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Mob-boss retribution ruse - the epic story of a 1972 Montreal fraud scheme
Gerald and wife Davida FalovitchOne of the splashiest and unusual criminal trials in modern Montreal history offers a useful lesson for those who aren't careful with their money and wary of their...
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When Montreal's Hans Selye, world's leading expert on stress, was felled by...
Of all the rock star-status original thinkers Montreal has known, few surpass Hans Selye, who was best known for inventing the concept of stress. Selye's adages about stress are still cited...
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How a Hydro Quebec bill dispute launched Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau on an epic...
Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau sought to be the modern-day Mesrine, trying to imitate the legendary character who terrorized Quebec before being shot down in Paris. He explained this goal in one of the...
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Examining the untimely death of Loyola grad and entrepreneur Mario Macri
Mario Macri Many Montrealers expressed shock at the callous murder of Mario Macri near his office on Lapierre, just north of Newman at 9:50 a.m.Tuesday morning. Macri previously owned a bar called...
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Montreal could blow up the NBA by launching a rival basketball league -...
Montreal is a giant booming city tragically under-served by pro sports. A lackluster Montreal Canadiens team is only complemented by the miserable football CFL Alouettes and snoozetastic soccer...
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Suicide snatchers - Quebec law allows authorities to detain anybody they deem...
This article was published in Montreal in October 2004, written by Kristian Gravenor. If the laws and policies have been changed in the years since, we are not aware of it. Michel Blais is the...
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Florida murder cold case from 1982 leads to Montreal-area West End Gang suspects
News from St. Petersburg Florida police indicates that considerable resources are being put to apprehend the killer of a Brink's truck guard, killed in a robbery on Jan. 23, 1982. Police figure...
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Larger-than-life chess masters turned Montreal into a world hotbed of chess
Steinitz, left and Lasker, right battle in Montreal 1894 Montreal became a global hotbed of chess in the 1890s thanks to a number of wild characters who lived in the city.** Chess in Montreal got a...
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Ghosts, fake nuns and grisly demises: Montreal news from the 1890s
Narcisse Belanger, aged about 40, of 176 Ryde (old address) was hit and killed by train at Rose de Lima in St. Henri (surely the GTR line to Bonaventure south of St. Antoine). She was brought to the...
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Maurice-S. Hebert: from high-flying criminal defence lawyer to thug life
Hebert Maurice-S. Hebert walked around Montreal from the mid-1950s with the swagger only a top criminal lawyer of his wild times could possess. Newspapers regularly reported on his legal maneuvers...
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When discotheques reshaped Montreal, told with rarely-seen photos
Jean-Paul Mousseau, seen in the top photo, made a splash after being hired by owners Gilles Archambault and Claude de Carufel to redesign their Le Baroque nightclub at 1467-1469 Crescent....
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12 Steps to Heaven - a music lover's weekly downtown quest for new vinyl albums
A handful of music-loving Montrealers conducted a weekly music-purchasing scramble Thursday evening, trekking down St. Catherine in a frantic quest for new music. Rohinton Ghandhi discusses his...
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Own your own spaceship! Rael's used interstellar craft and other precious...
Want to own the spaceship owned by Rael, beloved and esteemed of the alien sex cult that once occupied these parts? This precious and priceless gem is for sale, for real, right now on Kijiji,...
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The golden age of quetaine - Montreal in the 1990s - a city awash in tackiness
Celine Dion's rise to megastardom exposed Quebecers' thirst for validation, and the masses fused identities with this traditional rural farm girl from a huge family and vicariously hit the Vegas strip...
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Well-known Montreal couple face life imprisonment in Nebraska drug case
A pair of Montrealers, best known as freelance journalists, face life imprisonment after police raided their Omaha Nebraska home on Oct. 30, 2017 and charged them with producing the drug...
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Truth or myth? Homophobia led Mayor Drapeau to raze Mount Royal Park
Legend has it that Mayor Jean Drapeau, soon after taking office in 1954, had the trees razed in Mount Royal Park in a fit of outrageous and excessive moral posturing. His irrational fit of moral...
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60 photos bring back old time Griffintown and Point St. Charles
1Abbott family at 428 Charron in the 1950s2Boxing in Goose Village 1930s3Richardson St. 195441950s officials turn dirt on new arena on Hibernia5 Redpath factory workers 1960s6 Abandoned cars Butler and...
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Sex scandal in Mascouche - strip club orgy lands police and firefighters in...
Lizette Rivard, 24, became the center of attention following a police scandal in 1981 that saw dozens of cops and firefighters allegedly take part in what was described as a public orgy. The...
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How a Montreal barber helped set off the U.S. Civil War
Minkins, is apparently pictured in thisimage from a wanted poster Shadrach Minkins, aka Frederick Wilkins, remains the only Montreal barber who influenced world history and became the subject of an...
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