Shooting outside the LaSalle Aquadome
A non-fatal shooting outside a popular LaSalle indoor pool - used by countless families with small children - has caused some worry. The victim - according to a La Presse report - is Andrew...
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Bicycle Bob's crazy 1960 interview about his bookstore on Stanley
Robert "Bicycle Bob" Silverman talks to interviewer Henry Lowy about his then-new bookstore the Seven Steps on Stanley in 1960.Q: What did you do before this?Bob: Can you put I was a bum? No, eh?...
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Beautiful losers: poet Charles Swiney
Remember Charles Swiney, the poet? Well it seems he was a master of thrift as demonstrated in this great profile on the guy. In 1973 he was about 60, and living in a two-room apartment in the...
View Article40 troll people living under Mount Royal park
A young woman was recently discussing how she lives in a cave beneath Mount Royal park with about 40 other people. The young woman, who stands about 5'9," sports dark-brown, shoulder-length hair...
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Great photos from Montreal in the 1970s
Montreal photographer Rejean Meloche has several hundred great photos of Montreal on display on his site. The pictures capture some amazing images on Montreal, mostly in the 1970s. (Useful tip:...
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Skybridges! There's no stopping them!
Looks like Montreal's war on δkʮbridges!® appears to have been lost, as an audacious plan to plant one over St. Antoine between the Bell Centre and a new proposed building could very well get...
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Montreal's legendary diamond thief
Montrealer Max Dortman became a internationally-sought criminal legend con by swindling elderly couples out of diamonds and other jewelry by basic sleight of hand. Dortman, who also went by the...
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Snowdon Theatre latest outrage - CDN/NDG borough denies access-to-information...
Borough officials in CDN/NDG have denied an access-to-information request for information on the repairs they claim are necessary to the vacant Snowdon Theatre, an art deco masterpiece which the...
View ArticleMontreal Mafia book - my take on book about the Mafia war and attack on the...
Watch my quick little review of the Mafia book Business or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War by Peter Edwards and Antonio Nicaso. Authors suggest:Vito Rizzuto might not have died of lung...
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Great moments from Quebec small claims court
It might soon become more difficult to sue someone in Quebec. A civil law overhaul made in Feb. 2014 was noted in some media mainly for raising the maximum allowable total to seek in a small...
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Thedirty, where Montrealers get attacked and insulted
Many young Montrealers - mostly women - are being cyberbullied on a site called thedirty which allows people to post photos and insults of people they dislike. They make all kinds of of unkind...
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Mafia lunch at Holts Cafe
From let to right Stefano Sollecito, Leonardo Rizzuto, Nicola Spagnolo, Dany Cadet-Sprince and Gregory Woolley broke bread together at Holts Cafe, as seen in this artistic collage reproduction by...
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Radio Shack/The Source closes up forever
Bad news for purchasers of unusual-sized batteries: Radio Shack - aka La Source on Sherbrooke has closed for good. Yesterday the store shut its doors forever. Not entirely sure about the status of...
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Why you should already be getting ready to play a full season of outdoor hockey
It's that time of year where the last warm winds are saying goodbye and we've got to brace ourselves for the long urban winter and how we will face it. How can we get through the winter without...
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Montreal's Nazi abortionist and his secret island in the St. Lawrence
Time to discuss Paul-Emile LaLanne, the Nazi abortionist from Montreal who owned a Swastika-laden private island near Valleyfield. But first some general background that you should not skip even...
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Rise and fall of our terminally-corrupt Quebec Liquor Police (1921-1961)
Quebec's Liquor Police blazed an impressive trail of fraud, theft and corruption before it was disbanded in 1961 in a scandal that ended up with several toppermost officials being sent to the...
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Ste. Anne de Bellevue: what went wrong
A waterside boardwalk, marina, delightful shops and restaurants, schools: such are the elements which have long made Ste. Anne de Bellevue - the furthest-west of Montreal's island suburbs - into an...
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Montreal's Le Goglu - anti-Semitic rag in all its Google News glory
Google News has countless kooky and peculiar scanned newspapers on its excellent news service site and I thank them daily for the incredible supply. I only dream of the day Google posts even more...
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Relocating to the Snowdon Theatre could stop CDN/NDG borough's long descent...
Montreal contains one borough that towers above all others but lacks in power what is has in size. It's an urban area so large that is would be Canada's 30th largest city in Canada if it went solo....
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