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• Tourism-based redevelopment and the fiscal crisis of the city: the case of Montreal.

...), le Palais des congres, le Casino, les hotels, les musees, les stades, les parcs d'amusement, et... 1990s that the Expo sites on two small islands in the St. Lawrence River--were successfully retro... controversial Olympia and York firm (of Canary Wharf fame) to develop a $1 billion, 1.8 million s...

• Canadian Journal of Urban Research
• Vol. 12 Nbr. 1, June 2003

• Some Have Learned Not to Hope

Samba [Samba Ndiaye] didn't speak of people who need a hamper at Christmas to tide them over or a visit to a food bank to stretch the week's budget. He spoke of the kind of poverty that bleaches the soul. He spoke of "stray children," little ones who are tossed to the streets by parents who can't feed them and schools who refuse to educate them further. Because here they are dead," he said simply. "Here they have no hope. We have learned to stop taking pictures of the wooden carts pulled by emaciated horses, adults and children and their belongings jostling along the dusty roads. We have stopped handing out flags or balloons or Canada pins to children when we don't have enough for the hundreds who emerge from huts and shacks made from concrete and sheets of rusty metal.

..., sometimes to the tourists who stay in hotels outside of town, places that are surrounded by hig... thousands in their efforts to reach the Canary Islands?. "Because here they are dead," he said si...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 14, 2009