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JP Karwacki

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Managing editor at @themain. He/him. Food writer/loudmouthed glutton. Only lurking here. Go find me on Instagram/Threads: @johnnycrust

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A tale of two summers : How Expo 67 remade Montreal — and then the ’76 Olympics nearly broke it

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By JP Karwacki Verified
| Canadian Geographic Verified
On the morning of Expo 67’s opening day, people came off Montreal’s newly minted Metro in waves. Streaming through turnstiles onto Île Sainte-Hélène, they arrived in a city that had built a new island populated by a vision of the future: Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome looming over a sprawling site where a minirail flew over canals, overpasses and pavilions from 62 nations.
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From software engineering at Concordia to the corner office at TC Transcontinental

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By JP Karwacki Verified
| concordia.ca
When Sam Bendavid, BEng 02, took over as chief executive officer of TC Transcontinental this past April, he was stepping into a company he had spent 18 years helping to reshape. That included engineering a $2.1-billion sale of its packaging division just weeks before his appointment. The decision to divest was not impulsive. Public markets were undervaluing the business and industry consolidation was forcing a choice between doubling down or getting out.
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Skawennati brings Indigenous futurism to Montreal’s streets

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By JP Karwacki Verified
| concordia.ca
Credit: Ruvan Wijesooriya The artist Skawennati, BFA 92, GrDip 96, has spent decades envisioning Indigenous futures through fashion collections, quilts, beadwork and films created entirely in virtual environments using game-like software as both camera and set.
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