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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.

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.

The Pointe Claire Canoe Club hosted its annual summer canoe polo tournament last Saturday.

Eighteen-year-old Kirkland resident Elliot Lennon got to experience last month what many young hockey players often dream of, but very few get to see come true — hearing his name called in the NHL Entry Draft.

Almost 1,500 homeowners in Dollard des Ormeaux and Pierrefonds-Roxboro who suffered flooding damage in the June 20 rainstorm have signed on to be part of two proposed class-action lawsuits filed in Quebec Superior Court last week, according to the lawyer spearheading the legal action.

Dollard des Ormeaux resident Charlotte Gibson is among the roughly 1,500 residents who have so far signed up to be part of the proposed class-action lawsuits alleging the City of Dollard and the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro did not do enough to mitigate the flooding damage caused by last month’s torrential rainfall.

Beverley Denobrega will never forget the early morning hours of July 13, 1992. As the sun was rising, two police officers knocked at her door in Pointe Claire. One of the officers cradled a damaged yellow Walkman portable music device. Denobrega recalls one of the officers asking her if the Walkman belonged to her 15-year-old son, Trevor.

An enormous sense of frustration, wisps of fear and fatigue, glimpses of disillusionment, strands of desperation and a few flares of anger were part of the emotional cocktail offered to members of Pointe Claire municipal council last week as homeowners — many of them forced to deal with a third incident of flooding in their homes in as many years — came armed with questions and suggestions about how to deal with “the next time” torrential rains overwhelm the city’s drainage system.