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What has become of the singers of the Choeur Bonneau since the choir folded in 2002? Not much detail except for a sense that success may not have helped in some cases. (more...)
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The city's buying back a dozen calèche permits to reduce the number of carriages plying the trade to 35. Rumours that bavette de cheval will be served in the cafeteria at city ... (more...)
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Notes on a couple of the city's least desirable addresses, apartment complexes with mice and cockroaches, mold and poor insulation, and a canny landlord who has been getting away ... (more...)
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Couche-Tard is being criticized for a commercial promoting their new liposuction slush. I'd only seen the poster at my local C-T, showing a big pile of fat, and thought the idea ... (more...)
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Opponents of the Park Avenue name change are preparing for a second wave of resistance at the provincial level; columnist blames anglos for resisting the name change, although ... (more...)
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I'm a bit confused by reports of three workers who died on the weekend in the Townships, specifically that they died from inhaling "deadly argon gas." Argon is about as nonreactive ... (more...)
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Quebec has dished out $60 million to Concordia to build their business school, the John Molson School of Business, on the west side of Guy opposite the metro. (more...)
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A new skate park is going to be built under the access to the Jacques-Cartier bridge, and the skateboarding group is already complaining about it. (more...)
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It's an unclear story as yet, but the principal of F.A.C.E., where the children of so many of Montreal's arty bohemians go to school, has been suspended with pay, the reason ... (more...)
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The Hérouxville statement is becoming known around the world as international media pick up on its manifesto ? click on "avis public" if the link isn't hidden behind something ... (more...)