C.D.N.-N.D.G. mayor puts 'slumlord' on notice after rooming-house fire

The borough of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce is promising to prosecute landlords who subdivide apartments into numerous units to maximize profits after a building fire over the weekend shed light on the practice.
Twenty-one residents were forced to flee their residences Sunday morning when a fire broke out in the third-storey of a complex of tightly spaced apartment units on Linton Ave. in Côte-des-Neiges. Residents reported groping their way down smoke-filled staircases,