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50 years ago today -2 killed in FLQ robbery
Leslie McWilliams, left, and Alfred Pinisch, right were killed in the FLQ attack Time to remember Leslie McWilliams and Alfred Pinisch who died in a senseless event 50 years ago today due to Francois...
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Montreal streets that don't connect, it's tragic, I tell you
Drake in St. Paul's Coat district is disconnected into three parts at its eastern tip. This is nothing that a little clever road re-rerouting and a bit of demolition couldn't fix. Let's get a...
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Early days - Joan Rivers in Montreal
Joan Rivers who died today, had a connection to Montreal that went back at least to 1965 when she did a gig here after making her name with a small screen debut on the Johnny Carson show, which was...
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How'd Snowdon once earn a rep as a big shopping district?
A Coolopolis reader asks how Snowdon earned the moniker in the 50s as "the second largest shopping area outside of downtown." So in a search for an answer, I thought I'd turn to the crowd of reader...
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Montreal cops caught in full do-nothing mode
Cops are in full do-nothing mode these days, as witnessed in this photo sequence of a young man walking a pit bull without a leash on St. Catherine Friday. The man stops to talk to police, who one...
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Cuz taxi driver hair is easier to cut
Taxi drivers can get a bargain haircut if they get clipped at this joint on Jarry just East of St. Michel, provided they go either Sunday, Monday or Tuesday. No discount for blood donors, single...
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Jarry's fugly sidewalk poles look like they'll finally get removed
This pathetic sight of electrical poles in the middle of a sidewalk on Jarry east of St. Michel might soon finally change, as road repairs, (left) suggest that the strip will finally see its poles...
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Man disappears in West End
Troubling story about young Matthew Kustra, a 26-year-old father of a three-year-old, who disappeared from the West End last Thursday. He hasn't been seen since last Thursday at 10 p.m. when he...
View Article'40s Montreal brothel trial re-enacted
Lucie Delicanto Bisanti of 847 Stuart in Outremont was a 38-year-old veteran of the local prostitution business by 1944 and whose court hearing has been immortalized in a YouTube video re-enactment...
View ArticlePark Ave cafe crime - help get this Macbook back
Montrealers surely know the phrase "nothing good ever happins on Park Ave." (Did you just make that up or is that real? I'm not from here - Chimples). So when a creepy young thief stole an expensive...
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Newly-completed intersection remains closed because officials can't figure...
I'm told that a big factor in the ongoing delay to finally open the now-completed intersection at Decarie and Upper Lachine/De Maisonneuve is that officials can't figure out how to get the traffic...
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Why the city turns a blind eye to parking lot-owning scofflaws
Viger and Pap, one of Montreal's countless illegally unpaved parking lots Although you wouldn't know it, a strict set of rules dictate how a parking lot is supposed to look in Montreal. Parking lots...
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Montreal clean-up squad
Don't have much of a background on this Montreal picture shot on Clark South of Dorch but it's epic. Amazing that Geoffrey Rush once swept our streets.
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New Concordia dorm in building where 31 died in fire, but it's not haunted,...
Concordia has finally completed a long process of transforming the Grey Nuns Convent at Guy and Dorch into a student dorm. Not to incite panic but the last time that the joint devoted itself to...
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Photos from NDG
Veteran photojournalist Ian Barrett snapped these three photos of the West End, where he compulsively snaps pictures, many of them quite excellent. The top pic is of buildings painted black, possibly...
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Claremont restaurant-bar autospy, why a once-thriving joint went bust
Autopsy time for the once-popular The Claremont restaurant, which had once promised to revive a chunk of Sherbrooke at the border of Westmount and NDG. According to legend, the Claremont was...
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Covering the Ville Marie, an exciting project that's boring everybody to death
Mayor Denis Coderre has aggressively pushed a campaign to cover the Ville Marie trench and it looks like this project might actually be on the rails. It's an exciting project but hasn't caught fire,...
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How to succeed as an immigrant in Montreal
Immigrants come to this glorious and seductive island city on the St. Lawrence with big dreams and old suitcases but all-too-often end up in hellish oppression, pushing broom, trying to cope on a...
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