There is a little March madness to the Quebec Art Company’s preparations for their spring production of Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor. After months of rehearsal, QAC actors took…
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Second life for Quebec City’s plastic bags
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, an astonishing 66,000 plastic bags will have been used worldwide. It is estimated that roughly 17% of these bags will…
March 23 to 29 is Social Workers Week
Social workers from Jeffery Hale-Saint Brigid’s wish to inform the public about the work social workers do and the services available from social workers in English at the Jeff. Take…
Up close and personal with best-selling Canadian authors at imagiNation Writers’ Festival
The Morrin Centre’s fifth annual writers’ festival includes both well-established and newly-acclaimed authors, including Miriam Toews, winner of a Governor General’s Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, who…
St. Patty’s Smörgåsbord: the 2014 Défilé de la Saint-Patrick
As in years past, Mayor Régis Labeaume and Deputy Mayor Michelle Morin-Doyle marched alongside community groups in their Fighting Irish letterman’s jackets. This drum major took advantage of a break to…
A run to remember
The mere mention of Dany Bilodeau’s grandmother brings a smile to his face. But she barely recognizes him when he visits. Bilodeau, a marathon runner and Université Laval student, has…
Recognition Gala celebrates secondary students
On March 20, Champlain-St. Lawrence (SLC) held a Recognition Gala at the Industrial Alliance head office in Quebec City to celebrate the success of Secondary V students taking part in…
Pickled winter: Is the environment eating too much salt?
Salt is a fundamental part of Quebec’s winter road management and safety efforts. The salt we drive on is generally the same kind of salt (sodium chloride, NaCl) we eat…
Haunting stories of prisoners at the Morrin Centre
Historian Steven Cameron of Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière has become well known in Quebec as an authority on Irish communities on the South Shore. Invited to speak in the Morrin Centre’s Connecting through…
The day the British Army left: “The rest of the story”
During most of the nineteenth century, a strong mutual distrust existed between the young United States and British North America. As a result of the American War of Independence and…