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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...
Oscar-nominated Montreal filmmaker Kim Nguyen, whose father arrived here from Vietnam in the early ’60s, had until now always avoided making films...
I was recently invited to appear on a national current-affairs radio show to comment on the start of the Quebec election campaign for listeners across...
In its announcement this week that voting information would be sent out in French only, Élections Québec pointed the finger at the Coalition Avenir...
The practice of gerrymandering — or manipulating electoral boundaries to the unfair advantage of one group or party — has a long history in the...
Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada trotted out a well-worn term that Montrealers haven’t heard in a while when she met the press last week to outline the...
“It’s a great time to be a Liberal in Canada.” Those were the words of a smiling Tanveer Shahnawaz, the Liberal candidate in Beaches—East...
Mark Carney is on a roll, and he has just won a spectacular bet. After naming Conservative MP Richard Martel to the Senate, he called a byelection in...
With so many baby boomers complaining of sore hips and knees and the number of diagnosed cases of osteoarthritis on the rise, researchers are actively...
Welcome to Trade War 2.0. It’s like a scene from The Godfather, Canadian edition. But instead of Marlon Brando playing gangster Don Corleone, it’s...
Donald Trump’s approval ratings are hovering near record lows, with his Republican Party seemingly in trouble heading into the November midterm...
There are a number of candidates for humanity’s greatest advances. The control of fire 400,000 years ago may be at the top of the list, because fire...
“But there’s one special thing that this city sweetHas tucked away on a Mile End streetLorded over on an ancient grill‘Served lightning fast’...
The renewed threat of separation, an unhinged U.S. president attacking Canada and a dire economic landscape are the backdrop to a Quebec election the...
Quebec City and Montreal have long had different political leanings. But this fall, voters in both cities appear to be showing a growing interest in...
If time is your biggest obstacle to establishing a regular exercise routine, interval training is the perfect shortcut to getting results. First...
I was at a red light last week in a suburb I don’t often visit — uncertain which way to turn because my GPS had momentarily frozen. The guy behind...
Political calculus. Strategic diversions. Dealing with external forces beyond our control. There are so many twists and turns and circumstances that...
“You can grow enough marijuana in a window box to drive the whole population of the United States stark, staring, raving mad.” Those words...
Every few election cycles, Quebec’s sovereignist and nationalist political parties take pains to reach out to anglophones, reassure us that we...
You know how you occasionally stumble upon an obituary that makes you wish you had met that person while they were still alive? A Gazette obituary for...
When Erol Araf’s basement filled with water in 2024, the Pierrefonds resident spent tens of thousands of dollars above and beyond his insurance...
Two suspicious fires over the weekend have left Montreal on edge. An inferno gutted the popular kosher restaurant Nöam on Décarie Blvd. in the wee...
The stack of unread books beside my bed keeps getting taller and taller. That’s mostly due to my habit of acquiring new novels faster than I can...
Are Quebecers naive and easily manipulated? That’s what Premier Christine Fréchette and her entourage seem to believe. As part of the ongoing...
“You will understand the joke after taking this class.” Although it was many decades ago, I remember my high school Latin teacher’s humorous...
Some 25 years ago, a 12-year-old me was being bullied in high school. I was chubby. I was nerdy. And I was “different” — because back then,...
Two passages stand out from the final report of the Laurent Commission, which examined shortcomings in Quebec’s youth protection system and should...
It’s the gift that has been keeping on giving nightmares to viewers for over six decades. And it’s the gift that has been keeping on giving work...
Five summers ago, Greater Montreal’s transportation planning body submitted a long-awaited big-picture transit plan for the region to the Quebec...
As Montreal reflects back on the 1976 Olympics, held 50 years ago this summer, one enormous hunk of the Games’ legacy continues to generate...
There’s a time and place for solo workouts, with only your thoughts or a favourite playlist to keep you company. But sometimes exercise is better...
For many decades, your country has been blaming ours for your winter blizzards, cold fronts, freezing drizzle and frozen drazzle. But now you’re...
How often have we seen in comic books, cartoons and movies the familiar archetypal bully named Moose or Biff or something like that? They’re often...
Donning white gloves, Marie-Blanche Fourcade disappears down a narrow aisle of floor-to-ceiling shelves in the vault-like room of a special facility...
I haven’t seen Christopher Nolan’s Hollywood retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey yet because I’m homebound with a broken leg. But then again,...
Montreal has lost a jazz giant. Make that the world. A gentle jazz giant at that. Oliver Jones died Wednesday night at 91 after a lengthy illness....
Their crew name mostly sums them up: The Improvaneers. They do improv comedy and they are pioneers. But it goes well beyond that: This cast is unlike...
Even if there were American wine on the shelves at the Société des alcools du Québec, would any self-respecting Canadian seriously want to drink it...
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