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Plateau Airbnb party-pad driving neighbours to frustration
An AirBNB conflict on Cartier Street, one block east of Lafontaine Park has reached a new level of intensity. Tensions have been bubbling over for a couple of years. Coolopolis has held off on...
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Montreal's most radical store: the short-lived separatist MPQ boutique on St....
The MPQ Boutique on St. Catherine near Aird was one of the more unusual retail outlets in Montreal when it was open between around 2010 to 2012. The MPQ was a militia that believed it had to be...
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Montreal Satan's Choice motorcycle club - circa 1972
Top Row from left to right 1 -Gilles 2- Rocky 3-Marcel Polidor 4-visitor from Ontario 5-his brother also from Ontario 6-Mick Rowan 7-Daniel Lemaire 8-Sonny Lacombe President 9-Regain 10-Carl 11-Michel...
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Johnny Young: petty criminal was Canada's first habitual offender
Johnny Young was the first Canadian to be kept in prison for the simple reason that he had already been kept in prison many times before. Young was Canada's first habitual criminal, a law passed in...
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Jacques Parizeau Park - let's rename it P.K. Subban Park: petition
Montrealers were saddened by the departure of the delightful and civic-minded Montreal hockey star P.K. Subban. Subban pledged $10 million to a local children's hospital while entertaining hockey...
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High tech fraud: car theft begins with post-it note
The days of armed bank heists by men in masks appear to be a thing of the past as criminals have taken stealthier paths to wealth. One recent tale begins with a simple post-it note on a door that...
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End in sight for yet another longstanding Montreal-area strip club
The Doric Cabaret on Taschereau Boulevard is for sale at seemingly-reasonable $650,000 for both the building and the business. The 7,500 square foot property has served the strip club needs of...
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Montreal's nastiest street
Young Street in Griffintown has a long pedigree of drunken violence as this video I created explains.
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Wife, daughters killed in NDG gas leak blast: the dark forces that lined up...
French Resistance war veteran Roland Haumont riled powerful elites by loudly denouncing French collaborators who settled in Montreal after World War II. Then his house exploded and authorities tried...
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Mysterious Montreal: Party girls commandeered to East End Satanic ritual
Kneeling cross-legged in occult ceremonies was a coming-of-age ritual for many in the 1960s. . Coolopolis has been tearing up the floorboards to expose stories of mystically-inclined adventures...
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Montreal mourns novelist Peter Gonda, 47
Well-known bon vivant, man-about-town, photographer and novelist Peter Gonda died suddenly Saturday. Gonda had been writing a follow-up novel to his acclaimed Drinking and Driving in Chechnya,...
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Photo shows St. Henri shantytown loaded with gas tanks
Large amounts of gas in steel cylinders sit perched in a yard on residential St Philippe street between St. Antoine and St. Jacques in St. Henri, as seen in this photo taken by a drone airplane a few...
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Homeowner conspiracy: property owners fight to keep prices high
Canadian home costs have been rising spectacularly over the last couple of decades, yes, including in Montreal where rents and home purchases are well beyond the means of many. But no other spot...
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How sex disappeared from Montreal
Commercial sex was in your face everywhere in Montreal until about a decade ago. Street prostitutes brazenly stood on sidewalks, not just on Ontario, the Main and St. Denis but also in residential...
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Report: Plateau shocker - man at centre of intense Montreal Air Bnb dispute...
Residents of Cartier Street are reporting that Jasmin Tremblay, a 40-something entrepreneur who upset many by transforming five apartments into short-term Air BNB rental units, has died. Coolopolis...
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Attackers pepper spray punks at St. Henri music venue
Adherents of Montreal punk scene were shocked after two attackers entered the Death House underground live music venue Saturday night and pepper sprayed people in attendance. The attack took place...
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Free the Chicken! Plateau hippies and the famous sign denouncing poultricide
Former Montrealer Juergen Dankwort has shared these photos* of a briefly-famous Free the Chicken sign put up outside Louis Tucker's poultry shop at 20 Roy E., SW, corner of St. Dominique in 1970....
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Street View helps Montrealer win $72,000 lawsuit
A court has ordered Bell Canada and the city of Montreal to pay Rachel Collard, 70, over $72,000 after she was injured falling into a rotting manhole cover in Crawford Park Verdun in December 2010....
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Montreal judge boots eBay in $100,000 sneaker case
Montreal-born Jeff Skoll, who founded eBay after growing up at 6822 Mountain Sights, might be a bit irked at his hometown. The Skolls left Quebec when Jeff was about 13, after the first referendum,...
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