Montreal Gazette
HOCKEY HEARTBREAK IN MILAN
Captain Marie-philip Poulin can't hide her disappointment after Canada's 2-1 OT loss to their rivals from the U.S. in the women's hockey final at the Olympics yesterday. Clinging to a 1-0 lead, Canada was just over two minutes from gold when the U.S....
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CANADA TAKES THRILLER
Canadian players celebrate after Mitch Marner scored the winner in a 4-3 OT triumph over Czechia in the men's hockey quarterfinals at the Milano Cortina Olympics yesterday. Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki scored the tying goal with 3:27 left in the game....
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Carney reveals ambitious `defence industrial strategy'
Standing before a backdrop of employees at Montreal's CAE flight-simulator plant and pilottraining centre, Prime Minister Mark Carney officially announced Canada's new “defence industrial strategy” to supply the military and increase Canada's domestic...
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A FINE HOBBY HORSE
As neighbours take pictures of the snow sculpture outside his Kirkland home last week, Shufeng Zhang looks over his work, created in honour of the Chinese Year of the Horse. Zhang tells Katelyn Thomas he wants to `bring some warmth to my community.'
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NORTH AMERICAN MANUFACTURING SUFFERING UNDER THE STRAIN OF TARIFFS
The North American Free Trade Agreement was forged in the 1990s with the notion that greater manufacturing integration between Canada, the United States, and Mexico would benefit all three countries. But U.S. President Donald Trump, who blamed NAFTA...
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MILLIARD WILL LEAD LIBERALS
Charles Milliard is the new leader of the Quebec Liberal Party. Officials Friday confirmed Milliard, the 46-year-old former president of the Fédération des chambre de commerce du Québec, was the only qualified candidate by the 5 p.m. Friday...
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LOVE, MONTREAL STYLE
Filmmaker Xiaodan He picked her adoptive hometown as the backdrop for the romance that unfolds between a repressed Chinese immigrant and a woman she meets through a dating site in Montréal, ma belle, which opens today. `I feel that this movie really...
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`THE NATION MOURNS'
Flowers are placed outside Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in northeast British Columbia, where one of the deadliest mass shootings in the country's history occurred on Tuesday. Among those killed were five students and a teacher, as well as two people...
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STERLING IN SILVER
Félix Roussel, from left, Steven Dubois, William Dandjinou, Courtney Sarault, Florence Brunelle and Kim Boutin were on the mostly Quebec team that finished second in short-track mixed relay yesterday at the Olympics. The Canadian women's hockey team...
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No surefire way to avoid catching a bug in a waiting room, doctors say
In the aftermath of COVID-19, a cough in a medical waiting room may still set off alarm bells for Quebecers — especially with a particularly intense flu season, around a dozen recent cases of measles and overcrowding in emergency rooms. Whether you...
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CANADA'S RACE TO BUILD NEW WARSHIPS
As U.S. President Donald Trump was lecturing Prime Minister Mark Carney and other Western leaders in Davos last month, Vice-admiral Angus Topshee was speaking to his officers about the new navy Canada is building to protect its sovereignty. In the...
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CANADA'S CLUTCH QUEEN
Ninety-two-year-old Julienne Bisson wasn't going to let the snow that swept over Quebec that Sunday in early January stop her from seeing her granddaughter, Canadian superstar Marie-philip Poulin, play hockey. The Professional Women's Hockey League...
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Reopening La Tulipe won't be easy, owners say
The owners of La Tulipe released a statement Wednesday evening about the $350,000 settlement the city has reached with the concert venue's neighbour of 10 years — and they are not happy. The City of Montreal announced this week that it had reached a...
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CAQ dismantles more of doctor law
Sonia Bélanger, the new health minister, has presented legislation rolling back most of the remaining controversial clauses of Quebec's doctor salary reform legislation, Bill 2. With former Coalition Avenir Québec health minister Christian Dubé — who...
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Whether it's gaping potholes or long blackouts, Montrealers are inured to broken infrastructure
Every winter, Montrealers are united in frustration against a common enemy in the city's streets: potholes. Montreal is arguably as famous for its rutted roadways as it is for its delicious bagels. Dodging craters in the pockmarked pavement requires...
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GIFT FROM A GROUNDHOG
Taylor Murray basks in the sun at Place D'youville yesterday, shortly after Fred la marmotte predicted Quebecers will enjoy an early spring. Those who heed human meteorologists will be dismayed to see the forecast calls for more double-digit deep...
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CANADA HAS PLEDGED EV SECTOR $50B IN SUBSIDIES. IS IT WORTH IT?
If you want to play, you have to pay. But when that payment is in the Canadian automotive industry, it in turn pays off in building businesses across several sectors that grow a national economy and generate thousands of jobs, industry experts...
