Despite its apparent prime location, the Starbucks coffee shop at the corner of Avenue Cartier and Boulevard René-Lévesque is one of some 200 outlets the Seattle-based company is closing across …
March 8, 1827 – The Quebec GazetteThe House of Assembly of the Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada voted a sum not exceeding 25,000 pounds for shares in the Welland Canal.Note …
The city’s kitchen waste recycling pilot project was a smash success, declared city officials on March 1. In announcing the results of the test involving more than 2,000 households, Mayor …
If a scenario now being bandied about in the high councils of media punditry comes to pass, Canadians could be slipping their ballots into the box at about the same …
When Jacquelyn Smith first moved to Quebec City in 2006, her French was just about good enough to puzzle out that the mayor of the city at the time, Andrée …
The Quebec Remparts finished their six-game schedule in the Chicoutimi protected environment, losing 3-0 to the Chicoutimi Saguenéens on March 7 at the Centre Georges-Vézina. The loss gives the Remparts …
Walter Gretzky, the father of hockey great Wayne Gretzky, affectionately known as Canada’s Hockey Dad, died peacefully on March 4 at the age of 82 after a long battle with …
Québec Capitales president Michel Laplante has several plans for his team in 2021 if the Frontier Baseball League can’t play out its regular season as planned.“We have a plan B …
March is maple syrup month in Quebec. As spring approaches and melts the snow, the sun warms the maple trees and gets the sap flowing. An urban tree-tapping (acériculture) exhibit …
The Défilé de la Saint-Patrick is cancelled for the second year in a row, so it’s a great time to look back on celebrations from a century, and more, ago. …