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Laval, still the sex capital of Quebec
Laval is the sex capital of Quebec. It always has been probably was way back in the Indian times. Likely they've got the sex brain parasite in the water system. Whereas Montreal has one single area...
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Nite Lite double murder claims the Laramee brothers
A mellow Canada Day in Montreal was shattered with news that a gunman had shot two men dead in a bar called the Nite Lite in a strip mall on Newman near LaPierre.Gio Armani and staff The two dead...
View ArticleDesk kicking. A fireable offence?
Here's the sad story of a needless Montreal office conflict that led to much heartbreak and expense. Jason Perkins and Jason Yee worked for a company called PC Mall. One day in 2011 Yee told...
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Yes it's legal to tip others off to a ticket trap
Sandro Ianni isyour friend Montreal cops have been picking on cyclists for the last couple of years, giving them tickets for no real good reason and being generally nitpicky, adding to the many...
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Quebec's unhealthy addiction to newsy drama
Montreal in 1970, when I was away When I was six, my mother moved us out to 227 Lawson in West Vancouver, for no real reason that I know of except to get away from my dad, who she got sick of....
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Fatal Dorval industrial accident settlement contested
Nicola Di Ielsi, left, died on the morning of April 4, 2011 after being crushed by a mammoth metal spool at his workplace at Bailey Metal Works Ltd, near Dorval Airport. (Trudeau Aiport?)An attempt...
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Montreal's new skyscrapers: are they even needed?
Any city is defined by its skyline and the recent construction blitz of a dozen or so tall towers in this city - about half within a stone's throw of the Bell Centre - has many excited about how...
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Marymount and its lack of green space
The satellite image above shows Marymount High in white, as well as the terrains now used by Villa Maria private girls school and Marianapolis CEGEP. I used to walk through there as a kid all the...
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A refusal to mourn the death of a business by bankruptcy in Montreal
When a long-familiar commercial retail institution closes, it's a little bit like a friend moved, or a favourite building got demolished. News of the recent closure of the Euro Deli on the Main...
View ArticleMontrealer's invention - effortless rollerblading
This very cool little motorized device that you hitch on to in order to zoom around effortless on rollerblades is one of the cooler local inventions I've seen. It's, alas, $1,500. Done by a guy named...
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Fatal noise disputes
Yvon Thibeault Jr. 32, QUIET!!!So yeah. Yvon Thibeault Jr., remember him? Nah. Maybe he's a bit forgettable except for his one claim to fame, committing the first murder of 1979 on Montreal's south...
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Who killed the West End Gang's top safecracker?
Earl Poirier and Diane Frechette7929 Birnam These days the cute duplex at 7929 Birnam in Park Ex is the property of Datta Ratan Kumar, but long before he purchased and remodeled it, the home was the...
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Ten true crime stories from Montreal in the eighties
Suzie Hunt, 20, in 1984Suzie Hunt in a more recent photoSuzie Hunt, 20, was a buxom young stripper working a classy peeler joint called Le Couloir in Laval back in the early 80s. She was dating Guy...
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Quebec's vanity plate ban costing us how much!!??!?
Quebec is one of the only places in North America that does not allow motorists to have customized license plates. In the United States about 10 to 15 percent of motorists have such plates and the...
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Judge orders Montrealer to pay $8,000 for writing letter complaining of beggars
A man who wrote a letter complaining of beggars in front of a Montreal liquor store has been ordered to pay $8,000. Robert Delisle got frustrated with a beggar outside a local booze shop and sent...
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West End Skyway - thankfully never built
When it comes to highways, many are called, few are chosen. Among the countless road construction proposals from last century is one which really would have served little need and truly uglified a...
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Postwar east end secret road
Montreal's aerial photo series from 1947 has revealed an unofficial four km road from Viau and Sherbrooke to Langelier and the Metropolitan, a mysterious route spotted by Marc Dufour. The land...
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Rocky Montana commemorated in free painting
Hard to believe but this amazing and awesometastic Montreal streetscape painting can be yours for free. As in zero dollars. Nothing. You can't even pay by spitting on money and tossing it onto the...
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Judge orders brothers to pay $138,000 to man they beat up
Here's a story of how friendship can sour and turn into brutality on the turn of a dime. Wazken Karamanoukian and brothers Agop and Mouchegh Bamboukian were buddies here in Montreal Wazken's...
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Loews Vaudeville Theatre
...this courtesy reader JH. Apparently issued sometime in 1922, this colourized postcard shows St. Catherine Street. A quick glance at the large sign in the foreground made me think it showed part...
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