Resolution solutions
While welcoming 2012, it’s estimated that half of all Canadians adopted a New Year’s Resolution. Probably the most common resolutions pledged each year include losing weight, exercising, or losing weight …
Sepsis, a spooky performance piece from Lapointe
Christian Lapointe, a Quebec-area Artistic Director, closed out his last six years of work on the Cycle of Disappearance of Christian Lapointe with Sepsis, a performance presented from January 10 …
Grosse Île: Musical Drama coming soon
A musical drama at St. Lawrence College“They say home is where the heart is. I believed that, once. There was a time when my heart and home were whole. When …
Irish Heritage Quebec conference on the sinking of the Titanic
The sinking of the RMS Titanic occurred on April 15, 1912, after the passenger liner struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York. After setting sail …
The sound of noise
It started slowly over a period of a few years when I found myself asking people to repeat what they said or raising the volume of the radio when I …
Anglophones live longer than francophones in Quebec!
Well, this is good news, at least for those who speak English in the province of Quebec. A study, carried out by the Research Centre of the University of Montreal …
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
“In order to unite with one another, we must love one another; in order to love one another, we must know one another;in order to know one another, we must …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1862 The Morning Chronicle On Friday Coroner Panet held an inquest on the body of a man named Stonehouse, residing in King street, St. Roch’s, who had died suddenly the …
January 15 to 21 is National Non-Smoking Week
National Non-Smoking Week has been observed for 35 years and is one of the longest running and most important events in the Canadian Council for Tobacco Control (CCTC)’s ongoing public …
Robert Burns, the Poet
Scotland’s national bard was born on January 25, 1759, in Ayrshire. He was a nature lover, a romantic lad who had an eye for the lassies. He adored them, as …