Comment on Memorials and Things of Fame
It was with great interest that I read Catherine Mills Rouleau’s account of the 1889 Landslide in Memorials and Things of Fame in last week’s paper. I thought you might …
QCGN proposes shift in relations between English minority and French majority
In its brief to the Committee on Culture and Education looking at Bill 103, the Quebec Community Groups Network proposes a paradigm shift in the relations between the English minority …
Terry Fox Challenge Thursday
The Terry Fox Run, an annual fundraising event to honour the memory of the runner who passed away in 1981, bypassed the city last Thursday, but local schools have been …
Festival offers spiritual music
From gospel to Gregorian chants, from Corsican polyphonies to early music, the Festival of Sacred Music offers musical forms inspired by spirituality, from here and elsewhere, from times gone by …
Finding a New Way to Appreciate the “Water of Life”
There’s “whiskey,” and then there’s “whisky.” “Whisky” is produced in either Scotland, Wales, Canada or Japan, while “whiskey” was made in either Ireland or AmericaThe former is the raison d’etre …
Auditioning for a place on the ‘Nile’
Though only 13 years old, Kayla Vargas is already looking to the future. “I want to get involved in theatre,” the student at Soeurs de Jesus Marie school in Sillery. …
[Video] See St. Lawrence Lions goals vs. Jonquière
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Shannon committee stresses family needs
The municipality of Shannon wants to play a greater part in the evolution of families’ needs. This desire was manifested by the nomination of a councillor in 2009 to look …
Celtic Festival continues to grow
Packed houses for a show by the young rock band Irish Moutarde at Pub St-Alexandre and a night of Irish folk tales at Le Billig restaurant, two nights of the …
The game of golf sets a ‘course for poetry’
François Dorion was never, by his own admission, much of a golfer. “Lousy,” he said. “I was just a junior. I didn’t practice at it with the intention of being …