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If there’s a moment that best symbolizes Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada’s first year in office, it’s the night last winter she blew two tires on...
With injuries plaguing up to 50 per cent of runners, there’s no shortage of advice about how to find relief. Change shoes, modify the warmup, alter...
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon may be more intelligent and certainly more articulate than Donald Trump, but the two men have several things in common. Both...
The word sovereignty is on everyone’s lips this week. In unveiling the country’s first updated national security strategy in two decades, Prime...
While I often have to ponder about a topic for a column, there was absolutely no doubt about today’s choice. Harry Houdini would have to take the...
The night we got word Leonard Cohen died, I was watching the Canadiens at my local dive bar. We had just scored against the L.A. Kings, and the bar...
Leonard Cohen spent much of his adult life in places other than Montreal, but the city where he was born and raised was always close to his heart. He...
It’s coming. On Nov. 1 we will have to set our clocks back one hour. Most people would prefer to keep the current time, forestall the 4 p.m....
Montreal is set to be the backdrop for a defining moment in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s foreign policy antidote to an increasingly hostile and...
McGill University law students have been embroiled in a real-life case study this fall, as a convicted killer’s legal right to a second chance, a...
October is breast cancer awareness month, with the focus on the 32,400 women in Canada estimated to be newly diagnosed with breast cancer in 2026, as...
How ironic and thought-provoking that one of the main grievances fuelling the Alberta separatist movement is also one of the strongest deterrents...
For the past five years, Éric Duhaime roamed the halls of the National Assembly with a visitor pass, hoping to one day sit there as an elected...
Alberta voted overwhelmingly to stay in Canada on Monday, with just under a quarter of those who turned out calling for another binding referendum on...
Alberta will remain part of Canada — for now. As I write this, ballots are still being counted on the province’s 10 referendum questions, but as...
Nation-building isn’t a part-time exercise. Yes, a massive sigh of relief can be felt across the country today as our sister province out west chose...
You can take the writer out of Winnipeg, but you can’t take Winnipeg out of the writer. Don Macdonald, a former Gazette journalist, has just...
When Transport Québec closed one of two Montreal-bound lanes on the Mercier Bridge last week because a fissure was detected in a steel beam, it...
When Joanna Wietrzyk of Australia continued competing in an international HYROX fitness competition last September despite having diarrhea, the...
“You’ve Got a Friend in Me” is the touching theme song of Disney/Pixar’s classic Toy Story movie franchise. It’s a bit of stretch at this...
It really doesn’t get more revolting. A Montreal police officer has been suspended for allegedly urinating on unhoused people while they slept on...
There were several events on my agenda as we planned a family trip to London in 1989. We were going to see Miss Saigon with Lea Salonga and Jonathan...
Now that the provincial election is done, let’s talk boobs, shall we? Mammograms, to be more specific. And why Quebec women are being shortchanged....
If it’s Tuesday, they must be in New York. Or is it Philadelphia? Possibly New Jersey? In the week coming, they’ll be in Quebec City, then...
Later this month, my daughter and I will go to our first arena concert together. The global girl group Katseye is performing a highly anticipated show...
The mystery surrounding the role of artificial intelligence in producing one of this year’s most celebrated works of French literature deepened on...
The Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence is a hospice nestled in a quiet residential neighbourhood in Montreal’s West Island that offers...
Looks like we’ve dodged a bullet. For the anglophone community, the results of Monday’s election couldn’t have been much better under the...
Physicians assembled in an operating room at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital Oct. 16, 1846, to watch chief of surgery John Collins Warren...
“We are going to ask Quebecers the question that makes a people a country.” Sept. 12, 1994. A victorious Jacques Parizeau stands proudly at the...
When the credits ended after a screening of the documentary NAZA at Cinéma du Musée on Sunday afternoon, there was dead silence in the room....
One of Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s first acts as premier-designate this week was announcing a summit on homelessness. It’s...
What happens when two provinces with very different political cultures question their place in Canada? To explore the question further, The Gazette is...
The Apple Watch Series 12 is no mere watch. It was launched with great fanfare and touts an all-new Health Sensing System. Those with enough...
He croons a moving — and most mellifluous — rendering of The Cars’ 1984 classic Drive, along with impressive, touching takes on Kiss’s 1976...
The 2026 Quebec election has completely transformed the province’s political landscape. The Coalition Avenir Québec, in power since 2018, was...
What a wild ride this election has been. Quebec voters have once again showed that they have a formula for nailing one objective — change — while...
The lessons from the not-so-distant past may have been lingering in the back of voters’ minds Monday when Quebecers elected the Parti Québécois to...
Have you ever wondered about the readiness score on your smart watch? New to the latest Apple Watch 12 and the Ultra 4 and a long-standing feature in...
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...
There would undoubtedly be a roar, a hue and cry from every politician in Quebec, and certainly from our federal government, if Ontario or Manitoba...
“Wellness influencers” are crawling all over social media platforms. Some, like psychologist Jordan Peterson, who promotes a carnivore diet, or...
I was in the back seat of a cab making small talk with my driver when, unprompted, he pointed to a campaign poster on a passing pole and told me he...
There are no surefire ways to succeed on Montreal’s ever-volatile restaurant scene. Competition is fierce. Customers are fickle. Making it to 10...
Culture is both a hot topic and a non-topic in the countdown to election day in Quebec on Monday. From standing up to Netflix and other tech giants to...
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,...
Quebec and Alberta may have more in common than anyone suspected — at least when it comes to seceding from Canada. In both provinces, over 70 per...
In surfing slang, a “wipeout” is when someone gets knocked off the board and comes crashing down. Premier Christine Fréchette’s Coalition...
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...
Ever since technology made tallying our steps so effortless, it’s become an easy way to measure daily activity. It’s also been a boom to research,...