… Alleged gang leader Richard Goodridge covers his face as he exits a hearing at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday, April 18, 2012.Photograph by: Allen McInnis , THE GAZETTE
MONTREAL – An alleged street gang leader who was the reason Montreal police shut down a downtown strip club two years ago has been ordered to go on trial on charges he used a firearm to threaten a former employee.
After hearing evidence during a preliminary inquiry Wednesday morning, Quebec Court Judge Manon Ouimet determined there was enough evidence to proceed in a case where Richard Goodridge, 43, is charged with using a firearm to threaten a man who worked at the former Club Temptation, a strip bar that used to be on Ste. Catherine St. W.
The Régie des Alcools, des courses et des jeux revoked the barâs licence after Montreal police requested the site be shut. The police feared Goodridge would be targeted in a response to a shooting at a clothing store in Old Montreal in March 2010 in which someone tried to kill reputed street gang leader Ducarme Joseph but killed two of his associates instead in a hail of bullets.

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Bill in wild conservative country Data is data. Privacy is privacy. If Quebec wants a long gun registry, the feds should let them have the Quebec data. All other data should be destroyed. Quebec doesn’t need data on Albertans.
geebee Nuts to the judge. Nuts to the followers of such drivel.
steve
perfect picture of these two cronies making the announcement. first you have bernier who is famous for forgetting top secret documents at his stripper girlfriends appartment and vic toews the cheat who would like all information of all sorts destroyed. then you get comments from certain con supporters on this site saying throw everybody away for 25 to life and kill the rest of them. what a bubbly group of wonderful people these reformers are. god help us all.

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… If it comes to fruition, it would be a fantastic project for downtown Montreal,” said Jeffrey Berkowitz, president of Aurora Realty Consultants, a retail and real estate specialist.
The project – presented to the borough Tuesday night and is contingent on city hall approval – is the brainchild of Selfridges Group Ltd., which owns Ogilvy, along with Montreal-based partner and developer Devimco Inc. The Quebec Federation of Labour’s Fonds de solidarité is a financial partner.
“It’s the first step in a very long process,” said Jean-Sébastien Lamoureux, a Montreal-based spokesperson for Selfridges.
The 545,000-square-foot project was at one point designed to reach all the way to de Maisonneuve Blvd.
But the owner of Wanda’s strip club at the corner of de Maisonneuve refused multimillion-dollar offers to sell his building to developers, so the project is going ahead without him, sources told The Gazette.

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… If it comes to fruition, it would be a fantastic project for downtown Montreal,â said Jeffrey Berkowitz, president of Aurora Realty Consultants, a retail and real estate specialist.
The project â presented to the borough Tuesday night and is contingent on city hall approval â is the brainchild of Selfridges Group Ltd., which owns Ogilvy, along with Montreal-based partner and developer Devimco Inc. The Quebec Federation of Labourâs Fonds de solidarité is a financial partner.
âœItâs the first step in a very long process,â said Jean-Sébastien Lamoureux, a Montreal-based spokesperson for Selfridges.
The 545,000-square-foot project was at one point designed to reach all the way to de Maisonneuve Blvd.
But the owner of Wandaâs strip club at the corner of de Maisonneuve refused multi-million-dollar offers to sell his building to developers, so the project is going ahead without him, sources told The Gazette.

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MONTREAL — About 20 men wearing Rock Machine colours were spotted at a Montreal strip club Sunday morning in the latest indication the biker gang might be regrouping in the province.
Gang members were spotted at the Amazones club in the city’s west end. Police spokesman Raphael Bergeron said detectives met the individuals, and there was no violence.
The Rock Machine is the sworn enemy of the Hells Angels, and the two gangs battled it out in Eastern Canada in the 1990s and early 2000s.
A 2001 police raid ended the war, but not before 160 people were killed, including adult bystanders and an 11-year-old boy who was hit by shrapnel in a 1995 truck bombing.
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Ten members from Quebec, Manitoba and British Columbia were arrested last July at Chez Pare, a famous downtown strip club.

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MONTREAL — About 20 men wearing Rock Machine colours were spotted at a Montreal strip club Sunday morning in the latest indication the biker gang might be regrouping in the province.
Gang members were spotted at the Amazones club in the city’s west end. Police spokesman Raphael Bergeron said detectives met the individuals, and there was no violence.
The Rock Machine is the sworn enemy of the Hells Angels, and the two gangs battled it out in Eastern Canada in the 1990s and early 2000s.
A 2001 police raid ended the war, but not before 160 people were killed, including adult bystanders and an 11-year-old boy who was hit shrapnel in a 1995 truck bombing.
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Ten members from Quebec, Manitoba and British Columbia were arrested last July at Chez Pare, a famous downtown strip club.

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MONTREAL â A man, who came to be known as the “Plateau rapist” for a series of sexual assaults he committed in Montreal in a little over a month during the summer of 2004, is scheduled to be released from a penitentiary soon.
Roberto Manuel Belnavis, 36, is scheduled to reach his statutory release date, the two-thirds mark of his sentence, sometime around April 5. He has been behind bars since his arrest in August 2004 when the Montreal police linked him to five sexual assaults involving teenagers and young women Belnavis stalked on the streets of Montreal after spending hours in strip bars. The attacks took place during early morning hours in the Plateau area of Montreal. Belnavis’s crimes terrified neighbourhoods in the city as the police tried to figure out who was behind the violent attacks.

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MONTREAL – A man, who came to be known as the “Plateau rapist” for a series of sexual assaults he committed in Montreal in a little over a month during the summer of 2004, is scheduled to be released from a penitentiary soon.
Roberto Manuel Belnavis, 36, is scheduled to reach his statutory release date, the two-thirds mark of his sentence, sometime around April 5. He has been behind bars since his arrest in August 2004 when the Montreal police linked him to five sexual assaults involving teenagers and young women Belnavis stalked on the streets of Montreal after spending hours in strip bars. The attacks took place during early morning hours in the Plateau area of Montreal. Belnavis’s crimes terrified neighbourhoods in the city as the police tried to figure out who was behind the violent attacks.

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MONTREAL â A man, who came to be known as the “Plateau rapist” for a series of sexual assaults he committed in Montreal in a little over a month during the summer of 2004, is scheduled to be released from a penitentiary soon.
Roberto Manuel Belnavis, 36, is scheduled to reach his statutory release date, the two-thirds mark of his sentence, sometime around April 5. He has been behind bars since his arrest in August 2004 when the Montreal police linked him to five sexual assaults involving teenagers and young women Belnavis stalked on the streets of Montreal after spending hours in strip bars. The attacks took place during early morning hours in the Plateau area of Montreal. Belnavis’s crimes terrified neighbourhoods in the city as the police tried to figure out who was behind the violent attacks.

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MONTREAL- A man who came to be known as the Plateau Rapist for a series of five sexual assaults he committed in a little over a month during the summer of 2004 is scheduled to be released from a penitentiary soon.
Roberto Manuel Belnavis, 36, is scheduled to reach his statutory release date, the two-thirds mark of his sentence, sometime around April 5. He has been behind bars since his arrest in August 2004 when the Montreal police linked him to five sexual assaults on teenagers and young women Belnavis stalked on the streets of Montreal after spending hours in strip bars. The attacks took place during early morning hours in the Plateau Mont Royal and Rosemont/Petite Patrie districts. Belnavisâs crimes terrified neighbourhoods in the city as the police tried to figure out who was behind the violent attacks. In one case a woman was severely beaten before she was sexually assaulted and another victim when pregnant when Belnavis raped her.

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