Photo: Photo by Shirley Nadeau

On Saturday evening, 63 people gathered in the Morrin Centre to raise a glass of wine or whisky in honour of The Bard, Robbie Burns.

Photo: Photo supplied by DDO School

Situated in picturesque Courcellette adjacent to the Valcartier Military Base and the town of Shannon, Dollard-des-Ormeaux School (DDO) has 445 students with 330 students at the elementary level and 115 at the high school level.

Photo: Photo by Rosalie Breton

CEGEP Champlain-St. Lawrence held its biannual Open House for future students and their families on January 25. The only English-language cégep in Quebec City, St. Lawrence is proud of its high calibre academic, predominantly pre-university programmes. Each fall, approximately 400 students are accepted out of 800 applicants.

Photo: PhotoProvided by St. Pat’s

In an effort to welcome new ‘Fighting Irish,‘ St. Patrick's High School recently had an open house to show off the school. For Alexandra Furlong, an English teacher of secondary one and two, the choice is obvious.

"We're hoping kids pick our school. They won't be disappointed. We had open house and I am pretty sure it went well; it's a waiting game," she says.

Photo: Photo provided by Holland School

Despite three snow days in two weeks, another good year is in the forecast for Holland School. Students were welcomed back from holidays with a visit from Le Grand Défi- a province-wide initiative in which a caravan visits the school, teaches kids about nutrition, and awards them for partaking in physical activity.

Photo: Photo By Jason Enlow

With new staff members, a new discipline policy, and lowered incident reports, the little lions at Ste-Foy Elementary started the year with a roar.

Don't be surprised to see a few new faces in the classrooms. Dina Bhangu and Mirinda Touchette, Special Education technicians, Emilie Hamel, a French teacher substituting for maternity leave, and Joanne Louise Strasser.

We have often heard the expression: Think outside the box. At Quebec High School we like to say: Learning beyond the classroom. This is just one way to describe some of the excitement at our school.

Student life is alive and well with a cornucopia of activities that Student Council has organized to help ward off the February blues.

Photo: Marie White

By Marie White

Photo: 1931 International truck similar to “Old Man” Conroy’s

In the 1940s, during the Second World War, we kids had no trouble earning a few pennies. We could buy necessities like baseball cards packed with a flat three inch square piece of tasty bubble gum, a coconut jaw-breaker, or a pack of seven Turret cigarettes for a dime. We had to be careful where we smoked them and that Mom or Dad didn't find them.

Innsbruck, Austria (COC Press Release) - One last day of competition and a spectacular Closing Ceremonies highlighted the final day of the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria.

(Press release - Toronto, ON - January 17, 2012)

- Being an immigrant family is not easy. Transferring to a new country, finding a new house in a new city, getting to know how the transportation system works, becoming acquainted with an often different set of values, culture and currency, and understanding and communicating in a different language. The scenario can be quite daunting.

Photo: Photo from Queen’s Diamond Jubilee web site

London, England, will be ablaze with red,white and blue bunting and many parties will be held from June 2 to 5, 2012, as Queen Elizabeth II, who will be 86 years old in April of this year, celebrates 60 years as the reigning monarch of the British Commonwealth.

(Toronto, January 17, 2012 - Press Release)

In a recent recent survey conducted by Forum Research across Canada among residents 18 years or older, it was found that participants were evenly split when questioned about their opinion regarding the abolishment of the monarchy in Canada upon the death of the current Queen (43% in favour, 43% opposed, and 14% have yet to form an opinion).

Photo: Photo by Laëtitia Boudaud, L’Image Nomade

Shutterbugs of all ages and skills levels have an opportunity to express what the English-speaking community means to them with the Through the Lens of Our Community project, a joint endeavor between the Voice of English Quebec (VEQ) and Megantic English-speaking Community Development Corporation (MCDC).