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DEADLY FALLS ON THE RISE AMONG OLDER QUEBECERS
Had she known the northwestern Quebec city of Val d'or would be blanketed in snow in early November, Montrealer Anne Renaud would definitely not have worn her UGG boots, “which have absolutely no traction,” to visit her boyfriend there. The morning of...
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`RESISTANCE MATTERS'
Black History Month representatives Fred Anderson, left, and Aly Ndiaye are from different backgrounds and generations, but share hopes of a better world in bleak times. `I'm discouraged by what I see, but I'm not resigned,' Anderson tells Bill...
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`WE'RE NOT BETTER OFF'
It has been nine years since a gunman walked into a Quebec City mosque, killing six people and wounding 19. In an ideal world, we would have learned much as a society since the tragic events of Jan. 29, 2017. Positive changes would have been made....
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CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
Marie-philip Poulin will vie for her fourth gold medal when she leads the Canadian women's hockey team at the Milano Cortina Olympics. René Bruemmer is profiling six Quebec athletes in the run-up to the Games, starting with Captain Clutch.
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Powerless residents frozen out of homes
Wendy Goldstein was hoping that the latest promise from Hydroquébec would be honoured Monday afternoon, after losing power at her Côte-st-luc home on Saturday morning. Goldstein's was among roughly 15,000 homes without power, mostly in the Côte-st-luc...
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`EVERYONE TOLD ME I WAS CRAZY'
At 15 years old, Danny Motyka dreamed of one day opening a psychedelics drug lab. Two decades later, the Calgary chemist leads a team developing pharmaceutical-grade psychedelic compounds, operating out of a warehouse-sized laboratory in the city's...
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GOING BACK TO THE MOVIES
Seats have been filling up more and more at three local indie cinemas — a trend that cinephile T'cha Dunlevy reports with surprised satisfaction.
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Aww, shucks: famed oyster bar Maestro SVP is closing in March
The last shuck is coming for the city's first all-purpose oyster bar. Maestro SVP is calling it quits in March after 35 years, the last 32 on the Main. Maestro SVP founder-owner Ilene Polansky, one of Montreal's more colourful local characters, cites...
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FIRE SHUTS DOWN BRIDGE
The Jacques-cartier Bridge was closed yesterday morning while firefighters battled a four-alarm blaze in an adjacent abandoned building, which was at risk of collapse. The fire was mostly under control by noon.
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CAR SLAMS INTO CONDO
A 36-year-old man was in a hospital yesterday after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a condo building at the corner of The Boulevard and Mcdougall Rd. A 47-year-old woman in the building at the time of the incident was treated for injuries,...
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PIECING THEIR LIVES TOGETHER
Rashid Gizitdinov and other tenants had to leave a decrepit Lachine building last year when it was ruled a fire risk. He rents an apartment from the city and tells Jack Wilson `government (housing) is better' than what he saw from private landlords.
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XI WELCOMES STEADY STREAM OF LEADERS SHAKEN BY TRUMP'S NEW WORLD ORDER
Donald Trump's tariff war occupied U.S. allies for much of last year. Now, Chinese President Xi Jinping is welcoming a procession of leaders looking to mend fences with the world's other major economy. South Korea's Lee Jae Myung kicked off the trend...
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CHANGE IS IN THE AIR IN QUEBEC
It will be a year of inevitable change if only because Quebecers must go to the polls in a general election Oct. 5 to elect a new government and a new premier. But after the roller-coaster political ride that was 2025, predicting how the politics of...
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LEGAULT RESIGNS AS PREMIER
Unable to turn back the tide of voter dissatisfaction, Premier François Legault Wednesday announced he is stepping down as premier and leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec, a party he founded in 2011. While rumours had been floating for weeks that...
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Mayor says first budget is `rigorous and responsible'
Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada says her first municipal budget is “rigorous and responsible” and signals a return to basics for the city after years of overspending. Presenting the city's 2026 budget on Monday, Martinez Ferrada stressed that...
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SHARING THE JOY OF MUSIC
Pianist Dorothy Fieldman Fraiberg set out to make chamber music more accessible to Montrealers with free concerts — an initiative that began 45 years ago and keeps on resonating, Susan Schwartz reports.
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MASTERS OF THEIR CRAFT
Alex Wills was living on the 82nd floor of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world, several years ago and was working as an executive in the oil industry. One day he looked out his window, which didn't open, and he thought: 'What...
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TAKING STOCK OF HABS
The Canadiens have reached the difficult part of their rebuild midway through Year 4. The focus is no longer just on the future, but also on the present with the team battling for first place in the Atlantic Division with a 23-13-6 record heading into...
