Check your kid’s prescription the next time you unfortunately have to visit the pharmacist.  And then DEMAND a better choice.  Sugar… we miss you so.

Future plans involve moving the city hall to this location and relocating the town’s library as well.

The plans looks very promising, they are on display in front of the park in question located here.

Sunday May 8th, Parc Lafontaine, Montreal.

MEC Bikefest is a daylong community celebration of all things bicycle related. Our goal is to bring together Montreal’s bicycle community and those new to bikes, to celebrate the wonders of cycling. Come join us and make it the best bicycle bash in Montreal.

We’re going to try and head down to the city for this event!  Little guy representing on his SPec Hotwalk!

With a sack of points at our disposal, we did a little research and picked up a slick ‘little’ Dyson DC30 handheld.

Of the minimal amount of gadgets we have in our possession this will now rank as the bestest.  The first vac to grace our indoor space.  Our multiple work horse commercial vacs sleep outside.  The house being is carpet free (aside from a few small area rugs) we really have no need for an upright and this seemed like a perfect quick solution to our constant spot cleaning.

After using it daily for the past 5 or so months, here’s the breakdown:

- Great suction, easy trap emptying, easy filter cleaning, quick charging.

- Mediocre battery life (5-6min), horrendous trigger design and a tad loud.

I would easily recommend this vac or it’s more recent incarnations to a friend, if you’re in the market for a spot vac, then you couldn’t do much better then this little guy.

Setting the record straight on common misunderstandings…

Just for fun, I’ve rounded up ten oft-repeated statements that are either half-truths or outright falsehoods. I’m sure some readers will disagree with my conclusions; if you’re one of them, don’t hesitate to post a comment.

The Alstonvale Net Zero House (in Hudson) burned to the ground late May.  Word on the street (i.e. stuff I gleaned from this article) leads people to believe it was caused by an exothermic reaction in the day’s spray foaming party in the attic. Sad… but what a horribly ugly home.

Story here.

Walking westward down Notre-Dame from Atwater just gets cooler and cooler.  A new store front, a new neighbour, a new destination for all of you in the Sud-Ouest.  Tucked between a landmark (Dilallo burgers) and much sought after first coffee of the day (Lili & Oli) you will now find…

Fait-Ici

Fait ici is an eco-conscious general store that showcases high quality products primarily made in Quebec. 

Fait ici promises to provide you with an option that delivers on quality and sustainability. We’ve done our homework about the products on our shelves. We know who makes them, where they’re made, and how their produced.

It is also a throwback to the days when shopping was an experience. We aim to provide our clientele with a thoroughly modern twist on an old concept, the general store.

Media Event - June 9th at 2pm (Fait Ici Media Event Doc)

Grand opening June 10th at 5pm (2519 Notre Dame O)

And if any of you wonderful readers get to visit the store before I do, give me the buzz.

After 23 days of holding this underwater video private, they were forced to release it yesterday.  Nothing like video to bring the magnitude of this disaster into perspective.

- The white plume you see at the start of the video is Natural Gas, followed by Oil…

Ten years ago, Gale was a builder and flipper of office parks who would eventually become known for knocking down the Boston landmark Filene’s Basement and replacing it with a hole in the ground. But Gale’s fate began to change in 2001 with a phone call from South Korea. The Korean government had found his firm on the Internet and made an offer everyone else had refused. The brief: Gale would borrow $35 billion from Korea’s banks and its biggest steel company, and use the money to build from scratch a city the size of downtown Boston, only taller and denser, on a muddy man-made island in the Yellow Sea. When Gale arrived to see the site, it was miles of open water. He signed anyway.

…read it all on Fast Company.