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Serial matrimonial citizenship sponsor sees plans shot down
Ailin Silva NatesRodrigue seen cuffed in 2010 (La Presse) I have a soft spot for people who sponsor poor folks to move to Canada through marriage or other means, as many worthy people around the...
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Child drowns baby in toilet
Coolopolis reader Patrick S. sent in this not-very-uplifting story from Nov. 1, 1950 in which a 5-year-old child dropped in on a baby left alone next door in Senneterre, Abitibi and proceeded to cut...
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Gaston Ethier: "I'm the boss, I'm hot"
Gaston Ethier The second door west of Saguinet on Ste. Catherine, south side, has always been an awkward venue, frequently changing hands from one business to another. I seem to recall it being...
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Claude Gariepy, child killer
Claude Gariepy Claude Gariepy approached Shirley Bourdon, 4, as the little girl carried a chocolate in one hand and a marshallow in the other, outside her home at 5365 3rd Ave. in Rosemount on March...
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Judge slams City of Montreal for racist promoting practices, gives man $30 k
A judge has slammed the City of Montreal, specifically the borough of NDG/CDN for its racist ways, as they consistently snubbed employee Jean-Olthene Tanisma for promotions. Tanisma, to his credit,...
View ArticleCity Council's latest dumb idea: create new provincial lease registry...
Politically speaking you fall either into the conservative or liberal categories. PoliSci profs will define the two as roughly this: lefties believe in the concept of revolution, righties in reform....
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Quebec's wine industry: almost non-existent
Here's a staggering statistic: in Ontario, about half of all booze sold at the liquor outlets is made within the province. In Quebec, that figure sits at a mere one percent. Winemaker Anthony...
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Joey Saputo not hitting the right notes
Joey Saputo, the heir to a cheese-making company, has done it again.Photoshop re-enactment of the Montana affair The owner of the local MLS team has simultaneously criticized both the ban on turbans...
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Q-where is this?
One of Montreal's major arteries - or bigger, better-known streets anyway - ends here. Can you name the street?
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Oh to be in Montreal in the summertime
Dogs on the Lower Main.Groundhog peeks down a sidestreet from atop the hill in Trudeau Park (just north of Cavendish Mall). ...thus ignoring the ballgame below.Jello Bar on Ontario appears set...
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From Montreal's first anglo Jewish mayor to first anglo Pakistani mayor?
The anti-corruption squad has stomped the game board with their arrest of Mayor Michael Applebaum, so the upcoming city elections need a rethink. Applebaum had planned to return to the CDN/NDG...
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Saulie Zajdel busted for corruption - here's what we know about him
Longtime former Cote des Neiges-area city councillor Saulie Zajdel was arrested on corruption charges this morning but no details of the charges against him have yet been made public. Zajdel...
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What you must know about towing companies in Montreal
Montrealers whose cars get towed by a private company are often unaware of their rights and end up getting ripped off. One recent example: the city housing project known as the Habitations Jeanne...
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60 years ago, seven men survived for 39 days lost in northern Quebec
Montrealer Everitt This fall marks the 60th anniversary of the miracle recovery of seven men stranded in the bush in the far, far north of Quebec after 39 days in the bush. The group, which...
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The new, new mayor will be....
Laurent Blanchard and Harout Chitilian are expected to be the top two vote-getters Tuesday with Alan DeSousa possibly winning if the candidates split. All of five candidates are boasting that they...
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Quiz - what happened here in 1977?
This shouldn't be too hard. This house sits at the southern edge of Oxford Park and was the site of an explosive event in 1977. Anybody? The answer is that William Robert Scully, 35, was blown up...
View ArticleMontreal's invisible mood borders
People moving to Montreal need to know that there are divisions between areas that they should be intuitively tuned into because it can dictate their enjoyment of living in any given area. Every...
View ArticleCorey Crawford tells crowd: "we fucken worked our nuts off"
Congrats to Chateauguay's Corey Crawford who has become the first anglo-Montrealer to goaltend his way to a cup since the Gump Worsley (Point St. Charles) Charlie Hodge (LaSalle) duo bagged it in...
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