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Brownstein: Legendary promoter Donald K. Donald loved music, and loved Montreal even more

Brownstein: Legendary promoter Donald K. Donald loved music, and loved Montreal even more

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....

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Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Kheiriddin: Liberal win in Terrebonne could push more Conservative MPs to flee

Kheiriddin: Liberal win in Terrebonne could push more Conservative MPs to flee

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...

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Montreal Gazette

Tasha Kheiriddin

Hanes: Fréchette's accomplishment marks another milestone for women

Hanes: Fréchette's accomplishment marks another milestone for women

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...

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Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Valle: Quebec's inheritance rules are surprising to some — a will is your best protection

Valle: Quebec's inheritance rules are surprising to some — a will is your best protection

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,...

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Montreal Gazette

Carlo valle

Hanes: She survived the Holocaust, but her traumatic childhood shaped her life

Hanes: She survived the Holocaust, but her traumatic childhood shaped her life

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...

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Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Libman: Terrebonne adds up to more than just another byelection

Libman: Terrebonne adds up to more than just another byelection

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...

11.04.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

The Right Chemistry: The fascinating history of magic's most famous illusion

The Right Chemistry: The fascinating history of magic's most famous illusion

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...

10.04.2026 6

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Brownstein: Montrealer's 'most dangerous film' probes free speech on college campuses

Brownstein: Montrealer's 'most dangerous film' probes free speech on college campuses

As titles go, a documentary called Speechless — dealing with battles over free speech, among other hot-button issues raging on college campuses —...

10.04.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Melançon: The CAQ’s battle for survival

Melançon: The CAQ’s battle for survival

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...

10.04.2026 10

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Raphaël Melançon

Hanes: Adults need guardrails on AI as much as kids

Hanes: Adults need guardrails on AI as much as kids

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...

09.04.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Labos: Breast vs. bottle. How much does it matter?

Labos: Breast vs. bottle. How much does it matter?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is going after infant formula. The project called “Operation Stork Speed” will review infant formula and make it “as close...

08.04.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Christopher Labos

Hanes: Outlawing insults against police would be going too far

Hanes: Outlawing insults against police would be going too far

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...

06.04.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Kelly: It makes perfect sense that Céline Dion is making her comeback in Paris

Kelly: It makes perfect sense that Céline Dion is making her comeback in Paris

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...

04.04.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Brendan Kelly

Freed: Why are Quebecers so happy together? I have some theories

Freed: Why are Quebecers so happy together? I have some theories

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...

04.04.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Josh Freed

Libman: Path to victory grows more complicated for Quebec Liberals

Libman: Path to victory grows more complicated for Quebec Liberals

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...

04.04.2026 10

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Robert Libman

Kelly: Quebec's music and language were MIA at the Junos

The Juno Awards ceremony on Sunday completely ignored Quebec, with the francophone album trophy handed out at an earlier gala, almost no Quebec...

03.04.2026 10

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Brendan Kelly

Right Chemistry: Alchemist’s urine wasn’t a philosopher’s stone

In my graduate school days, I synthesized a number of simple carbohydrates. One of the problems was getting the products to crystallize because...

03.04.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

The Right Chemistry: The molecules that run the world come from oil

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...

03.04.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Libman: Minority rights hang in the balance after Supreme Court hearings

“We must trust our democracy. Elected representatives and the electorate are also guardians of the Constitution, and we must assume that the...

03.04.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Freed: Fed up with winter? Try my 7-step program to finding your inner spring

Description: Warm, green, flowery, hopeful. Last seen: Who can remember? Now is the discontent of our winter. Last Saturday was supposed to be the...

03.04.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Josh Freed

Hanes: Supporting secularism and supporting secularism laws are not the same thing

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....

03.04.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Mulcair: Avi Lewis has big ideas. In politics, that's not enough

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...

03.04.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Tom Mulcair

Brownstein: Plateau dentist fears for his compromised patients amid roadwork and access issues

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...

