It’s the time of year for Christmas hampers. Everyone who has worked on a project like this knows all about the work involved: recruiting volunteers, collecting food, preparing the hampers…
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High expectations for St. Pat’s hockey program
The St. Patrick’s High School hockey program has reached the halfway point of its first season in the Ligue de Hockey Préparatoire Scolaire (LHPS). The LHPS is the Quebec version…
Dr. Gary Kobinger wins prestigious Manning Innovation Award
The Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation recently announced that Dr. Gary Kobinger of Quebec City and his research partner, Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, have won the 2017 Manning Innovation Principal Award…
Choir brings German Christmas traditions to Vieux-Québec
On the first Sunday of Advent, the Choeur Allemand de Québec (Quebec German Choir) got the holidays off to a majestic start with a concert that brought German holiday traditions…
Christmas Campaign elves are hard at work, posing for s-Elfies
The Community Christmas Hamper Campaign is in full swing. All of the campaign’s elves are hard at work behind the scenes to organize this wonderful annual community initiative. Speaking of…
Anglo secretariat lauded, but underfunded
The man tapped to head the Quebec government’s brand new secretariat for relations with English-speaking Quebecers, needs no introduction, as they say, to the community he is mandated to serve.William…
Tension builds as rival protests fill city streets
The streets of downtown Quebec City filled with protesters and police on Nov. 25 as rival rallies were held around the National Assembly. Several hundred members of the right-wing nationalist…
Les Rouges: A brief history of a longstanding party
Last weekend, as protesters mostly from groups on the far right and the far left clashed outside the Quebec City convention centre, an organization that has occupied the comfortable middle…
School taxation issue soon to be solved
Following the government’s November 2017 publication of The Quebec Economic Plan and the proposed equalization of taxes paid to English- and French-language school boards, Stephen Burke, chair of the Board…
The story behind Parc Victoria
This park in the centre of Quebec City is named in honour of Queen Victoria (1819-1901), who was the longest-reigning monarch of the British Empire, until her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II…