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Cities

How Empty Storefronts Are Killing Our Neighbourhoods

July 19, 2021October 19, 2021 - by Lucy Uprichard

All over North America, speculators are raising rents and pushing out tenants. Will our cities ever be the same?

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Cities

The Taxi Driver Who Took On Uber

May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 - by Marcello Di Cintio

As the ride-share app lay waste to Montreal’s taxi industry, one cabbie decided to fight back

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Society

The Decade in Us

December 24, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From building a life without kids to why shared work offices are the worst, these are the conversations that helped define Canada

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Comics

How to Make It as an Indie Cartoonist

December 9, 2019May 10, 2022 - by Jeet Heer

The new generation of Canadian cartoonists is diverse, innovative, and unapologetically weird

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Illustration by Tine Modeweg-Hansen
Feature / March 2017

Among the Hasidim

February 22, 2017April 9, 2020 - by Joseph Rosen

Did resenting my ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbours make me a bad multiculturalist?

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Photography by Kate Hutchinson
November 2016 / Photography

Central Parc

October 21, 2016November 19, 2019 - by Kate Hutchinson

Finding common ground under Montreal’s giant cross

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City of Montreal
Cities

The Ridiculous Saga of Montreal’s $3.5 Million Stumps

June 14, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Amanda Cockburn

Why the mayor’s new public art project must be stopped

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Illustration by Adrian Forrow
January/February 2016 / Memoir

Mon Ami, Vice

December 11, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Deni Ellis Béchard

Happiness is a sold gun

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December 2015 / Film

The Original Reality Show

November 17, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Matthew Hays

Tanya Tree’s depiction of a poor Montreal family changed documentary filmmaking

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Cities / October 2015

The Dep

September 15, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Jeannie Marshall

Quebec’s quintessential corner store sets up shop at the Venice Biennale

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