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Allison Hanes

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Hanes: Giving is the greatest gift of all during the holidays

Hanes: Giving is the greatest gift of all during the holidays
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Hanes: The takeaway from 2025? Don't take anything for granted

20.12.2025 20

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Hanes: Losing Rodriguez may be a blessing in disguise for the Quebec Liberals

Hanes: Losing Rodriguez may be a blessing in disguise for the Quebec Liberals
19.12.2025 50

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Hanes: Longueuil mayor fights for transparency in the Nooran Rezayi case

Hanes: Longueuil mayor fights for transparency in the Nooran Rezayi case
18.12.2025 10

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Hanes: The bitter pill of a doctor deal at the 11th hour

Hanes: The bitter pill of a doctor deal at the 11th hour
13.12.2025 5

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Hanes: CAQ's constitution is blood-chilling for all Quebecers

Hanes: CAQ's constitution is blood-chilling for all Quebecers
11.12.2025 10

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Hanes: 'The coming hours' will decide the future of family medicine in Quebec

Hanes: 'The coming hours' will decide the future of family medicine in Quebec
11.12.2025 10

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Hanes: Quebec's new secularism bill is full of solutions in search of problems

Hanes: Quebec's new secularism bill is full of solutions in search of problems
08.12.2025 10

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Hanes: 'Clock is ticking' for family medicine groups as Bill 2 talks collapse

Hanes: 'Clock is ticking' for family medicine groups as Bill 2 talks collapse
05.12.2025 3

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Hanes: Polytechnique's Order of the White Rose 'is a bridge between memory and the future'

Hanes: Polytechnique's Order of the White Rose 'is a bridge between memory and the future'
02.12.2025 6

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Hanes: These are the 14 new inductees in Polytechnique Montréal's Order of the White Rose

01.12.2025 10

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Hanes: The Order of the White Rose flourishes to 14 at Polytechnique Montréal

29.11.2025 9

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Hanes: New contract offer heaps even more demands on teetering clinics

28.11.2025 3

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Hanes: CAQ's constitution is blood-chilling for all Quebecers

24.11.2025 20

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Hanes: Clinic that cares for Montreal's most vulnerable 'won't make it'

21.11.2025 10

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Hanes: Bill 2 means 'game over' for LaSalle pediatric clinic

19.11.2025 9

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Hanes: 'Blind spot' in Bill 2 could shut eight sexual health clinics by Jan. 1

17.11.2025 9

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Hanes: Universities are here to help, despite what many think, says U de M's rector

14.11.2025 9

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Hanes: A transfer of power unlike any other in Montreal’s history

13.11.2025 8

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Hanes: Bill 2 will force family clinics to close, Quebec doctors warn

11.11.2025 20

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Hanes: Handwritten copies of In Flanders Fields are artifacts of remembrance

10.11.2025 20

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Hanes: How Luc Rabouin and Projet Montréal blew it

04.11.2025 3

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Hanes: Martinez Ferrada tells Montrealers 'I heard you'

03.11.2025 4

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Hanes: Who will stand up for Montreal anglos as mayor?

30.10.2025 10

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Mayoral hopeful Jean-François Kacou counts on social media to deliver his message

28.10.2025 9

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'Where the hell does $7.2 billion go?': Mayoral candidate Gilbert Thibodeau vows to fix Montreal's finances

23.10.2025 10

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Hanes: While Quebec fights with doctors, Ontario is fixing health care

22.10.2025 3

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Hanes: While Quebec fights with doctors, Ontario is fixing health care

21.10.2025 10

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Hanes: Anglophones have reason to be wary about Quebec constitution

13.10.2025 10

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Hanes: 'Politics is here to serve people,' says Katahwa, Projet Montréal's pick for executive committee chair

10.10.2025 9

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Hanes: Fear-mongering about 'Islamic radicals' is a return to Legault's greatest hits

06.10.2025 10

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Hanes: 17 years after the killing of Fredy Villanueva, familiar questions surround 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi's death

01.10.2025 6

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Craig Sauvé makes his pitch to be mayor: ‘I think Montreal needs a fighter right now’

Transition Montréal leader Craig Sauvé and his upstart party may have been excluded from most of the debates as the race to become the city’s next...

