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Stephanie Watt

@stephaniewatt.bsky.social
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Cofounder of Metalude.ca, former city councillor, forever geographer, Montréalaise #ChildEngagement #ChildCentredUrbanism

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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Le déni? « Pour nous, l’avenir du ski de fond n’est pas tellement problématique pour ce qui est de manquer de neige qui vient du ciel, dit M. Carpentier. Il suffit de l’entreposer et d’avoir des aménagements conséquents. » Ski de fond Québec le dit. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...
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En manque de neige, un club de ski de fond ferme pour de bon
Alors qu’au nord du Saint-Laurent, des centres de ski de fond lancent leur saison, sur l’autre rive, en Montérégie, un club, frappé par un manque de neige chronique, annonce sa fermeture. Un mauvais p...
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Winter nighttime play.
A playground in the dark.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Tis that that time of year my kids stop asking me to carry sticks and start asking me to carry ice balls and blocks.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
lp.ca/Ahe2Ps?shari... REV St-Denis, la 3e piste cyclable la plus utilisée en Amérique du Nord. On doit arrêter de diaboliser la mobilité douce. It truly feels like a hatred of the human body, the safe human body of all ages and abilities.
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Un graphique qui dit tout | Le REV Saint-Denis, une piste cyclable qui atteint des sommets
Le vélo a été un sujet polarisant dans la dernière campagne municipale à Montréal. Pourtant, les pistes cyclables montréalaises n’ont jamais été aussi utilisées.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
What’s worthy of exception in a transit strike? « Le président des Éditions Les Malins ne comprend pas pourquoi le traitement du Salon du livre serait différent de celui du Grand Prix de Formule 1 du Canada, en juin dernier, qui avait eu droit à une exemption lors d’une précédente grève. »
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Grève possible à la STM | Un impact « catastrophique » pour le Salon du livre de Montréal
La possible grève des employés d’entretien de la Société de transport de Montréal (STM) du mois de novembre aurait un « impact catastrophique » sur le Salon du livre de Montréal, plaide son directeur ...
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I have a deep, deep love for well-maintained public spaces. And the Atwater Library is definitely one of them. Tonight, I lingered in the bathroom just to admire the clean tiles, doors, corners, floor. ILOVECLEANPUBLICSPACE
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Our kids are invisible on our streets in more than one way
a kid in front of a truck with a red backpack
Invisible 
The all-new 2026 child
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Last fall, I chatted with @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social about my experience of municipal politics in Montréal, how the combination of boroughs and local parties can lead to change, experimentation, cross pollination. This fall, a video came out about all this. Thanks, Patrick!
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This is one way or outcome of anchoring urbanism in a child rights framework.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Different ambiances or atmospheres make a space, in this case a park, more playable. Here this is achieved by letting a green zone grow out, looking like a field where some adventures could take place. Totally affordable. Also great for freshness and privacy.
Park with three sections. Foreground = trimmed grass. Middle = narrow asphalt path. Background = green zone with high grasses, deciduous trees, conifers. Photo taken at Parc Beaubien in the Rosemont neighbourhood of Montreal.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Je suis impressionnée par l'engagement de @mccraywx.bsky.social pour des rues apaisées + sécuritaires dans Sainte-Marie et par sa contribution rigoureuse + réfléchie au CA sur lequel on siège ensemble. C'est donc comme collègue et Montréalaise engagée pour les droits des enfants que j'appuie Chris!
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Ma ville du futur a encore des feux d’artifice. Deux jours après la canicule. Comme ça, sans gêne.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Tellement de respect pour celles et ceux qui s’engagent à fond pour leur quartier. Chris en fait partie — après des années de mobilisation locale, sa candidature à l'investiture de Sainte-Marie coule de source. 💚 #polmtl
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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is why I won’t use AI in my practice. How can I advocate for sustainable people focussed design if I’m killing the environment doing so.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Love it when the splash pad doesn’t look like one. Makes the freshness more inclusive. Place des Fleurs-de-Macadam, Montréal.
