News Digest January 21 2015
Issue January 21, 2015 English News Serving Quebec City since 1764 since 1764, North America’s Oldest Newspaper *TM using the most advanced news distribution method in over 246 …
Giant lampshades brighten Avenue Cartier
In the heart of the Quartier des arts, Avenue Cartier is aglow every evening with the light from 17 pairs of giant lamps. Thirty-four works of art now illuminate the …
Will Bill 10 amendments save our institutions? Perhaps not
While leaders in Quebec’s English-speaking community were cautiously optimistic in early December that amendments to Quebec’s health reform would allow the community to maintain an acceptable level of input and …
Champlain–St. Lawrence Campus welcomes Edward Berryman
Champlain Regional College (CRC) recently welcomed its new campus director, Edward Berryman, to head Champlain-St. Lawrence Campus in Quebec City. The QCT met with him in early January as he …
Quebec City to help rebuild Haitian firehouse
In less than a minute, a city of over four million people was almost completely razed to the ground. It was January 12, 2010, just before five o’clock in the …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1865 The Morning Chronicle The ice-cone at Montmorency Falls has already formed and a decided rush of visitors, when the weather becomes somewhat milder, cannot fail to be the result. …
The story behind Rue Emerson
Rue Emerson is named after Ralph Waldo Emerson, the famous American intellectual, lecturer, and poet. He was a sought-after speaker and author of many notable essays, the first of which …
Cathedral of the Holy Trinity takes a bold musical direction
All mélomanes aboard! To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its designation in 1989 as a National Historic Site by the governments of Canada and Quebec, the Cathedral of the Holy …
Last one to leave the party: the lyrical world of Jane Ehrhardt
When Jane Ehrhardt took to the stage at the atmospheric Café Babylone last Saturday night, she might have been in your living room, sharing a story and a song. Unassuming …
New jazz series kicks off at the Morrin Centre
Claude Lavergne says jazz can be a bit like hockey: there are established rules that all the players know, but the action doesn’t always play out according to the rules. …