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Martin C. BarrySocial housing – specifically the lack of it in many areas of Villeray/St-Michel/Parc Extension – dominated a good deal of the borough council’s November public meeting last Tuesday evening at VSP headquarters on Ogilvy Ave. in Park Extension.Social housing crisisNot only...

Martin C. BarryThe Himalaya Seniors of Quebec continued a theme begun several months ago, with a third conference/seminar held at the William Hingston Centre on Sept. 29 on discrimination and racism and the possible impact they have on people living in highly...

Martin C. BarryPapineau NDP candidate Christine Paré, whose main adversary is Justin Trudeau, took major swipes at the incumbent Liberal Prime Minister during her campaign launch last week – at one point even calling him “a liar” during an interview.Proudly feministAccording to a...

Martin C. BarryMembers of the Shree Ramji Temple on Durocher St. in Park Extension had a chance to hear an election pitch delivered by Papineau Conservative candidate Sophie Veilleux during a gathering at the temple on Sept. 14.A sales professionalAccording to a...

Martin C. BarryA remarkably youthful and lively Maria Arcudi Simon marked her 100th birthday at the Habitation Communautaire Hellénique de Montréal on Hutchison St. last week with some friends, some music and a healthy dose of wine.During a gathering of residents who...

Martin C. BarryOfficials from three levels of government were among the dignitaries who turned out on Sept. 20 for the official opening of the new Science Complex at the University of Montreal’s MIL campus in the former Outremont train yard on the...

The VSP borough council holds meetings on the second floor at 405 Ogilvy Ave. in Park Extension.Martin C. BarryDelivering her monthly report on new developments in the borough, Villeray/St-Michel/Parc Extension Borough Mayor Giuliana Fumagalli said during the Sept. 3 borough council...

Martin C. BarryOver the objections of a group of people from Park Extension concerned about a lack of social housing, the Borough of Villeray/St-Michel/Parc Extension’s demolition committee gave its permission last week to tear down an aging former bakery on Querbes Ave....

Martin C. BarryHundreds of people of Pakistani origin from all over Montreal gathered on Querbes Ave. and in Howard Park in Park Extension on Sunday Aug. 17 for festivities to mark the 72nd anniversary of their country’s national independence.A time to celebrateThere was...

Martin C. BarryPark Extension’s Querbes Ave. resonated with joy and jubilation on the afternoon of Aug. 18 as people of Indian heritage from everywhere in the Montreal region gathered to take part in a festive parade to mark the day more than...