violence (2014) de Göran Hugo Olsson et forme Le Labo Décolonial, un groupe de réflexion et d’éducation populaire qui vise à débattre des questions de gestion de l’héritage post-colonial et d’émancipation citoyenne.

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  You Are Where You Live

  Alex Ocheoha – Updated February 13, 2015 at 7:08pm

  Architectural spaces that are of different shapes, sizes and colours and that are made of different materials affect our mood differently.

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  Taking Up Space in the Big City

  Zachary Goldberg-Mota – Updated February 11, 2015 at 9:49pm

  There is a man sitting next to me on this early-morning packed Orange Line Metro car, who is taking up way too much space.

  It’s eight in the morning, which is rush hour, and the car is brimming, literally bursting with Montreal commuters. People have to shove themselves inside, bristling with Quebecois resentment, no one ever entirely sure how to take up space politely. Most people, anyway, are concerned enough with politely occupying themselves.

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  Worshipping God, the Body and Booze

  Alena Mondok – Updated February 10, 2015 at 8:49pm

  It’s no secret that the city of Montreal is rich in history and culture. There are 59 National Historic sites in Montreal, many of which are religious or spiritual spaces. Due to economic issues, many of these religious spaces are forced to close their doors. The repurposing of these such buildings has proved to be a more sustainable and beneficial option than simply demolishing the buildings entirely.

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  Smile! You’re on (a Lot of) Cameras

  Graeme Shorten Adams – Updated February 10, 2015 at 9:16am

  The data zeitgeist has swept over police departments worldwide, enhancing the recent practice of “predictive policing”—a methodology that sounds good in theory and looks like bloated surveillance in practice.

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  Is Overdevelopment Just Par for the Course?

  Michael Wrobel – Updated February 10, 2015 at 9:15am

  For 25 years, activists and housing developers have fought over the Meadowbrook Golf Course. On Jan. 29, Montreal’s agglomeration council finally waded into the debate, approving a new land-use plan that calls for Meadowbrook to be rezoned from “residential” to “large green space or recreational.”

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  Sous la Peau de la Ville: a Reflection on Informal Architecture

  June Loper – Updated February 10, 2015 at 9:15am

  Montreal’s Centre for Sustainability presents the exhibition Sous la peau de la ville by Linda-Marlena Bucholtz Ross, raising a number of questions on our cultural relation with space and what symbolic meaning there is behind different spatial practices.

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  How (In)Accessible is Montreal?

  Mattha Busby – Updated February 10, 2015 at 9:14am

  Accessible or inaccessible, lift or no lift, stairs or ramp, announcements or silence—these dualisms are inescapable in the daily life of those with limited mobility

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  The Memory Keeper of New York City

  Athina Lugez – Updated February 10, 2015 at 7:06am

  In today’s gentrified New York City contaminated by bourgeois bohemians, it’s difficult to imagine how the sleepless Big Apple was once a cesspool of poverty and crime. Collective memories and photographs now serve as reminders of the city’s grittier days.