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Lime: a married disco duo that marked Montreal
Let's talk Lime. Sometimes implanting your trademark sound on an era isn't something to be proud of. One married Montreal duo did just that in the early 80s, churning out synth pop dance hits...
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Tunnels beneath the mountain
Unbeknownst to many of us (not me - Chimples) the train tunnel under Mount Royal dug one century ago came close to becoming just one of many tunnels for an entire transportation network that would...
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Berri metro new development: critical mass starting to happen
How the area would look if the building, at top left, ever gets built Quebec's ever-iffy PQ minority government announced yet another spending plan Monday, promising to move Revenue Quebec out of...
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Battling for turf in the Gay Village
Montreal's Gay Village is a North America's most-sprawling gay neighbourhood, taking up about two linear kilometers of formerly-dilapidated downtown-adjacent real estate, putting it on what appears...
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Coderre's attack on massage parlours: a bad idea
Mayor Denis Coderre announced Monday that he will be taking aim at massage parlours, a business that has done the city a great service by taking prostitution off of street corners. Police report...
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Guercy Edmond awaits taxi license revocation decision
Taxi driver Guercy Edmond, who drove his car over a Frenchman named Benoit Capelli on April 27, 2012, is awaiting a letter to see if he'll be allowed to continue driving his taxi. Edmond was summoned...
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Beauty and horror in Old Montreal
Some of our more sumptuous surroundings were once-upon-a-time scenes of horror, death and heartbreak. Such is the case of this lovely building in the heart of our city's tourist zone, right near the...
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Jack Seligman, from bagels to abortions
When last we mentioned Montreal baker Jack Seligman, it was to discuss his role in the drowning of 12 children, who didn't survive one of his boat rides in July 1954. The very next year Seligman...
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Thugs beat politicians at beauty pageant in the Point - 1958 mayhem
Pageant runner-up Joan Dwyer Only in Point St. Charles could a beauty pageant end up with thugs beating politicians. That ugly incident occurred when Betty Simpkins, 18, was announced the victor of...
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Buried alive in Montreal
Survivor Laurent Theoret, 23Getting buried alive is one of those things that you really don't want to have happen to you. But it was once relatively frequent, less so now, in spite of a recent...
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A purse is lost, a writer is found
Sarah Goodrich wrote this rather lively note, published in full below, in hopes that it would help get her beloved stolen purse back.Add captionI was having a beautiful morning today I had breakfast...
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Montreal realtor ordered to pay back gambling debts
Mtl Re-Max agent Ting-Sheng ChaoCrouching tiger, hidden gambler The verdict is in on Ting-Sheng Chao, a local real estate agent, involved in a wild lawsuit centred around high stakes gambling, an...
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Who else did Canadian serial killer Michael McGray murder?
Michael McGray is a Canadian serial killer who claims to have killed 16 people but has only been nailed for six of those murders. Or make that seven, as he recently killed his cellmate in B.C....
View ArticleThe fighting Hiltons, rags to riches, to rags
Hard not to watch this documentary on the fighting Hilton family. The brothers appear to have had their brains scrambled pretty bad by brutality, which likely helped them make some pretty bad...
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Montreal's first microbrewery opens in 1693
Back around 1700 the entire population of New France was somewhere about 17,000 people, roughly the equivalent of say... what Point St. Charles is now and only maybe half of those were living in...
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The killer blaze that left that gap on St. Cat
This long-vacant spot at 64 St. Catherine E. was left that way due to the sudden disappearance by fire of the American Spaghetti House, which burned down in a conflagration that began at around 1 a.m....
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Flying ambulances might finally be coming
Amazon's new proposed system of delivering packages via tiny helicopters evokes a plan from many years back to get folks to hospital in a sorta similar way. Those needing ambulances were to not...
View ArticleQuebec singer Coeur de Pirate tries to sing the Star Spangled Banner
This Quebec singing sensation reportedly asked to sing the Star Spangled Banner in French because the task of singing it in English proved too daunting. We say yes! Oh , disons que vous pouvez voir par...
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Long haired rebels from the early 60s
Brian Nation in early 60s (photo: Anna McGarrigle)Artist Brian Nation, who is from Montreal but now lives in B.C., generously shared this very cool story about his struggles wearing long hair in the...
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Quiz- who is this legendary former Montrealer?
((In the bottom image she's the one in black. (Photo supplied by Brian Nation of boppin.com)
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