As you have already seen in Sirhcbre's article, there was a shooting this afternoon (September 13) at Dawson College in Montreal. The latest news seems to indicate that a 25 year old lone gunman walked into Dawson College at 12:41 this afternoon and opened fire on the students there. The police responded quickly and "terminated" him, but not before he shot at least 20 students, with one young woman dead as of this time (5 AM EDT), and 19 other students wounded, six of them in critical condition and requiring surgery. During the initial period right after the shootings, panic and...

Tenant and Their Guest Only

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

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Anti-Ratner Graffiti

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

Some murals from Prospect Park regarding Bruce Ratner's very unpopular takeover of the Atlantic Yards (and adjacent houses) to build hi-rise condos and a new stadium... The "Eminent Domain Abuse" in this mural refers to the fact that Ratner has utilized dubious legal means to get the city to exercise eminent domain in order to force owners of houses near the project site to sell to him, often far below the fair market price for...

Legal Graffiti

author: CE : Montreal, QC

For those who have been to Montreal you know that it's everywhere. From grocery stores to laundromats to the legal walls in alleys along Ste-Catherine near St-Laurent for Under Pressure there seems to be more legal work than illegal. The McGill Daily ran an article about this topic a few years ago. They brought up a few interesting points especially about what it has done for illegal writers: "The city’s direct sponsorship of graffiti art, in the from of...

Tacoma Narrows Bridge #2

author: Tyfoid Kid : Tacoma, WA

So everyone has seen the pictures of what happend to the first bridge across the Tacoma Narrows. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge They rebuilt that bridge and fixed the issue that caused it to buck wildly in the wind going in and out of the narrows. So as the population has exploded in the Seattle-Tacoma area the two lane bridge just won't cut it anymore so they are putting up a second bridge right next to the old one. We were going to Tacoma but got caught up in the detours and ended up going back and forth over the existing bridge...

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