Ultimate Fighting Championship coming to Quebec City
On April 16, the Pepsi Colisée will feature Quebec City’s first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event. Former welterweight champion “GS-P” Georges St-Pierre, named Canada’s Favourite Athlete several years running, has …
More than just a travelling art show
The William S. Paley modern art collection, an eclectic mix of French Impressionist works and 20th-century British and American paintings which headlined the list of travelling shows at the Musée …
Rally calls for end to Anticost oil exploration
Some 100 people gathered in front of the National Assembly last Friday, in spite of the winter weather, to call for an end to oil and gas exploration on Anticosti …
Business day for future Champlain-St. Lawrence students
On February 18, Champlain-St. Lawrence (SLC) hosted its third in a series of four events dedicated to interested applicants to join its Business program. The first, held in mid-January, introduced …
A magical Carnival parade delights crowds
The Winter Carnival Parade in Upper Town was magical for the thousands of people who gathered along René-Lévesque Boulevard, Avenue Cartier, Grande Allée, and around the Tourny Fountain last Saturday …
Public meeting of the Central Québec School Board
The Central Québec School Board (CQSB) held a public information meeting on February 12 to present its Annual Report. The meeting, attended by local CQSB commissioners and members of the …
Senior actors get dramatic about elder abuse
We perpetuate these abuses at all ages, all the time,” said Micheline Dubois, describing some of the abusive situations dramatized in Grandpa is not a cash cow and Grandma won’t …
The day the British bailed
Departure of the imperial troops. -At half past two o’clock on Saturday afternoon, the British troops forming the Garrison of Quebec, evacuated the city […]. The band of the 60th …
Call for students: EQLC’s Secretarial Studies program
The Eastern Quebec Learning Centre’s Secretarial Studies program is in danger of being abolished if too few students have registered for the next course by the end of March 2014. …
Snowboard Cross Olympian Chris Robanske has roots in Valcartier
Calgary native Chris Robanske, who is competing in the Men’s Snowboard Cross event in Sochi this week, is the grandson of local resident Harland McBain and the late Elsie Henderson. …