Slice is the burly, bearded former Miami strip club bouncer who became the unlikely face of MMA three years ago when CBS began showing his bouts for the EliteXC promotion, which subsequently folded.

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… Honestly, this is really a friendly area,” said pharmacy manager Vincent Clermont. “There are always a lot of people around.”
Clermont said the drugstore has encountered some problems related to the bars in the neighbourhood â namely patrons crossing the street and shoplifting items like perfume â but that for the most part, violence in the area is rare.
“There are lots of police cars that pass by, but they just never seem to be here at the right moment,” he added.
According to the bartender at Chez Pierre, located just a few doors down from the Black Jack, police usually show up in a hurry when they are called.
“They come very fast,” said the bartender, who gave her name only as Céline. “There have been problems with (the Black Jack), and also with the strip club next door.”

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Group upset over strip club’s free-implant contest
Olivier Racicot holds up a Quebec flag at a rally in Montreal Saturday, June 6, 2009. (Graham Hughes / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Updated: Fri Mar. 05 2010 6:42:30 AM The Canadian Press QUEBEC A Quebec strip joint that is organizing a contest with a prize of free breast implants worth up to $7,000 has angered the province’s main women’s group.
But Johanne Dolbec, owner of the Lady Mary Ann, says she will push forward with the idea despite the outrage expressed by the Federation des femmes du Quebec.
“I don’t care what people accuse me of,” Dolbec said Thursday. “This has nothing to do with my own personal beliefs. This is a publicity campaign to get attention.”
Dolbec wants to attract more women customers to the bar.
She says participants will be allowed to sing or dance. They may stay fully clothed, strip partially or take it all off.
The contest begins this Sunday and ends with a big final …

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Families of Canadian soldiers come to Afghanistan to mourn lost loved ones
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Christine Plamondon wanted to see where her boyfriend spent his final days.
Toronto ‘Survivorman’ fan dies testing survival skills near Huntsville
Police have found the body of a Toronto man who wanted to test his survival skills in the woods north of Huntsville, Ont.
Court upholds child murder conviction against Manitoba mother, boyfriend
WINNIPEG – The Manitoba Appeal Court has ruled that the months of beatings, abuse and neglect that led to the death of a five-year-old girl deserve “society’s condemnation” and a first-degree murder conviction.
Women’s federation upset over Quebec strip club’s free-implant contest
QUEBEC – The Quebec Women’s Federation is upset by a contest being organized by one of the province’s strip clubs.

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The transformation of the Main
Owner of Café Cleopatra taking city to court for uprooting “historic area”
By David Adelman
Published: Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Updated: Tuesday, March 2, 2010
From the outside, Café Cleopatra may look like nothing more than a sleazy strip club. But owner John Zoumboulakis has managed to keep the neon lights flashing on this fixture of lower St. Laurent Blvd. for more than a quarter of a century. Soon, however, Zoumboulakis might have to turn off the lights.
For years, the city of Montreal has claimed it wants to revitalize the area known as the Lower Main, Montreal’s historic red-light district. In late 2007, the administration of Mayor Gerald Tremblay began negotiations to tear down the strip and make it part of the Quatier des spectacles. The job was given to the Angus Development Corporation, a non-profit created in the mid-90s to develop an abandoned rail yard in Rosemont.

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Fiery Journal de Montreal columnist Richard Martineau even suggested the PQ wasn’t going far enough in defending Quebec’s identity.
His daily TV show, and column, have become a frequent platform for warnings about threats to Quebec’s language, secular identity, and principle of equality between men and women.
“What will it take to prove . . . to the rest of the world that the nationalist movement doesn’t advocate closure, just self-respect,” he wrote in a column last week.
“How many accommodations have to be made before we stop brandishing the spectre of racism?
“Will we have to open the doors of public schools to creationists? Ask the Bonhomme Carnaval to wear a kirpan? Tell us, Mr. Bouchard: What will it take to make you happy? Letting women in burqas work as strippers at Chez Paree?”

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Fiery Journal de Montreal columnist Richard Martineau even suggested the PQ wasn’t going far enough in defending Quebec’s identity.
His daily TV show, and column, have become a frequent platform for warnings about threats to Quebec’s language, secular identity, and principle of equality between men and women.
“What will it take to prove . . . to the rest of the world that the nationalist movement doesn’t advocate closure, just self-respect,” he wrote in a column last week.
“How many accommodations have to be made before we stop brandishing the spectre of racism?
“Will we have to open the doors of public schools to creationists? Ask the Bonhomme Carnaval to wear a kirpan? Tell us, Mr. Bouchard: What will it take to make you happy? Letting women in burqas work as strippers at Chez Paree?”

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Fiery Journal de Montreal columnist Richard Martineau even suggested the PQ wasn’t going far enough in defending Quebec’s identity.
His daily TV show, and column, have become a frequent platform for warnings about threats to Quebec’s language, secular identity, and principle of equality between men and women.
“What will it take to prove . . . to the rest of the world that the nationalist movement doesn’t advocate closure, just self-respect,” he wrote in a column last week.
“How many accommodations have to be made before we stop brandishing the spectre of racism?
“Will we have to open the doors of public schools to creationists? Ask the Bonhomme Carnaval to wear a kirpan? Tell us, Mr. Bouchard: What will it take to make you happy? Letting women in burqas work as strippers at Chez Paree?”

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Fiery Journal de Montreal columnist Richard Martineau even suggested the PQ wasn’t going far enough in defending Quebec’s identity.
His daily TV show, and column, have become a frequent platform for warnings about threats to Quebec’s language, secular identity, and principle of equality between men and women.
“What will it take to prove . . . to the rest of the world that the nationalist movement doesn’t advocate closure, just self-respect,” he wrote in a column last week.
“How many accommodations have to be made before we stop brandishing the spectre of racism?
“Will we have to open the doors of public schools to creationists? Ask the Bonhomme Carnaval to wear a kirpan? Tell us, Mr. Bouchard: What will it take to make you happy? Letting women in burqas work as strippers at Chez Paree?”

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… 2) Repetitively engaging in these sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviour in response to dysphoric mood states (e.g., anxiety, depression, boredom, irritability).
(3) Repetitively engaging in sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviour in response to stressful life events.
(4) Repetitive but unsuccessful efforts to control or significantly reduce these sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviour.
(5) Repetitively engaging in sexual behaviour while disregarding the risk for physical or emotional harm to self or others.
B. There is clinically significant personal distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning associated with the frequency and intensity of these sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviour.
C. These sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviour are not due to the direct physiological effect of an exogenous substance (e.g., a drug of abuse or a medication).
Specify if: masturbation, pornography, sexual behaviour with consenting adults, cybersex, telephone sex, strip clubs, or others.

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