Suzanne Korf: Quebec’s future is starting to look like a bad dream
These are unsettling times. Like Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, I feel like I have fallen through the rabbit hole. The Quebec economy is in crisis, but even in the middle of an election campaign,...
View ArticleBill Tierney: Boomers are once again moving the goalposts
Once again, boomers are moving the goalposts. Technology is forcing us to live into our 80s. And our children, they say, will live into their 90s. Will our grandchildren be a bunch of centenarians? Why...
View ArticleRoadwork postponed on eastbound Highway 40
Roadwork planned for eastbound Highway 40 between Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue and Blvd. St. Charles in Kirkland has been postponed until the end of March. Ongoing winter-weather conditions are not conducive...
View ArticleFraudster Earl Jones to be freed after serving 4 years of 11-year sentence
Fraudster Earl Jones will be released from Ste-Anne-des-Plaines detention centre on Thursday afternoon. Corrections Canada confirmed to victims of the financial swindler that the man who stole more...
View ArticleCouncillors, even a mayor, excluded from small town caucus meetings
Too dense. Too loose-lipped. Too contrarian. Those are some of the excuses town councils have used to justify expelling a local councillor or mayor from the council’s private caucus meetings. In...
View ArticleLetter: Senneville mayor calls on councillors to work with her for the good...
Re: “Town councillors, even a mayor, kicked out” (Gazette, March 18) The Gazette reports, “Council members excluded (Senneville Mayor Jane) Guest citing irreconcilable differences following a marathon...
View ArticleLiberal candidates to make campaign stop at Pierrefonds-Roxboro train station
West Island Liberal candidates Martin Coiteux (Nelligan) and Carlos Leitao (Robert-Baldwin) are set to bring their respective provincial election campaigns back to the West Island today. Leitao, who is...
View ArticleVideo: Young voters have their say
Please enable Javascript to watch this video The babies born around the time of the October 1995 referendum are poised to vote in their first provincial election and there is no shortage of talking...
View ArticleVeteran West Island politician seeks seventh mandate
It was yet another unseasonably frigid spring morning and incumbent Liberal candidate in the West Island riding of Jacques-Cartier, Geoffrey Kelley, was shaking hands and chatting with commuters at the...
View ArticleWest Island represented on Dragons’ Den for third time this season
Is it something in the water? The Dragons of Dragons’ Den might well have been pondering just that as they listened to a pitch from the third company from the West Island to appear on the popular CBC...
View ArticlePolice arrest two after sting at Pointe-Claire Aquatic Centre
Police have arrested two men in connection with a string of thefts in the locker room at the Pointe-Claire Aquatic Centre. A 22-year-old West Island man was arrested March 6 after police caught him...
View ArticleMontreal Police looking for potential victims of Howard Krupp
Montreal Police are looking for potential victims of Howard Krupp, a 68-year-old Kirkland resident who was arrested Monday and charged with two counts of indecent assault. He is alleged to have...
View ArticleWest Island Liberal candidates hit hustings in Pierrefonds
West Island Liberal candidates Martin Coiteux (Nelligan) and Carlos Leitao (Robert-Baldwin) are set to bring their respective provincial election campaigns back to the West Island. Leitao, who is...
View ArticleWatch former NHL pros and Olympians in action at Sportsplexe
Watch former NHL pros, including Stéphane Richer, P.J. Stock, Mathieu Dandenault and Karl Dykhuis, and Olympians Caroline Ouellette, Marie-Philip Poulin and Catherine Ward, join forces with local...
View ArticleAlert citizen helps police corner suspects in Dollard-des-Ormeaux
The quick reaction of a Dollard-des-Ormeaux resident led to the arrest of three teenagers suspected of breaking into cars in the wee hours of the morning on March 21. The resident on Merritt Street...
View ArticleApartment burgled while tenant sleeps
A burglar entered an apartment in Pierrefonds on March 14 and stole a laptop computer while the tenant and his girlfriend slept. The suspect climbed onto the garage roof of the apartment building near...
View ArticleDorval traffic study aims to curb speeding
Dorval is investing about $10,350 in a traffic study to deal with safety concerns at the Lake Avenue-Herron Road intersection just off Highway 20. During the municipal election campaign last fall, a...
View ArticleKirkland revives push for new north-south boulevard
Kirkland is hoping to reignite the debate over a much-discussed urban boulevard along the Highway 440 servitude, pointing out the province has to come through with funds for a new interchange at...
View ArticleDelays adding $1.1 million to cost of Dorval sports complex
Due to bureaucratic delays and some added work charges, Dorval has approved about $1 million extra for its much anticipated sportsaquatic complex being built next to École secondaire Dorval Jean XXIII...
View ArticleDorval house fire causes $300,000 in damages
A fire that started in the garage of a Dorval house caused $300,000 worth of damage late Tuesday night. The fire was called in at 10:33 p.m. for the home on Surrey Ave. It quickly spread from the...
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