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		<title>Overkill</title>
		<link>http://www.taylornoakes.com/2012/05/14/overkill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 02:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor C. Noakes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sad and frustrating all at the same time&#8230; Restraint Restraint Restraint The only three Rs I could care about in times like these. Let me get this straight: the education minister quits as a result of the impasse what with the student strike. She&#8217;s replaced by the old education minister, who is already the head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreaded Development</title>
		<link>http://www.taylornoakes.com/2012/05/09/dreaded-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 03:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor C. Noakes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It can&#8217;t all be bad, right? I&#8217;m kinda impressed with this proposal rendering of the new Icone condominium project. I&#8217;d have chosen a different name, and I&#8217;d like to put it somewhere else ideally, but if it actually looks like this and is placed over an ugly parking lot, well, then I&#8217;m typically sold. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Four Years We Fix Everything</title>
		<link>http://www.taylornoakes.com/2012/05/08/the-four-years-we-fix-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 02:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor C. Noakes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turcot Interchange, aerial perspective shortly before completion Call this an early campaign promise. I figure we can fix more-or-less every major infrastructure problem in our city in a single concerted effort &#8211; a four year program of various projects all set into action simultaneously and inter-dependently. In other words, the mother of all public works [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adam Yauch &#8211; 1964-2012 / The In Sound From Way Out</title>
		<link>http://www.taylornoakes.com/2012/05/06/adam-yauch-1964-2012-the-in-sound-from-way-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 02:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor C. Noakes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.taylornoakes.com/?p=1263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Late to the party as always. Found out after reading Cadence Weapon&#8217;s tweet &#8211; a simple &#8216;oh no&#8217;. It definitely sucks, I am a huge Beastie Boys fan, but I never had a chance to see them perform live. The Beastie Boys were obviously influential and ground-breaking in numerous ways, not least of which was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sugar Sammy has the Pulse of the City</title>
		<link>http://www.taylornoakes.com/2012/04/29/sugar-sammy-has-the-pulse-of-the-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor C. Noakes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts & the City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw Sugar Sammy&#8217;s Le Show Franglais at l&#8217;Olympia on Friday night. Wow. Simply excellent. I know I&#8217;m late to the party, but the tickets were purchased over a month ago by my mom &#8211; a birthday gift, and a testament to the enduring popularity of Sammy&#8217;s unique show. My understanding is that it was initially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Change of Tactics</title>
		<link>http://www.taylornoakes.com/2012/04/26/a-change-of-tactics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor C. Noakes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A modest proposal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again, each time expecting a different result. It&#8217;s high-time the student leaders of Québec recognized this fundamental truth. We&#8217;re almost into the third month of 2012&#8242;s Maple Spring and nothing has changed, other than public sentiment towards the striking student protesters. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Hidden History</title>
		<link>http://www.taylornoakes.com/2012/04/23/a-hidden-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor C. Noakes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Burning of Parliament at Place d&#8217;Youville, Montréal &#8211; 1849 The painting above is of a fascinating moment in our shared history, and yet all to often I&#8217;ve heard it described as something of a joke. Perhaps that&#8217;s all it&#8217;s worth today anyways, and given there&#8217;s very little in terms of general acknowledgement of that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The city from up on high&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.taylornoakes.com/2012/04/19/the-city-from-up-on-high/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor C. Noakes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve recently started working in an office tower Downtown. Try to guess which one based off these pics, it should be fairly obvious. All correct answers will receive infinite karma, as will incorrect answers. You can&#8217;t possibly go wrong! A few things I&#8217;ve noticed about working on the 24th floor of this building. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Peace 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.taylornoakes.com/2012/04/16/great-peace-2-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor C. Noakes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.taylornoakes.com/?p=1247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mural in the Plateau depicting the Great Peace of Montreal &#8211; not the work of the author Enough is enough &#8211; we need to end the bogus fabrication that is the notion the French language is threatened in Québec. We further need to end the on-going demonization of the so-called Anglophone community of Québec. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montréal&#8217;s Use it or Lose it List &#8211; 2012 Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.taylornoakes.com/2012/04/13/1243/</link>
		<comments>http://www.taylornoakes.com/2012/04/13/1243/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor C. Noakes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abandoned Bldg on Laprairie in the Pointe, credit to John Bryce Davidson The following is a list of heritage sites in the City of Montréal which are all in danger of passing a point-of-no-return of sorts with regards to any potential redevelopment. Unless action is taken, more or less immediately, many of these buildings may [...]]]></description>
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