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Westmount needs a graffiti enema.

I love that sometimes I don’t need to wander far for a quick story…  here’s one.  Megafun productions across the way was having graffiti removed this morning.  Yes on June 24th.  Amazing.  Oh and the garbage crew did a run as well, trying to fool half the population who would have […]

I think anyone that takes matters into their own hands and specifically out of the useless hands of Alan DeSousa and City Hall is to be commended.
Stephen McLeod is one such person.  With 60 clients spread around StHenri, NDG and the Plateau, who are willing to pay 5$ per week for Stephen to pick up […]

Quick update on May’s monthly fix:
Anti Publisac stickers now present on 95% of the households on this block.  We currently have about 40 stickers in hand and will be working our way around the corners day to day.  With only two holdouts on the street with the, “I like to look through the circulars” excuse, […]

How do you paint a building the size of Imperial Lofts phase 2?  Well, like this of course.

Wait for the sunny days, fill your lift with buckets of paint and some rollers… and start painting.  One guy, one standard roller, one coat.  No primer.  I’ll update this post if they drop a second coat on […]

Here’s an oldie (15 yrs as a coop and still running) but still a goodie, the Frigo Vert. Bonus if you’re a student at ConU, seeing as it’s right across the street from the GW campus on Mackay. Small, mostly clean with all the usual suspects inside. Check it out if you’re […]

With all this talk about new tramways running around town, I was wondering what all that infrastructure would cost (some say 44Million/km, some say 80).
On my end I think it’s a complete waste of money to build:

the tracks
the nasty power lines
the special track clearing machines for snow and ice
the service depots for trams
the ’stations’
and ummm […]

“Canadian DMCA” brings “balanced” copyright to Canada.

More news on Toyota’s upcoming game plan. From plug-in hybrid’s to more efficient and smaller internal combustion engines and perhaps fully electric micro cars. Check out the story on Autopia, here.

- creative commons license here.

Yup. I call bullshit on none other than Henry Kissinger.
Q We now have two U. S. presidential candidates. Could you offer a few thoughts on each one?
A I support Senator McCain, but I will not discuss politics in a foreign country.
The very next question…
Q How do you think foreign policy of the U. S. […]

Bugs that bite.  Can’t stand them.  I’m pretty sure they reside at the very top of the food chain.

- Larvae of Culex Mosquitoes (wikipedia common license)
When DEET (being a four letter word and all)  is a non option for a baby, where do you turn?  Citronella?  Crap.  Doesn’t really work well, and you need to […]

Water.  Buzzword of the next century.  Oil is so passé.
Watching a client drain (mostly) and  then refill his swimming pool with a an unmetered water supply strikes me as the very heart (or at least the kidneys) of our wasteful ways.  No consideration goes into the costs of flushing tens of thousands of litres down […]

Excerpt from Michelle Lalonde’s article in the Montreal Gazette (May 5, 2008)
It was all about the smell. A few years ago, I was working on a recycling story that required I take a tour of the St. Michel Environmental Complex. Inside the giant sorting centre of the plant, two things struck me immediately. First, the […]