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Josh FreedSarnia Observer |
A weekend away from voting day, there’s only one real Quebec election question: Will PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon get his majority and...
The world’s largest global biking championship is overwhelming Montreal streets: 1,000 competitors from more than 80 counties along with 500,000...
What a bizarre Quebec election we face. Quebecers are voting on whether to leave Canada exactly when they’re falling in love with it. It’s a...
Welcome to Trade War 2.0. It’s like a scene from The Godfather, Canadian edition. But instead of Marlon Brando playing gangster Don Corleone, it’s...
I was at a red light last week in a suburb I don’t often visit — uncertain which way to turn because my GPS had momentarily frozen. The guy behind...
For many decades, your country has been blaming ours for your winter blizzards, cold fronts, freezing drizzle and frozen drazzle. But now you’re...
Like many people, I’ve been using AI lately to help with my accounting, technology problems and occasional recipes that use all the leftovers in my...
It’s “Hot Time, Summer in the City” in Montreal these days, but I’m not just talking about the weather. Our often feverish outdoor...
I recently saw a report with the headline “Time runs out for the alarm clock,” announcing another long-important device now replaced by...
Welcome to Noshgate, the latest silly language battle since … er … I wrote about other silly language battles last week. The language cops’...
Do Not Read This Column in English (unless you are a “historic anglophone”). First, convert to French with Google Translate, then you may read it....
I was in a crowded downtown cinema bathroom last week, with newfangled taps you wave your hands under to get water flowing. I waved, then waved again,...
I was sprawled on my couch in my sweatpants on Thursday night, intently watching the hockey game. Then the Canadiens’ Nick Suzuki scored, a huge...
I was in a crowded, but unusual room recently: a buzzing dining hall filled with 200 people, all talking enthusiastically. Yet there wasn’t a...
There’s been oodles of news the past week: Mark Carney got his majority government, Christine Fréchette is our new Quebec premier and the...
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...
Description: Warm, green, flowery, hopeful. Last seen: Who can remember? Now is the discontent of our winter. Last Saturday was supposed to be the...
With all my healthy habits, I could live to 125. But when I subtract all the unhealthy habits, 29?
WARNING: Paragraph 1 of this column is open to reading traffic, but expect detours due to sentences under construction and unfinished cone-junctions. ...
It turned out to be easy to stop city hall’s controversial road closure on Mount Royal. All it took was a fast-approaching city election that...
DANGER! HEAT ALERT! Do not jog, walk fast, or talk fast. Seniors should remain inside air-conditioned rooms, or the nearest fridge (max. occupancy...
I was standing in line for a pizza slice in Little Italy last week behind two guys in their 30s who were gabbing to each other enthusiastically. One...
I was driving home one recent night on a winding set of streets and expressways near LaSalle when my GPS went black. I suddenly realized I’d been...
When it comes to mornings, I do not rise and shine. In fact, I barely breathe. Ever since I was a kid, I don’t think clearly in the morning. ...
I was waiting for my tennis partner at a west-end park last week, so I pulled out my phone to catch up on the newest news. But a well-dressed...