MONTREAL – Singer Betty Bonifassi and director Robert Lepage have cancelled the remaining performances of SLĀV, a showcase of slave songs performed and directed primarily by white people, a…
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Montreal’s retired Old Port carriage horses relocated to Calgary Stampede chuck wagon races
MONTREAL – A recently announced ban on horse-drawn carriages or “calèches” in the Old Port of Montreal has allowed calèche horses to move on to new and exciting careers in the c…
Twelve Montreal sinkholes given heritage status
MONTREAL—City officials have announced that twelve historic Montreal sinkholes have been declared heritage sites to protect them from redevelopment. “We have an obligation to preserve and celebra…
Pile of filthy snow in mall parking lot somehow still there
MONTREAL – Local eyewitnesses have recently confirmed that despite temperatures well above 10 degrees Celsius, that giant pile of disgusting snow in the mall parking lot has somehow survived. “I’…
Montreal police mark St. Patrick’s Day with green-coloured tear gas
MONTREAL — Revelers were treated to a rare spectacle, Saturday, thanks to Montreal’s police service (SPVM) when officers in riot gear broke up the annual St. Patrick’s day parade by firing …
TVA claims Montreal mosque asked construction workers to use Halal jackhammers
MONTREAL – Popular Quebec television station TVA has corrected a report that a Montreal-area mosque demanded women be expelled from a nearby construction site, amending the story with a cla…
SQ shocked that they aren’t the worst police force in Quebec
MONTREAL – The Sûreté du Québec were taken by surprise when their director, Martin Prud’homme, was appointed as head of the Montreal police force to replace the suspended Chief Philippe Pic…
Whiteout conditions experienced in Montreal mayor’s cabinet
MONTREAL – Montreal is experiencing whiteout conditions at Mayor Valérie Plante’s executive committee causing visibility problems for 30% of the city’s population. Meteorologists say …
Montreal requires all new buildings to feature at least one Leonard Cohen mural
MONTREAL – After the overwhelmingly positive response to two massive murals of the late Leonard Cohen, Montreal now requires all buildings to feature at least one mural of the rabbinical ro…
Coderre returns to empty Olympic Stadium to live out days as Phantom of the Expos
MONTREAL — Following an emotional press conference Monday, outgoing mayor Denis Coderre, draped in an extra large blue and red cape, vowed to never again return to municipal politics –…