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."

On May 16, Viviane Michel, President of the Native Women of Québec (NWQ), and Françoise David of Québec solidaire, submitted a petition to the Quebec government signed by 4,111 people calling on the Quebec government to revise its educational curriculum so that teachers and students will be better educated about the issues facing native people.

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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.