Montreal's Irish MafiaFrom the early days as hired muscle for the Italian and Jewish mafias, tunnelling into bank vaults in the '50s and '60s, to the legendary truck heists and bank stick ups in the '70s, Montreal's Irish mafia otherwise known as the West End Gang has managed to pull off some of the most daring and complicated robberies and smuggling operations in Canadian history. Criminals of every stripe inhabit these pages, from violent stick up men and drug dealers

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Body and Soul” in The Stream

surrounded by people who have no idea what she’s endured

diverse residents of the shelter—Lucia

fundamental

The uplifting

Now he adds his own story to the library of great coming-of-age memoirs: The Art of Resistance is a powerful saga

“I don’t want to be remembered

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Then Daisy is kidnapped

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Armed with the knowledge that her heart might not be hers alone