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Fitness: Are you really ready to tackle a tough workout?

Fitness: Are you really ready to tackle a tough workout?

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...

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Montreal Gazette

Jill Barker

Freed: Dr. Josh’s English-speaking guide to the Quebec election

Freed: Dr. Josh’s English-speaking guide to the Quebec election

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...

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Montreal Gazette

Josh Freed

Libman: As Quebec race reaches an end, so too must Carney's silence

Libman: As Quebec race reaches an end, so too must Carney's silence

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...

yesterday 10

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Right Chemistry: Are you what you eat, as wellness influencers would have you believe?

Right Chemistry: Are you what you eat, as wellness influencers would have you believe?

“Wellness influencers” are crawling all over social media platforms. Some, like psychologist Jordan Peterson, who promotes a carnivore diet, or...

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Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Drimonis: Why does this election feel like no matter who wins, we've all lost?

Drimonis: Why does this election feel like no matter who wins, we've all lost?

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...

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Montreal Gazette

Toula Drimonis

Brownstein: Snowdon Deli brings back some 1946 prices for its 80th birthday

Brownstein: Snowdon Deli brings back some 1946 prices for its 80th birthday

There are no surefire ways to succeed on Montreal’s ever-volatile restaurant scene. Competition is fierce. Customers are fickle. Making it to 10...

thursday 20

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Dunlevy: Beyond Netflix tax, culture gets short shrift in Quebec election campaign

Dunlevy: Beyond Netflix tax, culture gets short shrift in Quebec election campaign

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...

thursday 10

Montreal Gazette

T'cha Dunlevy

Hanes: I voted in English this Quebec election to safeguard my linguistic rights

Hanes: I voted in English this Quebec election to safeguard my linguistic rights

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,...

30.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Kheiriddin: In Quebec and Alberta, it's a bad time to be a separatist

Kheiriddin: In Quebec and Alberta, it's a bad time to be a separatist

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...

29.09.2026 4

Montreal Gazette

Tasha Kheiriddin

Mulcair: Fréchette in free fall. What happened?

Mulcair: Fréchette in free fall. What happened?

In surfing slang, a “wipeout” is when someone gets knocked off the board and comes crashing down. Premier Christine Fréchette’s Coalition...

29.09.2026 3

Montreal Gazette

Tom Mulcair

Hanes: On Tout le monde en parle, Quebec party leaders share a laugh at the expense of fundamental rights

Hanes: On Tout le monde en parle, Quebec party leaders share a laugh at the expense of fundamental rights

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...

28.09.2026 8

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Fitness: Pick up the pace for better health

Fitness: Pick up the pace for better health

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,...

27.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Jill Barker

Libman: Room for movement in home stretch of Quebec election

Libman: Room for movement in home stretch of Quebec election

Legendary Radio-Canada news anchor Bernard Derome is synonymous with the iconic phrase “Si la tendance se maintient …” (“If the trend...

26.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Freed: Report from the front lines of the world bike invasion

Freed: Report from the front lines of the world bike invasion

The world’s largest global biking championship is overwhelming Montreal streets: 1,000 competitors from more than 80 counties along with 500,000...

26.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Josh Freed

Right Chemistry: The dark sciences behind The Wizard of Oz

Right Chemistry: The dark sciences behind The Wizard of Oz

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,...

25.09.2026 7

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Hanes: Quebec risks sleepwalking toward another referendum

Hanes: Quebec risks sleepwalking toward another referendum

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...

25.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Brownstein: Jay Baruchel brings Montreal daredevil Ken Carter back to life in The Stunt Driver

Brownstein: Jay Baruchel brings Montreal daredevil Ken Carter back to life in The Stunt Driver

No guff: Jay Baruchel goes Rocketman — and not in the Elton John jukebox musical sense — in his latest venture, The Stunt Driver. And this...

24.09.2026 6

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Melançon: No clear winner, one clear loser after Round 3 of TV debates

Melançon: No clear winner, one clear loser after Round 3 of TV debates

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...

24.09.2026 6

Montreal Gazette

Raphaël Melançon

Hanes: One Quebec mayor seeks elusive bilingual status to serve anglophone constituents better

Hanes: One Quebec mayor seeks elusive bilingual status to serve anglophone constituents better

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...

24.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Hanes: Montreal's anti-insult bylaw gives the middle finger to fundamental rights

Hanes: Montreal's anti-insult bylaw gives the middle finger to fundamental rights

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...

