A whirlwind of magicians descended upon the Nouvo Saint-Roch neighbourhood last weekend for the Festival de magie de Québec. Magicians, illusionists and mentalists from around the world have gathered in …

What we call canola, and much of the rest of the world knows as rapeseed, is actually a fairly complicated plant. Created by Canadian researchers in the 1950s, canola is …

An accordion concert might sound like a headache-inducing afternoon of polka. Last Saturday afternoon (August 23), within the first few measures of Strauss’s Russiche Fantasie, the Orchestre National d’Accordéons de …

Ladies, and gentlemen, if you can afford it, do your Christmas shopping early as this is your last chance to buy a luxury item at the Holt Renfrew store in …

It might be time to revise that childhood rhyme in which we admonish the ladybug to “fly away home.” It all depends on which species you have on the tip …

At the recent 2014 Emmy awards, presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Hollywood, team members of Rodeo FX, a visual effect company from Montreal, walked away …

Now that the Quebec City Celtic Festival is upon us, it will be interesting to compare the urban festival with the very bucolic Kinnear’s Mills edition that took place from …

One of Canada’s Fathers of Confederation, Sir George-Étienne Cartier was born on September 6, 1814, in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu. His name is spelled without an ‘s’ (the usual French spelling) as he …

Passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family on August 27, 2014, at the age of 93 years. Predeceased by her beloved husband of 62 years, Benedict (Benny) Kiley. Loving …

Sheila Putnam, 78, passed away peacefully in Manlius, NY, on August 21, 2014, surrounded by her family. Loving mother, grandmother and wife, Sheila was born in 1936 in Quebec City, …