Montreal Gazette
ELEVATED EXPERIENCE
A REM train departs Kirkland station yesterday as the network's Anse-à-l'orme branch officially opens. Jason Magder looks at what the long-awaited development means for travel in the West Island, including the reconfiguration of the Fairview bus loop.
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WHO WILL SAVE MILTON PARK?
Residents and merchants told the police last summer that `something was happening' in their community. They were seeing new faces, more drug-dealing, growing desperation. Linda Gyulai reports on a public health crisis that has spread beyond the visible...
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A ONE-DRESS EXHIBIT
The one-of-a-kind Dior gown Céline Dion wore during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is on display at the Mccord Stewart Museum until Sept. 7. It took more than 1,000 hours to make by hand, the exhibit's curator tells Brendan Kelly.
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A FACE ON EACH NUMBER
Julie Labelle-patenaude stood before Montreal city council this week and, in a sober but firm tone, read the names — or any known identifying details — of 11 cyclists and pedestrians killed on Parc Ave. since 2013. The list did not include 19 others...
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HABS FEVER GRIPS CITY
Jessica, from left, Charles and Émile Demers celebrate a goal Sunday night as they watch a screen outside the Bell Centre during Game 3 between Montreal and Buffalo. The Habs need two more wins to knock out the Sabres, but they have already captured...
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SUPREME COURT SET TO WEIGH IN ON HUGE INDIGENOUS TITLE CLAIM
The clock began ticking April 7 on what could be one of the most important Supreme Court of Canada cases in New Brunswick's history. That's the date the country's top court told several law firms involved in the Wolastoqey Nation's landmark title...
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`EVERYONE LOVES' MATRIARCH OF MILE END
Owner Tamey Lau has uprooted Dragon Flowers from the Bernard St. block where she doled out bouquets and good cheer for decades, all while raising 14 children as a single mother. T'cha Dunlevy drops by her new locale, where loyal customers have...
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SHAIKA CAFÉ REBORN
The N.D.G. community hub reopened yesterday after sitting empty for five years. Regulars will notice changes — from the facade's makeover to the Portuguese flavour added by the new owner — but the spirit remains. Katelyn Thomas reports.
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MICHELIN STARS ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN
Montreal fares better than last year in the Michelin Guide Quebec 2026, but still not good enough compared to Toronto and Vancouver. On the bright side, two superb Montreal restaurants — the long-standing Hoogan et Beaufort and the upstart Sushi...
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Fréchette moves early on Bill 96 shield
Premier Christine Fréchette has justified her decision to renew the notwithstanding clause shielding Bill 96 from court challenges a year early by saying it is essential to protect the Quebec nation. In a speech opening the third session of the 43rd...
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BRING ON THE SABRES!
Zayan Vil was one of more than 20,000 fans at the Bell Centre Sunday night who enjoyed the Canadiens' Game 7 win over the Lightning. Herb Zurkowsky and Stu Cowan look back and look ahead to what should be another great playoff series for the Habs.
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WHY IS WASHINGTON STILL SO ANGRY OVER BANS ON U.S. ALCOHOL?
It has been more than a year since most provinces banned U.S. alcohol from liquor store shelves, but the United States government is still feeling the hangover. Late last month, the issue of U.S. alcohol bans by every province except Alberta and...
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OUR VERY OWN RAPHAEL GETS HIS DUE
William Raphael's forgotten paintings captured life in 19th-century Montreal and rural Quebec. Now he is being hailed as Canada's first Jewish professional artist, thanks to the perseverance of his great-great-grandson, Bill Brownstein reports.
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ALL RISE FOR THE HABS
Canadiens fan Hugo Sigouin-plasse, right, and some friends at Champs bar celebrate the team's Game 5 victory over the Lightning Wednesday night. Montreal comes alive in a special, inclusive way when the Habs are in the playoffs, Toula Drimonis writes.
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FALLEN, NOT FORGOTTEN
Montreal police held a ceremony in Senneville yesterday to mark the 30th anniversary of the unsolved killing of Const. André Lalonde, who was two months from retirement when he was shot during a traffic stop. Lalonde's family attended the commemoration.
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STRIKE UP THE CELEBRATION
Bob Parsons never misses a Monday with his league at N.D.G.'S Rose Bowl. As he prepares to mark his 100th birthday today, he tells René Bruemmer his secret: `Only the good die young.'
