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Murder on Charlevoix - how a corner store murder in the Point forever changed...
Marie-Helene Dickey What caused crime to drop? Experts cite the aging of the population, increased incarceration of dangerous offenders and lowered quantities of airborne lead. But another...
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The rise and fall and rise of Montreal disco impresario Michael Bookalam
Few Montreal lives scream movie script baby! like that of Michael Bookalam, who went from young college athletic god... to downtown disco impresario... to cocaine addict... to serious felon...and...
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Star Montreal singer-songwriter James Renald has - reportedly - died
James Renald, a successful and talented singer-songwriter best known as leader of the Montreal duo Sky, has - according to reports - died at age 43. Details of his death have been incredibly elusive...
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Royalmount Mall - bring it on!
A Montreal TV news report from about 1995 featured an intense elderly old man vowing to lie down in the middle of Cavendish Blvd and get run over by traffic if plans ever went forward to extend the...
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Montreal retail - unwilling soldiers on the front lines of Quebec's language...
Shopping is uniquely political in Montreal. Retail assistants and cashiers face a unique struggle to please not only the customer, but also the provincial government, which - since 1980 - has...
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How to win at publicity: John MacBain celebrated, ex-wife Louise Blouin...
Montreal's John McCall MacBain made heroic headlines Wednesday by handing over $200-million to McGill University, making it the largest-ever Canadian charitable donation. The gift was greeted with...
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TV host Réal Giguère - why Quebecers obsessed over his private life
Recently-deceased Montrealer Réal Giguère, one of the most familiar faces on the small screen for decades, became the focus of obsession in Quebec, as his name was endlessly raised in connection to...
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Shot through the heart: Montreal cop shot lover dead while playing with gun
Bertrand Bergeron, 23, a cop hired by the Outremont police department four months earlier, had a habit of playing with his gun. This was particularly bad news for his lover Mrs. Anna Czechowski,...
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Montreal as capital of Canada or Quebec: how the city would be different
How would Montreal be different if it was still the capital of Canada, or capital of Quebec? Montreal was once capital of what became Canada. It would have remained so if not for an unfortunate...
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Botched theft at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts culminates in murder and suicide
Paul Thouin The shocking sight of empty frames greeted a staffer who opened the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Sherbrooke near Crescent on April 8, 1933. The Galleries of the Art Association...
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A dozen reasons why Montreal cop Terry Gagné - who learned Yiddish and...
Chronic dizziness forced Terry Gagné (1932-2000) into retirement in 1981 at age 49 but in his three decades of duty he built a larger-than-life legacy that endures. Gagné, who was Irish with a...
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Black baseball pioneer Don Newcombe's time living in Montreal
Strapping 6'4" fastballer Don Newcombe, who died this week at age 92 after a stellar baseball career, starred for the Montreal Royals in 1948 before going on to baseball glory as one of the first...
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Courtroom shocker after father-of-nine killed by streetcar between Montreal...
Crushed under the metal wheels of a streetcar between Montreal West and Ville St. Pierre. Tomasso Pellegrino, 44, died by broken skull, killed by Montreal streetcar. His grisly death led to an...
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85 classic photos of Montreal streetcars will leave you dreaming until Friday
1 Streetcar, road and the Canadian National Railway tracks met at the Victoria Bridge, which was still a toll bridge in 1954. There was a walkway on bridge and the woman may have walked over. The is...
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Rare photos of the lost and forgotten Montreal village beneath the hill
Two photos are all that remains online to demonstrate the existence of a nameless village that once thrived in Montreal at the foot of a hill that also has no name. Until the 1970s the land atop...
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Spring break in the first week of March - Five reasons why it's a disastrous...
Quebec schools close for holidays during the first week of March. Here are five reasons why it's a terrible policy that hurts people and the economy.1-It hurts the poor School officials justify the...
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The too short life of Chez Paree dancer Christina Mitriou
The pre-dawn June air was still warm on the night Christina Mitriou worked her final shift after toiling two years at Chez Paree on Stanley Street on 18 June 1995. The attractive and likable...
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12 photos bring Montreal landmark Waldman's fish market back to life - plus a...
If you dropped into the fish emporium that long sat near Pine and The Main you might have been served by a murderer on the lam. The fish market at 74 Roy East was longtime Montreal landmark, well...
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The most terrible thing that ever happened at Beaubien and St. Lawrence Main...
Michel Charron, left and Yvan Ledoux Yvan Ledoux, a 27-year-old DJ from Granby, had no idea that something inconceivably and surrealistically awful was about to occur. He was standing on the...
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Vital Magic Thumb Lemire wasn't only a fraud and a pervert, he was also a...
It seems that a murderer was trying to confess to me over the phone but I simply wasn't listening. In 2003 I did a phone interview with Vital Lemire, a prisoner from the Port Cartier prison where he...
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