Dragon Boat races raise funds to fight cancer
Hundreds of paddlers gather to participate in Dragon Boat races on Lac St. Louis in Lachine, Saturday, beginning at 8:45 a.m. Up to 800 participants will race to raise funds for the Cedars Cancer...
View ArticleNight closure of portions of westbound Highway 40 Thursday through Sunday
Transport Québec has announced the complete closure of westbound Highway 40 between exit 50 at St. Charles Blvd. in Kirkland to the entrance from Blvd. des Anciens-Combattants in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue,...
View ArticleBusted in Baie d’Urfe: Ranch-style bungalow on the outside, marijuana grow-op...
From the outside it doesn’t look much different from the other houses on the quiet Baie-d’Urfé street, but on Halloween night it was the scene of the latest drug bust in the West Island, a real-life...
View ArticleNovember nights may foreshadow a celestial holiday surprise
Chilly November nights play host to the moon dancing with planets and stars, while a much anticipated comet arrives in the starry skies. Over the next few weeks sky -watchers get a chance to soak in...
View ArticleNew sports dome nearing completion
Work is well underway on a new multi-sport dome in Baied’Urfé. The privately funded $9-million project on Morgan Blvd., located on a 350,000-square-foot lot in the town’s industrial park just off the...
View ArticlePointe-Claire land use to be discussed publicly
Pointe-Claire recently purchased land along Lakeshore Road for $675,000. The lot in question, which measures just under 50,000 square feet, had been owned by St-Joachim Church but has been used by the...
View ArticleZoning plan for Angell Woods put on back-burner: Bourelle
Beaconsfield’s newly elected city council will place a proposed special planning program for the Angell Woods territory on the backburner for an indefinite period in order to pursue negotiations with...
View ArticleGibson begins first mandate with an apology
It was somewhat of a curious start for Kirkland’s newly elected mayor during his first public council meeting Monday night. Michel Gibson, who ousted longtime mayor John Meaney from office Nov. 3, read...
View ArticleSuzanne Korf: Stand up to the values charter
The annual general meeting of the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation was held last Thursday, the same day Bill 60, Quebec’s charter of values, was tabled in the National Assembly. So it was no...
View ArticleBill Tierney: Council races tell how towns are changing
As they say in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue: “Did you have a good election?” The question really means: Did your candidates win? These election results bring with them the promise of new initiatives and new...
View ArticleChrist Church Beaurepaire debuts concert series
Earl Wilson has been crazy about music his whole life. Visit his website and the first thing you see is the Friedrich Nietzsche quote “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Wilson is the music...
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Pointe Claire author at Chapters on Saturday, Nov. 16
Pointe Claire author Sheila Kindellan-Sheehan will be at the West Island Chapters store signing copies of her latest novel, The Courier Wore Shorts, on Saturday, Nov. 16. This is Kindellan-Sheehan’s...
View ArticleMother of autistic child launches foundation to fast-track assessment process
Little Téa was born with a hip problem that kept her in a sling for the first five months of her life and a hard-plastic brace for the following three months. Doctors told mom Ariana Jalfen and dad Al...
View ArticlePierrefonds restaurant employee robbed at gunpoint
A restaurant employee was held up at gunpoint in Pierrefonds last Friday. The robbery occurred in a restaurant near the corner of Sources and Pierrefonds Blvds. just after it opened at 5:30 a.m.,...
View ArticleLakeshore General Hospital not planning to follow Jewish General’s lead
The Lakeshore General Hospital has no plans at this point to defy Bill 60, the proposed Charter of Quebec Values that would prohibit the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols, including the kippah...
View ArticleTwo road workers struck by car on Highway 20 in Lachine
Two road workers were seriously injured late Tuesday when they were struck by a motorist. The accident happened at 11:35 p.m. at the junction of Highway 20 and 55th Ave. in Lachine, where work on the...
View ArticleBeaconsfield’s new mayor hopes to change city’s reputation for raucous...
Beaconsfield’s new mayor issued a directive for citizens and council to keep decorum during public meetings. At the start of the meeting Monday night, Georges Bourelle informed a full-capacity crowd...
View ArticleTabachnick seeks federal Liberal nomination
Marcus Tabachnick, a longtime West Island school board chairman, is planning to make a run for the Liberal nomination in the Pierrefonds-Dollard riding. Tabachnick, 62, resigned as chairman of the...
View ArticleSte-Anne and Senneville lose fluoridated water
Montreal has announced that fluoridated potable water will no longer be supplied to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue and Senneville. Montreal officials announced tap water being supplied to Ste-Anne and Senneville...
View ArticleBeaconsfield rejects building plan for lot
Beaconsfield council has rejected construction plans for a single-family home proposed on a vacant lot once considered for an evangelical bible hall. On Monday, following the recommendation of the...
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