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Would Tout le monde en parle work in English Canada?
Ben oui! Of course it would. I have, over the years, bent the ear of executives at both CBC-TV and CTV trying to convince them that they should buy rights to the made-in-France TV format for the talk...
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Rick Mercer takes on the Canadian Olympic swim team
As a countdown to the 2012 London Games, I’ll be featuring a video a day of our Canadian Olympic athletes. Today’s clip features Rick Mercer training with our national swim team. As usual Rick will put...
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet wraps shooting on The Young and Prodigious Spivet
Man was it freezing on the Van Horne overpass Saturday morning just after nine. I was there to witness the absurdly-talented French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet shoot the last scene of The Young and...
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The Heart and Stroke Foundation endorses Harvey’s burgers? Really?
Dr. Yoni Freedhoff had a Rick Mercer-type rant in his Weighty Matters blog. What sparked his anger? The Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation’s decision to place their Health Check logo on four...
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If You were Mayor of Montreal, what would you do?
Rick Mercer hamming it up in an anti-malaria bednet with then Liberal MP Belinda Stronach in 2006 (Gazette photo/John Mahoney) Wanna be mayor of Montreal? Michael Ryan Wiseman wants you to think...
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Bill Brownstein: Aislin still a kid at heart
MONTREAL – Political strife, patronage, potholes: If Benjamin Franklin were still alive — and kicking in Montreal — he would have added them, along with death and taxes, to his shortlist of life’s...
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Gillers, Ghomeshi mark literary highs and lows of 2014
The Giller Prize presentation show has entrenched itself as our country’s literary Oscar night, but this year, undeniably, it came with an added touch of drama. A certain scheduled master of...
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Montreal nominees talk books, nominations as we count down to $100,000 Giller...
There are five finalists for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, to be awarded at a glitzy gala in Toronto Wednesday. Chosen from 168 books submitted by 63 publishers, they are Montrealers Heather O’Neill for...
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Count your blessings – it will make you happier
It’s second nature for many of us to focus on what’s wrong, not what’s right. We list our travails instead of remarking on our good fortune. Rather than concentrate on what we’re grateful for, we zero...
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Dan Delmar: Denis Coderre, Brad Wall and Rick Mercer's pipeline polemics ill...
From Quebec’s enviro-nationalists to Alberta’s old energy apologists, few are tackling the issue of TransCanada’s contentious Energy East pipeline with any semblance of balance. Some are even...
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