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ROLLER-COASTER RIDE
Playoff hockey. There's nothing like it. No wonder the players are battered and bruised by the end of this four-round odyssey. Further proof that the Stanley Cup is the most difficult trophy to win in professional sports. The Canadiens and Tampa Bay...
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MILITARY RECRUITMENT SOARS AFTER PAY RAISES, SOVEREIGNTY THREATS
The Canadian Armed Forces has recorded its highest recruitment levels in over three decades, enrolling 7,310 personnel in the last fiscal year. That's up 600 new members year-over-year. Officials said the new numbers show strong or stable recruitment...
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DEBUT GRAPHIC NOVEL DRAWS FROM FATHER'S OVERDOSE
Montreal author and illustrator Arizona O'neill's father had struggled with addiction for her whole life — and much of his — before a fentanyl overdose took him at 41. She was 21. She received a call from a hospital one day in the summer of 2015 to...
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Duhaime changes pledge on Bill 96
The leader of the Quebec Conservatives is walking back a promise to repeal the Bill 96 language law and now says he will just amend it if his party takes power in the October election. And to shield the amended law from court challenges, Éric Duhaime...
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RALLYING FOR ISRAEL
An Israel Independence Day rally drew thousands at Place du Canada in Montreal to commemorate the country's national holiday. Children from Jewish day schools danced alongside municipal politicians, hoisting Israeli flags as a DJ blared loud Israeli...
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COMING BACK TO EARTH ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Flying around the far side of the moon earlier this month, astronauts with the Artemis II space mission observed Earthset, a phenomenon only a handful of humans have witnessed before. They beamed back photos of this beautiful, blue planet disappearing...
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HABS MANIA ERUPTS
Lori Manon-og, in Habs jersey, and Lee-anna Holder cheer at Maison Publique Mclean's after the Canadiens won in overtime against the Tampa Bay Lightning Sunday night in Game 1 of their playoff series. Brendan Kelly was there to capture fans' euphoria.
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`SCENARIOS ARE ALL EITHER BAD OR VERY, VERY BAD'
Grocery prices are elevated, gas prices are high, job markets are cooling, and U.S. President Donald Trump is sticking to his tariff plans while the world eyes a shaky ceasefire with Iran. The truce between the U.S. and Iran has raised hopes and...
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CAPTURING A CITY'S SOUL
When Gabor Szilasi came to Quebec as a refugee in 1957, after fleeing the Soviet crackdown of the Hungarian Uprising, he was arriving in what he would later describe as “a mythical place for a Central European.” When he died at 98 on April 10, the...
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THE RUSH-HOUR BLUES
Blue-collar workers blocked a busy east-end road yesterday morning, setting up a picket line at Sherbrooke St. and PIE-IX Blvd. Their three-day strike is set to finish at 6 a.m. tomorrow. Salary is a main point of dispute in negotiations with the city.
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PASSING THE TORCH
Coalition Avenir Québec Leader Christine Fréchette is congratulated by predecessor François Legault after being officially sworn in as premier yesterday at the National Assembly in Quebec City.
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Liberals win Terrebonne, get majority
Federal Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste clinched victory in Terrebonne Monday night, winning back the traditional Bloc Québécois stronghold two months to the day after the Supreme Court cancelled her one-vote victory in last year's general...
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Fréchette reaches CAQ'S top post quickly and quietly
In the days before Premier François Legault's announcement in January that he would be leaving politics, Christine Fréchette's name was not usually featured on the short list of people who could potentially fill his shoes. More experienced politicians...
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FEWER CANADIANS CROSSING BORDER — AND DUTY-FREE SHOPS ARE PAYING
Canadians still have their elbows up when it comes to travelling south of the border, and those fewer trips are having a disastrous effect on a key business: duty-free shopping. Tariff spats, Donald Trump's “51st state” rhetoric and encouragement by...
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SHOWDOWN IN TERREBONNE
The Liberals took the traditional Bloc Québécois stronghold by a single vote in last year's federal election. Now, with that razor-thin victory annulled by the Supreme Court of Canada, the same candidates are set for a rematch in Monday's byelection....
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CONVENTION SEES RED
With the federal Liberals and Prime Minister Mark Carney enjoying a wave of support, the party started welcoming around 4,500 members to the Palais des congrès yesterday for three days of policy discussions and other meetings.
