By Frédérique Lapointe Located at 1800 Letourneux Street in the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough, the Centre Social Anarchiste L’Achoppe (CSA), The Achoppe Anarchist Social Centre, is the setting for a way of life in which mutual aid, sharing, and community take the place of capitalist values. Stepping […] See more
By Anne Reitzer “I’m telling my story because I want to explain to Canadians what we’re going through, and also because I want to give some hope back to all those refugees who have lost faith in life.” It was with these words that Ahmed […] See more
By Virginie Francoeur Franky prefers milkshakes. Vanilla, never chocolate. Especially the McDonald’s kind. Since he lost all his teeth, he only eats soft-serve food. Franky prefers milkshakes to yogurt. He’s not exactly into healthy eating. Franky? I never knew if that was his real name. […] See more
By The Social Eyes Team At 13, some dream of becoming astronauts or hockey players. Xavier Lalou, however, dreamed of painting walls. “I wanted to become a graffiti artist,” he recalls. This dream, which might have seemed premature or unconventional in the late 1990s, was […] See more
In the world of breakdancing, the body defies gravity. But some dancers go even further. They go beyond what is possible. Samuka, a Brazilian b-boy, member of the ILL-Abilities breakdance crew, is one of those. He is missing a leg, but it’s almost invisible. Not […] See more
By Oumou Diakité While Amazon redefines our book buying habits, and giants like Renaud-Bray extend their empires, neighborhood bookstores find themselves at a crossroads. Slim profit margins, high rents, increasingly volatile readers: several elements signal a delicate rebalancing of the literary landscape. Books still get […] See more
A review by Colin McGregor In 1910, in his epic poem « If, » the British poet Rudyard Kipling wrote: If you can face Triumph and Disaster And treat both these impostors alike… Yours is the Earth and everything in it. That’s essentially the theme of a […] See more
By Lucas Lelardoux Oliger In 1988, after 40 years working as a priest, Father Emmett Johns became “Pops”. Enthused by the story of a Toronto man he heard about on the radio, Johns got in contact with him to import his plan to Montreal: a […] See more
By Lucas Lelardoux Oliger His activities were chronicled by us as early as the first edition of the Journal de la Rue in November 1992. The Journal de la Rue later became Reflet de Société, our francophone mother publication. A very atypical priest, Emmett Johns […] See more
By Raymond Viger Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is trying to chase cars out of the downtown area. It’s a short-term vision for saving the environment. It’s not the vehicles you have to get rid of downtown – it’s the drivers! To do this you have […] See more
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