Internet Archive hosts Mirror back issues
The Internet Archive now has the Montreal Mirror archive from 1997 to 2010. I fear that everything the Mirror posted and printed since changing to WordPress in September 2010 might have been zorched.
The archive is also still available on the old site but no way to know how long that will be up.
Hamza 01:16 on 2012/07/03 Permalink
Beautiful
Hamza 01:34 on 2012/07/03 Permalink
Also Google cache should have all the relevant recent links. You know to things like this – INSECT: Mind-boggling city contracts The day after construction magnate and accused fraudster Tony Accurso’s name was raised at the Charbonneau commission, which is investigating the province’s allegedly hopelessly corrupt construction industry, city hall found itself handing Accurso a plump $17-million worth of city contracts. Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay said that provincial laws designed to curb this sort of thing are toothless, and the city had no choice but to award the contracts to a company owned by Accurso. Meanwhile, the small group of contractors who allegedly control the construction trade in the province carry on. That’s just great. Quebec’s infrastructure is a laughing stock, the city’s coming apart at the seams, construction drags on seemingly forever—and those said to be responsible are getting even richer off it. ‘
Kate 10:00 on 2012/07/03 Permalink
What search request gets this material? Is there any way of building a script that could extract it all?
Hamza 04:03 on 2012/07/04 Permalink
No idea , i just grabbed this from google cache a few days after the shutdown
Tux 10:10 on 2012/07/04 Permalink
Some good samaritan brought the Rant Line back!!
http://www.montrealrant.com/
514-446-1512
Kate 10:03 on 2012/07/10 Permalink
It didn’t last. Alastair Sutherland, aka Al South, told the guy who revived it that it was his intellectual property, and if you go to that site now you’ll see only a slightly grouchy letter saying this is why it was shut down.
I’ll be honest, I also quickly snapped up mtlrantline.com when I saw the beginnings of this, thinking we could maybe hang it off montreal.com, but with this development obviously I’ll let the domain lapse or give it to Mr. Sutherland myself.