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Ruth Pelletier wants every senior to make a plan on how they are going to get to their polling station on election day, because the Oct. 5 vote is one of the most consequential for her generation, she says.

Santiago Proteau Sanchez is the youngest person running in the provincial election in the West Island.

For Baie d’Urfé resident Oana Silaghi-Bedikyan, celebrating National Truth and Reconciliation Day is a sacred gesture especially close to her heart, and even though she is not an Indigenous woman, she has been the driving force behind an event that has been organized since 2021 that honours Indigenous culture.

A slice of the City Pointe Claire’s history was commemorated last Saturday as municipal officials and a crowd of neighbours gathered to inaugurate a new park named after a popular local restaurant that closed its doors a decade ago, but is still fondly remembered.

Akilah Newton is one of five new inductees to the John Abbott College Hall of Distinction.

Premier Christine Fréchette could not identify her party’s candidate in the West Island riding of Robert-Baldwin last Sunday evening when the leaders of the five main parties in the Quebec election were guests on Radio-Canada’s popular television show Tout le monde en Parle.

After years of difficult relations between the Quebec government and the province’s English-language schools, the Lester B. Pearson School Board says it hopes the next government will bring a more collaborative attitude to the relationship.

The 1510 West is taking a look back at the results from the 2022 provincial election, as well as how the four West Island ridings have historically swayed when voters go to the polls.

Have you ever stopped and admired a tree?

As average rents overall across Canada continue to dip, rents in Quebec, the Montreal area and the West Island, more specifically, are resisting the downward trend, according to the latest analysis by Rentals.ca, a leading Canadian online rental platform.

A Lakeshore General Hospital auxiliary nurse found criminally guilty last March of stealing 800 vials of morphine now faces a six-month suspension from his profession.

The Sûreté du Québec is intensifying its manhunt for a Dollard des Ormeaux resident considered the number one suspect in the brutal killing earlier this month in Valleyfield of a young barber over a suspected $500 drug debt.

The driver accused of drunk driving in a crash that resulted in the serious injury of a Pointe Claire woman in 2024 has been sentenced to 15 months in jail.

Anastasia Assimakopoulos is in her fifth year as municipal councillor for District 8 in Dollard des Ormeaux. She has a background in law and urban planning, is a mother of four and her LinkedIn profile says she is “passionate about parks and outdoor facility management.”

The Lakeshore General Hospital Foundation had a great day out on the links Sept. 10, setting a new fundraising record for its annual golf tournament — $600,705.

With the first leaders’ debate last night turning up the thrusters in a tight Quebec election race, the jostling for positioning in the campaign is heating up. And with the latest poll still showing a race too close to call, few are making predictions on the outcome of the Oct. 5 vote. In the West Island, however, there is far less suspense.

For the second year in a row, crime in the West Island has dropped, according to the Montreal police service’s 2025 report released Sept. 9.

Tucked far from the road, out of sight from passing vehicles along picturesque Senneville Road in the northwestern corner of the West Island is where you will find the most expensive piece of real estate on the market in the West Island.

A private daycare in Pointe Claire is at risk of becoming collateral damage in a proposed project that would see a small strip mall redeveloped into a site for 16 new townhouses.

A Roxboro man who witnessed an e-scooter accident last Thursday evening in Dollard des Ormeaux that left a 14-year-old boy seriously injured says he is outraged most motorists failed to stop and provide assistance, with at least one of them berating the victim for not wearing a helmet before driving off.

The driver of the car charged with fleeing the scene of a violent crash on the Trans-Canada service road in the West Island in 2024 that left a Pointe Claire woman seriously injured has changed his plea to guilty and will be sentenced at the Montreal courthouse on Sept. 28.

Ste. Anne de Bellevue’s demolition committee hosted a meeting last week to discuss the future of what remains of one of the oldest structures on the island of Montreal, but by the time it was over, the town’s mayor looked to assure the public that no move to tear down the ruins of Maison Michel-Robillard would be made until a plan has been drafted to ensure that the site’s history would be preserved.

The City of Pointe Claire improved its ranking on the Top 100 list of best cities for renters, according to a survey compiled by The Globe and Mail. It now ranks in 63rd spot.

Test runs along the track of the final branch of the REM light rail network — the three-kilometre spur to Trudeau Airport in Dorval —  are now being conducted. The line, however, is not expected to be put into service until the end of 2027.

Members of the Save Fairview Forest group were in a celebratory mood on Aug. 15 as they marked their 300th consecutive demonstration.