Festibière heads downtown in August
Alex Caron has been trying for several years to stage a festival featuring micro-brewed beer in the city, but with all the celebrations – the 400th anniversary in 2008, the …
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Summer Notes
Prepared And Compiled By Shirley Nadeau All of the following events are free and, for the most part, outdoors. The Cinema Under the Stars movies are cancelled in case of …
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Municipal Court procedures not easy on city’s Anglophones
As Quebec City continues and the presence of Anglophones within it, available services can still be difficult to find unless one knows where to look. Provincial and municipal services are …
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Elimination of census long form prompts QCGN complaint
The federal government’s decision to discontinue mandatory completion of the long form in the Canada’s next census has drawn widespread opposition, provoking an investigation by the Office of the Commissioner …
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Summer heat is tough on calèche horses
This summer’s long heat wave combined with abnormal levels of smog and humidity has affected affected everybody from human beings to . . . horses. In a recent letter sent …
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Festival d’Été de Québec bigger than ever in 2010
Place d’Youville was jumping Sunday afternoon to a blend of blues, funk, traditional New Orleans Jazz and Motown, courtesy of Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, a unique New Orleans based …
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Memorials and Things of Fame for July 21, 2010
1850The Morning Chronicle Atmospheric Phenomenon. – On last Saturday evening, about half-past nine o’clock, a fire-ball or igneous meteor was observed by several persons in this city, (ourselves amongst the …
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Canada: A shattered dream or a dream yet to Come true?
Canada is a country with no jobs for new immigrants, regardless of however suitably qualified they are, old or young. Even simple blue-collar jobs are hard to find, but most …
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Life’s wakeup call
“Dear N’Dugu, I am weak and I am a failure.” This line taken from one of Jack Nicholson’s most interesting pieces of acting in the movie ‘’About Schmidt” is important …
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Monumental Graffiti
In response to Thomas Eden’s article in the July 7, 2010, edition regarding the graffiti spray-painted on the Cross of Sacrifice or cenotaph on Grande-Allée at the entrance to the …
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