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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“He always had a smile on his face.”So said Michele Thibeau, a former editor of the Chronicle-Telegraph, who worked at the paper with James W. Coates. Coates, 37, was working …

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will mark its 25th anniversary next week with a special sidebar featuring more than a dozen films during a sidebar entitled “Focus on Quebec,” …

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. …

Marcel Auguste feels lucky that his numerous nieces and nephews still living in Haiti survived last week major earthquake, surviving as they are with major hardship from what he termed …

Dealing with mental illness can be difficult enough. Finding care for it can be doubly so. “Sometimes it’s difficult to know which way to turn,” says Blanche Moskovici, an Ami-Québec …