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Hanes: The value of a special place to live the last stage of life to the fullest

Hanes: The value of a special place to live the last stage of life to the fullest

The Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence is a hospice nestled in a quiet residential neighbourhood in Montreal’s West Island that offers...

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Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Libman: For PSPP, now comes the hard part: governing

Libman: For PSPP, now comes the hard part: governing

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...

saturday 10

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Right Chemistry: The history of anesthesia will knock you out

Right Chemistry: The history of anesthesia will knock you out

Physicians assembled in an operating room at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital Oct. 16, 1846, to watch chief of surgery John Collins Warren...

09.10.2026 4

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Melançon: The PQ's bumpy road to sovereignty

Melançon: The PQ's bumpy road to sovereignty

“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...

09.10.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Raphaël Melançon

Kelly: NAZA is packing theatres and sparking intense conversations in Montreal

Kelly: NAZA is packing theatres and sparking intense conversations in Montreal

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....

09.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Brendan Kelly

Hanes: Relations between Montreal and the Quebec government may be about to get less frosty

Hanes: Relations between Montreal and the Quebec government may be about to get less frosty

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...

08.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Unpacking the separatist sentiment in Alberta and Quebec

Unpacking the separatist sentiment in Alberta and Quebec

What happens when two provinces with very different political cultures question their place in Canada? To explore the question further, The Gazette is...

08.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Montreal Gazette

Labos: I've got no time for Apple Watch's new Health Sensing System

Labos: I've got no time for Apple Watch's new Health Sensing System

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...

07.10.2026 3

Montreal Gazette

Christopher Labos

Brownstein: Engelbert Humperdinck will never say 'release me' to the touring life

Brownstein: Engelbert Humperdinck will never say 'release me' to the touring life

He croons a moving — and most mellifluous — rendering of The Cars’ 1984 classic Drive, along with impressive, touching takes on Kiss’s 1976...

07.10.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Kheiriddin: Quebec election bad news for Carney, good for Poilievre

Kheiriddin: Quebec election bad news for Carney, good for Poilievre

The 2026 Quebec election has completely transformed the province’s political landscape. The Coalition Avenir Québec, in power since 2018, was...

06.10.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Tasha Kheiriddin

Mulcair: Result renders referendum unlikely, but a wild card remains

Mulcair: Result renders referendum unlikely, but a wild card remains

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...

06.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Tom Mulcair

Hanes: Quebec elects PQ government — on a tight leash

Hanes: Quebec elects PQ government — on a tight leash

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...

06.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Fitness: Are you really ready to tackle a tough workout?

Fitness: Are you really ready to tackle a tough workout?

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...

04.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Jill Barker

Freed: Dr. Josh’s English-speaking guide to the Quebec election

Freed: Dr. Josh’s English-speaking guide to the Quebec election

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...

03.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Josh Freed

Libman: As Quebec race reaches an end, so too must Carney's silence

Libman: As Quebec race reaches an end, so too must Carney's silence

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...

03.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Right Chemistry: Are you what you eat, as wellness influencers would have you believe?

Right Chemistry: Are you what you eat, as wellness influencers would have you believe?

“Wellness influencers” are crawling all over social media platforms. Some, like psychologist Jordan Peterson, who promotes a carnivore diet, or...

02.10.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Drimonis: Why does this election feel like no matter who wins, we've all lost?

Drimonis: Why does this election feel like no matter who wins, we've all lost?

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...

02.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Toula Drimonis

Brownstein: Snowdon Deli brings back some 1946 prices for its 80th birthday

There are no surefire ways to succeed on Montreal’s ever-volatile restaurant scene. Competition is fierce. Customers are fickle. Making it to 10...

01.10.2026 40

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Dunlevy: Beyond Netflix tax, culture gets short shrift in Quebec election campaign

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...

01.10.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

T'cha Dunlevy

Hanes: I voted in English this Quebec election to safeguard my linguistic rights

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,...

30.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Kheiriddin: In Quebec and Alberta, it's a bad time to be a separatist

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...

29.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Tasha Kheiriddin

Mulcair: Fréchette in free fall. What happened?

In surfing slang, a “wipeout” is when someone gets knocked off the board and comes crashing down. Premier Christine Fréchette’s Coalition...

29.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Tom Mulcair

Hanes: On Tout le monde en parle, Quebec party leaders share a laugh at the expense of fundamental rights

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...

28.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Fitness: Pick up the pace for better health

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,...

27.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Jill Barker

Libman: Room for movement in home stretch of Quebec election

Legendary Radio-Canada news anchor Bernard Derome is synonymous with the iconic phrase “Si la tendance se maintient …” (“If the trend...

26.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Freed: Report from the front lines of the world bike invasion

The world’s largest global biking championship is overwhelming Montreal streets: 1,000 competitors from more than 80 counties along with 500,000...

26.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Josh Freed

Right Chemistry: The dark sciences behind The Wizard of Oz

There is no question that the movie I have referred to in my lectures most often is The Wizard of Oz. It finds its way into my lectures on drugs,...

25.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Hanes: Quebec risks sleepwalking toward another referendum

Over the course of three televised election debates (all in French, none in English), Quebecers watched the five main party leaders square off on a...

