The 2020 Circuit Québécois de Canot à Glace racing season was well and truly launched last week, starting with a press conference held on a cold and windy Jan. 15 …
Daily Archives: 21 January 2020
Asbestos changing its name to shed its toxic image
How attached are we to place names? For example, would the citizens of the settlement at the narrowing of the St. Lawrence River think differently of themselves if it were …
Ukrainian Flight 752: We pray that sanity prevails
The new year got off to a violent, tragic and profoundly frightening start with the shooting down of Ukrainian Flight 752 shortly after takeoff from Tehran, killing all 176 people …
The story behind Avenue Fabre
This street is named in honour of Louis-Roch-Hector Fabre (1834-1910), a lawyer, journalist, diplomat and senator born in Montreal. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 but practised law …
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
January 20, 1820 – The Quebec GazetteQuebec Harmonic SocietyThe first public concert of the Quebec Harmonic Society was given on last Saturday evening and it is but doing justice to …
Les As de Choeur Chez Mamma
To highlight their fifth anniversary, the members of Les As de Choeur presented a “collective musical creation” that included excerpts from Broadway classics such as The Sound of Music, Les …
Université Laval agriculture students share their passion with the public
The 45th edition of the Semaine de l’Agriculture, de l’Alimentation et de la Consommation (SAAC) took place at ExpoCité from Jan. 17 to 19. This very interesting weekend is an …
Berlin’s history of welcome
In 2015, Germany found itself at the centre of a storm unprecedented in recent history, when tens of thousands of refugees from the Middle East, mostly from war-ravaged Syria, streamed …
Teams from 20 countries highlight the 61st Pee-Wee Tournament
The 61st edition of the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament will bring teams from a record 20 countries to the Videotron Centre from Feb. 12 to 23. Patrick Dom, general …
Science rules! at the Morrin Centre
A dozen or so young scientists got together at the Morrin Centre for the weekly Saturday morning storytime with education co-ordinator Azanie Roy. Roy introduced kids to the scientific method …