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Montreal's Johnny Greco: great at boxing, bad at driving
Montreal's Johnny Greco, aka Giuseppe Antonio Giovanni Greco, aka The Million Dollar Kid, was a great Montreal boxer but not such a great driver.Cedar and Mountain Not only was he busted in the...
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Demolition of iconic CNR office building: an illegal act
Southwest borough mayor Benoit Dorais has confirmed to Coolopolis that he watched on helplessly as the historic, abandoned old Canadian National Railways office building at Bridge and Wellington was...
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Montreal court decides in multi-million dollar porn ruling
A Montreal courthouse recently spent an impressive seven full in late May listening to testimony about porn DVDs and the story did not have a happy ending for Montreal-based shop magnate Alain...
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Montreal's phone fraud culture
I have come across way too many Montrealers involved with phone fraud operations here, which hopefully have all been eliminated by now in a series of high-profile busts and extraditions. So I took...
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Montrealer raises over $1,500 for soft-boiled egg 'secret'
One local Montreal woman is doing her best to up the ante of stupidness on Kickstarter by promising to reveal her secret to perfect soft boiled eggs for $15. Well, you boil some water, walk to the...
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Montreal restaurants going broke
I argued here a while back that Montrealers are crazy for spending so much of their budgets at restaurants when it costs a mere fraction of the price to eat at home. Alas, people were listening,...
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Barracuda still biting - king of 70s Montreal chess boom emerges
The 68-year-old on the right is seen here engaged in an apparent attempt to stare down another chess opponent in front of an invisible chess set. Montrealer, or onetime Montrealer Jerry Rubin, was...
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Who stole the Smith-Scollard fortune?
Eccentric millionaire Sarah Smith Scollard died in Montreal 82 years ago and that's important because her vast fortune also disappeared with her. Smith-Scollard had been staying at the Mount Royal...
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Montreal's creepiest convent
According to an article that was widely published across America in 1898, Montreal was home to a convent full of teenage nuns who slept in coffins. The article, entitled "Strange Convent in...
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Montreal hotel-goer drugged and sent to South Africa
Quebec City hardware merchant A.D. Fraser came to Montreal in 1876 to stay at the Montreal House on Common street near the customs house, which was where sailors would stay on their brief stays in...
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Snowdon's strangest building
Two Montreal books tell the story of Snowdon in the 50s and they're both the creation of a local guy named Bill Conrod, who recently put out his second tome More Memories of Snowdon in the 50s. Of...
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Booze authorities order clothing back on at St. Jerome's only peeler joint
Montreal was once circled by a suburbs featuring brothels in the form of strip clubs but alas that supply is decreasing fast as booze authorities tear up licenses. The most recent to suffer is the...
View ArticleOutremont Satanists stymied in attempt to kill two kids
Pretty wild story here - most likely a tall tale - about a trio of people who were supposedly prevented from committing a child sacrifice in Outremont this week. The first 17-or-so minutes of the...
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Rogue immigration counselor beats the Queen
Goikhberg by DELF BERG When you've served your time, you're out, whether authorities like you or not, as Yafin Goikhberg has been set free in spite of vigorous attempts to keep him behind bars....
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Warehouse shack rivals famous cathedral
Low-rent version of Mary, Queen of the World, which is a low-rent version of St. Peter's. 2695 Hochelaga near Florian, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Montreal. Thanks to Jack Ruttan for the photo!
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NYC abortion tragedy: sawbones flees to cottage near Montreal
Women who wanted to terminate a pregnancy would likely have had this conversation back in the day. "Doctor what happens if there are complications?""Well if you die, then I'll chop up your body,...
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MP&I's fave tram pix
No 1 shows a Northbound Blue Bonnets streetcar just past the crossover the Southward Track and the curved spur into Blue Bonnets Raceway to the West/ Right..Jean Talon/Harold Cummings/Namur is just to...
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Did the city rehire worker after killing colleague?
Here's one that sits in the awful intersection of stupidity and tragedy: In July 1995 a veteran City of Montreal worker named Michel Dubois, aged 40, decided to prank colleague named Joseph Villa, 38,...
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Richard Whaley - pepper spray and cocaine don't mix
Here's a rare photo of Richard Whaley, a Montrealer who some feel died due to police action, although he'd still have to take plenty of blame regardless for the events of November 1996. Whaley a...
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Regret correction therapy - let's turn Montreal into a world capital for...
Montreal could get back on the world map by providing infrastructure that would be unique to the planet. I'm talking about a vast facility where one could re-enact and correct one's moments of...
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