Musée de la Civilisation welcomes The Masters of Olympus
The Musée de la Civilisation recently opened its new exhibit, The Masters of Olympus: Treasures from the Greco-Roman Collections of Berlin. Executive director Michel Côté described the exhibit and gave …
SLC students involved in close shave – for Leucan
At lunch hour on April 24, the Champlain-St. Lawrence Campus cafeteria was set for the Leucan Foundation Shaved Head Challenge. On stage were professional hair stylists equipped with scissors, razors …
Lend Me a Tenor pitch perfect
Although set in the 1930s, Lend Me a Tenor was written in the 1980s by Ken Ludwig. It has met with popular acclaim since its debut in 1980s, and at …
Art workshops a good start for budding young artists
Early on a Saturday morning, in an otherwise blissfully empty gallery, a gaggle of brightly dressed children and adults line a corridor in the Musée national des Beaux-arts du Québec …
Golden moments at the Gala Triomphe
Two months to the day after the Olympic flame was extinguished in Sochi, some of Canada’s most successful athletes and highest-ranking political leaders gathered at the Centre des congrès in …
Let’s open up Mother’s Day!
I would like to open up the boundaries of Mother’s Day to include the many women who will never be identified by that beautiful word, “MOM.” I find the word …
Sweet consolation for area’s sugar shacks
On March 28, two dozen members of the Université Laval Second Cycle Communication Students’ Association piled into cars and vans for their annual trip to the Sucrerie Blouin sugar shack …
Dancing in the streets with Québec en danse
Last Saturday in downtown Quebec City, it seemed as if spring had taken a day off. Gusts of wind and cold rain battered tables and chairs on empty café-terraces. But …
Jeffery Hale–Saint Brigid’s celebrates Global Handwashing Day
As you probably know, infections are a major cause of death all over the world. But did you also know that the simple act of handwashing cuts the risk of …
“April showers bring the flowers that bloom in May”
The lyrics of this song will soon have to be re-written if our planet maintains this rate of global warming. Mother Nature took away a month of our 2013 autumn …