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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...

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Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Josh Freed: Celebrate Canada and Quebec by swatting bugs and jumping in a lake

Our two national holidays have come and gone, but like most Montrealers I hardly noticed them, which is usually a sign that all’s well in Quebec....

05.07.2025 20

Montreal Gazette

Josh Freed

Drimonis: Children’s book club is latest target of CAQ’s identity politics

Books and public libraries were my gateways to other worlds as a child. It’s understandable, then, why I’m such a fan of the TD Summer Reading...

04.07.2025 6

Montreal Gazette

La Drimonis

Lincoln: An urgent letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney

Dear Prime Minister Carney: Your reputation for quiet competence, reasoned judgment and steady decisiveness, already tested in your previous major...

04.07.2025 3

Montreal Gazette

Clifford Lincoln

The Right Chemistry: Why it’s hard to study what people eat

Last semester I carried out a little experiment in my Chemistry of Food course. At the end of the last lecture, I handed out a blank sheet of paper...

04.07.2025 1

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

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...

02.07.2025 10

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Kheiriddin: Carney will have no choice but to kill supply management

For a while there, things were going so well. Prime Minister Mark Carney — a.k.a. “the Trump whisperer” — had morphed from critic to texting...

02.07.2025 2

Montreal Gazette

Tasha Kheiriddin

Labos: Canada needs to ignore whatever the Trump administration says about vaccines

Since we will never be able to fully insulate ourselves from what happens south of the border, we should take a moment to understand why Americans...

02.07.2025 2

Montreal Gazette

Christopher Labos

Libman: Canadian pride isn’t a betrayal of being a Quebecer

This coming Tuesday, politicians across the country will be proclaiming in speeches and on social media that Canada is the greatest country in the...

29.06.2025 3

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Freed: Here’s to the beautiful chaos of Montreal summers

I was driving home two weeks ago, working my way though a bewildering maze of street festivals separating me from my home. St-Laurent Blvd. was...

29.06.2025 2

Montreal Gazette

Josh Freed