Splash pad made of rocks. Beach balls, buoys and a small plastic pool on the concrete surface. Adults and children in background. Mist coming out of the rocks.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2025
Trump declares war on cities “We must expand efforts to detain & deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as LA, Chicago, & NY, where Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, & other Cities, are core of the Dem Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base”
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Was at a multilane four-way stop today and gotta say, it was a clusterfuck. The crossing guard was giving « yeah, this is the worst ». No way a child could navigate that intersection alone. We should just call it clusterfuck urbanism. Or antichild urbanism. #ClusterfuckUrbanism #AntiChildUrbanism
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Made by my four-year-old. She felt loads of pride to have drawn this road on these tags. This sort of thing makes my heart melt.
Black ink drawings (scribbles) on tag cut from clothes.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Found myself appreciating the city the way my 4 year-old does.
Pink flower petals on a sidewalk. A hand holding a pink flower petal with sodewalk and street in background.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Je trouve ça particulier que la ville ne gère pas ses terrains sportifs extérieurs. Ce sont des assos sportives qui le font. So obvs loads of players and considerations fall out of their purview. ici.radio-canada.ca/sports/21702...
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Ces 15 terrains sportifs qui n’ont pas vu le jour à Montréal
Aucun des 15 projets de terrains sportifs promis en 2021 par Valérie Plante n'a finalement vu le jour.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This always makes me wanna channel my inner Beastie Boys to make a clip. I wonder what relationship other neighbours have to this lot, which has been like this for at least two years.
Abandoned building now used for postering. See empty parking lot cordoned off with concrete blocks.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
What a four-year-old places on the windowsill.
Green leaves, purple flowers, magenta flowers, skipping ropes on a windowsill. Photo taken from above.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I wish I had the courage to dance on »circulez ». #BerriUQAM #STM
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Le travail dans Sainte-Marie n’est pas fini! Il faut une personne élue qui comprend la complexité de ce territoire. Avec une vraie course à l’investiture, on pourrait tout mettre sur table, en débattre, pousser les idées plus loin - les quick wins et les gros noeuds structurants. 1/2
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
-Can i have money? -No. -But they wont let us sit in the coffeeshop without buying anything? -Welcome to teen life - loiter where you can 🙌
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
C’est tu de l’art linéaire sur Bélanger? Je vais demander à mon kid de 10 ans.
Piste cyclable fait de peinture blanche, mini zone tampon à droite.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
1 school for 6000 housing units. Seems like so little. Why not more, creating small catchment areas and neighbourhoods turned towards school? Sometimes it feels like we build schools to be at capacity day 1.
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Montreal readies to turn east-end mall into densified neighbourhood with green space | CBC News
Montreal’s city council has approved a major redevelopment project for Place Versailles, a 62-year-old indoor shopping mall in the east end.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
On as-tu ça une définition officielle d’un quartier « central » et d’un quartier « excentré » de Montréal ?
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
« Montréal est le meilleur élève de la pire classe. En Amérique du Nord, la plupart des villes auraient un F. Montréal a quelque chose comme un D- … » @owenwaygood.bsky.social on Montreal retrofitting our streets for pedestrian safety + comfort, namely children’s. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g...
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Aménagement urbain | Montréal dangereux pour les enfants piétons
La majorité des intersections et des rues de Montréal exposent les enfants à un risque élevé de collision, notamment lorsqu’ils se rendent à l’école, signale une nouvelle étude. Constat des chercheurs...
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I love seeing such a thoughtful observer and writer of architecture, urban life and childhood recognized for her work! Thank you, @langealexandra.bsky.social, for your writing and research.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 05/05/2025
“This is cruelty. This is not war.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...
