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Right Chemistry: The humble potato has evolved an arsenal to fight the war against insects

Right Chemistry: The humble potato has evolved an arsenal to fight the war against insects

There is an unending war that is being fought all over the world. No bullets are fired, no bombs are dropped, and no peace treaty will ever be signed....

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Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Melançon: A return to normalcy in Canada-U.S. relations? Not so fast

Melançon: A return to normalcy in Canada-U.S. relations? Not so fast

Like a curious neighbour peeking through the curtains to see what’s happening in the yard next door, Canada was holding its breath Tuesday evening...

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Montreal Gazette

Raphaël Melançon

Dunlevy: Two Quebecers hope to follow in Céline Dion's footsteps with Eurovision appearance in 2027

Dunlevy: Two Quebecers hope to follow in Céline Dion's footsteps with Eurovision appearance in 2027

Being among the contenders to represent Canada in the country’s first-ever appearance at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2027 is a dream come true...

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Montreal Gazette

T'cha Dunlevy

Brownstein: Bob Dylan and The Band's musical wealth is showcased in Mitch Melnick's Million Dollar Bash

Brownstein: Bob Dylan and The Band's musical wealth is showcased in Mitch Melnick's Million Dollar Bash

Mitch Melnick takes umbrage at those who might dare suggest his musical clock stopped ticking half a century back. “Not true at all,” a grinning...

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Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Hanes: Will Montreal police union be part of the solution or part of the problem?

Hanes: Will Montreal police union be part of the solution or part of the problem?

The union representing Montreal police officers issued a strongly worded statement last month decrying disgraceful conduct as the suspension of two...

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Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Kelly: As pianist Alexandra Stréliski preps for run with Cirque Le Roux, she has a message for the taxman

Kelly: As pianist Alexandra Stréliski preps for run with Cirque Le Roux, she has a message for the taxman

Alexandra Stréliski is sitting in a room somewhere in the labyrinth behind the scenes at Place des Arts and she is here ostensibly to talk about...

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Montreal Gazette

Brendan Kelly

Kheiriddin: Everyone is looking for a handout from the federal budget. Can Carney resist?

Kheiriddin: Everyone is looking for a handout from the federal budget. Can Carney resist?

With Americans heading to the polls for their midterm elections, it feels like Thursday’s federal budget is getting a lot less media attention than...

03.11.2026 4

Montreal Gazette

Tasha Kheiriddin

Mulcair: Poilievre faces existential test in December byelections

Mulcair: Poilievre faces existential test in December byelections

Prime Minister Mark Carney has just called six byelections for early December. The results could have a determining effect on Pierre Poilievre’s...

03.11.2026 7

Montreal Gazette

Tom Mulcair

Dunlevy: Gilles Villeneuve biopic propels 32nd Cinemania film fest to pole position

Dunlevy: Gilles Villeneuve biopic propels 32nd Cinemania film fest to pole position

Cinemania is in the driver’s seat for its 32nd edition. The festival of French films, all subtitled in English, presents 158 films from Nov. 4 to...

03.11.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

T'cha Dunlevy

Hanes: Montreal mayor squeezes lemonade out of tough first year in office

Hanes: Montreal mayor squeezes lemonade out of tough first year in office

If there’s a moment that best symbolizes Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada’s first year in office, it’s the night last winter she blew two tires on...

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Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Fitness: Derailing myths surrounding running injuries

Fitness: Derailing myths surrounding running injuries

With injuries plaguing up to 50 per cent of runners, there’s no shortage of advice about how to find relief. Change shoes, modify the warmup, alter...

01.11.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Jill Barker

Libman: PSPP's Trump-like petulance may come back to haunt him

Libman: PSPP's Trump-like petulance may come back to haunt him

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon may be more intelligent and certainly more articulate than Donald Trump, but the two men have several things in common. Both...

31.10.2026 5

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Hanes: What kind of sovereignty are most Quebecers concerned about right now?

Hanes: What kind of sovereignty are most Quebecers concerned about right now?

