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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 29/09/2026

One my favourite gardens in Toronto. It’s a Bach spot!

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 27/09/2026

In discussions for making Canada an associate member of the EU: This is what I want in Montreal!

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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The terraces are also lovely

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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Adaptive reuse of a parking garage originally built in 1957, into 63 new apartments in Paris Includes three new storeys built of lightweight timber and steel added on top of the existing building. A thread 🧵 Before After

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just thrilled to see the re-release of Cyberselfish. It’s a hell of a book. Downright prescient. The only mistake Borsook made was in writing it a couple decades before people were willing to listen.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 22/09/2026

On Praxis’ attempt to build a “smart” community in the +Colonia city development in Uruguay: “Thus far these haven’t gone particularly well ... I can never tell if it’s an effort to troll critics or it’s real.” – @raycraib.bsky.social

nytimes.com

Tech-Utopian Movement Praxis Says It Has Found a Home in Uruguay

After a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay.

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Raymond Craib @raycraib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Is Praxis a thing? Thanks to Emma Bubola for the conversation… These Tech Utopians Want to Build a City for the Post-A.I. World www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/w...

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Tech-Utopian Movement Praxis Says It Has Found a Home in Uruguay

After a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 21/09/2026

Finally! I don’t have to chase after missing dry cleaning or spend Sundays ironing, and can instead wear stained and wrinkled trench coats and shirt dresses.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A lot of us, including me, spent last week analyzing what output was likely to be produced from the von der Leyen and Carney speeches, what “associate member” could mean. As I explain here, it’s now apparent the speeches WERE the output. And they worked www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...

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A reality check on Canada’s future with the EU

Canada already has agreements for trade and security with the European Union. What more could they get as an ‘associate member’?

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 21/09/2026

What @dougsaunders.bsky.social argues is that Leyen's and Carney’s relationship declaration was the big thing. It wasn’t only a set of speeches; It was “the political action" that resulted from cooperation—on CETA, post-NATO defence, etc—with the ambition to bundle more in.

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A reality check on Canada’s future with the EU

Podcast Episode · The Decibel · September 21 · 22m

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 20/09/2026

Notice the rapidly growing, multi-billion dollar Canadian “art and culture” sector is not listed as a strategic area to explore. Not art, film, journalism, design, or architecture. Only vague allusions to “cultural and linguistic” ties are made. Did you notice this too @hertzbarry.bsky.social?

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 20/09/2026

With Fatboy’s Toní bistro tables and chairs, and Basil Bangs’ Weekend Umbrella parasols!

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 18/09/2026

I’m thinking of this 2015 cover for @bloomberg.com Businessweek’s The Code Issue, a special edition focused on a single 38,000 word essay by @ftrain.com. Highly recommended: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 18/09/2026

The Carney Crush also features Carly Rae, black cats, and red carpets at @tiffnet.bsky.social:

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 18/09/2026

The Carney Crush! A new chapter in the book on city branding:

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 17/09/2026

“Les plateformes technologiques aspirent à la souveraineté .. veulent fixer les conditions d’accès .. dicter les règles en matière de réglementation et même les contourner. Elles veulent contrôler nos données, répandre la désinformation, voler l’enfance de nos enfants.” – @mark-carney.bsky.social

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Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses European Parliament – September 17, 2026

YouTube video by cpac

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 16/09/2026

Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU. And create a common prosperity and economic security space.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 16/09/2026

“We will move from CETA to an alliance for the future ... We want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. And dear Mark ... I would like to work with you on opening the door to Canada being the first associate member of the European Union.” – @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

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Von der Leyen 'opens door' to Canada becoming associate EU member

YouTube video by Guardian News

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 14/09/2026

Carney seeks a “unique alliance” and not to become “associate member” of the EU, as reported by the @wsj.com. In the end, these two could be the same thing in spirit, in the sense that “associate member” as a status had yet to be created and nobody knows what its contours would have been.

cbc.ca

Carney says Canada planning to discuss 'unique alliance' with EU, but not membership | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada plans to begin discussions for a "unique alliance" with the European Union — but not membership — as he gears up to address the European Parliament this week.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 14/09/2026

If I was in Ottawa, I would go to this:

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 13/09/2026

I second the nomination of Shawn Micallef as Canada’s Special Envoy to the Mediterranean for greater beach and biennale relations!

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 12/09/2026

When friends from Amsterdam or New York City would visit me in Toronto—where I used to live—, I would bring them to Raymond Moriyama masterpieces, like the Toronto Reference Library or the Ontario Science Centre. Watching this self-destruction is bewildering!

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 10/09/2026

A distressed Forest City and an “Eton for Edgelords” Network School. Sounds about right! From Sam Venis—who is also working on a play about the Quebec separatist movement in 1976 Montreal. – cc @sarahkmoser.bsky.social

thepointmag.com

No Country for Tech Bros | The Point Magazine

As the public face of Silicon Valley secessionism, Srinivasan’s Network State Conference seemed like a prime window into the techno-capitalist frontier.

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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Three bedroom apartments, suitable for families. The architects are Oyapock Architectes

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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Design for the adaptive reuse of an old printworks and butchers shop in Paris, to create new housing Note, the existing masonry buildings have 4 new storeys of lightweight timber housing added on top!

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 07/09/2026

The Generic City, a 1995 Rem Koolhaas classic typeset by Bruce Mau Design in Toronto. monoskop.org/images/7/78/...

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 06/09/2026

I love it when the use of salvaged materials doesn’t “look” salvaged. Architecture studio Mosley Thorold updates and extends the De Beauvoir Townhouse in east London:

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Mosley Thorold uses salvaged materials for London home renovation

Mosley Thorold has updated and extended a Victorian home in east London, using a textured palette of concrete, brick, tiles and metal.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 06/09/2026

Not only can we admire with envy Paris’ social housing plans, window frames, and material palettes, but we can admire Spain’s too!

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 05/09/2026

There are magazines on the wall. Including a cover of Paris Match with Patrick Demarchelier’s Diana! Bar Edicola, a new-ish café and bar renovated by MRDK. I’m heading over to get coffee. Next week, @arjun.bsky.social, let’s meet there instead!

tastet.ca

Bar Edicola: a new downtown spot from the team behind Bar Caffettiera

A very nice café by day and a lively bar by night, Bar Edicola is the go-to spot at any hour in downtown Montréal.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 05/09/2026

C'est vrai. Le premier jardin guérilla que j'ai découvert était derrière une école abandonnée, rue Robertscott, à Amsterdam. Il avait transformé toute notre rue ; c'est là que j'ai rencontré tous mes voisins.

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