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Parking Montreal
Bike parking. Costco. Trike parking. Val-U-Village.Bird parking. Oxford Park.Superhospital parking.
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Quebec's logo modification demand could lead to constitutional squabbles
An obscure government notion that big box stores should carry explanatory French wording accompanying their trademark logos has led to Quebec to a couple of court defeats but there's some notion...
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Claude Morin: top politician toppled for meeting with spies
Cloak and dagger in PQ history time. Claude Morin was one of the top guns in the Parti Quebecois government until revelations emerged in 1992 that he had met with RCMP undercover agents and been...
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The charm industry turns 100: here's what we have learned
“Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.”― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions. For about a century people have...
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Mayor Jean Dore and what he meant to Montreal
Former Mayor Jean Dore, who ran five times for Montreal mayor and was elected twice, has died after a bout with pancreatic cancer at age 70. Dore was born in Rosemont in 1945 but grew up in Laval....
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Zombie Boy turns 30: an inked celebrity's contribution to art
Vulnerable yet scary, dreamy yet ghoulish, punk yet sweet: Richard Genest, aka Zombie Boy, who turns 30 this summer, rode a lot of contradictions on his most unlikely path to fame. About eight...
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Neighbourhoods on the rise: 4 Montreal areas with a transportation advantage
Want to make money in Montreal real estate? Buy a home near a traffic hub and then watch its value rise.Where should I buy?Bell Centre Here's are areas that will rise in value as a result of their...
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Rock star mobbed at Mirabel - who can guess what act led to such passion in...
March 1984. Big rock act arrives in town to start a North American tour. A crowd of between 1,500 to 3,000 fans were there to meet 'em. It all seems very unlikely now. Who can guess the act?
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Death House dies, another punk club bites the dust
"Somebody always asks: 'Hey! Were you at the club last night? Everybody was there!' If you tell them that, no in fact you were at home sleeping, they will insist that you missed the biggest event...
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Kids exiled from playground, $140k volunteer effort wasted as authorities...
My first kid adored visiting the local playground so intensely that I leaped at the chance to purchase a rundown triplex about 25 yards from a pair of playgrounds in 1998. I was daily visitor...
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Where's Carlo Calvi?
Carlo Calvi moved from Italy to Montreal 20 years ago after a bunch of the Pope's thugs killed his father, who was the Pope's accountant. John Paul II was busy replacing the old bureaucrats with...
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The future of newspapers..what future?
Check out my recycling box. I get La Presse and The Gazette and end up throwing them in the green box without even looking at the headlines.Delivery cancellation looms. Then they'll beg me to stay at a...
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That's it -- it was all about LOVE
According to PepinDomination by the English is a synynom for defeat, humilation and self-hatredby Bernard Bérubel'Action Québec, Saturday, June 27, 1972, pp. 5"We of French Quebec believe that it is...
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Mental health banner
Ah..Verdun, the only borough which very much wants to know about the mental health of your family. This banner flew over Wellington Street last fall.
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Metro suggested as way to haul container freightMontreal Stary Friday November 16, 1973The Montreal Urban Community Transit Commission could gain some much-needed revenue by transporting freight on the...
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Mothers against slaughterhouses
Mothers Win Hide and Skin WarUltimatum to be given factoriesThe Gazette Tuesday, August 1, 1961By Bruce GarveyThe angry housewives of Forfar Street went to war with the hide and skin business last week...
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August 30 th will mark the end of tramways in Montrealby Andre de la ChevrotiereSeaports and the Transport World August 1959On August 30 th, 1959, the face of Montreal w3ill be submitted to a radical...
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New, Ultra-Modern restaurants Replacing "atmosphere " Cafes to which Occidentals Once Resorted to Sample Succulent and Exotic DishesMontreal Gazette 1 January 1947Montreal's Chinatown is really going...
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