Alex Culley is an associate professor in the department of biochemistry, microbiology and bioinformatics at Université Laval. A virologist by day, he’s also a father of two school-age children and …
Daily Archives: 3 November 2020
Quebec City residents awaken to Halloween horror
Quebec City residents awoke on Nov. 1 to the horrifying news that two people had been killed and five others injured within the walls of Old Quebec on Halloween, by …
Charlesbourg hosts a frightfully good Hall’auto-ween party
A full blue moon on a cool Saturday evening and an extra hour in the day … sounds like a perfect Halloween. Something spooky, however, was happening in the Charlesbourg …
Spat with China raises questions about port expansion project
Whatever has Canada done to cheese off China so? It’s a bit inscrutable why exactly China is blowing up what used to be a pretty comfortable relationship with Canada over …
City unveils plan to link rivers in huge park
City officials last week unveiled an ambitious plan to connect the city’s five main rivers into a sweeping network of parks to be called the Parc des Grandes Rivières.The plan, …
Canadian students use data science to prevent plastic pollution
Kids Code Jeunesse (KCJ) is launching the #kids2030 Challenge, an annual global learning experience that teaches young people digital skills by addressing the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs). In 2020, …
The story behind Rue Jean-Brillant
This street honours Jean Baptiste Arthur Brillant (1890-1918), who was born in Routhierville in the Lower Saint Lawrence region. One of the bravest Canadian officers during the First World War, …
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
November 1, 1870 – The Morning ChronicleWeather – On Sunday, the sudden fall of the barometer forboded [sic] a rapid change in the weather, and early yesterday morning, the snow …
A tribute to Lawrence A. Christopher, Able Seaman, Royal Navy
My grandad, Lawrence A. Christopher, was born in Quebec City on Aug. 2, 1925. He was baptized at St. Matthew’s Church on Rue Saint-Jean and grew up on Rue Scott. …
Much-reduced Remembrance Day ceremony to be held in Quebec City
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. In normal years, large crowds gather at war memorials on Remembrance Day to honour members of …