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Allison HanesMontreal Gazette |
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...
Flying around the far side of the moon earlier this month, astronauts on board the Artemis II space mission observed Earthset, a phenomenon only a...
After more than a decade leading Welcome Hall Mission, one of Montreal’s largest non-profit organizations helping the vulnerable and unhoused, CEO...
When she stood in a crowded room high up on Polytechnique Montréal’s mountainside campus last summer, Ruby Sinclair knew that receiving the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Months after trying to forcibly assign family physicians to all Quebec patients under the coercive but now defunct Bill 2, the government says that...
Language politics should not overshadow the deaths of two pilots, but Michael Rousseau should have seen this coming when he recorded a condolence...
A ceremony slated for Wednesday was cancelled over safety concerns. "I think that it is their obligation as an educational institution to put students...
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.
The stabbing death of the owner of a Plateau dépanneur last week was predictable. Could it have been preventable?