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TAKEOFF IS ON TRACK
It seems hard to believe, but the Réseau express métropolitain's Trudeau airport station is nearly completed and will be ready to see its first trains starting next year. The airport authority gave reporters a sneak preview of the station on...
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Pediatrician on a mission to match kids with doctors
“Everybody deserves care.” A simple concept is what prompted Dr. Matthew Donlan, pediatrician at the Montreal Children's Hospital, to launch an initiative connecting children to doctors in their communities in Quebec. Donlan had been struggling with...
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A KISS FOR FAMILY
Alexandra Galy has been stuck living in the same one-bedroom apartment in St-henri for 4½ years. She's single, but doesn't live alone: her 25-kilogram golden retriever Chab and four-year-old cat Miche-miche are part of her family, she says. But if...
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THE MICROBIOLOGIST WITH A MILLION INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS
What do tears, semen, menstrual blood, breast milk and animal feces have in common? They've all been under Montreal microbiologist Chloé Savard's microscope at some point, the kaleidoscopic images shared on Instagram for her one million followers to...
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HABS RISE, LEAFS FLAIL
We hope MLSE president Keith Pelley isn't in the habit of taking walks near the downtown arena where the Leafs (one of the seven teams he governs) play something resembling hockey. With Pelley's awareness of what's going on around him, he's a lock to...
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SYMPHONIC SATISFACTION
Rafael Payare is starting to feel like a Montrealer. The maestro embarks on his fifth season at the head of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal this fall. “Me and my family, we feel very welcome here,” Payare said. “We do not feel like we are living...
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DOBES EARNS LAURELS
Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes was named the NHL'S first star of the week after notching a 3-0 record, with a sparkling 0.962 save percentage. Herb Zurkowsky has observations from Dobes's second win over the Hurricanes in a span of six days.
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Air Canada CEO faces calls to resign
Despite criticisms from Prime Minister Mark Carney and demands from Premier François Legault and other Quebec politicians that he resign, Air Canada says CEO Michael Rousseau will remain in office as it continues to deal with the aftermath of a plane...
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Two pilots killed in crash at Laguardia Airport in N.Y.
Two pilots are dead after an Air Canada Express flight from Montreal collided with a fire truck while landing at New York City's Laguardia Airport late Sunday night. There were 76 people, including 72 passengers, aboard the Bombardier-built regional...
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SASKATCHEWAN LEADERS, EXPERTS BRACE FOR 2026 WILDFIRE SEASON
Kari Lentowicz was afraid of fire for the first time in her life as she drove away from her community of Denare Beach, Sask., the Wolf fire rapidly approaching from the northwest. “I said, `Well, I can always slam it into reverse.' So I drove into...
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THE HISTORY OF HEALING
Brenda Dunn-lardeau gazes at three copies of Pliny's Encyclopedia on the natural world in a glass case in the entryway of Mcgill University's Osler Library of the History of Medicine. The influential Historia naturalis was written by the ancient Roman...
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BEARLY AWAKE
Black bear Genie grabs a box of fruits and vegetables after coming out of hibernation at the Ecomuseum in Ste-anne-de-bellevue yesterday. `We consider this to be the start of springtime,' the zoo's director of education tells
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CAQ seeing red with latest budget
In the end, part of the legacy will be red ink — lots of red ink. In tabling the 2026-27 Quebec budget Wednesday, the last from the Coalition Avenir Québec government before the end of its term in office, Finance Minister Eric Girard confirmed a...
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A CRUSHING BLOW
High winds pushed over a large tree crushing two cars on Patricia Ave. in Notre-damede-grâce yesterday. The winds, with gusts near 80 km/h, knocked out power to more than 300,000 Hydro-québec clients, delayed flights and commuter trains, and closed...
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REIGN ON HER PARADE
Fellow princesses Addison Martin, Emma Miles-jones and Emma Corriveau, far right, watch Kasey Lamer adjust the crown on St. Patrick's Parade queen Sarah Crotty on Monday. Katelyn Thomas explains five fun facts about the annual event.
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OFFICIAL INTRIGUED BY ANTI-DRONE SYSTEM FROM TRIO AT HEART OF EXPLOSIVES TRIAL
A senior official at the Department of National Defence says he wants to learn more about the anti-drone system three men charged in an Ontario gun and explosives investigation are working on, once their legal problems are resolved. But developing...
