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Canadian Olympic diving champ Alexandre Despatie shares his retirement...
When I initially arranged a few weeks ago to talk to Canadian Olympic diving champion Alexandre Despatie at the June 9 fifth annual Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital (JRH) “Rehabili-Thon,” in Laval I...
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Miriam Sultan Laine's courageous story of fighting Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
A dynamic group of young professionals have come together again this year to carry on the Taste for Life torch. Set for June 18 (7 p.m.)at Espace Reunion (6600 Hutchison), this annual Israel Cancer...
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Lyric Theatre's Hallelujah Broadway just outstanding
The Lyric Theatre Singers are one extraordinary group. There is a reason why their annual concerts at the Oscar Peterson Hall in NDG always sell out and end with standing ovations. This fine oiled...
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P.F. Chang's opens up at Carrefour Laval
After much anticipation,P.F. Chang’s China Bistrohas set up shop at the Carrefour Laval, located next to the Keg and close by Crate &Barrel at the Highway 440 side of the large and popular...
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Lola and the Creen Machine Shuffling Over from Buffalo
Dynamic 22 year old assistant director and musical composerLaura Lonskiand her team from the Francis Bacon Experimented were supposed to shuffled over here from Buffalo to bring their production of...
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Now that TSN 690 has been saved what will happen next?
I think it is time that Montreal sports fan raise a glass for Tom Pentefountas, vice-chairman, Broadcasting at the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) .The CRTC has taken its...
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Laura Casella leaving CJAD for City Montreal Breakfast TV
Laura CasellaCity Montreal has rounded out its on air team for the new Breakfast Television Show, which will debut here towards the end of August. Laura Casella is leaving her post as morning reporter...
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Travel guru Gerda Rosner will be missed
She was 91 years of age, but when I heard the news that extraordinary travel guru Gerda Rosner had passed away in late June I was still taken aback. You see Gerda was hardly your typical senior....
View ArticleIs Restaurant Antico Martini closed for good?
The message on their answering machine says, "Closed for vacation," but sources close to the scene tell me that one of the West End's most popular restaurants may not reopen. Antico Martini on...
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City Montreal's Breakfast Television adds charismatic Verdon-Diamond to their...
To say that Catherine Verdon-Diamond made a good impression on me is an understatement. Until recently, she was CBC TV Montreal’s weeknight 11 p.m. news weather forecaster, a post she only began last...
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Day camp enjoys a truly multicultural experience
From the files of Rabbi Menachem Posner.Over 800 Jewish children from all across the Montreal area joined together to laugh and sing with a Mexican comic and enjoy the antics of two French-Canadian...
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Two hundred potential candidates in line for New AM 600 Radio Station
TTP Media may not have finalized plans for a launch date yet of its English news talk radio station at 600 on the AM dial, but that hasn’t stopped the man pegged by Paul Tietolman to run the show from...
View ArticleAuditions set for WISTA's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
WISTA, the West Island Student Theatre Association, is a non-profit organization founded in December 2006 as a way to allow post-secondary students to interact and perform in the wonderful world of...
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A tough loss for the Als, but memorable experience for one young fan and his...
The August 8, 2013 game at Percival Molson Stadium pitting the host Montreal Alouettes against the defending Grey Cup champion Toronto Argonauts had so many things going in its favor.-An original...
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Suggestions for new TSN 690 Program Director Chris Bury
Chris Bury says he is excited to get to work on his new project as program director for TSN 690 Radio, while retaining his role as brand and news director for CJAD. I have known Chris since he was a...
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Youthful Pierrefonds Dollard riding chief hopes Liberals can bounce back
In the last federal election, the NDP wave scored surprising victories in many ridings across Quebec, including long time Liberal stronghold Pierrefonds-Dollard when Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe's upset...
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City Montreal set to debut its new Breakfast Television Program
Jeffrey Feldman and Jordan Schwartz The folks at City Montreal unveiled their gorgeous new downtown studiotoday for their much anticipated Breakfast Television launch on Monday, August 26 at 6 a.m....
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City`s Breakfast Television makes impressive debut
City Montreal's Breakfast Television made its much anticipated debut on Monday, August 26 and I must say it was very impressive. Co-hosts Alexandre Despatie and Joanne Vrakas looked as if they had...
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Wayne Bews heads to CTV Montreal
One of the really good guys on the local broadcast scene has landed on his feet.When the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) formally ruled in favor of Bell Media acquiring...
View ArticleNew English-language community TV channel planned
Videotron has announced its intention to create a new English-language community television channel, MYtv, which will become the voice and reflection of the Greater Montreal anglophone community. To...
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