Exxon CEO expected to be named Trump's secretary of state
WASHINGTON — Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson is Donald Trump’s choice as secretary of state, NBC reported on Saturday, a move that would hand top diplomatic powers to a man...
View ArticleThe sloppy Putin-Trump kiss being shared around the world
COPENHAGEN — A street artist in Lithuania has adorned a barbecue restaurant with a poster showing Donald Trump locking lips with Vladimir Putin. Restaurant owner Dominykas Ceckauskas said Saturday the...
View ArticleRussian offer to send water bombers to fight Fort McMurray fire in limbo
OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has yet to respond to an offer by Russia to dispatch massive water bombers and firefighting specialists to battle the growing inferno around Fort McMurray, Alta. The...
View ArticleRussian cloud over Trump not likely to fade with Flynn exit
WASHINGTON — Questions about the Trump administration’s ties to Russia are hardly going to disappear with the firing of national security adviser Michael Flynn. Investigations are underway, and more...
View ArticleJack Todd: Kill NHL replay reviews and let refs make calls
It was an epic fail. A botched call so egregious it calls the National Hockey League’s entire replay review process into question and the worst blown call you will see — until the next one. It was the...
View ArticleTrump told of unverified Russian intelligence plot
U.S. intelligence officials have informed President-elect Donald Trump about unsubstantiated reports they’ve received that the Russian government had compiled potentially damaging personal and...
View ArticleExxon CEO expected to be named Trump's secretary of state
WASHINGTON — Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson is Donald Trump’s choice as secretary of state, NBC reported on Saturday, a move that would hand top diplomatic powers to a man...
View ArticleGiuliani emerges as favourite for Trump’s secretary of state
WASHINGTON — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani emerged as the favourite to serve as secretary of state in Donald Trump’s incoming administration, a senior Trump official said as the president-elect...
View ArticleBombastic Bernie Ecclestone shows no signs of ceding grip on Formula 1
I must admit I blanched a bit when I received a personal invitation from one Bernie Ecclestone last week. What, I wondered, does the Formula One supremo really want? Blood on the track? My head on a...
View ArticleThe sloppy Putin-Trump kiss being shared around the world
COPENHAGEN — A street artist in Lithuania has adorned a barbecue restaurant with a poster showing Donald Trump locking lips with Vladimir Putin. Restaurant owner Dominykas Ceckauskas said Saturday the...
View ArticleRussian offer to send water bombers to fight Fort McMurray fire in limbo
OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has yet to respond to an offer by Russia to dispatch massive water bombers and firefighting specialists to battle the growing inferno around Fort McMurray, Alta. The...
View ArticleLetter: Looking forward to a Liberal future
So, despite Stephen Harper’s fear-mongering about the economy, no one and nothing blinked, the stock market is stable, the loonie hasn’t gone crazy. Economists are sanguine. We are going to have gender...
View ArticleLetter: Putin headline was inappropriate
Re: “Putin firing on all cylinders” (Montreal Gazette, Oct. 8) Shame on you. Your “clever” headline with the photo of Vladimir Putin in a hockey uniform is as irresponsible as it is hurtful to the...
View ArticleJack Todd: This has to be end of the line for corrupt FIFA
That FIFA godfather Sepp Blatter is in the crosshairs of investigators on both sides of the Atlantic is hardly a surprise. Blatter, after all, has spent the past 17 years running an organization that...
View ArticleGazette Midday: FIFA's Blatter deserves a Nobel prize, says Putin
Hello and welcome to montrealgazette.com and welcome to Midday. Here’s the rundown on some of the stories we’re following for you today. Vladimir Putin and Sepp Blatter just can’t stop praising each...
View ArticleRussian President Vladimir Putin says Sepp Blatter deserves Nobel Prize
MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin and Sepp Blatter just can’t stop praising each other. The Russian president, speaking with Swiss TV on Monday, said the embattled head of FIFA deserves a Nobel Prize for his...
View ArticleJack Todd: 'Comically grotesque' FIFA gets less funny by the year
With the Women’s World Cup set to kick off in Canada on Saturday, the timing could hardly have been worse: Mass arrests of FIFA officials in Switzerland and the U.S. with more sure to follow, the...
View ArticleGazette Midday: Stabbing victim is city's 10th homicide
Hello and welcome to montrealgazette.com and welcome to Midday. Here’s the rundown on some of the stories we’re following for you today. A man stabbed to death last night in Ville-Marie is Montreal’s...
View ArticleDoug Camilli: Criticizing Taylor Swift is not a good career move
Taylor Swift sang and wore some slinky outfits during last year’s ridiculous televised Victoria’s Secret Christmas underwear-a-thon show. A model called Jessica Hart was puzzled, and said so afterward:...
View ArticleLetter: Let’s hope the Scottish referendum awakens Canada’s elephant in the room
Re: “By George, there’s a royal sibling underway” (Gazette, Sept. 9), “Analysts foresee Quebec scenario in Scotland” (Gazette, Sept. 9), “Let’s just leave the Constitution alone for now” (Editorial,...
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