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Who killed Harry Up?
Harry Mytil, 33, was shot dead last night at his home at 6696 Henri Julien in St Rose Laval at about 10:30 p.m.Mytil and friends and house It would appear that whoever pumped six bullets into the...
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How to repair an $8,000 cell phone
Yes Mitch Corber can fix your $8,000 cell phone Mitch Corber and I both have experience in the phone business. Mine was gained back in the rotary-phone era, when the technology was one step up from...
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Montreal's horse and buggy entrances
Part of Montreal's charm is that all of our walls are touching someone else's walls so you can hear their bullshit noise and screaming and feel part of that community of suffering. Toronto,...
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The city's ball-thieving roofs
As a kid, some of my worst moments of shame, sadness and guilt took place when I lost stuff that was given to me. At age eight we lived in Vancouver for a year and whenever we'd toss a ball on our...
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City's attempt to evict Hassids fails, judge lets 'em stay
The City of Montreal's high-profile attempt to shut down an Outremont synagogue has flopped, as a judge decided last Thursday that the Munchas Elozer Munkas Congregation at 1030 St. Viateur has the...
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Anti-racists & racists finally agree on something
For perhaps the first time ever, Montreal's anti-racist and racist subcultures are finally on the same page. They're both bashing Michael Rosenberg, who ran with the anti-racists and now has...
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April hump day in the island city
No park is without peril, as this tiny girl learned Monday when she got stuck on one of the baby swings at Oxford Park and required the attention of firefighters to free her from the demonic...
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Montreal's killer waitress
Louise-Therese Desnoyers Louise-Therese Desnoyers, 31, waited tables at the Klimataria restaurant on 4441 St. Lawrence, until one night in 1979 when she plunged a knife six inches into the midsection...
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Quiz - who were these front page newsmakers?
For a brief moment in 1979 local papers found an excuse to put these immigrant sisters on their front pages in connection with a high-profile crime committed by two brothers - one of whom was later...
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Ghosts of 2185 Montcalm
Lisette Cloutier, seen in her ghostly form, departed her physical body at 2185 Montcalm whenshe and her friend Carole Blais were strangled in their sleepRobert Hamilton Next time you stroll the...
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Turcotte verdict not so shocking: Quebec parents receive little or not...
Patricia Rosenstone Much fuss was made last year about the lenient sentence given cardiologist Guy Turcotte who was quickly released on reasons of temporary insanity after killing his two children....
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A particularly bad Saturday on Plessis in 1979
On Saturday April 7, 1979 Montreal radio was blaring such hits as Music Box Dancer, Heart of Glass, and Sultans of Swing. Steve Rogers and the Expos were hosting their home opener at the roofless...
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Bank truck heist gang member shot dead at his restaurant: A photoshop...
Jean-Claude Lafonde, 41, was shot to death inside his restaurant, the Louvre, at Papineau and Ste.Catherine, by two men who fled unapprehended in the early hours of Friday January 26, 1979...
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When crime reporters kill
Robert Leboef and Yolande Desilets Robert Leboeuf reported crime for Allo Police, Journal de Montreal and Nouvelliste de Trois Rivieres, and was known professionally to be a difficult fussbucket who...
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Proof that the east side of Montreal has way too many gas stations
These two chunks of land are somewhat roughly the same size, measuring around two kilometers wide by six kilometers on the north/south scale. The area on the left spans the canal to the back river...
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Hipster cars got exhaust pipe USBs
I haven't been to many car shows since 1969 (or was it 1973?) when a British painter named Michael Millman living temporarily in our family garage (?) brought us to a Place Bonaventure where I only...
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The Jalbert sisters' final night on de Lorimier
Celine JalbertSolange JalbertSisters Celine Jalbert, 18 and Solange Jalbert, 20, were found strangled to death at their apartment at 5950 de Lorimier on January 17, 1979. The sisters were from what...
View ArticleCannibalism in Quebec
Was delighted to see Anthony Bourdain praise Montreal last night on his culinary travel show but lest people believe that we actually eat beaver meat and ice fish and eat outdoors after playing...
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Cats: time to ban them?
Montreal is home to an estimated 500,000 cats and that's a cause for concern because recent studies have shown that people who own pets have been getting infected with the Toxoplasmosis brain...
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