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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.

Montreal police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who verbally attacked an elderly Muslim couple as they took their daily walk near their home in Dollard des Ormeaux last weekend. The incident is being considered a possible hate crime.

The pier at Edgewater Park in Pointe Claire has been renamed to honour a former mayor and one of the city’s longest-serving public servants — Bill McMurchie.

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As plans resurface to demolish a centuries-old farmhouse in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, one town councillor is calling on residents to mobilize to preserve what he describes as a piece of the town’s architectural heritage.

After 52 years of serving up smoked meat sandwiches on rye around the clock, Chenoys deli on St. Jean Boulevard in Dollard des Ormeaux has locked its doors, as its owner has gone into bankruptcy.

West Island residents who watched their homes flood during heavy rains in June have spent much of the summer hauling debris from their basements and worrying every time they see rain in the forecast. Will it happen again, they wonder.

The number of West Island homeowners signing on to two class-action lawsuits following torrential rains in June that flooded streets and thousands of basements continues to grow.

If ever there was a West Island organization that held to the belief that persistence can eventually pay off, it would be the low-key, but diligent activists among the ranks of the Save Fairview Forest group — a band of pro-environment advocates who are preparing to mark their 300th consecutive weekly demonstration by the woodlands they are fighting to save from development in Pointe Claire.

A young Dollard des Ormeaux councillor who was first elected in 2021 but was defeated in his bid for re-election in last November’s municipal vote is among nine Quebec municipal politicians from across the province slapped with fines for violating electoral laws, according to a statement released by Elections Quebec this week.

A 61-year-old man is still in hospital, recovering from injuries he suffered after his car struck a tree in Pointe Claire last week.

The annual Beacon Hill Corn Roast has brought friends, family and neighbours together every September for more than 30 years. Anyone who has grown up in this neighbourhood in the northeast sector of Beaconsfield is familiar with the event.

While the nationwide average asking price to rent an apartment or condo has been falling year-over-year, Pointe Claire is one of few Quebec cities where the opposite is being seen. In fact, on a year-over-year comparison, the trend appears to be increasing slightly.

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.