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Killers getting away with murder: Quebec police toss out homicide evidence
Sloppy police homicide departments across Quebec have destroyed or misplaced evidence, making it almost impossible to solve many cold case murders. This shocking news has emerged after tenacious...
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Likely next PQ leader: 9 things about Alexandre Cloutier
Now that Pierre Karl Peladeau, the would-be Berlusconi has quit, Quebec's official opposition, the separatist Parti Quebecois, will choose another leader and it could very likely be Alexandre...
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Decarie Expressway: Why the NDG/CDN borough needs to sue Quebec for $235 million
It's time for the borough of NDG/CDN to ring up the provincial transportation ministry and ask for a payment of at least $235 million as compensation for land taken for the creation of the Decarie...
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Anti-lap dancing campaign claims another bar: provincial liquor authorities...
Provincial authorities have shut down another Montreal strip club based on a recent legal interpretation that deems lap dancing to be a form of prostitution. The Alfonso Bar, previously known as...
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The golden age of Montreal car bombings
Car bombs combine every Montrealer's favourite thing, cars, with everybody's least favourite thing, bombs. (Did you write that lead all by yourself?- Chimples) Those targeted by car bombs could...
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Home decor from Hell: haunting memories of Montreal suburban decor of the...
Quebec apartment dwellers wanted to spiff up their homes in the 1980s and 1990s without spending a lot on a place they did not own. So if you lived in the Montrealers during that era you...
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The curse of the NDG Conservatives: how a violent 1963 campaign episode...
Hayes then and now Much has been made lately about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau having a physical exchange with another MP. But that is nothing to the epic episode which saw a politician...
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Anti-hero celebrity-pitchman-video star aims for big time, seeks to build $1...
Move over Zombie Boy, Montreal has a new antihero rising celebrity who has been pulling people into Phat City clothing store on Stanley, run by a kindly old gentleman. Crackhead Jesse appears...
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Mega-basements: Iceberg housing coming to Montreal sometime maybe
Home prices are on the rise in Montreal, a city that takes pride in embracing underground construction, so it's time to discuss the inevitable arrival of mega-basements. Homeowners in posh...
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Satan's Choice 1967: that epic Montreal photo
If you're standing at the front door of where the Little Burgundy swimming pool now sits, and then got trapped a time vortex bringing you to the summer of 1967 you might see The Satan's Choice...
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Amazing Montreal trolley car photos - rare photos of Montreal streetcars
A vendor on Ebay recently posted these outstanding photos of Montreal & Southern Counties trolleys. We encourage people to reward his work by purchasing them. Please feel free to provide more...
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Cafe Op / The Image on Park Ave. never-before-seen photos from 1967
These previously-unseen photos were taken outside of 3545 Park Ave., now demolished for an entrance to the garage of the La Cite towers. The venue was home to a down-three-stairs place called Cafe...
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Un jour on Crescent Street - 40 photos of Montreal scenesters from 1973
Un Jour on Crescent Street was a series of photos taken on Crescent Street, presumably in one day. It was published in 1973, so presumably the photos were taken one a day that summer. The photos were...
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Karla Homolka in Chateauguay
Reports and social media gossip have suggested that Karla Homolka has moved to Chateauguay and her children are attending Centennial Park School, a public school in the area. Homolka is, of course,...
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Lachine Rapids and the watery deaths it has caused
Dorion - lost lifeRough waters in the Lachine Rapids The Lachine Rapids are a force so terrifying for boaters that Montreal owes much of its wealth to the fact that ship captains were too scared to...
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Montreal's first-ever soccer hooligan controversy: TFC Inebriatti banned from...
Montreal has a soccer team called The Impact and sometimes sports fans from other cities come to Montreal to watch their games. One group of fervent Toronto FC fans called the Inebriatti, who are...
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Sketch of mysterious boyfriend of murder victim Reet Jurvetson, Montreal...
This sketch, obtained by Coolopolis, was drawn by Montreal artist Paul Robert and depicts Jean, the boyfriend of murder victim Reet Jurvetson. Police investigators have been attempting to identify...
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Westmount High School's Kamala Harris set to become California Senator
The next Senator of California has Westmount High School to thank for teaching her real good. Kamala Harris lived in Montreal from around ages 12 to 18 and graduated WHS in 1982. Harris was born in...
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Has the Rizzuto Row sniper struck again?
Toronto police have reported that a Browning BLR short magnum rifle used in a recent murder has "a strong connection to Montreal." They did not specify what they meant to by it having "a strong...
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Montrealers finally permitted to step aboard Draken Viking ship
The Draken has landed! The Draken Harald Hårfagre, the worlds largest recently-created Viking ship, has sailed across the North Atlantic and docked at the Quay Jacques Cartier in the Old Port. The...
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