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Have you ever wondered about the readiness score on your smart watch? New to the latest Apple Watch 12 and the Ultra 4 and a long-standing feature in...
A weekend away from voting day, there’s only one real Quebec election question: Will PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon get his majority and...
There would undoubtedly be a roar, a hue and cry from every politician in Quebec, and certainly from our federal government, if Ontario or Manitoba...
“Wellness influencers” are crawling all over social media platforms. Some, like psychologist Jordan Peterson, who promotes a carnivore diet, or...
I was in the back seat of a cab making small talk with my driver when, unprompted, he pointed to a campaign poster on a passing pole and told me he...
There are no surefire ways to succeed on Montreal’s ever-volatile restaurant scene. Competition is fierce. Customers are fickle. Making it to 10...
Culture is both a hot topic and a non-topic in the countdown to election day in Quebec on Monday. From standing up to Netflix and other tech giants to...
On Sunday afternoon, I headed down to the advance poll in my riding to exercise my rights. Not only did I get a jump on voting in the Oct. 5 election,...
Quebec and Alberta may have more in common than anyone suspected — at least when it comes to seceding from Canada. In both provinces, over 70 per...
In surfing slang, a “wipeout” is when someone gets knocked off the board and comes crashing down. Premier Christine Fréchette’s Coalition...
The most telling 46 seconds of the five main party leaders’ appearance on the popular Quebec talk show Tout le monde en parle Sunday night came near...
Ever since technology made tallying our steps so effortless, it’s become an easy way to measure daily activity. It’s also been a boom to research,...
Legendary Radio-Canada news anchor Bernard Derome is synonymous with the iconic phrase “Si la tendance se maintient …” (“If the trend...
The world’s largest global biking championship is overwhelming Montreal streets: 1,000 competitors from more than 80 counties along with 500,000...
There is no question that the movie I have referred to in my lectures most often is The Wizard of Oz. It finds its way into my lectures on drugs,...
Over the course of three televised election debates (all in French, none in English), Quebecers watched the five main party leaders square off on a...
No guff: Jay Baruchel goes Rocketman — and not in the Elton John jukebox musical sense — in his latest venture, The Stunt Driver. And this...
The buses are back on the campaign road. After three exhausting TV debates, party leaders are back at touring the province in an attempt to meet and...
Since she was elected mayor of the dairy farming hamlet of Godmanchester nearly a year ago, Judith Fouquet has only been allowed to send out a single...
Montreal may soon find itself the butt of jokes for its handling of a new bylaw making it an offence to insult city employees, including police...
Prime Minister Mark Carney has spent the last year and a half asking Canadians to embrace his “Canada Strong” agenda. We’ve all heard the...
With less than two weeks to go until the general election, Quebecers are giving pollsters fits in a five-way race that will go down to the wire....
Recent headlines about hot drinks causing esophageal cancer probably scared a lot of people. After all, a tripling of cancer risk is not negligible...
Vandals hit the wrong target when they smashed the windows and scrawled “burn the data centres” on the headquarters of Mila, Montreal’s flagship...
I am 64 years old and although I have been using weights for a long time now (25-ish years), I still wish to make sure that I am training with...
You never know what can prompt one of these columns. It was while looking for artists who may have been affected by using toxic materials that I came...
I was invited onto CBC Radio One’s The Bridge last week to talk about the 25th anniversary of POP Montreal with host Nantali Indongo, POP co-founder...
Each of Quebec’s main party leaders entered this week’s French language debates with a particular objective. The Parti Québécois’ Paul...
Admittedly, it doesn’t take much to get Fabienne Colas pumped. But the ever-exuberant founder and president of the Montreal International Black Film...
I’m a theatre buff. Over the years, I’ve seen incredible plays performed in Montreal, New York City and across the pond. The longest piece of...
The second of three televised debates wrapped up Wednesday night without any clear winner among Quebec’s five main party leaders — and without an...
For a movement supposedly wandering the political wilderness, the Canadian left made a lot of noise in downtown Toronto Monday night. Hundreds of...
Quebecers were treated to the first of three French-language debates Tuesday night. There was an excess of prepared answers and very little new was...
Like the once-illustrious film festival he launched nearly 50 years ago, Serge Losique has faded to black. The wildly ambitious and stubbornly...
It’s another painfully boring election season in Quebec. There, I said it. I know the stakes are high. I’m paying attention. But my goodness,...
A series of existential matters has been competing for the attention of voters and dominating the discourse of campaigning party leaders ahead of the...
Most of us take balance for granted — until we start struggling to pull on our pants or take off our boots without tipping over. But it’s not just...
After all the anticipation, political manoeuvring, polling and punditry of the past two years, the Quebec election will finally play itself out in the...
What a bizarre Quebec election we face. Quebecers are voting on whether to leave Canada exactly when they’re falling in love with it. It’s a...
Our history can be painted with some broad strokes. We had the Ice Age, the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages,...
My children were slightly startled and mildly embarrassed as their parents were moved to tears, standing before the reflecting pool at Ground Zero in...
If anyone had told Kimmy Chedel 25 years ago that one day her life would focus on building schools and saving black rhinos in South Africa, she would...
Just a few weeks ago, Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon was in good spirits. His party was way ahead in the polls, on its way to...
If you suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), then a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine was your only practical treatment option....
It’s official: Canada’s counter tariffs kicked in at 12 a.m. Tuesday, slamming an eclectic list of goods that includes dairy products, cosmetics,...
In triggering an election late last month, Coalition Avenir Québec Leader Christine Fréchette declared that her main adversary in seeking a new...
As Quebec’s party leaders criss-cross the province, there’s a lot of talk on the campaign trail about how to offset the high cost of living for...
John Cleese is heading back to town for his latest tour, Not Dead Yet! Few can outdo the Minister of Silly Walks, the co-founder of the...
A week into the election campaign and with one month to go, it’s still too early to call. Within an eight-day stretch starting Sept. 15, three...
Maggie and Kate Fox’s parents didn’t know what to make of the strange rappings coming from their teenage daughters’ bedroom that memorable...