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Life Below Zero: Are Canadians winter wimps?
Turn down the heat, grab a hot chocolate and turn on CBC tonight. At 9 p.m. on Feb. 9, watch Life Below Zero, a new documentary by film-maker (and Gazette columnist) Josh Freed. He makes the case that...
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Jon Kalina documentary series premieres on Radio-Canada Friday night
Keyse Ibrahim pledging allegiance at American citizenship ceremony at Landmark Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. Courtesy of Intuitive Pictures. A new documentary series from Jon Kalina and Josh...
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Freed: Habits nothing to get too nervous about
JOSH FREED I’m never duller than at breakfast, where for decades I’ve had exactly the same meal each morning — berries and oat bran, with two cups of coffee and three newspapers. It’s just my habit,...
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Josh Freed: Crooks have too much stuff to waste time on crime
Congratulations, Montreal and Canada! Murder and theft rates in both have fallen to the lowest level in 45 years — and naturally, police credit better policing. Except … New York just posted its lowest...
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Josh Freed: Good luck navigating the bipolar vortex
We’ve finally discovered what climate change really means: that our climate changes every day. We went from a Saturday blizzard to a Sunday slush storm to a Monday ice storm to a balmy Wednesday to an...
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Josh Freed: Are Uber-style services the solution or the problem?
I’ve lost weight recently and my pants need taking in, but why go to a tailor? Now I can go to ztailors.com a new “tailor-sharing” service that will send the nearest amateur sewer in my neighbourhood...
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Freed: Looser store rules lead to shopping mayhem
I was at a clothing store on Ste-Catherine St. last Monday night and asked if they closed at the usual 6 o’clock. No, they said, their store was now open until 8. “Great! … Was the Bay down the block...
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Josh Freed: Everybody's an expert as ratings mania spreads
We live in an overrated society. Look up hotel.com or Airbnb online and every last choice has 1 to 5 ratings beside it, with 100 user reviews judging the maid service, pillow softness, noise level and...
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Josh Freed: The forecast calls for more forecasts of everything
It was sunny out and I was making tennis plans with friends, but they were hesitant to play in the face of omnipotent forces — the weather forecast. According to one friend: “The Weather Network...
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Letter: Restrictions come easily here
Re: “A nice gesture for a woman in a wheelchair: A $250 fine” (Josh Freed, Aug. 29) Reading how Montreal fines store owners for putting a chair on the sidewalk outside their store comes as no surprise...
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Josh Freed: We can all tighten our belt on the 69-cent loonie diet
Look out, the global financial meltdown is back — but only in Canada. Everywhere you look there’s bad news about our country’s economy: our falling stocks, our diving loonie, our sinking oil wells. The...
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Good news: Don Macpherson column returns this week
I am pleased to report that a familiar face will be returning to our pages this week. Longtime provincial affairs writer Don Macpherson is back after an eight-month absence. Don’s column will appear...
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Josh Freed: Donald Trump's rise is a reality TV show gone very wrong
Help! I’m trapped inside a reality TV show starring Donald Trump. Every TV station I watch is all about Trump. Every paper has his latest outrageous comments, out-trumping every issue on the planet:...
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Josh Freed: City's split personality goes from the ridiculous to the sublime
T’was the best of times, t’was the worst of times. T’was summertime in Montreal. I drove in from the country last week to see a comedy show at the Quartier des Spectacles — and lived through a version...
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Josh Freed: The robots are taking over
I had a phone call from a salesman with a monotone voice who said his name was Murray, and then tried to sell me an insurance plan. I said I had a policy, but Monotonic Murray droned on like he hadn’t...
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Josh Freed: Bacteria, health theories and the demise of the five-second rule
I was munching on the last chocolate in a box the other day when it slipped from my hand and landed on the kitchen floor. I scooped it up instantly, like a professional baseball player — in under five...
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