Category: montreal + canada + the world

Warren is beta testing Symaptico’s newest wireless product called “Sympatico HighSpeed Unplugged“. It allows you to wirelessly connect to the internet with your laptop from anywhere that Bell offers the…

Tuesday August 29, 2006 at the Saints Showbar (Address is 30 Ste-Catherine O. Montréal, QC – 7 PM $20) there’s a rockin’ benefit concert for Emergency Communities in New Orleans…

I haven’t gone down to see it myself, but Roadsworth’s new piece at Place D’armes metro outside Palais de Congres looks kinda cool. Well conceived idea using a large amount…

My 3000th photo (full size) uploaded to Flickr. This photograph was taken driving home last night by myself from Krista and Eric’s wedding. It’s not a great shot by any…

A huge congratulations to V and Carole for this. They made the cover of this weeks Hour … V told me about it last weekend – so I’ve been anxiously…

Seems some people have taken up the “Big-O Skate spot Cause” … actually quite a few people. Look for potential reports in the mirror/hour/ctv/cbc, the french language media and much…

My good friend Andi State attended the last night of the Cinema Du Parc. She took some absolutely wonderful black and white shots. She was the manager of the Cinema…

There was quite the storm over Montréal last night. The plateau was lit up with lightning for about an hour. We managed to snap a couple good pictures. The wind…

Nice little read about the history of Hawaii from the travel section of the NYT’s… “Gathered around their radios, our grandfathers listened to Webley Edwards and his long-running show, ”Hawaii…

Linda and I decided to drive around the west end of the island of Montréal yesterday, sticking as close to the water the whole way as possible. Hard to do…

I bought my 2001 Jetta 1.8T about a year and a half ago. I Love it. It was part of the CPO program from VW Canada — in which they…

Some very nice photos of Japan, as I have a couple friends who will love these. Seeing shots like these, and some of the amazing work being posted to flickr…

A nice little local site with a couple great writers (Nika among them) .. feed worthy… “Montrealers need Midnight Poutine. It’s a personal ongoing account of the city’s happenings. It’s…

After a hot weekend stuck in the city with Linda feeling under the weather — we walked around the plateau this afternoon amid the honking of thousands of Italian football…

(wonderful drawing by emmanuelle walker) Sad news – I’ve had multiple people in my life work there, manage that place or otherwise just become addicted to cheap late night flicks….