Golden accents

15 Thursday Mar 2018

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A sunset-tinged sky is reflected in the windows of office towers in downtown Montreal, seen last month from the edge of Mount Royal Park near the Sir George-Étienne Cartier Monument.

Catching Up

14 Wednesday Mar 2018

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The man in this sculpture on rue Sherbrooke Ouest in Westmount is reading the editorial page in a replica edition of the Montreal Gazette from July 4, 1985.

Liberty, reimagined

13 Tuesday Mar 2018

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Spotted this while peering into a covered alley on Avenue Atwater in Montreal recently.

Agri-art

12 Monday Mar 2018

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This pretty mural adorns the side of a shop in Montreal that sells poultry and game.

Release the Kraken!

11 Sunday Mar 2018

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This depiction of the Kraken from Clash of the Titans, at Avenue Duluth and Boulevard Saint-Laurent, is among the more-elaborate works of wall art spotted on my recent trip to Montreal.

A space for Prince

10 Saturday Mar 2018

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A small exhibit remembering the life of singer Prince, in the public plaza beneath Place-des-Arts in Montreal.

Video snapshots from the Montreal métro

09 Friday Mar 2018

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Happy Friday! I haven’t done any kind of train/transit video in a very long time … so here you are. This is a mix of original (MR-63), vintage (MR-73) and modern (MPM-10) rolling stock running on the Montreal métro, as captured at a few stations last month.

Enter and exit

08 Thursday Mar 2018

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A scene from a few weeks ago: Passengers at Lionel-Groulx métro station in Montreal alight and board a train on the green line made up of MR-63 rolling stock.