Adam Bemma

A proposed redesign of Lionel-Groulx metro station will create space for an additional 200 buses per day expected by city transit planners to pass through Southwest Montreal from the soon-to-be-revamped Turcot interchange and Ville-Marie expressway. “Metro Lionel-Groulx is already at capacity,” said one STM (Société de transport de Montréal) representative at last Thursday night’s citizen…

On this week’s Montreal urban affairs update, I attend a citizen consultation in Southwest Montreal, where an expressway redesign is causing an expected transportation catastrophe. Southwest community groups and citizens came together to propose an alternative transit strategy. Also, Southwest Montreal blogger John Davidson’s website called Vanishing Montreal is documenting a recent string of building…

Montreal heritage preservation advocate Phyllis Lambert, founder of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, takes her fight to city hall to save Griffintown and the Lower Main from demolition. Lambert, also known as “Joan of architecture” appeared for the first time in many years to plead to Montreal city council and Mayor Gerald Tremblay to save the…

  The protracted battle to save Montreal’s lower Main, St-Laurent Boulevard (between René-Lévesque Blvd. and St-Catherine St.) continues. As demolition crews are set to move in, two concerned citizens would like to see Montreal’s Red Light District protected and restored to its former glory.

The second urban issues/affairs update on CKUT 90.3 FM Montreal’s Friday Morning After looks at the fight to save The Main, St-Laurent Boulevard. As bulldozers move in to demolish a remaining strip of the city’s once notorious red light district, further up Montreal’s Main, the Plateau borough council has forced a building to be restored…

  Every year, Héritage Montréal publishes its threatened emblematic sites list. Added to this year’s list was St-Henri’s Workers’ Houses, made famous by Gabrielle Roy’s novel The Tin Flute. These little homes along St-Augustin, near the Lachine Canal, are now being threatened by the push for development in southwest Montréal. This is the extended version…

St-Henri is ground zero in the gentrification battle taking place on the streets in Southwest Montreal. Working class folks and modest income families living in the area are coming up against a crowd of young, urban, professionals now calling the neighbourhood home. Condo buildings along the Lachine Canal are being snatched up almost as quickly as…

A weekly urban issue/affairs update for Montreal’s CKUT 90.3 FM FMA– Friday Morning After- radio program. This week, I discuss two threatened heritage sites in Montreal with FMA host Josh Hind. One, a group of workers houses made famous by Gabrielle Roy’s novel The Tin Flute. The other, a 150-year-old horse stable bought recently by a…

A film I did for a documentary production class about Montreal’s legendary ‘boulevardier’ Nick Auf der Maur. I thought it was time to re-upload it in its entirety, because I first posted it as two parts, because the first was for class, then I continued and finished the second half on my own time. I…

The final edition of the jhr Rights Report focuses on human rights and social media. @jhrConU Rights Report host @AdamBemma speaks to social media correspondent @DamianoR about everything #RightsMedia. To listen or download, click here. *Reporter’s note: This is the very last edition of my weekly radio human rights report. 23 weeks of programming and I feel like I could continue this…