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How unelected provincial bureaucrats make life in Montreal difficult
Provincial authorities oversee municipalities all across Canada and that's often a good thing, as the arrangement discourages financial mismanagement or other crazy schemes. But sometimes...
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Montreal-area children forced to face the terrors of nature
Survirors Kevin Gross, 12, Sashia Hart, 13, Diana Horwood, 17 and Anne Abdalla, 11. In a few short decades Canada and the western world have gone from a rugged place where government could order you...
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Hiccup Queen of Quebec - her world famous story finally told, almost
Olive McKelvey was a normal kid in Cherry River, near Magog in a life that began in 1928 but it all took a bizarre twist in 1950, in a series of events that led her to be mentioned in newspapers...
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'Milk responsible for more deaths than all wars combined' - Quebec's costly...
"Milk is probably responsible for more deaths than all wars in history combined," said Dr. Gordon Bates in a speech in Montreal in May 1965. He reasoned that pathogens thrive in raw milk and then kill...
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Montreal train incident led to outrageously racist legal verdict
One of the most outrageously racist and infamous moments in the history of the New York state judiciary was sparked by an obscure incident on a train in Montreal. Sometime in January 1909 a...
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'Nobody will forget the face of Claire Lortie' - that jaw-dropping murder...
If you were caught sawing up your lover's body and burying those mangled remains in your backyard, you might assume that you'd be slam-dunk for a homicide conviction. But one case in Quebec might...
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The pathetic rise and fall of hunger-striking separatist Marcel Chaput
The worst thing that can happen when you gamble if that you win. The old adage suggests that a smidgen of success offers sufficient psychological reinforcement to propel us down a misdirected...
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Treasure found! Copies of Montreal's long-lost Midnight Tabloid uncovered
MIDNIGHT, a weekly tabloid launched in the mid-1950s, was one of the most unique publications in the city's history. as it dutifully attempted to fill its pages with gritty tales of street...
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Blood and Booze Flow in Montreal's West End - Midnight April 18, 1958
Midnight - April 18, 1958ANOTHER MIDNIGHT SURVEY BLOOD AND BOOZE FLOW IN MONTREAL'S WEST END Typical dress of West End's tougher element A young NDG athlete almost lost the sight of his eye after...
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Brossard's racist murderers: 'It sickened us to see immigrants with jobs...
Denis Paulet, who along with his mother-in-law committed a shocking racist murder of a woman and her small child, is out of jail. Paulet was sentenced on 9 June 1993 to a minimum of 25-years behind...
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Montreal bounty-hunters and their search for James "Whitey" Bulger
Legendary cut-throat Boston criminal Whitey Bulger, who was killed in prison Tuesday at the age of 89, was once the target of a local manhunt of locals hoping to find him in Montreal. . The...
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Andre Tiny Morin - giant strongman criminal became a teenage legend
Giant teenager Andre "Tiny" Morin's criminal feats inspired awestruck media newspaper attention in Montreal in the 1950s, as reporters banged out stories about his misdeeds of strength."Being big,...
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Montreal journalist couple sentenced to 15 years in prison
It's 15 years in federal prison for former longtime Montreal journalists Wendy Kraus-Heitmann, 43, (aka Wendy Hechtman) and her husband Ken Hechtman, 49. Both pleaded guilty to charges of...
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Tony Magi shot dead
Developer Tony Magi has been killed. He was shot dead today at around 11 a.m. on a slushy Thursday morning outside of a building-in-construction where sat the old Aubin Motel at Beaconsfield and St...
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Lest we forget Angela Sparapani killed in NDG at the age of 12
Lest we forget Angela Sparapani of 966 Girouard who died tragically on Saturday evening at around 6 pm on 25 April 1971 at the age of 12. Angela had been playing at Oxford Park in NDG when her...
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Overlooked Montreal hotel bedlam balances out John and Yoko's Bed-In for Peace
Montreal's most famous celebrity rock God hotel event? You know it will be considered John and Yoko's bed in for peace from May 26, 1969 on the 17th floor of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. But you...
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Remembering Zena Weishoff, the spooky Montreal vagrant that slept under a porch
Zena Weishoff caught many eyes roaming the Main from around 1968 to 1983, loitering endlessly and occasionally eating waste tossed into garbage. The vagrant and bag lady was born around 1920 and...
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Andre Fabien - Montreal judge deposited $90,000 cash in an anonymous bank...
Montreal Judge André Fabien got no respect from Montreal's finest. Picture this scene from a Montreal courthouse in 1977. Thirty officers from the Mobile Unit of the Montreal Urban Community...
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Bank customer Fred Conrad shot dead helping child in 1966 - setting the story...
Let us rehabilitate the legacy of Fritjof "Fred" Conrad, 26, whose heroic bravery was shortchanged by an uncharitable eyewitness account. Conrad was one of about 50 customers in the crowded Royal...
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Mysterious death of 17-year-old Montreal disco princess Lolita Bravo
Collage of Maria Dolores Bravo from a Photo Police photo Downtown Montreal was a mecca for nightclubbers in June of 1979 and 17-year-old Maria "Lolita" Dolores Bravo (aka Brava) would regularly taste...
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