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Montreal Man Builds The Next Electric Car

Montreal is slowly becoming a leader in the growing industry of electric cars and vehicles. Not only is the city now home to the largest electric car service centre on the continent, with plans to "electrify" the city's bus and taxi fleets, but Montreal may now be home to the next evolution of the electric car with The Tomahawk.

Montrealer Mike Kakogiannakis of Dubuc Motors SLC is the designer behind the Tomahawk, which is currently being marketed as the "first and only all electric sports car offering an extended range." The car's specs include being able to go from 0-60 in just over 3 seconds, reach a top speed of 140mph, and has an extended range of 275 miles, along with being the first electric vehicle with adjustable height air suspension.

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Montreal's STM Should Get Buses Powered By Your Shit

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Sorry to be blunt, but having to take a dump while riding the bus is not a cute situation. While your bowels get bustling, you're stuck on a jostling caravan filled with judgmental strangers who will hate you if you let out a peep of relieving gas, with no washroom in sight. All that would change if a Bio-Bus fueled by human waste were rolling on Montreal's streets.

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Montreal Looking To Ban Plastic Bags In The City

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Montreal grocery stores are going to go green, if Denis Coderre has anything to say about it. Today at City Hall, the mayor of Montreal has officially stated the city will look into the banning of all plastic bags, reports CJAD.

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Woman On Motorcycle Hunts Drivers Who Litter Then Throws Garbage Into Their Cars

There are badasses, then there is this woman, who is in a league all her own. Not okay with litter bugs tossing their garbage wherever they please, this Russian motorcycle decided to teach 'em all a lesson.

Equipped with a GoPro (for whatever reason) this lone lady motorcyclist cruises along and spots several environmentally unfriendly tossing their trash right out of their window. The woman picks it up, drives right up to the car, and then proceeds to throw the trash right back at them.

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This Is Montreal's Rosemont "Hidden Public Urban Garden"

The City Of Montreal Cancels This Summer's "Car Free Day"

Bad news for mother nature and all pedestrians/cyclists (good news for drivers?) as the Metropolitan Transportation Agency (AMT) is putting the kibosh on Car Free Day, as announced on the AMT blog a few days ago.

Money woes and a lack of budget are cited as the main reason behind shutting down Car Free Day, which has been going on for the past 11 years. Cheers to Andy Riga for cutting out and highlighting the excerpt below, which outlines the AMT's decision:

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What If Montreal Was Under Water?

Climate change has left the mainstream media spotlight as a hot button issue (you did all you could Al Gore!) but that doesn't mean the problem isn't a threat to the world, no matter what a certain Texan think. Not exactly tangible, the effects of global warming don't seem imminently threatening, and its kind of understandable some people shrug off the issue. A visit to World Under Water will change that.

Taking the very real dangers of climate change and applying it to cities across the globe, Montreal included, World Under Water aims to show people just what can happen if we do not heed environmental warnings. Focusing on flooding and the likely changes to global sea levels, World Under Water shows you a planet where the world is quite literally under water due to global warming, hence the name.

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Montreal's Vanier College First School To Ban Plastic Water Bottles

Vanier College in Saint-Laurent has taken a firm stance against the environmental hazards caused by disposable water bottles; the sale of plastic water bottles has been completely banned on the CEGEP's campus.

Plastic water bottles are a well-known source of pollution and waste, and Vanier College aims to aid the environment in a way "that's not difficult to do," Vanier's Student Association President told CTV News.

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Montreal Set To Break A Very Unique Guinness World Record This Friday

Montreal will be trying to set a new Guinness world record this Friday, April 18th. The city hopes to have the largest gathering of electric vehicles in one place, ever.

What seems like an incredibly random event is actually part of a larger iniative by the Centre national du transport avancé (CNTA) and its "Get Connected Day," an annual event held to increase awareness on electrically powered forms of transportation.

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Montreal Map That Shows You Every Tree In The City

QuéBio, an organization devoted monitoring biodiversity in Quebec, has created an online map that plots every tree in the city of Montreal.

Well, almost every tree.

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Montreal These Are Your New 100% Electric STM Buses

Philippe Schnobb, head of the STM, has even more surprises for STM riders.

In a video created by the Montreal Gazette, the STM revealed their new 100% electric powered buses.

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Naked PETA Protesters Take Over Montreal's Streets

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PETA has taken to the streets of Montreal for a very scandalous, but still quite important, protest on the relationship between natural resources and meat production.

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