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A Popemobile Used by Pope Francis Will Become a Mobile Clinic in Gaza
In his last months, Pope Francis blessed an effort to transform the vehicle he used when he visited the West Bank in 2014 into a mobile health clinic to treat Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My kid’s friend rang the doorbell and asked to play. They’re in the yard throwing hula hoops. The kid crossed the street to get here. Feels like a victory.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It’s a miracle any non-white, non straight, non-citizen person in America is getting any work done right now— —While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Les enfants de tous les quartiers de Montréal ont le droit de se déplacer en sécurité et avec joie. Pourquoi on se priverait de leur présence dans l’espace public? #REV
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Oh yeah, I’m really looking forward to this! Join us for an exciting day of talks and chats about how we move together in cities.
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La Presse @lapresse.ca · 03/04/2025
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Grève dans les CPE | Nos piliers les éducatrices
Père d’un enfant qui fréquente un CPE, Yannick Marcoux rend hommage à celles qui y travaillent.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I have been going to the same library for two years, about one to three times a week. And still, my brain has such a hard time reading this. I can’t be the only one. #BibliosMontréal #AffichageMêlant #CestQuelleEtage
A list of 6 words - a mix of library sections and storeys. Original FR text is «  Étage 1. Jeunes. Rez-de-chaussée. Adultes. Sous-sol. Adultes. » English translation is “First storey. Youth. Ground floor. Adults. Basement. Adults.”
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Blainville et la CMM refusent de céder à Québec, et c’est tant mieux. Pis j’imagine qu’il serait temps qu’on discute aussi de la—de notre—production de déchets dangereux. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2...
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Enfouissement de déchets dangereux | Blainville et la CMM menacent de poursuivre Québec
La Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM) et la Ville de Blainville passent à l’offensive en menaçant Québec de contester devant les tribunaux l’adoption d’une loi qui force Blainville à vendre u...
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Yesterday, I saw skateboarders for the first time this year. A sure sign of warmer days and ice-free streets. Or spring.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Thanks, Jared, for the opportunity to chat about one of my favourite topics : cities that support childhoods. We covered loads of ground : mobility, public space, play, public consultations, decision making, language, children's freedom. FREEDOM! #ChildFriendlyCities
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Matthew Rankin’s film #UniversalLanguage is deliciously absurd and poetic. The backdrop to this intergenerational story of belonging is made up of a multi-storey parking, highways and, mostly, seemingly endless, informal snowy pathways along large, anonymous brick buildings and the city’s souk.
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Jay Pitter @jaypitter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Just because your personal freedoms are being threatened for the first time, doesn’t mean that this is the first time personal freedoms have been threatened. Behaving in this manner undermines relationships with individuals & groups that have been living with this palpable fear for generations.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Pushing back on car culture to nurture play culture. @tomflood.bsky.social, “the expense” in Montréal.
A white woman wearing a black t-shirt that says “We’ve made it so that automobiles can go everywhere at the expense of children going anywhere.”
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
There’s something a little bit delicious about nighttime play.
Child sledding down a hill in the dark with a headlamp.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
More preschool kids riding the bus and metro than usual. Surely cuz their parents aren’t biking or driving in this post-74cm-snowstorm. Love seeing adults offering up their seats to 2 and 3 year olds. #stm #ChildFriendlyCities
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A first sidewalk is plowed a couple days after the snowstorm of the century (#74cm). Feeling liberated. #AndTakingStockOfInternalizedAbleism
A plowed sidewalk.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
City calls on children to uncover fire hydrants and on teens to help their neighbours shovel their stoops and entrances. Nice call, @montreal.ca, seeing young people’s contribution. #BlizzardCity #IntergenerationalShoveling #ChildFriendlyCities
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Storm walks. #Bellechasse
A pedestrian walking in a snowy street.
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Being Political : Genealogies of Citizenship, by Engin F. Isin
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Stephanie Watt @stephaniewatt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Accepting invitations. #HumanScale #PlayAsParticipation #PlayAffordances
A child sits on a small chair placed just outside a private yard in a snowy public alleyway. A child plays in a snow mound on a commercial street (Jean-Talon).
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