Pointe Claire native reflects on experience playing hockey for host Italian team
Pointe Claire native reflects on experience playing hockey for host Italian team
A pilot project involving the testing of an innovative mixture that includes starfish bones to de-ice sidewalks in Dorval and Kirkland is yielding positive results, municipal officials say.
It used to be that in the run up to St. Patrick’s Day, it was easy to find little pots of living shamrocks to celebrate the big day. I clearly remember those tumbling delicate shamrocks, whether they were on my grandmother’s table with the special tea cups, or the spray my grandfather would wear in the buttonhole of his suit jacket. My mother used to buy them along...
Paul-Henri Sylvain, who captured the hearts of West Islanders last November when he saved his Lachine neighbours from their burning duplex, but himself was severely burned and spent two weeks in a coma, has been honoured by local MNA Enrico Ciccone for his act of bravery.
David Duffey, a retired West Islander who split his time between his Pointe Claire condo and a short-term rental home in South Carolina, was brutally murdered last week along with his partner as they hosted a dinner for friends at Duffey’s residence in the South Carolina community of North Forest Beach.
Kirkland stands as the only West Island city on the Top 100 Most Livable Cities across Canada, coming in 83rd position, according to the ranking by The Globe and Mail.
Dorval is offering homeowners who have had to deal with flooding due to severe rainstorms in the last two years grants to help them protect their properties against future severe weather events.
The City of Beaconsfield plans to spend $1.2 million to reconfigure the Highway 20-Woodland Avenue intersection in an attempt to make it safer and easier to navigate.
Describing it as a landmark project, Beaconsfield municipal council Monday evening approved a notice of motion that it intends to borrow $18.6 million to build its much touted new cultural centre in Centennial Park.
Fourteen-year-old William Wienand battled epilepsy his entire life, but nothing could stop the Pointe Claire boy from playing sports – whether it was boxing, track and field, snowshoeing or soccer. Sadly, William lost his fight against the disease last fall on the eve of yet another brain surgery, passing away at home in his sleep.
Montreal police are hunting for the driver of a heavily damaged SUV who fled the scene of a three-vehicle crash Sunday night in Pointe Claire that left a woman and her daughter bruised, shaken, and her car totalled.
It was another successful fundraising event setting another record for the Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence, as it collected $804,000 at its 27th Annual Valentine’s Ball earlier this month.