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The Montreal Jewish community came together recently in support of the Ben Weider Educational Center/Chabad Seminary of Canada ongoing efforts to help young Israeli women following the worst atrocity to
Pandemic lockdowns, a collapsed ceiling, and — mostly —an eviction notice prompted Le Cagibi’s closure announcement
Article content There’s a sandwich I’ve been dreaming about for years. Spicy Hungarian salami on a fresh, soft cheese bun, with lettuce, tomatoes, extra pickles — the whole thing fairly dripping with mayonnaise and yellow mustard. That was my sandwich at Boulangerie Clarke, the beloved Mile End shop that closed in 2015. How exactly this came to be my sandwich, I couldn’t tell you. In the regular course of things, it never occurs to me to eat spicy salami. But that’s what I chose off the board the first time I was there, and I don’t believe in messing with a good thing. Even with e...
Article content There’s a David versus Goliath battle going in the heart of Mile End, and it looks like Goliath has the upper hand in this all-too-familiar tale of gentrification in a hot hip neighbourhood. Goliath in this case is Montreal real-estate firm Shiller-Lavy Realties, which owns several buildings on St-Viateur St., and the underdog fighting for its life is the venerable independent bookstore S. W. Welch. The used bookstore is currently paying $2,000 a month in rent and owner Stephen Welch last week told Schiller-Lavy, his landlord, that he could afford to pay about 25 per cent mo...
Written by Jowdy Kane Funeral Home Dr. Jack G. Shiller, a longtime Westport resident, died in his home in Redding, CT on January 13, 2021. He was 92. Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1928, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1947 and from the Columbia Medical School in 1952. After training at Bellevue Hospital and The Babies Hospital in New York City, he was board certified in pediatrics and served in his profession for several decades. He established his own private practice in Westport before forming Willows Pediatric Group in 1973 with Dr. Albert Beasley. He...