'Nintendo' email costs Montreal med student
"I was at home playing on my Nintendo," started an ill-advised email sent by a med student to his profs. Lucian Nenciovici started his email with that phrase in reply to a query sent by two of his...
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Judge rules that police are allowed to write on your body
O'CallahanHaigh Do police have the right to mark your skin with a pen? That question recently went before a judge as a trio of Occupy Montreal protesters asked for compensation for having this...
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Honey Martin pub ordered shut for two days for trivial reasons
Michael Griffin Liquor authorities and police are continuing their enthusiastic campaign to crack down on bars for minor reasons. Homey little Honey Martin Pub on Sherbrooke W.was recently ordered to...
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Father of young family disappears from Chateauguay
Chateauguay family man Justin Arns has been missing for three days after leaving late for work on Friday July 24 in a white 2014 Hyundai Elantra. Arns has a daughter and his fiance is pregnant with...
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What great Canadian artwork was created at this house?
One of Canada's most famous paintings was created at this downtown home at the end of Overdale in the early 1880s. The painting was very large and featured folks from Ottawa.Anybody?
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Quiz - who's this famous Montreal oddball?
It is indeed Ludwig Karls from the famous Karls Shoe Store on the Main above Rachel. He is seen here on his wedding day in 1956. His store was about the craziest place in town, shoes piled hazardously...
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Rustbelt glory on the Guy street bridge
No Montreal spot offered a more evocative taste of rustbelt glory than the Guy St. bridge over nowhere, a 2,000 foot overpass built in 1931 and demolished in 1987. The bridge offered a...
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Gay male murders in Montreal - a list
A partial list of gay men murdered in Montreal.Mar. 22, 1978 John Court Lund, 44, from Denmark, killed in his apartment at Sherbrooke and Decarie. A 16-year-old boy was later arrested.Victim John Court...
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Jacques Cartier Square timeline
Chateau Vaudreuil15 Dec. 1660 Land between Notre Dame and St. Paul was granted to Joseph Charles d'Aileboust des Musseux, who served as president of the Montreal seigneurs.1672 The property was...
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Why American tourists snub Montreal
American tourists have simply stopped visiting Montreal and la belle province. Under six percent of all tourism in the province comes from the United States, 88 percent of Quebec tourists are...
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The top 5 weird things about Henri Richard
The great little Habs forward Henri Richard long lived in the shadow of his older and larger brother Maurice "The Rocket" Richard but it's now time for us to fully embrace this guy to the point of...
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Vacant old buildings starting to pile up in Montreal
Some notable vacant buildings in Montreal.Royal Victoria Hospital; About 700,000 square feet of unused space was recentlyabandoned with the moving of health facilities to the West End. It's perched in...
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Convicted cocaine tax defrauder still has a big job at the city of Montreal
The head of the city of Montreal's public consultation department spent over four years defrauding taxpayer dollars to buy cocaine. Luc Doray - a lifelong, well-connected ardent separatist and...
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Lux for life: a lament for a lost spot on the Main
About a million early-80s bucks were tossed into creating the stupefying 24-hour Lux complex at 5220 St Lawrence where you could get a drink, munch fries, peer at magazines and buy oddball doodads......
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Montreal on pace to set homicide record
Montreal looks likely to easily cruise to its lowest-ever annual homicide total since on-island totals were compiled in 1972. The current total of 16 murders puts the city on a pace for about 21...
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Howe the nightclub era faded into oblivion
Nostalgia junkies bemoan the end of the nightclub era but was its death an act of mercy? In theory, the spirit of vaudeville, complete with floor shows featuring chorus lines, emcees, dancing...
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Good old Count de Beaujeu, local lunatic royalty
Funny story: Count Georges de Beaujeu was, as his name suggests, from one of Montreal's finest clans. But he did his best to undermine that reputation by being an absolute dick. Beaujeu was...
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Dwight Janes, epic anti-slavery activist, needs to be honoured in Montreal
It's time to honour Montrealer Dwight "The African Consul" Janes with a street, statue or square, or something. Flour merchant Dwight Plimpton Janes was born in Vermont but lived in Montreal where...
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Montreal people still losing their tempers
It's normal to get angry. We all do. Hit your thumb with a hammer? Lose information on your computer? Go ahead and yell and curse. But when your anger takes aim at other people, you're entering a...
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