Metropolitan News (Montreal)
Metropolitan News is a Montreal Gazette blog about... Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.

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Metropolitan News (Montreal) CP's Holiday Trains, an annual tradition, will be in Montreal this week.

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This is a Montreal Gazette blog about Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.
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Metropolitan News (Montreal) ...and the award for best use of montreal landmarks in an advertisement goes to...

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This is a Montreal Gazette blog about Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.
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Metropolitan News (Montreal) Ex-Montrealer gives intimate portrait of child poverty in Canada, 20 years after the House of Commons pledged to do something about the problem.

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This is a Montreal Gazette blog about Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.
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Metropolitan News (Montreal) Tear down the Bell Centre? Really? Mulling over Windsor Station's past and future

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This is a Montreal Gazette blog about Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.
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Metropolitan News (Montreal) Heritage activist Michael Fish once helped save Windsor Station from the wrecker's ball. Now he wants to save it from the AMT.

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This is a Montreal Gazette blog about Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.
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Metropolitan News (Montreal) Where in the world is Windsor Station's Lord Mount Stephen? Calgary.

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This is a Montreal Gazette blog about Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.
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Metropolitan News (Montreal) What has CP done with statue that once greeted visitors to Montreal's historic Windsor Station?

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This is a Montreal Gazette blog about Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.
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Metropolitan News (Montreal) Egg-throwing nationalists and provocatively dressed protesters who greeted Prince Charles in Montreal make headlines in Paris Match.

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This is a Montreal Gazette blog about Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.
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Metropolitan News (Montreal) Contemplating historic Windsor Station's past, present and future, via photos.

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This is a Montreal Gazette blog about Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.
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Metropolitan News (Montreal) Burlesque dancers post titillating YouTube video for Prince Charles' visit to Montreal, hoping he'll help them save our red-light district.

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This is a Montreal Gazette blog about Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.
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Now this is my kind of fundraising event. Some local cupcake lovers are organizing a "cupcake camp" to raise funds for Kids Help Phone . "Cupcake Camp Montreal is a fun fundraising event and a delicious celebration of the small, good things...(read more)
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Metropolitan News (Montreal) Almost 90, Second World War veteran Malcolm Young still visits schools to talk about the war and sells poppies to raise funds for the Royal Canadian Legion.

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This is a Montreal Gazette blog about Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.
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Metropolitan News (Montreal) Some Americans are wearing their love of Montreal and Quebec on their cars.

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This is a Montreal Gazette blog about Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.
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Metropolitan News (Montreal) Montreal West tradition canned. The town’s annual Garbage Bowl, a New Year’s Day tradition that celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, has been cancelled.

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This is a Montreal Gazette blog about Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.
Michael Tripper
Michael Tripper
That is shocking and a great disappointment. Sad.
November 5 at 1:09pm
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Metropolitan News (Montreal) Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano are at it again.
The two Montreal artists, who made a splash with photos showing creative uses of our city's potholes, are now making headlines in New York City.

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This is a Montreal Gazette blog about Montreal, the 499-square-kilometre island we call home. My name is Andy Riga. I'll be your blogger.