25.09.2026 80

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Brownstein: Jay Baruchel brings Montreal daredevil Ken Carter back to life in The Stunt Driver

No guff: Jay Baruchel goes Rocketman — and not in the Elton John jukebox musical sense — in his latest venture, The Stunt Driver. And this...

24.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Melançon: No clear winner, one clear loser after Round 3 of TV debates

The buses are back on the campaign road. After three exhausting TV debates, party leaders are back at touring the province in an attempt to meet and...

24.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Raphaël Melançon

Hanes: One Quebec mayor seeks elusive bilingual status to serve anglophone constituents better

Since she was elected mayor of the dairy farming hamlet of Godmanchester nearly a year ago, Judith Fouquet has only been allowed to send out a single...

24.09.2026 90

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Hanes: Montreal's anti-insult bylaw gives the middle finger to fundamental rights

Montreal may soon find itself the butt of jokes for its handling of a new bylaw making it an offence to insult city employees, including police...

23.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Kheiriddin: Carney takes a flyer on airport privatization

Prime Minister Mark Carney has spent the last year and a half asking Canadians to embrace his “Canada Strong” agenda. We’ve all heard the...

23.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Tasha Kheiriddin

Mulcair: Fractured race reflects a divided Quebec

With less than two weeks to go until the general election, Quebecers are giving pollsters fits in a five-way race that will go down to the wire....

22.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Tom Mulcair

Labos: Coffee and cancer: Are there grounds for concern?

Recent headlines about hot drinks causing esophageal cancer probably scared a lot of people. After all, a tripling of cancer risk is not negligible...

22.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Christopher Labos

Hanes: It was the wrong target, but vandalism at Mila speaks to the growing angst about AI

Vandals hit the wrong target when they smashed the windows and scrawled “burn the data centres” on the headquarters of Mila, Montreal’s flagship...

21.09.2026 50

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Fitness: Interest in weight training is gathering strength among older women

I am 64 years old and although I have been using weights for a long time now (25-ish years), I still wish to make sure that I am training with...

20.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Jill Barker

Right Chemistry: It's not a far leap from psychedelic cats to neuroleptics

You never know what can prompt one of these columns. It was while looking for artists who may have been affected by using toxic materials that I came...

19.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Joe Schwarcz

Dunlevy: 25 years in, POP Montreal remains ‘a great way to experience the city’

I was invited onto CBC Radio One’s The Bridge last week to talk about the 25th anniversary of POP Montreal with host Nantali Indongo, POP co-founder...

19.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

T'cha Dunlevy

Libman: After two leaders' debates, what's changed in the Quebec election?

Each of Quebec’s main party leaders entered this week’s French language debates with a particular objective. The Parti Québécois’ Paul...

19.09.2026 50

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman

Brownstein: Montreal International Black Film Festival kicks off with a compelling history lesson on Ghana

Admittedly, it doesn’t take much to get Fabienne Colas pumped. But the ever-exuberant founder and president of the Montreal International Black Film...

19.09.2026 40

Montreal Gazette

Bill Brownstein

Drimonis: And the prize for best Gémeaux acceptance speech goes to ...

I’m a theatre buff. Over the years, I’ve seen incredible plays performed in Montreal, New York City and across the pond. The longest piece of...

18.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Toula Drimonis

Hanes: Quebec’s high-stakes election debates gloss over crucial issues

The second of three televised debates wrapped up Wednesday night without any clear winner among Quebec’s five main party leaders — and without an...

16.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Kheiriddin: The battle for the working-class voter has just begun

For a movement supposedly wandering the political wilderness, the Canadian left made a lot of noise in downtown Toronto Monday night. Hundreds of...

16.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Tasha Kheiriddin

Mulcair: How the five Quebec party leaders did in their first debate

Quebecers were treated to the first of three French-language debates Tuesday night. There was an excess of prepared answers and very little new was...

15.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Tom Mulcair

Obituary: Serge Losique fought for his Festival des films du monde to the bitter end

Like the once-illustrious film festival he launched nearly 50 years ago, Serge Losique has faded to black. The wildly ambitious and stubbornly...

15.09.2026 20

Montreal Gazette

T'cha Dunlevy

Neal: I'm bored by this Quebec election. There, I said it

It’s another painfully boring election season in Quebec. There, I said it. I know the stakes are high. I’m paying attention. But my goodness,...

15.09.2026 10

Montreal Gazette

Arron Neal

Hanes: Climate change is the forgotten issue of the Quebec election

A series of existential matters has been competing for the attention of voters and dominating the discourse of campaigning party leaders ahead of the...

14.09.2026 70

Montreal Gazette

Allison Hanes

Fitness: Add balance to your workout

Most of us take balance for granted — until we start struggling to pull on our pants or take off our boots without tipping over. But it’s not just...

13.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Jill Barker

Libman: The debates that could decide Quebec's election — and the odds of a referendum

After all the anticipation, political manoeuvring, polling and punditry of the past two years, the Quebec election will finally play itself out in the...

12.09.2026 30

Montreal Gazette

Robert Libman