Québec City Jazz artists raise money for Haiti
Thirty jazz artists and poets gathered Monday night at the Largo restaurant on Rue St. Joseph, raising $3,000 that will go to help victims of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. …
Québec City Kebs play double whammy
Saturday provided a double whammy for the Quebec City Kebs, who not only lost a heartbreaker to the Maryland Greenhawks in the season’s first meeting between the two teams, but …
Haiti donations will be tax deductible
Mechanisms will be set up to enable those Quebecers who so wish to deduct, in their 2009 tax return, donations of money made from January 12 to February 28, 2010, …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1850The Morning Chronicle There ought to be something done next session of Parliament in the way of amending the Jury Law. Jurors are taken from the district in rotation, and …
Deaf to the needs of the Anglophone education sector
As a retired teacher of English at the senior level, permit me a perspective on the recent news concerning the final English matriculation exam. First though, it is significant to …
Plains of Abraham – battlefield for Québec’s nationalist seperatism
The sun was setting on the Plains of Abraham. As I prepare to sit down near a Martello Tower, I heard muffled voices on a loud speaker. I knew the …
Dementia in Canada: Important work on hold while Stephen Harper shuts down Parliament
Stephen Harper’s decision to shut down Parliament in a secretive, undemocratic gesture on December 30th has generated a lot of discontent among Canadians. We’ve heard a lot about the consequences …
More troop deployment to Haiti from Base Valcartier
A new, smaller contingent of soldiers from the Canadian Forces base at Valcartier left for Haiti this week to fortify the Canadian Forces effort toward helping that country recover from …
78th Fraser Highlanders celebrate Robbie Burns with traditional Scottish Haggis
Robbie Burns 251st birthday party at the Garrison Club on rue St-Louis was again a success, despite the fact that the guest of honor was again absent. “We had 56 …
Healthcare wait times are are not humane
The Wait Time Alliance has added the Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons as its 14th member. In order to improve wait times for Canada’s children and youth, CAPS worked in …