A warm Calgarian breakfast on a cold Carnival morning
Bright sun and cold weather brought crowds out to Place d’Youville on Feb. 3 for the 61st annual Calgary Stampede Flapjack Breakfast. More than 4,000 sausages were roasted …
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Strong current, wind, big floes and snow? No problem for ice canoe paddlers
On Feb. 4, at first glance, the weather felt just right: cloudy sky, snowing and warmer weather than the day before. Things were a tad rougher out on the St. …
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Katherine Bleeker displays her Bonhomme mania
Local resident Katherine Bleeker is crazy about Quebec City’s Winter Carnival. She has an amazing collection of Bonhomme Carnaval effigies (those small plastic figures of the chubby white carnival mascot …
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The story behind Côte d’Abraham
This street is named in honour of Abraham Martin (1589-1664), also known as L’Écossais (the Scot). Connecting the St. Charles River valley to the upper part of the city, the …
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Memorials and Things of Fame
February 7, 1868 – The Morning Chronicle Correspondence Mr. Editor – I beg leave through your excellent and widely-circulated journal, to request the Montreal English press to ignore us altogether; …
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The Philanthropist, just as fascinating the second time around
The theatre of the newly-named Jeffery Hale Student Centre hosted the encore and final showings of The Philanthropist, a multimedia theatre presentation about the life of the man himself – …
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Letter to the Editor – Re: Ross Cottage
I read with interest the recent article “Ross Cottage on the Move” [by Mark Lindenberg in the Jan. 17, 2018, edition]. I also often wondered about the history of the …
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The 28th edition of the Semaine du Prévention du Suicide
Winter affects everyone differently. While some people enjoy the cold, others tend to feel more depressed. The Centre de Prévention du suicide (CPS) organizes a week in February dedicated to …
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What’s the point of all these shopper loyalty cards?
So, there we were last week at the checkout at a grocery store belonging to one of the country’s largest corporate titans. The nice checkout person asked for our loyalty …
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OSQ and its choir perform a heart-to-heart concert
Many hearts beat as one last Thursday, Feb. 1, as the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec (OSQ) under the direction of Alain Trudel, and the choir of the OSQ, led by …
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