A Different Tune: Musical Heritage in English-Speaking Quebec
The Quebec Anglophone Heritage (QAHN) is excited to announce that it has received support from Canadian Heritage for a 15-month project that will promote and document the richly diverse musical …
St. Pat’s hockey teams open 2019-20 season with three wins in five
The St. Patrick’s Fighting Irish hockey teams started the 2019-20 season in the Ligue de Hockey Préparatoire Scolaire (LHPS) on a winning note. All their games were played at the …
High school and Major Junior football, Lions hockey
In high school football action, the St. Patrick’s High Junior football team lost a heartbreaker to the Blizzard du Séminaire Saint-François 16-14, in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures on Oct. 5, after three straight …
Rookie Thomas Bolduc leads Laval in easy win over Concordia
The Université Laval Rouge et Or football team, led by first-year student Thomas Bolduc as quarterback, routed the Concordia University Stingers 74-0 in front of 9,151 fans at the Stade …
Thousands march for climate action in Quebec City
On Sept. 27, an estimated 30,000 citizens took to Quebec City’s streets to march for climate change action. They chanted, sang, played music and waved their signs. It was the …
The story behind Autoroute Duplessis
This highway is named for Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis (1890-1959), the 16th premier of Quebec, from 1936 to 1939 and from 1944 to 1959.Born in Trois-Rivières, Duplessis studied at the …
Beauport–Limoilou: Clarke seeks repeat; Libs, Bloc eye NDP vote
In the 2015 election, the central-east Quebec City riding of Beauport–Limoilou was pretty much a three-way race, with the Conservative and Liberal candidates in a position to take out the …
Mirabel airport – a lesson for third link tunnel vision
With apologies to Yogi Berra, this whole troisième lien business seems like “déja vu all over again.” As the Yankees legend also said, “the future is not what it used …
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
October 6, 1819 – The Quebec GazetteEmigrants HospitalAn hospital for sick and destitute emigrants has been established for some time on the Cape. The use of the building, the bedding, …
Michelle Obama pays a visit to Quebec City
She and the president never made it to Quebec City in an official capacity during their eight years in the White House, but former First Lady of the United States …