Police bust Kirkland grow-op, confiscate $700,000 worth of marijuana
Another marijuana grow-op in the West Island has been busted, this time one tucked away in a residential Kirkland neighbourhood. Close to 700 marijuana plants worth an estimated $700,000 were...
View ArticleBreak-ins make St. Patrick’s Day unlucky for Beaconsfield homeowners
Police are investigating a string of St. Patrick’s Day break-ins that took place in the same Beaconsfield neighbourhood while homeowners were out. Three different houses, one on Creswell Dr., another...
View ArticleSoil rehabilitation at former PCB storage site in Pointe-Claire begins next week
The cleanup of a site contaminated by PCBs and other toxic materials in Pointe-Claire will enter a new phase next week. Technorem, a company specializing in soil characterization and rehabilitation,...
View ArticleVideo: Young voters have their say
<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> <p>The babies born around the time of the October 1995 referendum are poised to vote in their first provincial election and...
View ArticleWestbound 40 to be closed overnights, from Thursday to Sunday
The westbound lanes of Highway 40 from Kirkland to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue will be completely closed during the overnight hours Thursday, March 27; Friday, March 28; Saturday, March 29; and Sunday, March...
View ArticleSenneville councillor Michael van der Linden resigns
Senneville District 1 councillor Michael Vanderlinden has resigned. He announced his resignation via email Thursday. He is the second councillor to resign since the last municipal election in November...
View ArticleBill Young: Montreal has always been a baseball town
That joyous song of spring you hear rolling across Montreal these days can mean only one thing. Major League Baseball is returning to Olympic Stadium – for the first time since Sept. 29, 2004. Some...
View ArticleBill Tierney: Quebec independence casts a big political shadow
Quebec politics come in different shapes and sizes. You can wake up to find yourself in the middle of another national debate about Quebec’s place in Canada, and at the same time, your local mayor and...
View ArticleCleanup of soil at illegal PCB storage site set to begin
The cleanup of a site in Pointe-Claire that stored toxic liquids for years will enter a new phase this week. Technorem, a company specializing in soil characterization and rehabilitation, begins work...
View ArticleSt. Jean Blvd. -Highway 20 overpass set to become traffic headache
Major work on Pointe-Claire’s aging St. Jean Blvd.- Highway 20 overpass begins this week, forcing lane closures and creating unavoidable traffic headaches for West Island motorists for the next five...
View ArticleClifford Lincoln: François Legault and the political maxim of the 7-year-old
As I watched the second leaders’ debate last Thursday, I could not help but recall my first foray into active politics. My fellow Quebec Liberal Party candidates and I had attended a session on media...
View ArticleKelp caviar impresses dragons
Naor Cohen’s pitch was darn near perfect. The owner of Imperial Caviar & Seafood in Dollard-des-Ormeaux pitched his line of kelp caviar on CBC Television’s Dragons’ Den last Wednesday, and four of...
View ArticleWest Island Liberal candidates head into home stretch
With the provincial election campaign entering the home stretch, West Island Liberal candidates Carlos Leitao (Robert-Baldwin) and Martin Coiteux (Nelligan) and Liberal incumbents Geoffrey Kelley...
View ArticleMystery closes Lakeshore Players’ season
Lakeshore Players is closing its mainstage season with a whodunit designed to draw the audience into the centre of the action. Rehearsal for Murder opens at the Louise Chalmers Theatre at John Rennie...
View ArticleWomen’s hockey team qualifies for Dodge Cup
The John Abbott College women’s Islander hockey team has qualified for the Dodge Cup for the second year running. The team clinched third place in the round robin playoff series last Saturday, and will...
View ArticleMarijuana grow-up discovered in Dollard-des-Ormeaux
Police discovered a grow-op in Dollard-des-Ormeaux and seized around 600 marijuana plants, last week. Montreal police Const. Leslie Potts from Station 4 said police officers were accompanying a...
View ArticleCar set on fire in Pierrefonds
A Pierrefonds woman was awakened by a loud noise in the early morning last Wednesday and looked out her window to see a car in flames in a parking lot next to her apartment building. She called the...
View ArticleCandidates from seven parties running in the West Island
The West Island has been a Liberal stronghold for decades. But Liberals are not the only ones chatting up a party line to constituents. Seven parties are running a total of 24 candidates in the region....
View ArticleLac St-Louis AA Selects bantam playoff champs
The Lac St-Louis bantam AA Selects became LHFAADQ league playoff champions Sunday, March 30, beating Capital Nationale 2-1 in the final at Jacques Lemaire Arena in La-Salle. The team now heads to the...
View ArticleBill Tierney: Election could bring major change for the province
So, here we are in the last week of the 2014 Quebec election which, with Pierre Karl Péladeau’s fist-pumping, was looking more like a referendum campaign. When it’s over, Monday night, Quebec will...
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