Children helping children
What a wonderful experience at DDO School! It all started at the end of August when we received that extraordinary banner from a girls’ school in the province of Kandahar, …
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Three Canadian soldiers lose their lives over the holidays
Gunner Jonathan Dion, Age: 27, Home Town: Gatineau, Quebec, Unit: 5e Régiment d’artilleriae légère du Canada, Valcartier, Quebec Warrant Officer Hani Massouh, Age: 41, Unit: 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment, …
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House System builds community bonds at DDO School
This year at Dollard des Ormeaux School on the Valcartier Military Base, Mary-Anne Fairbairn, the Secondary V leadership teacher, devised a system to help bring our school community together. The …
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DDO School students buy shoes for Afghans
Students at Dollard des Ormeaux Elementary School know more about the price of shoes in Afghanistan these days. And they can be proud that they have helped children over there …
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A good reason to check out CBC Radio Two’s
CBC Radio Two’s Sunday Afternoon in Concert has a bit of a French connection – or at least one familiar to the English-speaking community. A recent post from former CBC …
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Global Television Quebec’s Montreal cuts to hit home in February
Television news will never be the same, according to Anne Leclair, Global Television Quebec employees’ union president. Global Television Quebec served notice to employees in Montreal on November 29. …
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Memorials and Things of Fame
1847 ‘The Quebec Gazette – December 24Counterfeit half dollars are in circulation in town. Yesterday, we learn, a man named Etienne Lefrancois, was apprehended and committed for trial, for …
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Avante garde pageant at St. Michael’s
We reestablished chaos for God the other day, so that God’s Son might come and be born anew. We decreated, so God could recreate. That was our Pageant. The day …
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A 400th gift for pedestrians!
I’ve just returned from Christmas shopping. And I feel about as Christmassy as an ante-conversion Scrooge. Why? Because I spent a whole minute navigating between Laurier and Place de la …
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School’s out at 1 p.m.?
There is something I don’t understand. The school board has trouble closing schools in case of a snowstorm, allegedly because of the missed schooling time. But you have just decided …
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