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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...

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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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Hanes: Painful cuts to education a betrayal of principles

The only thing hotter than classrooms earlier this week on the scorching last day of school for many Quebec students, was the blistering war of words...

26.06.2025 4

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Hanes: Search for missing three-year-old has a rare happy ending

For the four long days she was missing, she was everyone’s child. The police officers and trained search crews out scouring the ditches of highways...

21.06.2025 10

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Hanes: Disinformation and hate threaten to drown out lessons of history

Heidi Berger has spent the better part of the last decade trying to get Quebec to make education about genocide compulsory in schools. Now she finds...

20.06.2025 10

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Hanes: Is Quebec missing out on doctor recruitment opportunities in U.S.?

“Things going south? Change your direction. Look north.” So reads a digital advertisement sponsored by the government of Saskatchewan inviting...

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Hanes: A disturbing incident doesn’t negate concerns about cohabitation between residents and unhoused Quebecers

A judge in Longueuil will decide Monday whether to grant bail to a man accused of deliberately using his vehicle to strike an unhoused woman who had...

10.06.2025 10

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Hanes: STM public-transit strike could be harbinger of doom spiral to come

We take it for granted in Montreal that any time we descend the escalator to the underground platform, a métro train will arrive shortly to whisk us...

05.06.2025 10

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Hanes: Legault government has learned nothing by taking school board bill to Supreme Court

Whenever a new fracas erupts between the government of Premier François Legault and the anglophone community, Eric Girard, the minister responsible...

05.06.2025 9

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Hanes: Long, rocky road to digital transformation in Quebec

There are two ways things seem to go when it comes to the digital transformation of public services in Quebec. They can proceed at a glacial pace,...

03.06.2025 10

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Hanes: There are at least two major flaws with Montreal police’s new street check policy

In decision after recent decision, the courts in Quebec have been crystal clear: The police practice of random interceptions runs the risk of racial...

30.05.2025 5

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Hanes: King Charles III’s visit to Canada should be more reassuring than divisive — even for Quebecers

It’s unlikely most Quebecers will be breathless with anticipation Monday afternoon when King Charles III steps onto the tarmac in Ottawa to be...

27.05.2025 10

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Hanes: Legault’s latest power move would kneecap Montreal

There has never been much love lost between Quebec Premier François Legault and Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante during the seven years they have...

23.05.2025 10

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Hanes: Quebec’s investment in schools is shortchanging Montreal

“Investing in education, whether it’s in services or in beautifying our schools, is the best investment we can make for the future of our...

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Hanes: If Quebec wants to improve relations with anglophones, it must be careful when defining them

There was much talk about how to turn English-speaking Quebecers’ generalized mistrust of the Coalition Avenir Québec government into trust during...

21.05.2025 4

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Hanes: Home-care recipients mourn death of autonomy

François Bourbonnière said he almost had to miss the demonstration against cuts to home-care services in Quebec outside the CLSC Rosemont. After...

17.05.2025 20

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Hanes: Earth Day in the time of Trump

Right now, Quebecers, like their fellow Canadians, are in the throes of a federal election campaign that will probably hinge on who is the best leader...

23.04.2025 3

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Hanes: Leaders more hostile in English than in French

There was no playoff-clinching hockey game looming over the English debate Thursday night, only the make-or-break fortunes of four politicians vying...

19.04.2025 10

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Hanes: Leaders feed off playoff vibe in French debate

There was something fitting about federal party leaders facing off in Montreal two hours earlier than planned Wednesday evening, so the French debate...

18.04.2025 5

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Hanes: No, English doesn’t need protection in Quebec — but anglos and their institutions do

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet must have figured he’d found a clever backdrop for his campaign photo op last week when he stood...

16.04.2025 4

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Hanes: Soraya Martinez Ferrada wants to bring ‘progressive but pragmatic’ leadership to Montreal City Hall

Since announcing her intention to run for mayor of Montreal, Soraya Martinez Ferrada said her phone keeps ringing and people have been stopping her on...

12.04.2025 3

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Hanes: Montreal Climate Summit will put the focus back on what may be the biggest threat of all

There are so many existential threats competing for our attention these days that it’s enough to make your head spin (or want to bury it in the...

12.04.2025 5

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Hanes: Quebec government has let vibrant institutions decay

There is a whole lot of heartbreak, disappointment and outrage this week among those affiliated with two of Montreal’s most vibrant yet physically...

12.04.2025 4

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