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Jordan and Patrik Laine love `timeless charm' of Old Montreal
It's not every day you get an exclusive sit-down with one of Montreal's most impressive young power couples: mental health activist and wellness lifestyle influencer Jordan Leigh Laine and her husband, Montreal Canadiens forward Patrik Laine, both...
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WILL TOP U.S. COURT END THE TARIFF TURMOIL?
'Tis the season for renaming — everything from a cultural hub dedicated to a beloved slain president to new destroyers to 2025 itself. No, U.S. President Donald Trump hasn't labelled the year with his name, but his trade representative, in a new op-ed,...
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`DOWNTOWN VIBE IN THE WEST ISLAND'
The place has been open only a few weeks and already, there are lineups out the door for a weekend lunch — despite the fact that it's rather snowy and brisk. Even the optimistic Anthony Gentile, the mastermind behind Café Gentile West Island on Sources...
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REM station doubles as art gallery with mosaics
At the new Édouard-montpetit REM station in Outremont, a passerby is overheard muttering: “It's like an art gallery in here.” While the REM'S 21st-century monotonous designs stand in stark contrast to the colourful mid-century tile work of Montreal's...
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Intense emotions soar daily at Trudeau airport
It was the first time Aminata Tandia wore a winter coat. She put a long black parka over her white traditional African robe and head covering minutes after arriving from her home country of Mauritania. While her first blast of Canadian winter was in...
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Could Montreal be the setting for Grégoire Trudeau's next chapter?
It's been a minute since Sophie Grégoire Trudeau and I first crossed paths on Montreal's mediascape nearly 20 years ago. To say a lot has happened in her world since then would be an understatement. The fearless force of nature that is Sophie is now...
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DID TRUMP SAVE CANADA FROM BAD POLICY?
Prime Minister Mark Carney rescinded Canada's digital services tax (DST), a threeper-cent levy on digital services revenue from large domestic and foreign businesses, in June after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade talks if the tax...
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2025 DRAWING TO A CLOSE
1 May 24, 2025: Canada was hit with a number of disruptive postal strikes and stoppages while courier traffic continued. 2 Jan. 28; 2025: With this cartoon I wondered if new U.S. President Donald Trump would actually have the courage to invade. 3...
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Giving is the greatest gift of all at this time of year
The countdown until Christmas is now on. The kids are done school until the new year. The rush is underway to finish the shopping, buy groceries, and finalize all the little details that will make the holidays special for our loved ones. This is...
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Italian women find hockey home here in preparation for Olympics
The compete level was high last Wednesday afternoon at the Verdun Auditorium as Italy's women's ice hockey national team faced off against a makeshift team of elite female players from Mcgill, Bishop's and Harvard Universities. Italy's team has been...
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BOOM & GLOOM
In one southwestern Ontario city, forever linked by history to all things jumbo, one of the world's largest automakers is building Canada's biggest factory — a $7-billion colossus expected to employ about 3,000 people. Only 50 kilometres away, in...
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GOODBYE TO 2025
This time last year, Mayor Valérie Plante's eventual replacement as leader of Projet Montréal looked poised to cruise to victory at city hall, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals seemed fated for a brutal electoral drubbing and Canada was bracing...
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A MONTH AS MAYOR
Soraya Martinez Ferrada reflects on the work she's accomplished and the long road ahead in an interview with Jesse Feith. Her time at city hall so far has been a whirlwind, but her foremost priority remains unshakable: `To deliver on homelessness.'
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RODRIGUEZ STEPPING DOWN
Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez has decided to resign, The Gazette confirmed Wednesday. Only six months after he won the leadership, the pressure on Rodriguez following a series of allegations of ethical problems during his campaign was too...
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`LIGHT DISPELS DARKNESS'
Rabbi Lisa Grushcow lights the hanukkiah outside Westmount City Hall on Monday as Rabbi Yehoshua Ellis looks on. Leora Schertzer reports on a Hanukkah celebration that doubled as a memorial for victims of the previous day's massacre in Australia.
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NOT BUILT TO LAST
Anthony Barrette waters the rink in Queen Elizabeth Gardens at Wood Ave. and Sherbrooke St. in Westmount yesterday. With temperatures heading above the freezing mark from tomorrow through Friday, his work is destined to melt away.
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A MEMOIR SHAPED BY FRIENDSHIP
When author Joel Yanofsky became too sick with cancer to continue writing, he turned to two friends to help him finish his book. Ian Mcgillis reports on a special collaboration.
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ORANGE CHRISTMAS
Traffic cones reduced Atwater Ave. to one lane below René-lévesque Blvd. yesterday. The number of cones downtown rose this year though construction sites decreased, says a report that urges better co-ordination of roadwork. Jacob Serebrin reports.
