Documenting stories of the homeless are five directors, one in each city, who are producing a web series for the National Film Board. Called Here At Home, the series features docs on one participant in each city, and follows him or her as they look for a home.
The violent images that came out of Victoriaville two weeks ago are still shocking, as are the numbers of demonstrators and police injured.
Hutchison is one of those streets that most city-dwellers dream about. But every now and then, tempers will flare over some niggling local issue, with the added twist that the people who are doing the complaining are white francophones, and the people they are complaining about are Hasidic Jews.
By now, the marijuana world is buzzing with last week’s news of the huge RCMP-led bust of Montreal-bound Pakistani hash—all 43.3 metric tonnes of it. Dubbed Project Celsius, the investigation began in the summer of 2010, following the discovery of hash stored in containers at the Halifax and Montreal ports.
This Sunday, April 22, is Earth Day, and to celebrate this misused planet, and to get the message out that we have to take better care of it, local green groups and their friends are planning a giant march in downtown Montreal.
After providing outreach, youth services and cultural space for the urban aboriginal community over the last 37 years, the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal (NFCM) may close in as little as three months if a provincial funding dispute remains unresolved—but they aren’t going quietly.
According to an article in La Presse last week, Plateau property values are cooling. It’s taking longer for sellers to sell, and the neighbourhood is losing some of its appeal.
