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Snow slides in local parks
For decades the city has been building and installing temporary outdoor hockey rinks in parks throughout the city every winter, but who knew that they also built snow slides as well? There were such...
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Why the job losses?
Times are tough for Quebec workers: 25,000 full-time workers got handed their walking papers in March, which amounts to over 1,000 axes falling per working day here. StatsCan reported that 8,300...
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How indifference killed Oxford Park: my CBC "hyperlocal" essay
Random folk doing Tae Chi on the last-remaining slice of green spacein Oxford Park Entered some sort of hyperlocal essay contest with a 500-word piece recounting my heartbroken love affair with the...
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Another part of Montreal rejects traffic lights
Another Montreal municipality has wisely joined Nuns' Island in successfully existing without a single traffic light on its territory, thereby rejecting a counterproductive technology that only...
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Empty wheelchair prompts internet probe
This image from Google Street view was taken from a spot somewhere around Prefontaine just north of St. Catherine. I am led to conclude that the wheelchair-user is either 1-invisible 2 just been...
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Greg Kramer - Jay Baruchel's Sherlock co-star - found dead
Sad news has accompanied something that should have been quite delightful. Firstly, we were surprised to learn that Montreal-born-resident-o-phile actor Jay Baruchel is starring in a play at the...
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Canada's fugitive bikers - worth tracking down in the tropics?
Photoshop re-enactment of what fugitive bikerMarcellin Morin did todayBig day for Marcellin Morin - not in the sense that he did anything interesting other than hang out in the sun and eat papayas -...
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Andrei Markov dealing with the dollars
Habs' defenceman Andrei Markov, 34, has helped elevate the Canadiens from the pavement to the penthouse this season upon his return from various knee injuries. But one little-known fact is that the...
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CDN-NDG blunders, allows explosion of industrial box eyesores
Politicians have allowed the streets of NDG to be littered with hideous industrial boxesAnybody traveling along Upper Lachine Road within the last few months would have noticed that the area has been...
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Brossard-bred Asian megastar Christy Chung not good enough for Musique Plus
Brossard's Christy Chung demonstrates the positive, negative, religious and fake orgasm,the last of which involves knocking over the interviewer Brossard's Christy Chung has seen her fame decline...
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Monday in Montreal: don't effen touch me!
Remember when guys like this would walk around with faded jean jackets emblazoned in pen-drawn Zoso triibutes to Zep? Well as a sign of the times this young slob was spotted flaunting all the...
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Lili St. Cyr's Montreal lovers
Stripper Lili St. Cyr blew Montreal away There were two types of Montreal men in the 1940s and '50s: those who wanted to be with Lili St. Cyr and... well.. I guess there was only one type after all....
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Eviction standoffs
Sad story from this morning about a resident who died after he was kicked out of his coop unit for non-payment. The man refused to leave when the bailiff showed up at his unit at 12350 Lapierre in...
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Photoshop re-enactment : Aldo Nova comes up with the golden toaster
A buncha years back a Montreal guy I know had to come up with a wedding gift for an Italian couple. He hadn't a clue what to get. But by some fluke he managed to talk to the great...
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The time I minded the Stanley Cup
Claude Mouton popped the cup into the trunk of his Cadillac Seville, leaving me to mind it as re-enacted in this photoshopped image When I was a teen my dad thought it would be a great idea if I...
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Family Guy tribute to Montreal strip clubs
Actual Chez Paree staffers' bodies combinedthrough amazing modern technologywith actual Family Guy cartoon characters' heads. Wow. I mean. Wow. Those watching the always-wholesome Family Guy program...
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A harrowing encounter with Montreal police - a Coolopolis exclusive
This Photoshop re-enactment shows how policeaggressively went after three young people buyingpizza on Mountain St. Tuesday nightHere's an alarming tale of police using excess zeal against some...
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Antenna expert explains how to get free HDTV
Montrealers toss billions of hard-earned dollars out the window each year by subscribing to costly cable TV packages, while failing to realize that a lot of that same high-definition TV content can...
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Quiz - who is this former Montrealer?
Quiz: name this former Montrealer whose turbulent domestic life earned her multiple headlines since moving stateside 25 years ago.
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