Although she doesn’t live there, Isha Lampkin comes to the foot of Victoria Ave. almost every day, to walk with her two young children.

Ruth Simpson, a leader in the gay liberation movement who wrote a well-regarded critique of social and political attitudes toward lesbians in the 1970s, died May 8, in Woodstock, N.Y., after a series of illnesses. She was 82.

Police have released information about the 56 people arrested in connection with the hooliganism that took place after the Canadiens playoff game on April 21. Police made 23 arrests that night and 33 more in the weeks that followed.

The CSCPA in Laval will be closing its doors July 31. The closing will affect 30 employees, as well as the 15 dogs, 80 cats and handfuls of hamsters, gerbils, rabbits and mice that remain in the shelter.

Two men were stabbed and another slightly injured during a brawl involving about 20 people outside a Pointe Claire bar early Friday morning.

A Dorval man arrested in March for production and distribution of juvenile pornography faces 26 new charges. Daniel Lisiewicz faces a total of 85 charges against 18 victims, some of whom are minors.

The assistant to Quebec's natural resources minister Claude Bechard has been kidnapped. When 37 year old Nancy Michaud's husband came home late last night, their three kids were asleep but she was nowhere to be found. Police don't think Michaud's husband was involved.

Pauline Marois has told reporters today the sovereignty option is not outmoded and with that, the PQ leader is looking towards the creation of a new sovereignty manifesto.

A man who physically abused his newborn son because he was crying has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison. The boy is now 17 months old and was taken to Ste Justine's Hospital in March of last year.

Montreal police are meeting with students and staff at Queen of Angels Academy in Dorval. Someone has been taking pictures of students at the all-girls school and they want to know why. Police are investigating.

BY ELYSE AMEND elyse.amend@transcontinental.ca With the summer months approaching quickly, many homeowners in the West Island are getting ready to prepare their pools for fun in the sun...

BY RAFFY BOUDJIKANIAN raffy.boudjikanian@transcontinental.ca One of the most colourful traditions of the West Island will be returning Saturday for the summer, when Ste...

BY ELYSE AMEND elyse.amend@transcontinental Beaconsfield resident Andrée Donald thought her son, Raphaël Bacal, was just going through a tough time in Grade 6 when he started acting unlike himself. ?He had just started school and he was doing hockey try-outs,? she said...

BY ELYSE AMEND elyse.amend@transcontinental.ca Not very many kids can say they spent a weekday learning from playing video games, competing in trivia contests, and eating snacks, but that's exactly what Grade 6 students from Dorval Elementary School did last Wednesday morning as part of the Montreal police's drug prevention days. ?It's about the importance of making right choices,? said police ...

BY RAFFY BOUDJIKANIAN raffy.boudjikanian@transcontinental.ca A landmark decision by the Quebec Superior Court last Friday that stated the 2004 Île Bizard de-merger referendum results are null and void has some of the town's old de-merger advocates extremely pleased, while mum's the word for Montreal...

Happy 15th birthday to us! Jamie O'Meara Fifteen'll get you twenty, eh? That's what we're hoping for as we hit mid-adolescence, celebrating yet another milestone in our continued growth as a publication.

When Dr. Gabor Maté sat down to write the book that became In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction , he thought he'd simply be telling his patients' stories.

This weekend kicks off Montreal's annual Anarchist Bookfair. The event has grown into the largest anti-authoritarian book fair in North America, and is the highlight of Montreal's month-long festival of anarchy.

"You may think I'm loony tunes but I'm convinced Bugs Bunny is a big ol' fag," I wrote right here back in July 1997.

Digital cable subscribers in Quebec have noticed a strange icon popping up on their screens during certain advertisements. An icon bearing the letters "etc" invites viewers to push a button on their remote to learn more about the product being advertised.

Last week, Montreal executive committee member André Lavallée and Quebec Transport Minister Julie Boulet announced that work on the $750 million Notre Dame St. revamp project would begin in October.

Although neither St. Leonard Lions U14 boys or girls team came away with a win at Stade Hébert on Saturday afternoon, the day was nonetheless a landmark event.

In a show filled with memorable performances from start to finish, it was the youngest performers who stole the spotlight and brought the audience to their feet.

More than 15,000 Montrealers celebrated Israel’s 60th anniversary in grand style, with a sea of blue and white flags downtown, an attempt to break a Guinness world record for folk dancing and tributes by federal leaders.

My notion of what to do on Mother’s Day when I was a little kid was largely formed by commercials I saw on TV. I must have seen some Hallmark commercial at some point where a kid brings his mom breakfast in bed because I can remember several years where I tried to do the same.

Paul Martin should be able to walk out his back door and onto his new green to tee-off by summertime, as work on the former prime minister’s six-hole golf course winds down on his Brome Lake property.

“If you didn’t live here, you wouldn’t really know about the issues that come up on the border,” says Matthew Farfan, who expects to publish a book on border life and its trials — or lack thereof — by 2009. His project is titled Life on the Line: the Vermont-Quebec Border, and he believes readers will enjoy learning of the life and issues that touch American and Canadian residents, and their ...

An increase in French-language instruction at Knowlton Academy has some parents concerned about the future of the community’s long-standing English institution.

“If you didn’t live here, you wouldn’t really know about the issues that come up on the border,” says Matthew Farfan, who expects to publish a book on border life and its trials — or lack thereof — by 2009.

The provincial electoral commission has decided it cannot move mountains so Mount Orford will remain where it is, in the Orford riding.