Susan Schwartz

1 week ago | montrealgazette.com | Susan Schwartz

The family of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney has launched a philanthropic chair in Type 1 diabetes at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM). Mulroney, who died in early 2024, was a longtime patient of Dr. Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret, an endocrinologist and director of the Diabetes Clinic and the Metabolic Diseases Research Unit at the IRCM. A world expert in diabetes research and care, particularly Type 1 diabetes, he will direct the chair for its first year.

1 week ago | montrealgazette.com | Susan Schwartz

Entertainment And Life Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable. – Leonard Cohen, in 2016 in The New YorkerLate one January afternoon in 2009, a reader called to comment on a column I’d written — and we got to talking. She told me how, once her children were launched, she’d sold the house in which she’d raised them and moved to a rented upper duplex.

2 weeks ago | montrealgazette.com | Susan Schwartz

Award-winning writer, filmmaker and Gazette columnist Josh Freed is to receive the Order of Montreal, one of 17 people to be honoured at City Hall in a ceremony on May 17. The Order of Montreal, which recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the city’s cultural, scientific, economic, and social life, is considered Montreal’s highest honour. Recipients “share a common passion for the improvement of Montreal and its future,” said Montreal mayor Valérie Plante.

1 month ago | montrealgazette.com | Susan Schwartz

Antisemitism in Canada has reached “perilous, record-setting heights,” according to the latest edition of the annual audit of antisemitic incidents by B’nai Brith Canada. The Canadian Jewish rights advocacy group announced Monday morning at a news conference in Ottawa that it has recorded the highest tally of antisemitic incidents in the country since it began its annual audit of such incidents more than 40 years ago. There were 6,219 reported cases of hatred targeting Jews in 2024.

1 month ago | montrealgazette.com | Susan Schwartz

More than 1,000 people and, by some police counts, as many as 1,500, turned out Sunday at the George-Étienne Cartier monument on Mount Royal to protest against recent executive orders and policy dictates by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with his continuing threats to make Canada the 51st state, and to draw attention to what the speakers said they consider assaults on democracy.