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Allison HanesMontreal Gazette |
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Vandals hit the wrong target when they smashed the windows and scrawled “burn the data centres” on the headquarters of Mila, Montreal’s flagship...
The second of three televised debates wrapped up Wednesday night without any clear winner among Quebec’s five main party leaders — and without an...
A series of existential matters has been competing for the attention of voters and dominating the discourse of campaigning party leaders ahead of the...
My children were slightly startled and mildly embarrassed as their parents were moved to tears, standing before the reflecting pool at Ground Zero in...
In triggering an election late last month, Coalition Avenir Québec Leader Christine Fréchette declared that her main adversary in seeking a new...
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...
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...
Every few election cycles, Quebec’s sovereignist and nationalist political parties take pains to reach out to anglophones, reassure us that we...
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...
Two passages stand out from the final report of the Laurent Commission, which examined shortcomings in Quebec’s youth protection system and should...
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...
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...
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...
Young Canadians have so much to offer, yet they don’t always have the chance to make a difference in meaningful ways. Unemployment has been...
The water quality was rated “excellent” in the Ottawa River last week, just below the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, where the National...
The summer I spent living over a bakery on Bernard Ave., one of my favourite things to do was to sit on my front balcony overlooking the street each...
Montreal has been reckoning with misogyny since a gunman walked into École Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989, separated out the men, and murdered 14...
It’s virtually impossible for Dr. Gerald Batist to name just one thing when asked what has made him most proud in the 20 years since the Segal...
As the Dominion of Canada approaches its 159th birthday on Wednesday, the country is having a moment on the world stage. Canada is one of the hosts...
Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon provoked derision recently for vowing to derail the federal government’s “nation-building”...
Man rescued after getting stranded at Toronto's floating convenience store Bell employees fired over fake office attendance sue BCE Montreal cop...
Montreal is emerging from a recurring “nightmare” — the kind where indiscriminate gun violence traumatizes the city. One police officer died and...
One by one, the graduates made their way to the front of the room wearing black caps and gold-lettered sashes. They shook hands with their teachers,...
When Fady Dagher was chosen as Montreal’s next police chief in 2023, expectations were high he would help improve relations with the city’s...
Projet Montréal contends the city should cut ties with Israel over its violent repression of Palestinians just like former mayor Jean Doré did with...
Last Monday, Premier Christine Fréchette gave a speech to a Montreal business audience in which she pledged to set a “different tone” in...
It’s hard to find a downside to the federal government announcing $10 billion in much-needed funding for infrastructure in Quebec, but Paul...
Political leaders from across the spectrum reacted with shock and horror over the weekend to a photo showing a group of masked men unfurling a banner...
Quebec’s latest language flap was mercifully short-lived. One day after French language commissioner Benoît Dubreuil issued a report recommending...
Even before then-premier Jacques Parizeau’s notorious comments blaming “money and ethnic votes” for the Yes side’s 1995 referendum loss,...
On a fresh, sunny morning last week, I hopped aboard the REM for the first time, joining the ranks of 170,000 Montrealers who gave it a test run...
The sad state of infrastructure is impossible to ignore in Montreal. Whether it’s the mayor getting double flat tires on the pockmarked roads, a...
The R-word has returned with a vengeance — and it’s not going away any time soon. During an in-depth interview with radio host Paul Arcand last...
The long-awaited Anse-à-l’Orme branch of the Réseau express métropolitain enters into service next Monday, and will whisk passengers from...
There has been a running joke in the last few weeks that Premier Christine Fréchette is the new leader of the Collaboration Avenir Québec. She has...
Louise Arbour has been a law professor, a trial judge, the first francophone appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal, a war crimes prosecutor, a...
I don’t profess to be an expert at gardening. When I first moved from a condo to a home with a yard a few years ago, I didn’t know the difference...
Few have been spared the ravages of Montreal’s disastrous potholes this spring. Not Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada, who took to social media to share...
The number of unfilled residency positions for medical school graduates hit a new high in Quebec this year, and slightly fewer recruits than last year...
The road to power in Quebec doesn’t run through Montreal, so it has long been said. And every couple of election cycles, that maxim becomes a little...
When she unveiled her cabinet Tuesday, Quebec’s new premier, Christine Fréchette, pledged to “co-operate better” with cities across the...
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