Once named Autoroute du Vallon, this major thoroughfare was renamed Autoroute and Boulevard Robert-Bourassa in 2006, on the tenth anniversary of his death. Robert Bourassa was Premier of Quebec from…
The owner and merchants of Les Halles Sainte-Foy, at the corner of Autoroute Robert-Bourassa and Avenue Quatre-Bourgeois, held a special event on September 28 to reveal the new look of …
I had a love affair with the Queen Mary… and I want to tell you about it.” – June Stewart-BurgoyneLast week, Canadian war bride June Stewart-Burgoyne shared the story of how…
At the U.S. Consulate General in Quebec City on Wednesday, September 28, free cookies and coffee, and the promise to meet the new Consul General, Allison Areias-Vogel, attracted a steady…
Barely five weeks into her new job, the U.S. Consul General was already greeting American citizens who had dropped in the consulate to register their vote in the upcoming U.S….
On October 5, the Musée national des Beaux-Arts du Québec (MNBAQ) launched the exhibit Pierre Bonnard: Radiant Colour. It is the first international exhibit presented in the museum’s new Pierre…
After Brazil’s outstanding showcase at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Quebec City’s Musée de la Civilisation teamed up with Sao Paulo’s Museu da Pessoa (Museum of the People) to present…
On the sea that’s aquaplaning, in the air that’s aeroplaning, but on the land, in the traffic, on the hills, hot diggity dog, THAT’S TERRAPLANING,” as the 1933 slogan says…
Hurricane Matthew ripped along the Atlantic coast of Florida avoiding a direct hit on the Sunshine State but still leaving over one million homes without power on Friday, October 7. Wreaking…
A paraprosdokian is wordplay where the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the…