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Adam Enright: There is No Game like the Good Ol' Montreal Hockey Riot!
A city whose hockey passions create a constant hunger for battling peace and the status quo.
[[http://www.progressivewebdesign.ca/hockeyriots.html]]
by Adam Enright
I was thrilled to read about...... Paul: I live in downtown Toronto and I think our downtown is quite impressive, with the coloured lights on the Skydome and CN Tower it really enhances the night view and the Royal Bank Plaza glitters...... Elicar: In a morbid way, it's nice to hear EvilG rant again, if ya know what I mean!
EvilG, In Ontario, we pay a health care premium. I am not sure about the amount now as tax...... CE: I went to the top of {Mont-Royal} here in Montreal to see the meteor shower but due to a thunder storm, the sky was too cloudy to see anything. We did get a good...... laterallateral: I believe this is part of summer "street art" exhibit. Any of you remember the mirrored tunnels they had set up along Mont-Royal Ave. last year?... CE: Found another one at the {Tam-Tams} at {Mont-Royal}.
[[img:21882]]... CE: The leather (cuir) shop in the third picture is near a co-op I stayed at for a couple weeks prior to moving to Montreal. It's located on an intersection that they dubbed the "Axis...... Gregory Brent: Wonderful. Montreal is so livable! In the third photo, the building complex with the green roofs in the left foreground is Ravenscrag, home of Sir Hugh Allan of Allan Lines Shipping Co. It is sadly...... EvilGentleman: 39 - Tourists usually ask for directions to the strip bars and trendy nightclubs, **not** "boring" world-famous stuff like Old Montreal, the Plateau Mont-Royal, The Forum, Mount Royal and our smoked-meat delicatessens.... EvilGentleman: Sirhcbre - Take the metro to Longueuil, walk south on Boulevard Lafayette (next to Autoroute 20) until you are almost under the Jacques-Cartier Bridge (it's not very far, look it up on Google Earth), and...... Sirhcbre: My wallpaper right now is a slightly differently cropped, black and white version of the [[5144:Beaudoin Street]] article I made last week. I think it's one of the best photos I've ever taken and...... EvilGentleman: That picture was taken from the corner of Atwater and Sainte-Catherine, at the west end of downtown. The metro station is Atwater. Westmount is generally a lot more residential, but I wanted a picture of...... Sirhcbre: I'm glad you're posting these as I'll probably never see any of the demerged municipalities other than the ones inside the city (Cote-St-Luc, Hampstead, Ville Mont-Royal, Westmount, Montreal-Ouest, and probably Laval as I'm probably going...... EvilGentleman: Hmmm, interesting. I have never encountered this data before. I know that if you look at a topographic map, you can see an easily identifiable line of hills and mountains sticking out of the flat...... Chris Erb: They look similar but I don't think they're the same city.
I didn't know about the earthquakes in those cities. How often to earthquakes occur in Montreal? How bad are they usually?
This is what...... Chris Erb: Oh, I definitely, quality over quanity is certainly the way to go. I was looking more at a bit of a friendly competition between Montreal and Houston than a full out battle royale of...... EvilGentleman: Many of the winding staircases you see here in Montreal (although not this one) are in fact, main entrances. This is especially true in Verdun and the Plateau Mont-Royal. Just imagine having to shovel 3...... jeeff: joey - indeed, it was a really nice sunset.
eg - thanks for the offer. while in town for [[4158:mutek]] i had time for nothing but mutek. they really keep you hopping....... EvilGentleman: Nakurmiik, I miss the mountains very much now, especially the part coming up soon when the ice breaks up.
But I missed the summer heat here in Montreal, too. Nice to have real heat for a...... EvilGentleman: Lemme see, in the NWT, only Yellowknife and Fort Smith, where I trained at Thebacha Campus of Aurora College for two months in 1998. Oh, but we also had a tour of Wood Buffalo National...... EvilGentleman: Actually, you **did** get the new fine arts, or EVA (I have no idea what the acronym stands for) building. It is the one with the "hat" and the obtuse-angled facade on it's upper stories,...... EvilGentleman: Ironically, I have seen taller buildings in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
And the buildings in Montreal were originally not allowed to be higher than Mount Royal (much like Halifax and the Citadel). Nowadays, the heights of the buildings...... EvilGentleman: jack, there is a futuristic post-apocalyptic series of pulp fiction sci-fi novels called Deathlands (Gold Eagle Books) that I read. The character of Doc Tanner is supposed to have been kidnapped across time from his......
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