I have a collection of old newspapers, including the headlines of the end of the Second World War, the 1969 landing on the moon and 9/11. Among the collection is the Montreal Gazette headlinestory from January of 1973 in which then-Mayor Jean Drapeau declared “The Montreal Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby.” Anticipating that phrase would one day come back...
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Despite a slight drop reported in Canada’s New Housing Price Index last week, real estate prices on the island of Montreal continue to rise, including in the West Island.
During a period where many businesses are closed for the construction holiday, the recent announcement of another round of U.S. tariffs has raised alarm bells at the West Island Chamber of Commerce.
The chief of police of Nunavik in Quebec’s far north is calling on local authorities to do more to curb activities organized by criminal gangs in Dorval that are having a direct effect on members of his Inuit community who are travelling to Dorval to obtain health care.
After securing the purchase earlier this month of the site where it has operated from for the last two year, the West Island’s only homeless shelter is setting in motion a project to create 59 affordable housing units for West Islanders with modest incomes who find themselves on the verge of homelessness.
Nearly two years after barely surviving a horrific hit-and-run crash — Pointe Claire resident Angela Clark finally came face to face with the man from Vaudreuil sur le Lac who allegedly struck her car at 170 kilometres per hour but then fled on foot, leaving the 64-year-old injured and trapped inside the wreckage of her car.
A dramatic police manhunt that began in east-end Montreal spilled into the West Island early Sunday morning, as a Sûreté du Québec helicopter was used to sweep Lachine, Dorval and Pointe Claire, waking up startled residents – many who called 911 to find out what was happening.
Officials with the Town of Ste. Anne de Bellevue prepare to launch a consultation process with the aim of drafting a special planning program for the village. In the process, it will also seek to revitalize its main street that defines its popular village hub.
Six years after a naked woman died of her injuries after falling out of a sixth-floor window of a Dorval hotel, a Laval man faces a charge of manslaughter leading Crown prosecutors to praise the painstaking work of Montreal police major crimes investigators for bringing the young woman’s suspicious death before a judge.
MDA Space, Canada’s largest space technology developer and one of the largest private employers in the West Island, has landed a major federal government contract expected to create up to 100 jobs.
