Mont Royal – Promenade guidée / Walking tour

    12/05/2010 by Adriana

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    Du Campus McGill au piedmont du mont Royal:

    Les arbres et fleurs du printemps

    Le 16 mai, de 11h a 15h

    Rien n’est plus beaux que les fleurs printanières de notre forêt, l’erablière à caryer. Trilles, erythrons, l’érables à épis et sureaux figuront parmi une quarantaine d’espèces de fleurs, arbres et arbustes que nous rencontrerons pendant cette promenade. Nous commencerons en regardant les arbres indigènes du campus McGill tout en montant vers le piedmont (flanc nordest) du mont Royal.

    Ou?: Musée Redpath jusqu’au monument George-Etienne Cartier
    Apporter: un crayon, un lunch, de l’eau.
    Bilingue

    $15/personne
    Informations et inscription: 514-284-7384 ou bronwynchester@gmail.com

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    Spring Trees and Flowers: from McGill to Mount Royal

    May 16th, 11am – 3pm

    Nothing beats the beauty of the maple-hickory forest in spring. Trilliums, trout lillies, mountain maple and elderberry are but a few of the 40 species of flowers, trees and bushes we will meet on this walk. We begin with the native trees on the McGill campus and continue in the forest of the piedmont (northeast flanc) of Mount Royal.

    Where: from the Redpath Museum to the George-Étienne Cartier monument
    Bring: a pencil, lunch and lots of water.

    Bilingual.

    $15/person
    Please call 514.284-7384 or email bronwynchester@gmail.com for more information and to register.

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    Gorillas in our midst

    11/05/2010 by Adriana

    Speech by Campbell Stuart at the Annual General Meeting of the Green Coalition, May 6, 2010

    GORILLAS IN OUR MIDST

    Ladies and Gentlemen of the Green Coalition and distinguished guests: good evening.

    This talk is entitled “Gorillas in our Midst” and is intended to be first and foremost a call to the awareness of our true strength; and second to the deployment of that strength. It will reveal some facts about the scandal that is the plan to develop Meadowbrook. And it will conclude with this open question: “Who really is the 800-pound gorilla today?”

    First: the awareness of our strength. It is my conviction, as a community activist and politician, that there is a fundamental shift happening in the hearts and minds of ordinary people everywhere. I believe that we are crossing a divide right now in the politics of environmental change. It is partly a generational shift in values, and partly fear. Environmental change is a fact and everyone knows it. The only open question is just how bad we will allow our children’s future to be.  We know, in our heart of hearts, that someday our children will ask the equivalent of “What did you do during the war Daddy?”

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    Phyllis Lambert condemns Meadowbrook development

    07/05/2010 by Adriana



    Originally published in The Suburban, Wednesday, March 10, 2004

    ‘1,200 coffins’

    Meadowbrook development risks lives: CCA head

    by Joel Goldenberg

    Lack of emergency access to a potential housing development on the Lachine portion of the Meadowbrook golf course would risk thousands of lives, architect Phyllis Lambert told a crowded public meeting on ways to preserve the 57-hectare site.

    “It’s absolutely insensate (lacking sense) that there should be a proposal to build on this land,” Lambert told the audience of several hundred gathered in the former Montreal West town hall.

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