Winnie the Bear was in Quebec City
With all the activities taking place commemorating the beginning of the First World War, one little-known fact deserves to be brought to light. Did you know that Winnie, the little …
A pontifical high mass to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Notre-Dame de Québec
On Sunday, September 14, Cardinal Gerald C. Lacroix invites the population to listen to the message that Pope Francis wants to share during a pontifical high mass that will be …
Magicians appear in a magical festival
A whirlwind of magicians descended upon the Nouvo Saint-Roch neighbourhood last weekend for the Festival de magie de Québec. Magicians, illusionists and mentalists from around the world have gathered in …
Canola: A quick look at the science behind an uber-Canadian plant
What we call canola, and much of the rest of the world knows as rapeseed, is actually a fairly complicated plant. Created by Canadian researchers in the 1950s, canola is …
Beyond the polka: an accordion orchestra
An accordion concert might sound like a headache-inducing afternoon of polka. Last Saturday afternoon (August 23), within the first few measures of Strauss’s Russiche Fantasie, the Orchestre National d’Accordéons de …
After 177 years in Quebec City, Holt Renfrew store is closing
Ladies, and gentlemen, if you can afford it, do your Christmas shopping early as this is your last chance to buy a luxury item at the Holt Renfrew store in …
Drawn to Quebec: Have the ladybugs flown away?
It might be time to revise that childhood rhyme in which we admonish the ladybug to “fly away home.” It all depends on which species you have on the tip …
Matthew Rouleau and Rodeo FX special visual effects team win an Emmy
At the recent 2014 Emmy awards, presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Hollywood, team members of Rodeo FX, a visual effect company from Montreal, walked away …
Kinnear’s Mills Celtic Musical Festival: bare bones authenticity
Now that the Quebec City Celtic Festival is upon us, it will be interesting to compare the urban festival with the very bucolic Kinnear’s Mills edition that took place from …
200th anniversary of the birth of Sir George-Étienne Cartier
One of Canada’s Fathers of Confederation, Sir George-Étienne Cartier was born on September 6, 1814, in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu. His name is spelled without an ‘s’ (the usual French spelling) as he …