29.09.2025 5

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Hanes: 17 years after the killing of Fredy Villanueva, familiar questions surround 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi’s death

It took less than a minute after police intervened to end a bylaw-contravening dice game for an officer to open fire, killing 18-year-old Fredy...

26.09.2025 4

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Hanes: Plante’s sunny take on her legacy invites deeper scrutiny

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante rode to office eight years ago on the promise of improving mobility, building a new Pink Line of the métro and taming...

24.09.2025 4

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Hanes: ‘We need to go back to basics,’ says Ensemble Montréal candidate Claude Pinard

Claude Pinard tendered his resignation three weeks ago as president and CEO of Centraide of Greater Montreal to run as a city council candidate under...

19.09.2025 6

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Hanes: Hudson must seize golden opportunity to buy Sandy Beach

For two sweltering summers in a row, there has been no sunbathing or splashing on the shores of Hudson’s beloved Sandy Beach. Access to the crescent...

17.09.2025 6

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Hanes: Geneviève Guilbault’s move to Municipal Affairs a slap in the face to Montreal

It’s customary when a new cabinet minister is named for the stakeholders affected by their portfolio to congratulate the fresh appointee and express...

12.09.2025 5

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Hanes: Poll shows a clear leader in Montreal mayoral race — ‘I don’t know’

There is a certain amount of disgruntlement that naturally creeps in when a party has been in office for a long time. It doesn’t matter if it’s...

10.09.2025 10

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Hanes: François Legault and famous last words

As François Legault’s hotly anticipated testimony drew to a close around noon Tuesday at the public inquiry probing massive cost overruns in the...

05.09.2025 40

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Hanes: New Polytechnique Montréal scholarship awarded on a day filled with full-circle moments

There were many recognizable faces among the dignitaries gathered at Polytechnique Montréal this week as Ruby Sinclair, a third-year mechanical...

08.08.2025 10

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Hanes: A bitter pill to swallow as Quebec’s family doctor shortage deepens

The lack of access to a family doctor is one of the Quebec health system’s chronic problems. And despite all the government’s attempts to cure the...

06.08.2025 5

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Hanes: Can courts save us from the existential threat of climate change?

Just before Earth Day in 2019, a group of young Quebecers gathered in the Old Montreal offices of a top law firm to announce they were suing the...

30.07.2025 10

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Hanes: As the SAAQclic scandal is exposed, is a Santé Québec fiasco brewing?

The public inquiry into the SAAQclic scandal is on hiatus for most of the summer after stunning testimony about cost overruns, ignored warnings and...

25.07.2025 20

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Hanes: Respect is a one-way street for education minister

Education Minister Bernard Drainville has been on a mission lately to instil civility in Quebec’s classrooms. Starting this fall, students will be...

22.07.2025 6

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Hanes: Brace yourselves for Thursday — destructive weather is now the norm

It wasn’t a typhoon. It was just a regular old thunderstorm. But when it barrelled through Montreal on Sunday after days of a heat wave, a record...

18.07.2025 5

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Hanes: LaSalle College is the latest scapegoat in Legault’s misguided language strategy

The quota limiting the number of students at English CEGEPs and colleges that was embedded in Bill 96, Quebec’s law to protect French, was always a...

17.07.2025 6

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Hanes: Call for widespread tolerance of the unhoused could be a tough sell for Montrealers

What if the city’s unhoused population isn’t the problem when it comes to the growing tensions on the streets of Montreal? What if it’s everyone...

16.07.2025 4

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Hanes: Report conflates political tensions with religious conflict at CEGEPs

When Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry dispatched investigators to Dawson and Vanier colleges last December, her stated aim was to ensure the...

09.07.2025 8

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Hanes: Beyond the moving day blues, July 1 has become a day of upheaval and heartbreak

Another moving day has come and gone in Montreal. There was a time in the not-so-distant past when the annual apartment shuffle was a marker of new...

03.07.2025 10

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