COVID-19 has cancelled or postponed many things in our lives, including the activities of most sports leagues around the globe. It has affected not only the professional and minor league …
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Hide and go seek Canada rocks!
Canada rocks! And so do Quebec City, Rimouski, Gaspé, Cabano and so many other places where coloured rocks seem to be appearing.While taking a peaceful walk on the beach, letting …
QCT Print Edition – August 12 2020
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OSQ returns to the stage at the Grand Théâtre
After almost six months of not performing in public, the musicians of the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec (OSQ) were thrilled to be back onstage at the Grand Théâtre on Aug. …
Lebanese Quebecers pledge support for Beirut
Marie-Anne Dayé and Jacques Fadous don’t usually seek out the spotlight. She’s a journalist and author; he’s a research agronomist. But when an explosion devastated large parts of their parents’ …
Modern methods mean mine waste not going to waste
I grew up in the shadow of a mountain of tailings. Well, it wasn’t quite in the shadow, but it seemed everywhere you turned you were looking up at a …
A re-tired flower arrangement
If you don’t want to pay the fee for recycling your old tires, why not use them as planters for your favourite flowers? With some rainbow-coloured paint and a little …
Urbanist Mackey slams impact of tramway on Montcalm
Montcalm will be condemned to deteriorate.” That was the main thrust of urbanist Paul Mackey’s presentation to the Bureau des audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE) on the city’s tramway plan. …
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
August 12, 1870 – The Morning ChronicleThe Police Question – We learn that the Commissioner of Police has ordered an investigation into the charges made through the columns of the …
From COVID-19 to Manic-5
I have been all across this magnificent country of ours, visited all 10 provinces from Victoria, B.C., to Greenspond, N.L. (the land of my ancestors). Yet I have always wanted …