The word sovereignty is on everyone’s lips this week. In unveiling the country’s first updated national security strategy in two decades, Prime...

30.10.2026 7

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

The Right Chemistry: Houdini died 100 years ago but he never left us

The Right Chemistry: Houdini died 100 years ago but he never left us

While I often have to ponder about a topic for a column, there was absolutely no doubt about today’s choice. Harry Houdini would have to take the...

30.10.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Drimonis: 10 years after his death, Leonard Cohen is all around us

Drimonis: 10 years after his death, Leonard Cohen is all around us

The night we got word Leonard Cohen died, I was watching the Canadiens at my local dive bar. We had just scored against the L.A. Kings, and the bar...

30.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Toula Drimonis

Kelly: Leonard Cohen planned on moving back to Montreal, but it was 'a great tragedy' he never could

Kelly: Leonard Cohen planned on moving back to Montreal, but it was 'a great tragedy' he never could

Leonard Cohen spent much of his adult life in places other than Montreal, but the city where he was born and raised was always close to his heart. He...

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Montreal Gazette

Brendan Kelly

Labos: Time to stop switching our clocks? Quebec says yes. But which way?

Labos: Time to stop switching our clocks? Quebec says yes. But which way?

It’s coming. On Nov. 1 we will have to set our clocks back one hour. Most people would prefer to keep the current time, forestall the 4 p.m....

28.10.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Christopher Labos

Hanes: St-Pierre Plamondon rains on Carney's parade

Hanes: St-Pierre Plamondon rains on Carney's parade

Montreal is set to be the backdrop for a defining moment in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s foreign policy antidote to an increasingly hostile and...

28.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Hanes: A killer's second chance should never be prioritized over women’s safety

Hanes: A killer's second chance should never be prioritized over women’s safety

McGill University law students have been embroiled in a real-life case study this fall, as a convicted killer’s legal right to a second chance, a...

26.10.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Fitness: Exercise slows aging in breast cancer survivors

October is breast cancer awareness month, with the focus on the 32,400 women in Canada estimated to be newly diagnosed with breast cancer in 2026, as...

25.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Jill Barker

Libman: Albertans deliver a lesson in humility

How ironic and thought-provoking that one of the main grievances fuelling the Alberta separatist movement is also one of the strongest deterrents...

24.10.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Melançon: Duhaime finally made it to the National Assembly. Can he stay there?

For the past five years, Éric Duhaime roamed the halls of the National Assembly with a visitor pass, hoping to one day sit there as an elected...

22.10.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Raphaël Melançon

Hanes: After Alberta's referendum, Quebec poses the next threat to Canada's unity

Alberta voted overwhelmingly to stay in Canada on Monday, with just under a quarter of those who turned out calling for another binding referendum on...

21.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Kheiriddin: Alberta's political drama is far from over

Alberta will remain part of Canada — for now. As I write this, ballots are still being counted on the province’s 10 referendum questions, but as...

20.10.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Tasha Kheiriddin

Mulcair: Alberta chooses Canada. Now what?

Nation-building isn’t a part-time exercise. Yes, a massive sigh of relief can be felt across the country today as our sister province out west chose...

20.10.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Tom Mulcair

Kelly: Author Don Macdonald's journalism background serves him well in second mystery novel, The Faithful

You can take the writer out of Winnipeg, but you can’t take Winnipeg out of the writer. Don Macdonald, a former Gazette journalist, has just...

20.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Brendan Kelly

Hanes: More Mercier Bridge problems, with no concrete plan for a replacement

When Transport Québec closed one of two Montreal-bound lanes on the Mercier Bridge last week because a fissure was detected in a steel beam, it...

19.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Fitness: Should fitness become a competitive event?

When Joanna Wietrzyk of Australia continued competing in an international HYROX fitness competition last September despite having diarrhea, the...

18.10.2026 250

Montreal Gazette

Jill Barker

Libman: Five doable suggestions for PSPP's first 100 days

“You’ve Got a Friend in Me” is the touching theme song of Disney/Pixar’s classic Toy Story movie franchise. It’s a bit of stretch at this...

