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Neo-Nazis on Mount Royal: Hitler heel-clicking in swinging 60s Montreal
These days Mount Royal just west of St. Denis is a pretty good spot to get a drink, but in the swinging sixties the spot once had another considerably more sinister vocation. Sock it to me! Peace...
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Victim of Montreal police strip club beatdown tells his story
As we have tragically learned, a night of revelry can quickly slip from festive bliss to panic, violence and tragedy. Police are usually on the right side of this equation but one young...
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Montreal Vodka Bar: Borough orders Decarie establishment to shink popular...
Fans of a popular watering hole on Decarie are irritated that borough authorities have forced its owners to cut down the size of its popular terrace. The Vodka and Company bar at 5055 Decarie...
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Montreal's Mocambo sweetheart: old photos shine light on east end nightclub joy
A set of photos featuring a cheeful woman posing with friends in the sprawling east end Mocambo bar at Notre Dame and Davidson shines a rare light on the high-spiritedness of the east end club that...
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Brilliant scrotum bag crowdfunder brings shame or glory to Montreal
Montreal is the motor behind a lot of great ideas and the scrotum napsack is just the latest of them. The company that is bringing this great bag to the world is at risk of not reaching its $33K US...
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Moe's Corner Snack Bar: Montreal greasy spoon institution to close forever
Moe's Corner Snack Bar, a 24-hour greasy spoon at SE corner of Closse and De Maisonneuve is closing Dec. 7. The landmark eatery was opened in 1958 and taken over two years later by 36-year-old...
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Syrian refugees: Don't just welcome them, sponsor them
Glay Sperling came to Montreal from Europe after Hitler's jackbooted supporters rose to power. Sperling, once in Montreal, became an accomplished photojournalist and taught for 33 years at Dawson...
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Leonardo Rizzuto: how bad driving almost kept the son of a longtime mob boss...
Leonardo Rizzuto - the recently-arrested son of former mob boss Vito Rizzuto - has been a lawyer since 1999 in spite of being banned from studying and practicing law in Quebec in the mid-1990s....
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Laval love: 10 reasons you should move there
Montreal makes a lot of noise about itself but its sister city Laval is quietly making some major ground as an interesting place to live a better life. Here's a list of reasons why the old also-ran...
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Drug debt murders: how to put an end to the ongoing plague
It's time to put an end to drug debt murders, an ongoing plague that needlessly claims bright and energetic entrepreneurs sentenced to death simply for falling behind on their payments. Have you...
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Coolopolis needs all of your knowledge of Montreal bars and nightclubs
Coolopolis has been putting a book together that attempts to recap all of the most important bars in this city's history and we need you to send your tips to help get it right. Much, much research...
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Killer shoes: scorned Laval stripper seriously injures customer with...
Collage reenactment A 30-year-old man was rushed into surgery with several fractures after being attacked by a 26-year-old dancer following a dispute over how much he owed her for dances at the...
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Moe's Corner Snack Bar: one last visit before closing
It's last-day ever at Moe's Corner Snack Bar, the longtime iconic Montreal greasy spoon at Closse and De Maisonneuve.Moe's Corner Snack Bar: Montreal greasy spoon institution to close forever...
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Empty lots and the sad stories that often sit behind them: Lachine teen burns...
Empty lots in a city are like a missing teeth in a mouth. There's a story of failure behind each gap. In many cases a tragedy took place that claimed lives and buildings. Owners either didn't...
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Monday Morning Montreal Mafia roundup
Inside Giuseppe "Ponytail" De Vito Some impressive images were aired this week of Giuseppe "Ponytail" De Vito, who police now say had a hand in something like 20 killings. De Vito rebelled against...
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Mario Lemieux Street: time to rename Jogues in Ville Emard after local hockey...
Mario Lemieux lived here Isaac Jogues move over. It's time for Mario Lemieux to take over. We call on Montreal to rename the four-block Jogues Street to Mario Lemieux Street. Why? Not only...
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The CDN/NDG borough fast food ban - reasons for and against
New fast food outlets will be banned in the borough of Cote des Neiges / Notre Dame de Grace starting Feb. 1 in all but three spots: St James twixt Benny and West Broadway. Cote des Neiges Plaza...
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Body found on cliff could be that of missing Matthew Kustra
The body found at the bottom of the St. James Street cliff could well be that of Matthew Kustra, as Coolopolis reported. The body was found in the remote spot on Sunday Nov. 29, apparently by...
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Bomb threat on Air France San Francisco-Paris flight forces emergency landing...
Little has been revealed concerning the nature of the unnerving situation at Trudeau Airport which has led a Paris-bound plane to make an unscheduled landing in Montreal somewhere around midnight....
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Montreal's worst dive bar - where was it?
A reader has related a brutal and harrowing memory from the late 60s about a Montreal bar that she is unable to identify now. Please read and let us know if it rings a bell.**** I once went with a...
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