Ginger Coons

The digital backwater

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:18:01 -0600

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

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...

Art and altruism

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:18:44 -0600

Big-hearted Ontarians Ohbijou give back

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...

The new Concordia

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:12:26 -0500

Twin glass towers now loom over campus

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,...

Tear down your highways

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:10:47 -0500

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

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,...

The ironic chef

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:32:41 -0500

Vegan cookbook battles bitchin’ kitchen

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...

Montreal 2032

Bruno — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:00:00 -0500

12 predictions for your city on its two hundredth birthday

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...

The STM’s OPUS card is unsafe and unsound

Bruno — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:00:00 -0500

One cent of aluminium foils the $217 million OPUS system

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...

Concordia’s green veneer is peeling

Bruno — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600

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...