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Quebec tourist in Miami tragedy: 'I hope to find a boy'
Recollection time for Francoise Guimond, 29, who was savagely murdered by a man she had just met in Miami in March 1968. Guimond was a waitress from Dolbeau Quebec who met a hippie named James...
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Developer forced to demolish top floor fails to win compensation in lawsuit
Developer Mario Di Palma's epic lawsuit against the city is finally done with after seven years. Di Palma sued the city for forcing him to demolish a fourth-storey addition to a condo project...
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Madeline Saucier's mysterious bust
Quite unexpectedly Madeline Saucier became an internationally-acclaimed artist when she was stricken with illness at this home on De Maisonneuve at age 22. Saucier was born in 1925 and attended...
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Judge rules on alleged racist Sears tractor riding ban
Photo re-enactment (not the actual people involved) Veteran judge Michelle Pauze recently presided over a contentious case of alleged racism at a Sears outlet at the Galeries Joliette. Two Muslim...
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Roslyn teacher awarded over $1 million in legal dispute with couple
A legal battle that escalated when parents violated a deal not to comment on an out-of-court-settlement has led to more pain as Justice Francois Duprat has ordered Hagop Artinian and Kathryn...
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Five reasons why we need to stop funding classical music and start funding...
Five reasons arts funding should be shifted from classical music to pop music1-Unlike classical music, people listen to, purchase and pay attention to pop music Some claim to like classical music...
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Montreal's radiation-blasting shoe store X-Ray fitting machines
How are your toes feeling? If you're old and once went to Jerry's shoe store on Queen Mary, they might be falling off. That store was one of those shops that favoured an awesome X-Ray technology...
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Montreal teacher fired for 70s Euro softcore past
Jacqueline Laurent-Auger, now 73, has been fired from teaching at posh Brebeuf School where she taught theatre for 15 years because she appeared nude in a few risque European films in the 70s,...
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How a street argument in St. Laurent snowballed into tragedy
What started out - and should have ended - as an innocuous street bravado conflict on a summer night in St. Laurent ended up leading to two deaths and much more collateral damage.Wendell Small, 21,...
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Plateau triplex was a doomed house full of tragedy
This triplex, built in 1925 at 4833 de Grandpre (now a coop and evaluated at $640,000!) once hosted unfathomable tragedy. The geography was not kind to Victor Benson and his wife nor their five...
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Gio D'Amico found guilty of attacking prostitutes
It took six years but Giovanni D'Amico has finally been found guilty in a court of law for attacks and sexual assaults on street sex workers after first being arrested over six years ago. He...
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Resident persuades Laval to rename arena after journeyman NHL player
Sylvain Lefebvre's unlikely campaign to rename the Laval West Arena after journeyman NHL forward Harland Monahan, who moved away from the Montreal area over 40 years ago, never to return, has...
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Immigrant family refuses to be oppressed by hardship
Indira Pintal in a recent photoIndira Pintin, then 8 and dad Miguel Uplifting story about an immigrant family that overcame intense financial hardship after arriving in Montreal from Central America....
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Montreal's Rajiv Rajan's scrapbook
Kimveer Gill, left and Rajiv Rajan Pierrefonds resident Rajiv Rajan, who was close friends with 2006 Dawson rampage shooter Kimveer Gill, has posted these photos to his Twitter account. Rajan has...
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Chez Mado on Pie IX - why was it closed and demolished?
Mado staff final night after 40 years as a strip club Chez Mado, a throwback old-time peeler joint on Pie IX, complete with epic retro motel-style sign out front was shut down and demolished four...
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Sporting facilities - how should cities decide which ones to build?
Should cities fund and build sporting facilities for residents? If so, which ones? And to what degree? The question is simple but important and yet there appears to be a massive void when it comes to...
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Montrealer wins lawsuit against Google over Street View
This is not Pia Grillo An important verdict was rendered in Montreal's small claims court, as Maria Pia Grillo has been awarded just under $2,500 from the internet giant for having shown her on...
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Legal verdict: no stripping at the Ste. Marthe strip mall
The lovely folks at the Bar Net will be keeping their clothing on. Due to a recent court ruling, there will be no stripping at the local strip mall for the marthelacquois of Ste. Marthe, a...
View ArticleWhat a deal! Two cell phones for just $5,000!
So...how do you like our prices? In 1988 a cell phone you connect into your car cost $1,400 at Radio Shack here in Montreal. The same store sold the Michael Douglas Wall Street brick portable...
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Do you really think that are no cameras in public washrooms?
Next time you're in the bathroom at work or in some other public facility, consider that it's possible that you're being watched by video cameras. Video surveillance in a bathroom is...
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