17.10.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Hanes: Urinating on unhoused people? Trust in Montreal police has been broken. Again

It really doesn’t get more revolting. A Montreal police officer has been suspended for allegedly urinating on unhoused people while they slept on...

16.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Right Chemistry: The colour that revolutionized chemistry

There were several events on my agenda as we planned a family trip to London in 1989. We were going to see Miss Saigon with Lea Salonga and Jonathan...

16.10.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Drimonis: Quebec cannot afford to skimp on health care

Now that the provincial election is done, let’s talk boobs, shall we? Mammograms, to be more specific. And why Quebec women are being shortchanged....

16.10.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Toula Drimonis

Brownstein: Mon Lapin is making culinary music on the world stage with new cookbook

If it’s Tuesday, they must be in New York. Or is it Philadelphia? Possibly New Jersey? In the week coming, they’ll be in Quebec City, then...

16.10.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Neal: We've mistaken what women give for what we're entitled to take

Later this month, my daughter and I will go to our first arena concert together. The global girl group Katseye is performing a highly anticipated show...

14.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Arron Neal

Hanes: From literature to math, humans are losing ground to AI

The mystery surrounding the role of artificial intelligence in producing one of this year’s most celebrated works of French literature deepened on...

14.10.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Hanes: The value of a special place to live the last stage of life to the fullest

The Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence is a hospice nestled in a quiet residential neighbourhood in Montreal’s West Island that offers...

12.10.2026 50

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Libman: For PSPP, now comes the hard part: governing

Looks like we’ve dodged a bullet. For the anglophone community, the results of Monday’s election couldn’t have been much better under the...

10.10.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Right Chemistry: The history of anesthesia will knock you out

Physicians assembled in an operating room at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital Oct. 16, 1846, to watch chief of surgery John Collins Warren...

09.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Melançon: The PQ's bumpy road to sovereignty

“We are going to ask Quebecers the question that makes a people a country.” Sept. 12, 1994. A victorious Jacques Parizeau stands proudly at the...

09.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Raphaël Melançon

Kelly: NAZA is packing theatres and sparking intense conversations in Montreal

When the credits ended after a screening of the documentary NAZA at Cinéma du Musée on Sunday afternoon, there was dead silence in the room....

09.10.2026 40

Montreal Gazette

Brendan Kelly

Hanes: Relations between Montreal and the Quebec government may be about to get less frosty

One of Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s first acts as premier-designate this week was announcing a summit on homelessness. It’s...

08.10.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Unpacking the separatist sentiment in Alberta and Quebec

What happens when two provinces with very different political cultures question their place in Canada? To explore the question further, The Gazette is...

08.10.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Montreal Gazette

Labos: I've got no time for Apple Watch's new Health Sensing System

The Apple Watch Series 12 is no mere watch. It was launched with great fanfare and touts an all-new Health Sensing System. Those with enough...

07.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Christopher Labos

Brownstein: Engelbert Humperdinck will never say 'release me' to the touring life

He croons a moving — and most mellifluous — rendering of The Cars’ 1984 classic Drive, along with impressive, touching takes on Kiss’s 1976...

07.10.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Kheiriddin: Quebec election bad news for Carney, good for Poilievre

The 2026 Quebec election has completely transformed the province’s political landscape. The Coalition Avenir Québec, in power since 2018, was...

06.10.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Tasha Kheiriddin

Mulcair: Result renders referendum unlikely, but a wild card remains

What a wild ride this election has been. Quebec voters have once again showed that they have a formula for nailing one objective — change — while...

06.10.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Tom Mulcair

Hanes: Quebec elects PQ government — on a tight leash

The lessons from the not-so-distant past may have been lingering in the back of voters’ minds Monday when Quebecers elected the Parti Québécois to...

06.10.2026 40

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

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...

04.10.2026 50

Montreal Gazette

Jill Barker

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...

03.10.2026 40

Montreal Gazette

Josh Freed

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...

03.10.2026 40

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman