Québec City Jazz artists raise money for Haiti
Thirty jazz artists and poets gathered Monday night at the Largo restaurant on Rue St. Joseph, raising $3,000 that will go to help victims of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. …
Québec City Kebs play double whammy
Saturday provided a double whammy for the Quebec City Kebs, who not only lost a heartbreaker to the Maryland Greenhawks in the season’s first meeting between the two teams, but …
Haiti donations will be tax deductible
Mechanisms will be set up to enable those Quebecers who so wish to deduct, in their 2009 tax return, donations of money made from January 12 to February 28, 2010, …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1850The Morning Chronicle There ought to be something done next session of Parliament in the way of amending the Jury Law. Jurors are taken from the district in rotation, and …
Parks Canada announces investment in Quebec City’s fortifications
Jim Prentice, Canada’s Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, has announced major investments in the Fortifications of Quebec National Historic Site. This announcement is part of Canada’s Economic …
Soldiers from Valcartier garrison among contingent of 2,000 troops sent to Haiti
Photo Courtesy DND, The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway speaks with soldiers who are working on Canadian Forces vehicles at the …
Quebec City home sales up 2% over same period last year
Sales rose by three percent in 2009 in the provincial real estate market in 2009. Overall, there were a total of 79,185 MLS(R) sales transactions, according to the Quebec Federation …
Ethanol: What about starving populations?
Newspapers reported last week that the federal government ordered a study of the environmental impact of making ethanol and biodiesel. The main reason for that study was evidence of harmful …
Haiti’s Agony
Reading the stories and seeing the heartbreaking images in the media about the calamitous humanitarian disaster in Haiti is indeed humbling. One story reported was of the life-changing experience of …
Memorials and Things of Fame
1850The Morning Chronicle We had an opportunity last week of seeing the trial of the working powers of a new Fire-Engine, made by Mr. Louis Lemoine, for the No. 7, …