Rue Bernard

Rue Bernard: But Flaneur , a startup literary magazine, went ahead with it, dispatched a team to scour a 1.9-kilometre strip known as Rue Bernard , discover its habits, haunts and its humanity and take from it inspiration for a collection of stories, comics, poems, essays, profiles and photos, according to The Star. Bernard stretches from the wealthy francophone enclave of Outremont in the west where it is officially an avenue to the back alleys that hum with black-hatted Hasidic Jews. It ends up in the east as a plain old rue, or street, in the rundown or reclaimed industrial area known as the Mile End. This in the neighbourhood put on the map a few years ago as Arcade Fires home base and It must have seemed at one point like a ridiculous notion: a Berlin magazine devoting an entire 123-page issue to one street 6,000 kilometres away in Montreal. Making money from the slick finished product, which was released last week, may be another matter. But it has mined a few nuggets of truth about life in Canadas second-largest city. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.