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Quebec revokes license from bar owner who found her mother dead on the floor
Lily Bouthillette had a bad year in 1995 and is having another bad year in 2018. Bouthilette took over La Marraine Bar after her mother, who owned the place since 1987, was killed by a regular...
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Everybody knew hard-nosed legend Bob Geary was gay and nobody cared
Everybody knew that Bob Geary - legendary, well-loved Montreal football boss, entrepreneur, tough guy and alpha male - was gay. Everybody knew and nobody cared. Geary's story challenges notions...
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Low IQ gets possible murderer off - did Edmond Turcotte get away with killing...
Edmond Turcotte confessed to killing Diane Thibault on 2 August 1975, later providing police his motive, the details and location of the crime. But then, amazingly, a Montreal judge tossed the case...
View ArticleCure Labelle 1973 - old scenes from a Laval strip with commentary
Cure Labelle 1973 - old scenes from a Laval strip with commentary
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Usher brutally kills film buff on Jacques Cartier Bridge to grab purse full...
Trudel seen after arrest Roger Trudel, 33, was an usher at the Papineau Theatre near St. Joseph who got to know Angelina Bessette, 48, after she started coming often to see movies in 1948....
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Jim Barriere and friends - Montreal men-about-town gruppenbild 1980
Jim Barriere (#9) shared this gruppenbild of himself with friends at the opening of Dana Findlay's clothing business in 1980. 1. Unknown. 2. Gary Garbish. Bob Geary's good friend from Point St....
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St. Michel: examining the former east-side municipality's tradition of...
Lafontaine and Bergeron were happy before they got caught Odious practices are going the way of the jiggle machine and flip phone. Unwelcome customs have been dramatically reduced or eradicated:...
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Sex cult charges on booze heiress Clare Bronfman - where it ranks on the list...
The Montreal clan that grew the Seagrams booze empire after selling booze illegally during the prohibition, continues to generate juice news stories. Here's a list of the scandals, ranked and rated...
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How a toddler's death reshaped the geography of NDG
Little Jean Taschereau died in January 1951 A child's ghoulish death in the 1950s offered my father the unexpected opportunity to purchase a long strip of land at the top of the St. James Street cliff...
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Begbugs in Montreal: all the latest news on the ongoing bloodsucking epidemic
Some info from latest edition of Bedbug Magazine. It's super hard to find it on newsstands and is way too costly (the feature on Bruce Lee's bedbug-inspired martial arts techniques is worth it alone...
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Familicide: Quebec's most grisly cases - warning, not for the faint of heart
Victims dead: 8 At 3:40 am on December 16, 1929 Andrew Day, 39, axed his seven sons and pregnant wife before slitting his own throat at 13 Laurier in Trois Rivieres. Only the maniac survived. The...
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Great moments in cheap real estate - Montreal house deals that would have...
John Montagu ordered the first-ever sandwich from his butler in 1750, demonstrating that sometimes the greatest results stem from the least amount of effort. Buying a house at the right time might be...
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The tragic and forgotten Boucherville high school shooting of 1972
Authorities inspect the body of Lionel Barbeau Lionel Barbeau, 15, and a schoolmate friend of the same age and background engineered a horribly sad Montreal-era school shooting before such events...
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Tragedy at the dairy 1942: When two Montrealers were hanged for stealing 21...
Next time you pass the east side arena on gritty Rouen, take a moment to consider the villainy and tragedy that took place within the walls of the building across in the 1940s. All eyes were on...
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Housewives protest and boycott to lower grocery prices - how it failed in...
Montrealer Laurette Sloan urges shoppers to boycott groceries in Oct. 1966 Stricken with dry-tongued dehydration, you rush to the nearest corner store or gas station and grab a fancy-labelled can or...
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New boss: One month until Francois Legault becomes Quebec premier
In one month perennial political tryhard Francois Legault will become the new premier with a majority government, as he apparently has a 91 percent likelihood of doing. This might be news to some...
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Would Expos return revitalize Montreal? Winnipeg, which got its Jets back,...
Would the return of the major league baseball Expos give Montreal a boost ? Coolopolis asked this question to Winnipegers, who saw their Jets NHL hockey team return to the Winnipeg in the very...
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Top 10 all time Montreal skin trade workers - strippers, escorts and porn...
1-Early-era stripper/burlesque star Lili St. Cyr who lived and performed in Montreal for many years in the 1950s, personified the fight against a puritanical impulse that threatened the local...
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