The Montreal Canadiens have named player agent Kent Hughes as the team’s 18th general manager, and agreed to a five-year deal with the 51-year-old Montreal native.Kent Hughes on Tuesday was named the 18th general manager in Canadiens history. The former NHL player agent represented more than 20 players, including Bruins star forward Patrice Bergeron. (Minas…
Oscar Peterson: Black + White tells the story of how a working class Montrealer became an internationally renowned jazz musician and influenced other greats like Herbie Hancock and Billy Joel along the way.A new documentary about late Montreal jazz legend Oscar Peterson is an expression of love, says filmmaker Barry Avrich. (Herman Leonard/CTS Images)Barry Avrich’s…
Get a closer glimpse at how the popular Court of Owls comics villains are being adapted in the Canadian-made game Warner Bros.…
Ubisoft Montreal has rolled out new content to its free educational game, Rabbids Coding. Developed by the winners of an international student…
Bob Wetenhall Sr., the American businessman who took over the Montreal Alouettes in 1997 and transformed the club into one of the CFL’s model franchises, has died.Former Montreal Alouettes owner Bob Wetenhall (left), seen here in this file photo from June 9, 2003, passed away on Friday. (Ian Barrett/Canadian Press)Bob Wetenhall Sr., the American businessman…
A Montreal man was handed a sentence of 18 years Wednesday morning for sexually exploiting a young girl from the time she was 8 to when she was 11 years old.Sylvain Villemaire, a 60-year-old former high school counsellor in Montreal, has been sentenced to 18 years of prison after he was found to have been sexually…
Montreal friends Anastasia Gromova and Michelle Pazos were together in the Surfside, Fla., condominium that collapsed. While Pazos’s remains were found, Gromova’s family is still waiting for rescue teams to recover her body.Michelle Anna Pazos, left, and her friend Anastasia Gromova had gone to Florida on vacation to visit Pazos’s father. (Submitted by Elena Pazos)The…
After backstopping the Montreal Canadiens to the Stanley Cup final, Carey Price has been left unprotected for the Seattle Kraken expansion draft on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET.Carey Price’s goaltending ability, off-ice marketability and ties to the Pacific Northwest could make the star goalie an attractive option in Wednesday’s Seattle Kraken expansion draft, even with…
Not to be confused with 2014’s “Hitman: Sniper,” another Square Enix Montreal-developed mobile game Square Enix Montreal has offered the first full…
Business owners in Old Montreal are surveying the damage after their storefronts were ransacked during a Sunday night anti-curfew protest that turned into a riot.Daniel Loureiro, co-owner of Helena restaurant in Old Montreal, holds the trash can lid someone tossed through the building’s front window Sunday night. (Kate McKenna/CBC)Business owners in Old Montreal, already struggling…