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November 17, 2009 News

The digital backwater

Author and Boing Boing co-editor alarmed by state of Canadian Internet

by Ginger Coons

When Cory Doctorow talks, the Internet listens. Doctorow is a co-editor at Boing Boing, a blog with a higher weekly readership than The Globe and Mail. He’s also a... » Full Story

November 3, 2009 Fringe Arts

Art and altruism

Big-hearted Ontarians Ohbijou give back

by Ginger Coons

Ohbijou have been known to attract listeners with asymmetrical haircuts, skinny jeans and white shoes. The dress sense of their listeners may lead the casual observer to... » Full Story

June 9, 2009 News

The new Concordia

Twin glass towers now loom over campus

by Ginger Coons

On what was once a vacant, grassy lot at the corner of Guy and de Maisonneuve now sits 15 storeys of glass, wood, concrete and steel. As of September the new building,... » Full Story

April 7, 2009 News

Tear down your highways

New Urbanism could make Montreal pedestrian-friendly, happier and save the environment

by Ginger Coons

In 1922, famed architect Le Corbusier depicted his City of Tomorrow: clusters of steel-framed skyscrapers connected by raised highways. On April 3, John Norquist,... » Full Story

April 7, 2009 Literary Arts

The ironic chef

Vegan cookbook battles bitchin’ kitchen

by Ginger CoonsStephanie Laleggia

Go-Go is so-so The first cookbook I bought after going vegan was Sarah Kramer and Tanya Barnard’s How It All Vegan in 2002. It taught me the wonders of nutritional... » Full Story

March 31, 2009 Opinions

Montreal 2032

12 predictions for your city on its two hundredth birthday

by Justin GiovannettiGinger Coons

This commentary is a work of opinion, not fiction. There will be no predictions of futuristic sidewalk scenes or outlandish fashion. However, what this article does intend to... » Full Story

March 10, 2009 Opinions

The STM’s OPUS card is unsafe and unsound

One cent of aluminium foils the $217 million OPUS system

by Ginger Coons

Here's an experiment: take your OPUS card, take some aluminium foil and wrap the foil around your OPUS card covering it completely. Now, find a metro turnstile and try swiping... » Full Story

February 10, 2009 Opinions

Concordia’s green veneer is peeling

by Ginger Coons

Concordia has a habit of being overly loud about environmental achievement. We’ve outlawed plastic bags in the bookstore, printing in the library is double sided by... » Full Story
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