Christina Smith brings corporate and public experience to her run for Mayor of Westmount Peter Kerr September 20, 2017 11320 Christina Smith Christina Smith possesses a rare mixture of business acumen and public affairs experience based on her work with the Coca Cola Bottling Company and in the Federal Government as a Legislative As...
President Barack Obama – June 6, 2017 LiveEvents May 12, 2017 3288 The Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal presents President Barack Obama The 44th President of the United States The speech will be delivered in English only. Tuesday, June 6, 2017 from 5 P.M. to 6:3...
Systemic Legal Racism linda.hammerschmid February 28, 2017 5002 Ask the Hammer Recently the issue of racism in legal circles was taken up by the Legal Profession’s regulatory body in Ontario. Moreover, the Law Society of Upper Canada is set to examine measures that wo...
Yolande James’ trajectory from politician to political commentator Tracey Arial February 19, 2017 15161 Yolande James Why should Montrealers care about what’s going on in the National Assembly? Answering that question has become a full-time career for Yolande James. The fluently bilingual West Island native a...
A Year in Review – you can’t make this stuff up! linda.hammerschmid January 27, 2017 3469 Ask the Hammer Every now and then I like to share my bewilderment over subjects I have heard or read about, or seen during the year. By themselves they don’t necessarily make for single columns, but the en...
The Honourable Mélanie Joly Linda Renaud January 19, 2017 12889 The Honourable Mélanie Joly: Laser-focused on Canada’s cultural sector How sellable is Canadian culture globally and/or to our own government and audiences? Herein lays the challenge for Mélanie Joly, Minister...
A different point-of-view concerning the ban of dangerous dog breeds Barbara Kay October 20, 2016 4580 National Post columnist Barbara Kay responds to The Montrealer columnist Linda Hammerschmid’s September 2016 article The September issue of The Montrealer featured a column by family lawyer Linda Hammerschild,...
Banning dog breeds – knee “jerk” political decisions linda.hammerschmid September 15, 2016 4047 The most aggressive breed, one study found, was the Dachshund. The researchers discovered that one in five have bit or attempted to bite a stranger, and one in twelve has lashed out at their owners. Chihuahuas ...
How many massacres in the US before gun control? linda.hammerschmid August 18, 2016 5245 It seems that this column must address the latest gun deaths in Orlando, Florida particularly since I was in the sunshine State at the time. June 10th brought news of the fatal shootings at a concert, perpet...
Jean Charest and Michèle Dionne – life before and after politics Peter Kerr August 17, 2016 26727 With such a brilliant political career spanning federal and political politics, many people are not aware of the private life that Jean Charest and Michèle Dionne have enjoyed outside the political arena. We re...
