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Allison Hanes

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Hanes: Adults need guardrails on AI as much as kids

Hanes: Adults need guardrails on AI as much as kids

Over the Easter weekend, my brother-in-law turned to artificial intelligence for advice on how to speed up cooking the roast we were late putting in...

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Hanes: Outlawing insults against police would be going too far

Hanes: Outlawing insults against police would be going too far

You know casual misogyny has got out of hand in Montreal when a young man feels entitled to spew sexist, degrading filth at a female police officer to...

06.04.2026 10

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Hanes: Supporting secularism and supporting secularism laws are not the same thing

Hanes: Supporting secularism and supporting secularism laws are not the same thing

The fate of Quebec’s controversial secularism law, Bill 21, is now in the hands of Canada’s highest court. But there is much more at stake....

03.04.2026 10

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Hanes: Latest Quebec health reform would 'replace family doctors with CLSC bureaucrats'

Hanes: Latest Quebec health reform would 'replace family doctors with CLSC bureaucrats'

Months after trying to forcibly assign family physicians to all Quebec patients under the coercive but now defunct Bill 2, the government says that...

03.04.2026 10

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Hanes: Air Canada CEO was naive about French before. Now he seems downright clueless

Language politics should not overshadow the deaths of two pilots, but Michael Rousseau should have seen this coming when he recorded a condolence...

27.03.2026 30

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Hanes: Vanier's cancellation of Holocaust commemoration 'cowardly,' survivor says

A ceremony slated for Wednesday was cancelled over safety concerns. "I think that it is their obligation as an educational institution to put students...

25.03.2026 30

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Hanes: Quebec clinics complain new mandatory AI tool is not saving them time as promised

The filter for booking medical appointments is being rolled out to clinics as doctors raise concern it's a time suck, not a time saver.

24.03.2026 30

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Hanes: Laws must be fixed to prevent deaths foretold

The stabbing death of the owner of a Plateau dépanneur last week was predictable. Could it have been preventable?

20.03.2026 20

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Hanes: A clean sweep for Montreal?

17.03.2026 30

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Hanes: McGill's Osler Library shares the fine art of early medical books

17.03.2026 30

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Hanes: Changing the clocks is a tired and antiquated ritual

10.03.2026 30

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Hanes: Neglect of heritage buildings leaves Montreal with little more than façades

03.03.2026 40

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Hanes: Disrespect shown for women's hockey hurts as much as Canada's Olympic losses

01.03.2026 30

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Hanes: Quebec knows the anguish of Tumbler Ridge all too well

13.02.2026 70

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Hanes: The French language will be a key issue in Quebec campaigns

09.02.2026 30

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Hanes: Whether it's potholes or blackouts, Montrealers are inured to broken infrastructure

04.02.2026 30

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Hanes: Five Quebec women were killed in January. These femicides are a collective failure

02.02.2026 20

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Hanes: Mayor tries to bridge first fault lines between Montreal and CAQ government

28.01.2026 20

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Hanes: New Quebec health minister Sonia Bélanger has her work cut out for her

26.01.2026 20

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Hanes: Can Carney win over Quebecers like he did the global elite?

24.01.2026 40

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Hanes: As Trump's threats escalate, Canadians are trying to live our lives amid a broken world order

22.01.2026 40

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Hanes: New mayor resets conversation for Camillien-Houde Way's future

17.01.2026 20

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Hanes: Legault divided to conquer, and that legacy will haunt us

15.01.2026 20

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Hanes: Martinez Ferrada's maiden budget starts steering Montreal out of stormy waters

13.01.2026 30

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Hanes: Giving is the greatest gift of all during the holidays

22.12.2025 30

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Hanes: The takeaway from 2025? Don't take anything for granted

20.12.2025 40

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Hanes: Losing Rodriguez may be a blessing in disguise for the Quebec Liberals

19.12.2025 70

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Hanes: Longueuil mayor fights for transparency in the Nooran Rezayi case

18.12.2025 30

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Hanes: The bitter pill of a doctor deal at the 11th hour

13.12.2025 10

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Hanes: CAQ's constitution is blood-chilling for all Quebecers

11.12.2025 20

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Hanes: 'The coming hours' will decide the future of family medicine in Quebec

11.12.2025 20

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Hanes: Quebec's new secularism bill is full of solutions in search of problems

08.12.2025 20

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Hanes: 'Clock is ticking' for family medicine groups as Bill 2 talks collapse

05.12.2025 10

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Hanes: Polytechnique's Order of the White Rose 'is a bridge between memory and the future'

02.12.2025 10

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Hanes: These are the 14 new inductees in Polytechnique Montréal's Order of the White Rose

01.12.2025 20

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Hanes: The Order of the White Rose flourishes to 14 at Polytechnique Montréal

29.11.2025 10

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Hanes: New contract offer heaps even more demands on teetering clinics

28.11.2025 10

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Hanes: CAQ's constitution is blood-chilling for all Quebecers

24.11.2025 10

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Hanes: Clinic that cares for Montreal's most vulnerable 'won't make it'

21.11.2025 20

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Hanes: Bill 2 means 'game over' for LaSalle pediatric clinic

19.11.2025 20

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Hanes: 'Blind spot' in Bill 2 could shut eight sexual health clinics by Jan. 1

17.11.2025 10

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Hanes: Universities are here to help, despite what many think, says U de M's rector

14.11.2025 10

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Hanes: A transfer of power unlike any other in Montreal’s history

13.11.2025 10

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Hanes: Bill 2 will force family clinics to close, Quebec doctors warn

11.11.2025 30

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Hanes: Handwritten copies of In Flanders Fields are artifacts of remembrance

10.11.2025 20

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Hanes: How Luc Rabouin and Projet Montréal blew it

04.11.2025 10

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Hanes: Martinez Ferrada tells Montrealers 'I heard you'

03.11.2025 10

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Hanes: Who will stand up for Montreal anglos as mayor?

30.10.2025 20

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Mayoral hopeful Jean-François Kacou counts on social media to deliver his message

28.10.2025 10

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'Where the hell does $7.2 billion go?': Mayoral candidate Gilbert Thibodeau vows to fix Montreal's finances

23.10.2025 10

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