The regional high school basketball championships were held last weekend to close the 2016-17 season for both the boys and girls teams. After seeing their Bantam counterparts win the gold…
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Newcomers receive a warm welcome to Quebec City
Every year, some 3,000 immigrants of many different nationalities arrive in Quebec City. The Videotron Centre was bustling with activity last Saturday afternoon as the Ville de Québec hosted a party…
Good Friday Procession of the Cross in Old Quebec
An ecumenical and bilingual Good Friday Procession of the Cross will take place on April 14, starting at 6:30 p.m. at Chalmers-Wesley United Church, 78 Rue Sainte-Ursule.Worshippers will proceed from…
Collaborative Community Mural unveiled at VEQ Spring Fling
Voice of English-speaking Québec (VEQ) held their annual Spring Fling last Thursday at Les 3 Brasseurs pub on Grande Allée.Close to 100 people showed up at the festive community get-together…
Affordable health care, Canadian-style
It is a hard truth about life on Earth that some things will be forever unknowable. For example, how health care in the United States of America works. Like even…
Letter to the Editor
The book launch [in Kinnear’s Mills] … went very well. There was a good-size crowd and great exchange with the audience. Gail [Cameron] brought me a copy of the [March…
Memorials and Things of Fame
1867The Morning ChronicleOn Monday night about nine o’clock, a young man, while quietly walking on John Street a short distance outside the Gate, was brutally attacked and roughly handled by…
Visions of Community exhibit launched at Morrin Centre
Community is not a place, it is people,” said Sarah Blair as she introduced the Visions of Community exhibit at the Morrin Centre on Thursday, March 30.“This building, which has…
The story behind Rue de la Ristigouche
Rue de la Ristigouche is named after the Restigouche River (Ristigouche in French) that flows into the Baie des Chaleurs near Campbellton in northeastern New Brunswick and Dalhousie in Quebec….
Valcartier School goes to the birds!
Students at Valcartier Elementary School have been busy building homes for their feathered friends for the Great Canadian Birdhouse Project. The school’s secretary and Community Learning Centre coordinator Jayne Doddridge informed…