03.04.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Hanes: Latest Quebec health reform would 'replace family doctors with CLSC bureaucrats'

Months after trying to forcibly assign family physicians to all Quebec patients under the coercive but now defunct Bill 2, the government says that...

03.04.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Drimonis: My messy thoughts on the Air Canada language affair

This past week highlighted the sort of emotional ambivalence around language issues that has become all too familiar to many English-speaking...

03.04.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Toula Drimonis

Melançon: No, the Air Canada language storm isn't overblown

This latest controversy around CEO Michael Rousseau could easily have been avoided, but wasn't — as if French matters less.

27.03.2026 10

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Raphaël Melançon

Brownstein: Beautys is having an ugly time thanks to a mish-mash of construction and parking woes

Nearby Venus Fleurs reports a staggering 85 per cent loss of revenue, with issues affecting customer access as well as deliveries from suppliers.

27.03.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Hanes: Air Canada CEO was naive about French before. Now he seems downright clueless

Language politics should not overshadow the deaths of two pilots, but Michael Rousseau should have seen this coming when he recorded a condolence...

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Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Brownstein: Grants give anglo arts creators a chance to build cultural bridges with francos

Fifteen projects will be getting grants from the English Language Arts Network in the third year of a four-year project.

25.03.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Labos: The cold hard truth about cold medications

Over-the-counter products for sale at pharmacies may alleviate symptoms and make you feel less crummy, but they are not cures.

25.03.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Christopher Labos

Hanes: Vanier's cancellation of Holocaust commemoration 'cowardly,' survivor says

A ceremony slated for Wednesday was cancelled over safety concerns. "I think that it is their obligation as an educational institution to put students...

25.03.2026 30

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Allison Hanes

Hanes: Quebec clinics complain new mandatory AI tool is not saving them time as promised

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.

24.03.2026 30

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Allison Hanes

Freed: Longevity studies may be the early death of me

With all my healthy habits, I could live to 125. But when I subtract all the unhealthy habits, 29?

24.03.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Josh Freed

The Right Chemistry: Putting concerns about weed killer glyphosate into perspective

This is just one of the thousands of chemicals to which we are regularly exposed.

21.03.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Libman: From potholes to gas prices, taxpayers feel taken for a ride

Surely, politicians at all levels of government can do more to challenge the status quo as Montrealers, Quebecers and Canadians are being pummelled.

21.03.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Hanes: Laws must be fixed to prevent deaths foretold

The stabbing death of the owner of a Plateau dépanneur last week was predictable. Could it have been preventable?

20.03.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Neal: I welcome the fall of a dictator, but I question the war in Iran

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.

20.03.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Arron Neal

Drimonis: Tour guide Thom Seivewright, the Montreal Expert, introduces locals to their own city

“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...

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Toula Drimonis

Mulcair: As Carney and other leaders back away, Trump flails in Iran

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...

19.03.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Tom Mulcair

Hanes: A clean sweep for Montreal?

17.03.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Hanes: McGill's Osler Library shares the fine art of early medical books

17.03.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Libman: Are the Quebec Liberals poised to peak at just the right time?

16.03.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

The Right Chemistry: Muscle building is not routine, it's triggered by protein

14.03.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Melançon: Time to remove religious names from our public schools

13.03.2026 20

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Raphaël Melançon

Brownstein: Montreal filmmaker Joyce Borenstein takes her Oscar-voting duty seriously — very seriously

13.03.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Opinion: Quebec the squeaky wheel on cheese curds and protectionism

It is the only jurisdiction in Canada with a formal legal framework dedicated to controlled designations in food. Is it really necessary?

12.03.2026 20

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By Sylvain Charlebois

Labos: Cholesterol in kids: If you don’t look for it, you won’t find it

11.03.2026 20

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Christopher Labos

Hanes: Changing the clocks is a tired and antiquated ritual

10.03.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Libman: Say Bonjour-Hi to more scapegoating, divisiveness and waste

09.03.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

The Right Chemistry: Why were nevalyaska dolls once made with gunpowder?

07.03.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz