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How Montreal's Irish took charge of the port
There's new strife at Montreal's port as longshoremen have objected to management interpretation of their deal. Management wants to hire from anybody who applies and the union wants to promote...
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Judge thwarts Laval massage police stupidity
This woman was acquitted in LavalMontrealers are being punished by our local police forces for not giving them enough work. We've become too lazy, stoned, indifferent, empathetic to give them enough...
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Quiz - what's unusual about this NDG resident?
So this woman here.. I've never met her but she lives in the Deeg near Monkland and teaches Trifluviens at The Three Rivers University.* So I'm told she's just a normal and very pleasant individual...
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Friday Montreal quiz
How many times did Jean Dore run for mayor?12345Which of these was not the nickname of a someone who played on the Habs?CycloneNoseySpeedyDodgerDukeNadia Comeneci lived in what neighbourhood for a...
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Tiny, historic May Ave to be razed
Tragic that the century-old homes on tiny, charming May Ave., - the first street in Verdun when you come along Wellington from the Point - are being expropriated for demolition. The demolitions have...
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Buffalo Bridge - the Montreal span that's now completely forgotten
Buffalo Bridge sat at the east end of Verdun Nobody remembers the Buffalo Bridge which spanned the little St. Peter's River between 1876-1934. The structure crossed the river which ran sorta along...
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McGill grad turns pulls off epic slow death scene in Paris
Usually when some McGill grad does something impressive I get an email from the eager PR flak squad proving that some of the young minds that attend or graduate blossom into great leaders of...
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Serenading the FLQ - lost driver stranded with Quebec terrorists
Rod Vienneau tells this story about being accidentally stranded at a FLQ terrorist training ground in 1970 just prior to the mayhem they spread in October 1970. He was motoring from Bathurst NB to the...
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Montreal underworld timeline
Carmelo Tomasino2004January 19: Carmelo Tomasino, 32, disappears and Paolo Gervasi, onetime owner of the Castel Tina strip club on Jean Talon, and whose son Salvatore was killed four years earlier -...
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What happened to Montreal's blue brick backroads?
Up until the mid-sixties laneways near Old Montreal were covered in blue bricks at a time when alleyways were routinely used as legitimate roadways. According to Janet Coutts, who around 1963...
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Verdun's embarrassing spelling mistake
Verdun made a spelling mistake on a prominent street sign that has gone unrepaired for years, as John Davidson noted on his Vanishing Montreal site. The name Egan does not take an accent and in spite...
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Quebec City photographer ordered to pay $7,000
A recent lawsuit against a Quebec City journalist has raised questions on what news publications are permitted to report. Ahlem Hammedi and spouse Saber Briki sued journalist Mihai Claudiu...
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NDG trees to be axed for new French elementary school
Oxford just north of Upper Lachine, sad site to see these about nine lovely maples will be cut down, surely as part of the adjacent school construction. If I can find out why this is necessary I'll...
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Save Maz!
Historic Maz bar, home to an epic weekly karaoke evening and pool tables and unpretentious chatter might be closing after decades of serving beer. Part-owner Peter White (cousin of the legendary...
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Magnan's closing after 82 years
Magnan's Tavern, an institution in the Point since 1932, will close at the end of this year. The tavern had initially opened as a humble beer joint where laid-off Dominion Glass worker and...
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The Blue Bonnets racetrack-to-housing saga: a timeline
A quest to transform tehe once-glorious Blue Bonnets west end racetrack into some form of housing has moved forward at the speed of a dead nag in spite of years of planning and discussions. One...
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Shoplifting: thrill of theft makes good people do bad things
This lovely Eastern European woman living just north of Montreal got into a common problem recently. According to a recent court ruling, the woman, (whose name I won't mention because it would only...
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