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It was Oct. 16, 1987. I was seated near ringside in a mostly empty Convention Center in Atlantic City an hour or two before fight time, awaiting a bout featuring Montreal’s Matthew Hilton on the undercard of the big show — Mike Tyson vs. Tyrell Biggs for the heavyweight championship of the world. Read More

Sophie Deraspe's extraordinary new film, Bergers, stars Félix-Antoine Duval as a burned-out Montreal advertising executive who drops out of the rat race to become a shepherd in Provence. But the supporting cast in this stunning-shot French-language feature also includes thousands of sheep, a bunch of herding dogs, goats and one rather memorable donkey who is being reluctantly pulled along by a shepherd. Read More

HACHINOHE, Japan — Ivanie Blondin helped Canada to a team sprint gold medal before picking up an individual bronze Friday as Canada opened the long-track speed-skating season with three medals at the ISU Four Continents championships. Read More

The Liberals are trying to pull off the precarious balancing act of appealing to francophone voters, with whom their support is mired in single digits, while charming their anglophone community supporters. Their stunt involves devising a Quebec constitution, in which the French Language Charter (Bill 101) would be enshrined, reinforcing French as the common language to be promoted and protected. However, they would first eliminate some of the irritants in Bill 101 that were recently added via Bill 96, and promise to guarantee the rights of anglophones to services in English and to limit the use of the notwithstanding clause. Read More

Georges Laraque, the former Canadiens winger turned radio commentator, had an interesting bit of news this week. Read More

It is a lifesaver, stocked in every emergency room! N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is amazingly effective as an antidote to acetaminophen poisoning. Read More

Montreal's two children's hospitals are asking parents to avoid pediatric emergency rooms unless their child needs immediate care amid what the hospitals describe as a surge in the number of patients. Read More

Cole Caufield was leading the NHL in goals after scoring 12 in his first 16 games — including two in Monday's 7-5 win over the Sabres in Buffalo. That put him on a pace for a 62-goal season. Read More

The last supermoon of the year will rise at 3:55 p.m., and it'll be a doozy. Read More

Montreal police arson investigators have been called in after a car was set on fire early Friday while parked outside a residence in the borough of Anjou. Read More

The Montreal Canadiens haven't won in Minnesota since 2011, and that dry spell continued with a 3-0 loss against the Wild at Xcel Energy Center on Thursday. Read More

A shelter in place order issued Thursday by the city of Longueuil in the wake of a train derailment in the Le Moyne sector was completely lifted Friday morning. Read More

The recent documentary The Commandant’s Shadow is the gripping story of Hans Jürgen Höss, the son of the barbaric commandant of Auschwitz, who in his old age finally admits the truth of his father’s murders of millions of Jews. His eventual meeting with Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a camp survivor, is atonement matched by her courageous acceptance of reconciliation. Read More

Almost five months after his eight-year-old son was viciously attacked by a mysterious underwater creature while swimming in the man-made lake on Île Notre-Dame, George Mandl is still waiting to hear what park authorities plan to do to make sure the lake is safe for swimmers. Read More

After four years of construction to install long-overdue elevators at Place-St-Henri métro station, we’re finally weeks away from a brand-new accessible entrance. Walking by the other day, I noticed how the new glass building contrasts beautifully with the classic architecture of St-Henri’s former post office, the oldest building in the Sud-Ouest borough, which is in the same square. Read More

VANCOUVER — Jason Maas of the Montreal Alouettes captured the Annis Stukus Trophy on Thursday night as the CFL's coach of the year. Read More

We dedicate this edition of the Hidden Game to Alex Auld. Read More

Kim Clavel may not have had a world champion in front of her on Thursday at the Cabaret du Casino de Montréal, but she delivered a flawless performance to defeat Mexican Mayela Perez. Read More

Dock workers at the Port of Montreal will have to return to work on Saturday, in accordance with an order from the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB). Read More

To his family and friends, Jannai Dopwell-Bailey was an ambitious, creative teenager with dreams of making it big in the arts. Read More