John McLean, longtime key organizer for the Matticks faction of Montreal’s West End Gang, has died at the age of 76.    McLean succumbed to...

 Jeffrey Epstein might have played a role in the loss Motreal’s beloved Expos baseball team. .  Let’s look at what we know.  Epstein was clo...

Kenny Maskal from Verdun got hired by Otis elevator, in Montreal in the 1970s. The union run by Chuck Canning was full of tough guys. Kenny...

Paul Payne in 1989 Paul Payne, 55, opened the door to a hail of bullets at his home on Airlie St near Behrens in LaSalle, Wednesday at about...

These characters are all discussed in my upcoming book Want In? You're In. The West End Gang Story. 10 - Murray Jones (1940-1981) Stick...

  Slumming on St-Catherine by KRISTIAN GRAVENOR I like slumming and I figure one of our most gratifying local ghetto strolls starts at Ste...

Simon Napier-Bell, best known as the swinging London hipster who managed the Yardbirds in the 1960s, has a crazy story about being in Montre...

  Eddy Nolan, a much-loved janitor at Roslyn School who also starred as a boxer from the Shamrock Boxing Club at Wellington and Shearer in P...