Burning Bylaw
by Joel Ceausu
If you haven’t heard by now, your neighbour or a city inspector will tell you soon enough.
A new Montreal bylaw adopted last month sets rules governing the...
The West Island Palliative Care Residence is launching a new Young Ambassadors initiative
The West Island Palliative Care Residence is starting a new initiative to engage young people (18-35 years old) in the community and for them to learn more about the...
Caroline Tison to leave WICS end of June 2016
West Island Community Shares announces that Executive Director, Caroline Tison, has recently informed the Board of Directors that she will be stepping down from her position at the end...
Taxman cometh, and cometh… Levies outpace necessities
by Joel Ceausu
If you're like most people, you probably suspected it all along, even joked about it come tax time, bill time, paycheque time heck anytime at all. But...
Is This Your Yellow Brick Road? Are the goals you are working on yours?
by Tammy Rowland
Does it feel like the road is paved in gold and it seems all you have to do is dream it and it becomes your reality?
Or is it...
Beaconsfield’s Bernie Kelly Goulem celebrates history and art by opening her home to the...
By Rhonda Massad
Artist Bernie Kelly Goulem moved to Beaconsfield on Kirkwood Avenue in 1967 into what was once a summer cottage for the wealthy Montrealers. For the past two...
Gordon Bell the can man gets his bike stolen
by Rhonda Massad
On September 9, at approximately 6:30 p.m. Gordon Bell better known as the can man or the recycle man, had his bike stolen outside the Metro Grocery...
Summer Debt – Blowing budgets
by Joel Ceausu
As summer delivers a slew of hot, humid days to remind us that it won’t leave quietly, it won’t be long until Canadians are again groaning about...
“The right to be let alone…”
As printed in The Suburban on September 2, 2015
By Beryl Wajsman,
Editor and Chief of The Suburban Newspaper
Elected officials need not all be lawyers. In fact, sometimes it is...
My autistic son Michael’s lesson to me
by Joanne Giacomini,
I have developed a small skin infection that is quite painful. With antibiotics, Advil and rest, I know it will get better in time. I’m not surprised that...