Adam Bemma

This week’s #CityTalk focuses on public transit (metro, buses, LRT, bike and car sharing) with American transit guru, Gabe Klein, and a feature interview with Montreal writer and public transit enthusiast, Taras Grescoe, author of the aptly titled book “Straphanger.” To listen or download this week’s #CityTalk, click here. *Producer’s note: This segment was re-tweeted…

  An expropriated tenant of Montreal’s infamous 780 St-Remi building, Alex Docherty, shares his experience of living in one of notorious landlord Sam Fattal’s buildings in St-Henri.

On this week’s #CityTalk, Urban Occupations artist/founder Shauna Janssen and her colleague Kathleen Vaughan talk about their upcoming Goose Village walk. To listen or download this week’s Montreal #CityTalk urban affairs segment, click here.

A conversation with the globe-trotting conversationalist, Daniel Baylis, by the #CityTalk travel enthusiasts on CKUT FM Friday Morning After. To download this week’s #CityTalk, click here.

May 22, 2012 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Protesters take to the streets of Montreal in the 100th day of action against the Quebec government’s plan to raise tuition fees in universities. Many showed up to express their concern over Bill 78, a new law tabled by the government to crack down on protesters in Quebec.

This week’s urban affairs, city report talks downtown social-public housing projects in North America. In Montreal, community groups in Cote-des-Neiges are calling on the city to create 2,500 social housing units in a new development on the Hippodrome (former Blue Bonnets) site in the north-end. To download this week’s #CityTalk, click here.

Montreal hip hop artist Mickey Boston gives the 101 lesson on gentrification in Montreal, focusing on the southwest. Born and raised in poor, working class St-Henri, Boston attended school up the hill in Westmount, one of Canada’s most prestigious and wealthiest municipalities.

This week’s urban affairs report looks at the annual Jane’s Walks, focusing on community-led tours in Toronto and Montreal. The CKUT Friday Morning After crew, Josh Hind, Rana Alrabi and myself discuss Jane Jacobs’ work fighting expressway development and how she was able to organize opposition to Robert Moses’ Lower Manhattan expressway and Metro Toronto’s…

On this week’s urban affairs report, I speak to Montreal urban planner Jason Prince about highway mega-projects and the mega-mistakes made by Quebec’s ministry of transportation in the past up until today. We also discuss his upcoming Jane’s Walk around the MUHC super-hospital in NDG. To listen or download this week’s Montreal urban update, click…

  A few years ago, Southwest Montreal resident, John Davidson, began documenting the changing landscape of his city. Davidson created the website Vanishing Montreal to post photographs of demolitions and condo construction happening all over Montreal with a strong focus on St-Henri and other southwest neighbourhoods. Check out Vanishing Montreal on Facebook. Also, check out my story on…