… The province’s liquor board has decided to permanently suspend the liquor licence of the Temptation ClubPhotograph by: Marcos Townsend, The Gazette
MONTREAL – The province’s liquor board has decided to permanently suspend the liquor licence of the Temptation Club, formerly known as the Château du Sexe strip club, on Ste. Catherine St. W.
The Régie des alcools had suspended the club’s licence temporarily in April after Montreal police expressed fear of an “imminent reply” to a gangland-style shooting that had killed two and injured two others in Old Montreal in March.
Investigators believe Richard Goodridge is a part-owner of the club and might be the target of a reprisal for the shooting at the Flawnego boutique on St. Jacques St. W.
The summons issued by the liquor board said Goodridge “describes himself as the owner, director general or promoter,” and receives known criminals there.

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The National Parole Board had the option of imposing conditions to what remains of Wadsworth’s prison sentence. After recently reviewing Wadsworth’s file, board member Michel Pallascio decided to impose six.
One requires Wadsworth to keep following a treatment program for his sexual deviancy. Despite having completed sex offender programs during his first sentence, Wadsworth was found to exhibit the same deviant profile when evaluated in September 2009.
According to a written summary of the parole board decision: “(Wadsworth exhibits) non-exclusive bisexual pedophilia and sadomasochistic paraphilia and you appear to be sexually aroused when in both dominant and submissive postures. You also exhibit obsessive compulsive personality traits.”
The board was also informed that following his first sentence, Wadsworth “used the services of more than 200 prostitutes, both men and women.” Because of this, one of his release conditions requires him not to associate with prostitutes.

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The National Parole Board had the option of imposing conditions to what remains of Wadsworth’s prison sentence. After recently reviewing Wadsworth’s file, board member Michel Pallascio, decided to impose six.
One requires Wadsworth to keep following a treatment program for his sexual deviancy. Despite having completed sex offender programs during his first sentence, Wadsworth was found to exhibit the same deviant profile when evaluated in September 2009.
According to a written summary of the parole board decision: “(Wadsworth exhibits) non-exclusive bisexual pedophilia and sado-masochistic paraphilia and you appear to be sexually aroused when in both dominant and submissive postures. You also exhibit obsessive compulsive personality traits.”
The board was also informed that following his first sentence Wadsworth “used the services of more than 200 prostitutes, both men and women.” Because of this one of his release conditions requires him not to associate with prostitutes.

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But leisure is hardly the only reason to be out and about after hours. I’m talking, of course, of the people who work through the night so that others can keep playing. Manning the graveyard shift is a way of life for many, and it’s an experience with which I’m personally familiar. To help pay my way through university -not to mention to bankroll my extravagant Chef Boyardee/ Kraft Dinner student diet -I worked the overnight shift at a cheque-cashing outlet at St. Hubert and Jean Talon Sts. for a couple of years
What I remember most isn’t so much the freaks -the dopey drunks, hostile vagrants and silly scammers, who would periodically walk in hoping to make mischief -but the thoroughly decent people who streamed in regularly: Bar and restaurant employees, shift workers, or the occasional stripper (seriously), who would come in to cash a paycheque before heading home to sleep while most Montrealers are just getting up.

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Frédéric Paquin, vice-president of El Diablo and an occasional actor in his films, escorted me through the facilities where they shoot their movies. The studio consists of a spacious foyer, a room for costumes and make-up, a bedroom set, and an under-construction stage complete with stripper poles.
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Porn star Vandal Vixen brought colour to the group with her irrepressible yet easygoing commentary and fantastic hair. “One of the most popular girls in Quebec,” according to Paquin, Vixen began her work behind the camera at Erobec Productions and studied video editing and broadcasting in school, before she started working as a stripper. After a Christmas party where she did a live show with a friend “for fun,” she became more interested in being in front of the camera. When she was asked to be in a movie she said yes, and now, seven years later, she has not looked back. Vandal has filmed up to 300 scenes throughout her career, in addition to feature shows and the live appearances she makes at various clubs and events.

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St. Bruno is kind of my mythical town. I’ve always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns. I’ve also had a chance with St. Bruno to make my own town. I didn’t really want to write about a real place so, with these books, I get to invent a town. And there’s no point in inventing your own town if it’s going to be a place where not much happens.
The Bayou Trilogy is set in the fictional St. Bruno parish and follows detective Rene Shade as he makes his way through this underworld full of pimps, and crooks, and other unsavory types. Although the main character in Winter’s Bone, Ree Dolly, is a teenage girl, she’s also making her way through her own version of a seedy underworld—albeit a more rural one. Are Ree and Rene cut from the same cloth,?

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