Fall, with its breathtaking colours, is now officially here. Leaves, as well as the pumpkins in the fields, are turning orange, but this year “orange” is not only a fall …
Monthly Archives: September 2020
Sports season cancellations hurt St. Pat’s and QHS teams
The Québec–Chaudière-Appalaches division of the Réseau du Sport Étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) has cancelled the 2020-2021 football and soccer seasons for the region’s high schools due to COVID-19 restrictions. Rule …
Lions’ soccer team blanked in season opener; golfers stay home
The CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence (SLC) men’s soccer team finally hit the pitch on Sept. 27 to start their shortened 2020 season in the Northeast division of the Réseau du Sport …
La Maison Anglaise introduces the Book & Ticket virtual event series
Guy Dubois, owner of La Maison Anglaise, recently announced a unique way to purchase books and obtain free tickets for access to live online presentations of books by their authors: …
QCT Print Edition – September 23 2020
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Les Chercheurs d’Or relaunch Caballero
After six months of confinement, indie-folk-bluegrass band Les Chercheurs d’Or found themselves onstage at Le Studio of the Grand Théâtre for two exclusive concerts on Sept. 17 and 18 to …
A Different Tune captures ‘St. Patrick’s Day in September’
It was mid-September, not St. Patrick’s Day week, and the approximately 200 spectators were watching from home via Facebook Live, not packed into the Shannon Community Centre. But the spirit …
No easy fix for Electoral College or first-past-the-post systems
With the Nov. 3 showdown looming between Donald Trump and Joe Biden – don’t they sound like names from a 1950s boxing card? – there will be the predictable agonizing …
Court of Appeal backs English boards; call for election delay
English groups in Quebec are applauding a court decision in support of the English-language school boards, but there is confusion about what will happen with elections scheduled for November.A unanimous …
CQSB reports only one case of COVID-19 in its schools
The Central Québec School Board (CQSB) has so far been spared the significant numbers of COVID-19 infections that have popped up in many educational institutions across the province with the …