Victoria Times Colonist editor-in-chief Andrew Phillips announced this morning he is leaving to do the same job for The Gazette in Montreal. Mr. Phillips, who previously worked as a reporter and editor for The Gazette, is replacing Peter Stockland. Mr. Phillips will be following in the footsteps of Times Colonist publisher Alan Allnutt, who made a similar horizontal move to the Montreal newspaper in April. In an interview last month with Public Eye, Mr. Phillips told us, "you can't stop people from chattering" when we asked about rumours he was planning on taking a job with The Gazette.