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Impresario nonpareil Donald K. Donald died Monday, a month before his 83rd birthday. But his legacy will last eons among music fans of a bygone era....
Lots of ink has already been spilled on the impact of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s historic majority: the implications for the Liberal agenda, for...
I was an exchange student living in France when Kim Campbell was running for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives back in 1993. Since my...
I’m 70 and I want to write a will and testament. My husband and I come from a country where writing a will is not common. After 30 years in Canada,...
Judith Nemes Black’s earliest memories are steeped in trauma. She remembers being forced from her home to move to a ghetto; waking up in the night...
Sometimes basic math and politics are inextricably linked. There are 343 federal ridings in Canada, which means a party must win at least 172 seats to...
On Jan. 7, 1921, the audience at London’s Finsbury Park Empire theatre was introduced to what was destined to become the most famous illusion in...
As titles go, a documentary called Speechless — dealing with battles over free speech, among other hot-button issues raging on college campuses —...
On Sunday, the Coalition Avenir Québec will have a new leader — and Quebec a new premier. It’s one of those peculiar features of our...
Over the Easter weekend, my brother-in-law turned to artificial intelligence for advice on how to speed up cooking the roast we were late putting in...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is going after infant formula. The project called “Operation Stork Speed” will review infant formula and make it “as close...
You know casual misogyny has got out of hand in Montreal when a young man feels entitled to spew sexist, degrading filth at a female police officer to...
Céline Dion announced on Monday that she will be doing a series of concerts at a Paris arena beginning in September. Dion could have launched her...
We Quebecers are among the happiest people in the world, again. We just finished among the top six spots in the World Happiness Report, the second...
In just over a week, Quebec will have a new premier — likely Christine Fréchette, set to become only the second woman in the province’s history...
The Juno Awards ceremony on Sunday completely ignored Quebec, with the francophone album trophy handed out at an earlier gala, almost no Quebec...
In my graduate school days, I synthesized a number of simple carbohydrates. One of the problems was getting the products to crystallize because...
My first encounter with the importance of oil was in 1962. I had just watched an episode of the witty sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies that began with a...
“We must trust our democracy. Elected representatives and the electorate are also guardians of the Constitution, and we must assume that the...
Description: Warm, green, flowery, hopeful. Last seen: Who can remember? Now is the discontent of our winter. Last Saturday was supposed to be the...
The fate of Quebec’s controversial secularism law, Bill 21, is now in the hands of Canada’s highest court. But there is much more at stake....
The NDP put its best foot forward at last weekend’s convention, and the opening speech by Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew was a highlight. Deeply...
It’s not just about the money lost because of the seemingly endless roadwork. The financial cost of last year’s seven-month street construction...
Months after trying to forcibly assign family physicians to all Quebec patients under the coercive but now defunct Bill 2, the government says that...
This past week highlighted the sort of emotional ambivalence around language issues that has become all too familiar to many English-speaking...
This latest controversy around CEO Michael Rousseau could easily have been avoided, but wasn't — as if French matters less.
Nearby Venus Fleurs reports a staggering 85 per cent loss of revenue, with issues affecting customer access as well as deliveries from suppliers.
Language politics should not overshadow the deaths of two pilots, but Michael Rousseau should have seen this coming when he recorded a condolence...
Fifteen projects will be getting grants from the English Language Arts Network in the third year of a four-year project.
Over-the-counter products for sale at pharmacies may alleviate symptoms and make you feel less crummy, but they are not cures.
A ceremony slated for Wednesday was cancelled over safety concerns. "I think that it is their obligation as an educational institution to put students...
The filter for booking medical appointments is being rolled out to clinics as doctors raise concern it's a time suck, not a time saver.
With all my healthy habits, I could live to 125. But when I subtract all the unhealthy habits, 29?
This is just one of the thousands of chemicals to which we are regularly exposed.
Surely, politicians at all levels of government can do more to challenge the status quo as Montrealers, Quebecers and Canadians are being pummelled.
The stabbing death of the owner of a Plateau dépanneur last week was predictable. Could it have been preventable?
It is possible to be relieved by the defeat of an authoritarian ruler and recoil at the violence and conduct of those claiming credit for it.
“Half the people who book my tours are from Montreal,” Thom Seivewright says. “People who want to know very specific things. It’s allowed me...
Donald Trump seems to be experiencing the same type of shock that Russian President Vladimir Putin went through when he realized his vision of an...
It is the only jurisdiction in Canada with a formal legal framework dedicated to controlled designations in food. Is it really necessary?