23.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Kheiriddin: Carney takes a flyer on airport privatization

Kheiriddin: Carney takes a flyer on airport privatization

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...

23.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Tasha Kheiriddin

Mulcair: Fractured race reflects a divided Quebec

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....

22.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Tom Mulcair

Labos: Coffee and cancer: Are there grounds for concern?

Recent headlines about hot drinks causing esophageal cancer probably scared a lot of people. After all, a tripling of cancer risk is not negligible...

22.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Christopher Labos

Hanes: It was the wrong target, but vandalism at Mila speaks to the growing angst about AI

Vandals hit the wrong target when they smashed the windows and scrawled “burn the data centres” on the headquarters of Mila, Montreal’s flagship...

21.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Fitness: Interest in weight training is gathering strength among older women

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...

20.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Jill Barker

Right Chemistry: It's not a far leap from psychedelic cats to neuroleptics

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...

19.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Dunlevy: 25 years in, POP Montreal remains ‘a great way to experience the city’

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...

19.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

T'cha Dunlevy

Libman: After two leaders' debates, what's changed in the Quebec election?

Each of Quebec’s main party leaders entered this week’s French language debates with a particular objective. The Parti Québécois’ Paul...

19.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Brownstein: Montreal International Black Film Festival kicks off with a compelling history lesson on Ghana

Admittedly, it doesn’t take much to get Fabienne Colas pumped. But the ever-exuberant founder and president of the Montreal International Black Film...

19.09.2026 40

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Drimonis: And the prize for best Gémeaux acceptance speech goes to ...

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...

18.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Toula Drimonis

Hanes: Quebec’s high-stakes election debates gloss over crucial issues

The second of three televised debates wrapped up Wednesday night without any clear winner among Quebec’s five main party leaders — and without an...

16.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Kheiriddin: The battle for the working-class voter has just begun

For a movement supposedly wandering the political wilderness, the Canadian left made a lot of noise in downtown Toronto Monday night. Hundreds of...

16.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Tasha Kheiriddin

Mulcair: How the five Quebec party leaders did in their first debate

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...

15.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Tom Mulcair

Obituary: Serge Losique fought for his Festival des films du monde to the bitter end

Like the once-illustrious film festival he launched nearly 50 years ago, Serge Losique has faded to black. The wildly ambitious and stubbornly...

15.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

T'cha Dunlevy

Neal: I'm bored by this Quebec election. There, I said it

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,...

15.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Arron Neal

Hanes: Climate change is the forgotten issue of the Quebec election

A series of existential matters has been competing for the attention of voters and dominating the discourse of campaigning party leaders ahead of the...

14.09.2026 40

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Fitness: Add balance to your workout

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...

13.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Jill Barker

Libman: The debates that could decide Quebec's election — and the odds of a referendum

After all the anticipation, political manoeuvring, polling and punditry of the past two years, the Quebec election will finally play itself out in the...

12.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Josh Freed: The most popular politician this election season isn’t even on the Quebec ballot

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...

12.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Josh Freed

The Right Chemistry: Communication has taken flight since the days of carrier pigeons

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,...

11.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Hanes: The 25th anniversary of 9/11 is a grim reminder of the friendship we’ve lost

My children were slightly startled and mildly embarrassed as their parents were moved to tears, standing before the reflecting pool at Ground Zero in...

11.09.2026 40

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Brownstein: Montrealer moves on in a life reshaped by 9/11 tragedy, but her memories will never fade

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...

11.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Melançon: Stability trumps sovereignty in reshaped Quebec election

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...

10.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Raphaël Melançon

Labos: A pill for obstructive sleep apnea?

If you suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), then a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine was your only practical treatment option....

09.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Christopher Labos

Kheiriddin: On China, let's not confuse diversification with friendship

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,...

08.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Tasha Kheiriddin

Hanes: Fréchette and St-Pierre Plamondon both have risky strategies in dealing with tariff crisis

In triggering an election late last month, Coalition Avenir Québec Leader Christine Fréchette declared that her main adversary in seeking a new...

08.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Hanes: Little mention on the election campaign trail of building new public transit

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...

07.09.2026 40

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Brownstein: John Cleese is as provocative as ever ahead of his Not Dead Yet! tour stops in Montreal

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...

05.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Libman: As Quebec campaign heats up, anglos are left out in the cold

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...

05.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

The Right Chemistry: Knock knock ... From 'spirit raps' to modern magic

Maggie and Kate Fox’s parents didn’t know what to make of the strange rappings coming from their teenage daughters’ bedroom that memorable...

04.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz