Some 4,000 people gathered at the Pavillon de la Jeunesse on February 28 to honour and welcome home Cardinal Gérald Lacroix. The new cardinal just had arrived home from the Vatican where he and 18 other bishops received their red hats from Pope Francis. Many more watched the proceedings on the Église catholique de Québec website (www.ecdq.tv) or listened to it on Radio Galilée (FM 90.9).

Perhaps you're not the type to write a Letter to the Editor but have an insightful point of view you want to share. Or maybe you wonder whether the Letters to the Editor section has enough room to print all your opinions.

This construction project is the reason pedestrians cannot use the Jacques Cartier Park pathway between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday these days. The City of Quebec is replacing an old corrugated-metal storm drain pipe with a larger steel one.

According to an article by Julien Bélanger and Richard Lortie in a 1990 issue of the quarterly magazine Cap-aux-Diamants : la revue d'histoire du Québec (No. 22, page 72), the first building known as La Jonction (Sillery Junction, to local Anglophones), was erected by the Quebec Light, Heat and Power Company in 1912 for the convenience of passengers of the newly-built tramway.

For teacher Fannie Marsh's Secondary 3 history class at Quebec High School, this was no ordinary lesson. In Marsh's class, lessons don't usually begin with a military salute. But in the presence of a certain Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, the students had no other option.

The last step of the International Ice Canoe Circuit, the Grand Défi Chez Victor, took place on the St. Lawrence River in front of Quebec City this past Saturday afternoon over the same course as the recent Quebec Winter Carnival races. Depending on their placements in this and the four previous ice-canoe races, the winners of this fifth and last race were awarded the coveted Coupe des glaces.

I've been in many countries in winter before - twenty years or so ago. It is very cold right now, for me," Alejandro Suarez told the QCT last week. "I don't know what people do in such cold," he mused. Flipping the snow bird stereotype upside down, Suarez is part of an adventuresome octet of Cuban musicians currently on a two-week Canadian tour.

The William S. Paley modern art collection, an eclectic mix of French Impressionist works and 20th-century British and American paintings which headlined the list of travelling shows at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec from October to February, shows what can happen when great resources are put into purchasing art for personal enjoyment.

Voice of English-speaking Quebec (VEQ) hosted an evening of bowling for 20 newcomers to Quebec City at the Quillorama Frontenac last Thursday evening. "We wanted a location and an activity where people could mingle," commented VEQ's project coordinator, Heather McRae.