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Future of family medicine is on the line
Montreal doctors are desperately pleading with the Quebec government to revoke or suspend implementation of Bill 2 in a last-ditch effort to prevent a mass exodus of physicians, the closure of numerous family medicine clinics and the collapse of...
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Family of slain teen sues Longueuil
The family of a 15-year-old boy who was fatally shot in September by police on Montreal's South Shore announced Tuesday they are seeking more than $2 million in damages against the City of Longueuil and Longueuil police officers. In their lawsuit, the...
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`THIS IS A NATIONAL ISSUE'
Residents of Milton-parc are pushing back against growing tensions and crime, with a shelter's presence central to many of their concerns. But Open Door client Saila Noah tells Jesse Feith the homelessness crisis is bigger than any one neighbourhood.
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ONTARIO CITY A CENTRAL SPOT IN FENTANYL FIGHT
In an underworld of criminals, guns and deadly fentanyl, Windsor, Ont., is a national nexus. Windsor's place in the country's booming fentanyl trade was recently highlighted with a record-shattering 46-kilogram drug bust. The $6.5-million fentanyl...
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THE TIME OF YEAR FOR GENEROSITY
Bob Hayes was a longtime civic affairs reporter at The Gazette. More importantly, he was civic-minded. Hayes had a big heart, not always an oxymoron when it comes to describing journalists. In 1967, Hayes organized a food and clothing drive for those...
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TIME FOR RE-EDUCATION
Lauryn Hill has been giving Montreal love, and getting love from Montrealers, for over 30 years — 31 years to be precise, almost to the day. As she swung through for a pair of rousing concerts at Salle Wilfrid-pelletier of Place des Arts on Wednesday...
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IT'S HOCKEY SEASON
A City of Montreal truck starts to spray water for the outdoor ice rink at Maisonneuve Park on Tuesday. The temperature is forecast to stay below the freezing mark through the weekend, with a few flurries. Today's high is -3 C.
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CANINE CAMOUFLAGE
Henry blends right in as he takes a walk with Sarah in Westmount Park yesterday. More snow is coming, but expect a mix of sun and clouds today, with a high of -2 C.
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A LINK BETWEEN `MEMORY AND THE FUTURE'
One is an aspiring pilot who wants to work in avionics and defence. Another is engineering orthotics for children with scoliosis. Yet another is experimenting with standardizing the measurement of one volt of energy to allow for the creation of smaller...
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WHY CHINESE EVS KEEP HAUNTING LIBERAL PRIME MINISTERS
Mark Carney has inherited Justin Trudeau's nightmare. In his decade as prime minister, one of the policy decisions that haunted Trudeau was the unavoidable question about whether to allow Chinese electric vehicles (EVS) into the Canadian market. It...
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NEW CONTRACT FOR MATHESON
The Canadiens announced Friday morning that they have signed defenceman Mike Matheson to a fiveyear, Us$30-million contract extension with an annual salary-cap hit of US$6 million. The 31-year-old Matheson is in the final season of an eight-year,...
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SWEEPING NEW SECULARISM BILL
The Coalition Avenir Québec government has presented far-reaching new secularism legislation that ventures into areas it has never touched in the past. Six years after adopting Bill 21, which bars people in certain positions of authority from wearing...
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MEMORIES ON THE MENU
Former Gazette critic Lesley Chesterman shows food personality Soeur Angèle around the Mccord Stewart Museum's new exhibit on the evolution of Montreal restaurants. Chesterman tells T'cha Dunlevy eateries are `a major part of our identity.'
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ALWAYS A TEAM PLAYER
He once harboured dreams of a life in hockey, but Tommy Kulczyk ultimately made his mark as a tireless community worker. Now, after a combined 45 years in the service of organizations including Sun Youth and the Breakfast Club of Canada, he tells Bill...
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IS YOUR DOCTOR GETTING PAYMENTS FROM A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY?
In Canada, when a doctor hands you a prescription, you trust that what's been recommended is the best drug for your health. What you can't know is whether your physician has benefited financially from a relationship with the company that made the drug...
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WINTRY REMEMBRANCE
Pte. Gabriel Harris of the Black Watch takes part in Remembrance Day ceremonies yesterday at the cenotaph near Montreal's Mary Queen of the World Cathedral.
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Handwritten copies of In Flanders Fields serve as artifacts of remembrance
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. John Mccrae's world-famous poem, reflecting on the enormous sacrifices...
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`EVERYONE IS AGREED THAT IT'S AWFUL'
You're a Canadian farm kid, sitting in a European trench in 1915. A man you've never met is dying across a stretch of open land, 100 yards away, as you pen a letter home. Death is everywhere. You've shot moving bodies, you've huddled against incoming...
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