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P.K. Subban, hockey's Jackie Robinson
I watched Game Three of Montreal's playoff series with a white anglo-Montreal woman in her 60s. The woman was purportedly supporting the Canadiens but had no shame in singling out P.K. Subban for...
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Nancy Donais' two home heartbreaks
Nancy Donais and the burnt-out homeDiane Pomerleau The home at 571 Honore Beaugrand, pictured at left, is a wreck because last year single mama Nancy Donais neglected to pay her insurance the joint...
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Scenes from a Wednesday in May
We see this countless times at intersections every day - pedestrians forced to start dashing while crossing at a light which is starting to turn red. Younger people have no trouble dashing those three...
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Ethan Allen Capture Park. Are you kidding me?
Parc de la capture d'Ethan Allen, aka, Ethan Allen Capture Park, ever heard of it? I have, probably because I live next to a park that was given a dumb name when nobody was paying attention so...
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Miss Montreal beauty pageant - good times were had!
I think I must have some sort of brain ailment, (I'm blaming it on the cat-brain parasite that maybe I got from reading cat-brain parasite defender Kate's site) because I can't look at an old photo...
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Terrebonne tenant ordered to pay $14,000 for six month nightmare
On July 1, 2009 Serge Lescault was moving to Winnipeg for a while so he rented out his house at 1700 des Bernaches in Terrebone to some guy named Nicolas Desjardins for $900 per month. The new...
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Quebec women tend to dye their hair red more than blonde. Why is that?
The photo at left, taken at the Super Aqua Club, a former sand quarry-turned beach at Oka, (or more precisely Pointe Calumet, just before Oka) demonstrates that Kweebeck wymyn lurvve to dye their...
View ArticleMetro riders: beware of shoe thieves
Those who dare taking the city's metro system already expose themselves to countless risks, including potential exposure to lunatics, felons, hipsters and other hopeless miscreants but the...
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You still can't bring your wine home
You still can't bring your bottle home when you go to a restaurant in Quebec, a policy that puts property rights into question and that government officials had promised to change. The Liberal...
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Sam Fattal's anti-Westmount crusade comes to screeching halt
Samir Fattal, aka Sam Fattal, was recently judged a vexatious litigant, seriously compromising his longstanding battle against the City of Westmount, which he feels has made his job as a landlord...
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Will Anticosti Island make Quebec rich?
Quebec could be in line to become considerably richer if estimates of an oil deposit prove true. The claim was made two years ago concerning oil riches reaching up to massive 300 million barrels of...
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Bees and frogs unleashed at Dupuis Freres- a photoshop re-enactment
Sarah Tatigian and Gaby Dionne were arrested for their part at a bizarre labour protest at the Dupuis Freres department store in downtown Montreal in which they and other shouting and singing...
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Who sent the letter bomb that killed Arnold Drapkin?
Arnold Drapkin Next time you roll by the forlorn building at the corner of William and St. Thomas just south of downtown, think of mild-mannered Arnold Drapkin, who was killed by a letter bomb at his...
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How Serge Joyal derailed his own mayoralty bid
Now that Denis Coderre is running for Montreal mayor, it's time to have a look at the last time a federal Liberal MP attempted to get elected to the big chair on Notre Dame... an effort dashed by an...
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When women kill: the deadly Mohawk cabbie attack
Barbara Norton-Homer, 29, and her friends Katy McComber, 19 and Sherry Delisle, 21 were drunk and high and angry and left the Kahanawake reservation to start trouble on October 23, 1979 They...
View ArticleWhy Toronto is better than Montreal
I recently spent a few hours poring over hockey statistics with the aim of trying to establish where players were born and raised. What immediately struck me is how few players on the Montreal...
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Friendly fire in the Point killed young Carley Gorman
Gorman, left, and Steczko Kevin Steczko, 25, was sitting around at home at 676 Charlevoix on the evening of Thursday Feb. 1, 1980 with his friend Carley Gorman, 20, when he apparently decided to...
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Robert Conn: armed and naked in Mascouche
Robert Conn and his wife sporting matchingwhite turtlenecks Robert Conn, 34, was naked in his bedroom late at night with his wife Denise Conn, 31, when he heard a noise outside on January 9, 1980....
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Escaped murderer Duclos - where is he hiding?
Jean-Pierre Duclos Jean-Pierre Duclos has been on the lam for six days following his dramatic escape on a visit to the Verdun General. Actually was his escape dramatic? Nobody has bothered to go...
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Photos from around the Montreals
Montreal cops have been wearing ironic patches thanking their employers for screwing up their schedules. Luckily someone has change for the meter, or something like that, helping out othersin NDG...
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