The Chinatown Working Group is calling for the area to be designated as a protected heritage district.
Author of the article: Marian Scott • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Apr 26, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 5 minute read • Karen Cho, foreground, and Jonathan Cha, left, with members of the Chinatown Working Group, are seen at the corner of de la Gauchetière and Côté Sts. in the heart of Montreal s Chinatown on Friday, April 23, 2021. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette
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Defenders of Chinatown are sounding the alarm after much of the neighbourhood’s most historic block was sold to a developer with a reputation for renovictions.
Mile End Ensemble hosts read-in protest for S W Welch Bookseller
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As a francophone who has lived in the Mile End for more than a decade, Stéphanie Bourbeau rarely visits the S.W. Welch bookstore.
And yet, when the teacher saw the ‘For Rent’ sign recently in the window of the venerable independent business, she was determined to act, especially after witnessing the closing of the café venue Le Cagibi in 2018.
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“The Mile End is a place where you meet people, fall in love, cry, meet strangers, work, buy essential and non-essential stuff,” Bourbeau said. “It’s a place where you live.
Mile End residents angry that developers are pushing out indie stores These businesses are closing not because they re not working, but because they have a landlord who is raising the rent in unreasonable fashion.
Author of the article: Brendan Kelly • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Mar 04, 2021 • March 4, 2021 • 4 minute read • Projet Montréal councillor Richard Ryan has lived in the Mile End for 35 years and currently lives just around the corner from the S.W. Welch bookstore, which will probably have to move because of a huge hike in rent.. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette
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In one corner, you have a community up in arms that mom-and-pop businesses on St-Viateur St. are being forced out by exorbitant rent increases. In the other corner is one of the city’s leading real-estate developers that owns several buildings on the fabled Mile End artery and insists his group is just trying to make a living in a difficu
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There’s a sandwich I’ve been dreaming about for years. Spicy Hungarian salami on a fresh, soft cheese bun, with lettuce, tomatoes, extra pickles the whole thing fairly dripping with mayonnaise and yellow mustard. That was my sandwich at Boulangerie Clarke, the beloved Mile End shop that closed in 2015. How exactly this came to be my sandwich, I couldn’t tell you. In the regular course of things, it never occurs to me to eat spicy salami. But that’s what I chose off the board the first time I was there, and I don’t believe in messing with a good thing. Even with extra pickles, the whole sammie only cost about $5 an extraordinary bargain for a made-to-order lunch on a freshly baked bun roughly half the size of your head. Between the liberal toppings and the lavish saucing, it was a five-star and five-napkin sandwich.
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