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Montreal's grayhaired armoured truck pirates: What fueled Paul Bryntwick to...
Paul Thomas Bryntwick, 64, is behind bars for Christmas. That's nothing new for a man considered one of Montreal's top bank heist masterminds. Bryntwick and four others face charges related to...
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Another senseless murder in Montreal: Young man killed in St. Michel
A well-loved 20-year-old man named Joey is the latest victim in the ongoing murder spree which is likely related to a street gang feud in Montreal. Joey, whose last name is not yet known to...
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Stigmatized property: Quebec law backs the people who believe in ghosts
So you enter a property that you own and find somebody dead from suicide or murder. What should you do? If you want to stay within the law, you should alert the police. If you want to save...
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West Island phone booth cemetery, a reminder of an era of box-and-coin...
Photo by Stephen Pickford Is it an art installation? A museum exhibit saluting obsolete communications? No it's about three dozen disconnected Montreal phone booths sitting in the snow at the end...
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NDG to chop down famous 165-year-old tree
. A gigantic 164-year-old healthy silver maple at 3808 Old Orchard with a world-class girth of 188 inches is likely to be chopped down. NDG has reportedly lost about half of its staff of arborists...
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Coolopolis Montrealer of the year 2016 - Lucki Tah
There can be no greater glory that an artist bursting with ideas and creativity, sniffing greatness on the horizon. Montreal is full of creative people starting the year bursting with energy,...
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Montreal snow crews scrape dry streets: why the wasteful operations might...
Massive snow clearing machines scraped down the dry streets of Park Extension this afternoon in an absolutely unnecessary operation that pathetically dragged around only a tiny bit of slush. The...
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Davie Bowie's mysterious Montreal biographer
Rock star and visionary David Bowie's death has led to a re-examination of a legendary life. Bowie, obviously, had a huge impact on Montreal, but Montreal also had an impact on Bowie, as he worked...
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10 ways Montreal's cold weather can kill: How to avoid death during January's...
Think of January 14-28 as the inverse construction holidays. The July construction holidays are Montreal's hottest. Six months later it's the inverse. These are the coldest weeks. These are...
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How Montreal singing sensation Art Smith, aka Little Elvis, outsmarted the...
Art Smith in an East End bar, 1976 Art Smith is, or perhaps was, a hardworking janitor at one of those high-rises across from the Cote des Neiges cemetery. Smith is known and appreciated by many...
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Montreal architect Joe Baker dead at 86
Architect and professor Joe Baker, who perhaps did more than anybody else to shape the current identity of Point St. Charles has died. Baker passed away on Dec. 30, Coolopolis has learned. Baker...
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Montreal cop car knocks over metal pole: all disagree on what happened
Spotted Montreal North posted these photos Saturday of a police car that smashed into a metal street light pole at Henri Bourassa and Georges Pichet so violently that it tumbled down. The...
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Copoli: Fabulous greasy spoon restaurant at Vendome to close
Nader Zarkari's Copoli Restaurant across from the Vendome metro will serve its last giant hamburger at the end of March. The restaurant has long been a nifty perch to meet for chit chats, crawfords and...
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Former Montreal Alouette Lawrence Phillips' death begs the question: just how...
Running back Lawrence Phillips declared himself the best player in the CFL before playing a single game when he joined the Alouettes in 2002 after kicking around the NFL. He didn't say a whole...
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MUHC Superhospital: Is it a flop? Critics list their concerns
The massive new MUHC superhospital hospital at Vendome was decades in the making but still came out flawed according to some critics who believe the facility should have been designed differently....
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Super Sexe strip club: closed for renovations or closed forever?
The Super Sexe strip club has been closed for some time, supposedly just for renovations, according to a sign on its door. Some believe that the 400-capacity, 10,000 square foot club, which opened...
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Rene Angelil RIP
Pop musician-turned-impresario Rene Angelil has breathed his final breath. Rene Angelil is best known for helping cultivate the talents of a young Celine Dion, who he went on to manage and marry...
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Sylvio Albert Day, Duplessis Orphan who spotted Mengele in Montreal and moved...
Sylvio Albert Day, an orphan who spent three years illegally detained by Quebec authorities at the St. Jean de Dieu mental hospital, has died. Day offered many chilling descriptions of his time at...
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Montreal-born hippie mixologist Bobby Lozoff celebrated in major new ad campaign
Montreal-born mixologist Bobby Lozoff might be one of the most celebrated cocktail concocters these days, as an expensive new commercial celebrates his invention of the Tequila Sunrise in early 70s...
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Quebec bar tax clampdown: will it hurt Montreal's out our nightlife?
Montrealers will soon be getting little paper receipts with every purchase they make in a bar starting Feb. 1. The new SRM system aims to tackle tax evasion by bar owners who have been...
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