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Why the Caisse du Depot should front me $35 million to open a seniors paradise
A multitude of studies and ponderous thinkpieces have been written about how an aging Quebec will cause the health care system to collapse. But the aging of the population is causing another...
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Victoria Bridge is ugly, says architecture prof
Montreal's Victoria Bridge was meant to look like... Montreal's Victoria Bridge sure is a durable structure as it's still going strong 155 years after it was built. But is it an eyesore? So...
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Montreal bus driver demands envelope laden with cash
A female hospital worker hopped off the 161 bus yesterday at Kildare and Caldwell in Cote St. Luc, not far from the Cavendish mall, only to discover an envelope stuffed with cash in the snow. As she...
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The Lower Main: four great descriptions of old times
Four fantastic descriptions of the Lower Main.Tales from the tenderloin: the lower Main through the past darkly1940: Paint magnate Phil Chamber started selling newspapers as a 12 year old in 1939 "The...
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Lower Main peep shows closed down
A local peep show complex which has long screamed screw you to advocates of cleaning up the Lower Main has closed. The peep show was a haven for perverts and prostitutes who would cruise up and down...
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Quiz - what happened here?
One of the biggest disasters in local law enforcement history took place at this corner during WWII. Can you name the place and the event?We have a correct answer. Quiz over. Congrats to the...
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Red Cross street fundraisers getting on people's nerves
Red Cross fundraisers have come under fire for aggressive techniques, a bad habit exposed by what seemed like an innocuous Facebook status update. Here's the original post followed by five...
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Denis Delaney, the heart of old Griffintown, dies
The great Denis Delaney has died. Delaney was the quintessential lively Irishman from below the hill and once enthusiastically told me the true story of Neptune's broken leg, which I wrote about...
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Memoir of Midnight - draft dodger penning his life as a Montreal tabloid hack
I've been reading Joseph Glazner's excellent unpublished fish-out-of-water coming-of-age manuscript Midnight, John Lennon and Me on his life in Montreal, arriving here from California as being a...
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Joe Azaria's missing manuscript
Time to salute a great Montreal entrepreneur who brought glory - and shame - to this city and also time to ask whatever happened to the book he promised to write? More at the end of this little...
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'I was a teen leader of a Montreal biker gang' - the Guy Bouchard story
Guy Bouchard had nothing but smooth, open road in front of him in his quest for power as a biker gang leader after being named chief of one of the city's top biker gangs in 1967.Guy Bouchard Hot...
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Duff Court: a history of crime
The 2,000 residents of 1,2000 apartments in Duff Court, Lachine know of the bad reputation their area has earned throughout the years.The area, which consists of eight identical buildings put in...
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Gridlock cop takes motorist down on Cote St. Luc
Every rush hour morning drive on Cote St. Luc near Decarie is traffic hell. The intersection has been overloaded with cars. This is partly due to bad road planning as Coolopolis has mentioned...
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Montreal geography quiz question
Quiz question - where is this? I bet you can figure it out. But more importantly, what happened to this stretch of road 20,179 days ago?
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Did the province steal and neglect Fendall House?
Get ready for the true story behind Fendall House at 5333 Decelles, one of the oldest structures in the Snow Coat des Neiges, now owned by Louis Deumie, a psychiatrist from France. The city of...
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Teresa Duncan's quest for wealth
Westmount's Theresa Duncan was born in 1923 and by the time the war was finished she decided that she needed to be proactive about hooking up with a man with a solid income. So in 1947 Duncan -...
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Welfare recipient outsmarts bank robber at Park and Sherbrooke
Coolopolis interns created this image Chimples* has once again urged me to green-light his article on what he calls a Great Montrealer. Dinh Tri Nguyen would be about 61 now. Dinh Tri Nguyen, then...
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Who stole Brother Andre's heart? We think we know
A thief - unidentified still to this day - stole Brother Andre's heart from its marble pedestal beneath the basilica of the St. Joseph's Oratory on Thursday, March 16, 1973 at about 5 p.m. The...
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Richard Matticks of the West End Gang: dead of cancer
Coolopolis has learned that West End Gang leader Richard "Ritchie" Matticks has died of cancer at the age of 78. Matticks is considered the leading member of the clan that controlled the illicit...
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Montreal cop faces punishment after partner fails to corroborate his story
When a cop does wrong, his partner is often there to make things easier for him, even when it's not in the best interests of justice. One Montreal police officer thrust in this difficult situation...
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