Bert Archer
The Montreal Gazette
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Past articles by Bert:
Gazette Christmas Fund helped more than 6,000 Montrealers this year
There’s a special place in the heart of any community for those who give money to local causes and funds like ours. → Read More
Retraction and apology
On December 6, 2022, the newspaper published a column critical of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights for using the term “POLY” as a promotional code for… → Read More
Gazette editor's note about the controversial Boris cartoon
I interpreted Boris's latest cartoon much differently than many Gazette readers who expressed their heartfelt outrage to us. → Read More
Bert Archer: As the Gazette turns 244, trust is more important than ever
If we lose our trust in news, things start to fall apart. A functioning media is one of the most important forces keeping us from sliding into incoherence. → Read More
I'm the Montreal Gazette's new editor-in-chief, and I'd like us to work together
Your subscriptions help us continue to provide high-quality reliable journalism. → Read More
Review: Toufah Jarrow stood up to a dictator, launched an African #MeToo Movement, all while working in a Toronto call centre to pay the bills
In her memoir, written with Kim Pittaway, The Gambia-born Toufah details her story in a Le Carré-like pace few will want to put down → Read More
David Pevsner is blazing a trail for senior citizen erotica
The actor, sex worker and model wants porn, erotica and mainstream culture to get into a throuple and give us more sexual honesty in the culture we consume. → Read More
‘Binge’ reading with Douglas Coupland: ‘I’m turning 60; I don’t want to lose (my) curiosity’
The Gen X writer’s new book of short stories, “Binge,” is a collection of voices: “There’s a logic to it, and it’s some deeper part of yourself saying... → Read More
Talking about a decade of kudos and AIDS and laughter and plays, celebrated Toronto playwright Brad Fraser rages against the dying of the bright lights
In his new memoir “All The Rage,” Brad Fraser also mentions Keanu Reeves and the Ice Capades, but “it’s the death that stays with you” → Read More
Kim Echlin’s ‘Speak Silence’ a difficult, necessary novel about the rape of Bosnian women as a war crime
‘People read stories, but they also feel them, and understand them in ways that lead to more direct understandings than facts usually do.’ → Read More
In ‘Stella Atlantis’ author Susan Perly shows she knows her stuff. But you’ll want to keep your phone nearby
She likes her words, and her word play, and her literary devices, and her allusions. They’re everywhere: alliteration, epithets, phrasings adopted fro... → Read More
Andre Alexis’ ‘always funny, mostly unnerving’ stories in ‘The Night Piece’ an entree into the rest of his writing world
One of the most affecting stories is about the book reviewer who finds out what it feels like simultaneously to be an alligator eating a little girl a... → Read More
Cold, dark and class struggle: An intro to South Korean literature in six books
South Korea’s literary treasure trove is ripe for growing international appetite → Read More
Publisher Bob Dees on selling books in foreign markets
Selling the rights to publish books in other countries is one of the great subterranean aspects of the Canadian publishing business → Read More
Why (and how) to travel while you're young
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How writer Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali went from being on the streets to being published
Toronto libraries were a refuge for Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali as he struggled to write his first book → Read More
New Christmas Fund T-shirt is a collab between a mensch and an icon
Aaron Rand and Terry Mosher have teamed up on the new T-shirt, playing the ghost of Christmas future by giving us one possible post-Bill 96 scenario. → Read More
The joys of going places you know nothing about
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The best cafés in Vienna
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Why Los Angeles is the 20th century, manifest
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