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THE COMPLICATED PRIDE OF LGBTQ+ HABS FANS
The next instalment of The Gazette's Habs superfan series Kat Anderson, a bartender/manager at Champs, and four regulars were sipping drinks recently at the sports bar and talking about why they love watching Habs games at the hip St-laurent Blvd....
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FROZEN IN PLACE
Kevin Barrière scrapes ice off his car yesterday, before the worst of the freezing rain hit the city and province. The morning commute was largely spared, but Hydro-québec outages increased as the day went on, flights were cancelled at Trudeau airport...
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MARBLE MASTERWORKS
You may have an out-of-body experience visiting the new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Stare long enough into the vacant, entrancing eyes of the works in The Torlonia Collection: Masterpieces of Roman Sculpture and you are transported...
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Oil prices could spill over to groceries
As war in the Middle East pushes the price of gas up at the pump, consumers could also soon be paying more at the grocery store, as increased shipping costs affect the price of food. But for Quebec farmers, who often don't set the prices they charge...
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RUSSIA MAY SEE CHANCE TO BENEFIT FROM MIDEAST WAR
For Russia, the assassination of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was the latest blow to President Vladimir Putin's network of anti-western partners, and it exposed Moscow's diminished influence on the world stage, from the Middle East to...
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ROCK STAR MEMOIR
The bassist who rose to fame in the 1990s playing with Hole and Smashing Pumpkins revisits those heady yet harrowing days in her tell-all book. Along the way, T'cha Dunlevy writes, she celebrates her parents and her Montreal roots.
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HOLE LOTTA TROUBLE
A man takes a photograph at the site where a large section of roadway collapsed on the Sauvagine Bridge in Châteauguay on Wednesday. The bridge partially reopened yesterday after an inspection, and repair work has begun, the city says.
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BATTLE LINES DRAWN
Hoisting U.S. and Israeli flags, and the lion-emblazoned flag of pre-revolution Iran, around 50 demonstrators gathered Wednesday to cheer U.s.-israeli strikes on Iran. “President Trump, thank you,” the people assembled in front of the U.S. consulate...
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Immigrants questioning their future
With the fate of a popular immigration program up in the air, some immigrants are questioning whether they have a future in Quebec. Immigration Minister Jeanfrançois Roberge axed the Programme de l'expérience québécoise (PEQ) — which offered status to...
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Pilot project helps unhoused people `reconnect to society' after hospital visit
Leo Mclean has been in and out of hospital with health problems and had to start using a walker, all while living full time on the street during the past year. But thanks to a pilot project launched in January by the health and social services agency...
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IS TRUMP RUNNING OUT OF TARIFF CARDS TO PLAY AHEAD OF CUSMA REVIEW?
Even the highest court in the land could not convince Donald Trump to stray from his love of tariffs. The U.S. president's yearlong imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) was brought to a halt by the...
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THE NEURO'S UNSUNG HERO
One major sign of how Dr. William Cone has slowly faded from memory is evident the moment you step through the heavy art deco front doors of the Montreal Neurological Institute he helped found in 1934 on the flank of Mount Royal. Inside the lobby is a...
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All systems `Go' for bus messages
City buses will soon once again display the word “Go” in electronic messages supporting the Montreal Canadiens, the Société de transport de Montréal announced Thursday. And, following a personal intervention by French Language Minister Jean-françois...
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PORTRAIT OF A SUPERFAN
“To me, all this memorabilia is art,” Sunil Peetush says of the Canadiens shrine he has created in the basement of his St-lazare home. Brendan Kelly explores how the son of immigrant parents fell in love with hockey and how it helped him make friends.
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TRIUMPHANT RETURN
Speedskater Valérie Maltais shows off her three Olympic medals — one gold and two bronze — after arriving at Trudeau airport from Italy Monday night. She was joined by other weary Quebec athletes who were happy to be home, Leora Schertzer writes.
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Ukrainians build a life away from war
The last morning Victoria Nosenko was in her homeland of Ukraine, she woke up to the sound of air sirens at 5 a.m. on the day Russia launched a full-scale attack. “We understood that it was war,” she said. She frantically packed up belongings before...
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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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