Photo: Danielle Burns

On Sunday morning, May 19, the Parade des Poussettes et Tintamarre (Strollers and Cacophony Parade) departed from Parc Ferland next to Cegep
Limoilou and continued down 3e Avenue, led by a mascot (with a baby carriage) on stilts with a loud speaker.

When Catherine Rondina, author of Don't Touch That Toad & Other Strange Things Adults Tell You, Lighting Our World: A Year of Celebrations, and others, entered the Dollard-des-Ormeaux School library on May 10 and asked the grade 3 to 6 students what they wanted to do in the future, she immediately got their attention.

On Saturday, May 18, some 1,700 people gathered on the Plains of Abraham in front of the Musée national des Beaux-Arts. At 2:00 p.m. they set out on a march down Grande Allée to the National Assembly to protest the Quebec government's plan to table a bill that would open the door to euthanasia under the moniker "medical aid in dying."

Photo: Photo by Gib McInnis

The Universe of Michel Tremblay is a bilingual, multi-media show about Quebec's best-known playwright. Michel Tremblay is the author of 28 plays, 22 novels, four collections of autobiographical stories, seven screenplays, and much more.

On May 24 and 25, come admire the grandest knights and princesses parades ever held!

The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph still has several pairs of tickets to give away to Made in Iron's tribute to Iron Maiden on Saturday, May 25, at 8:30 p.m. at La Capitole theatre in Quebec City.

Photo: Gib McInnis

Blue Ice Books of Quebec City launched Ross Murray's second book Don't Everyone Jump at Once on May 8 to an appreciative audience at the AngloStore. Murray is an award-winning humorist and radio contributor, and the author of You're Not Going to Eat That, Are You? Raised in Nova Scotia, Murray has lived in the Eastern Townships since the early 1990s.

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On April 24th, Madame Diane De Courcy, Minister responsible for the Charter of the French Language, in an effort to obtain the support of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) and thus ensure that Bill 14 would move on to its second reading, announced that the government of Québec would amend Bill 14 in such a manner as to preserve the exemption awarded to the children of francophone members o

For the 13th year, YES! (Youth Employment Services) presents a day of inspiration and information for artist-entrepreneurs from all artistic disciplines on Monday, June 3 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Marché Bonsecours, 359 St. Paul E., in Old Montreal. The cost of the conference is $25 if you register before May 17 or $35 after May 17.

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