Italian Cruise ship disaster evokes Quebec City maritime memories
On Friday, January 13, during the late evening dinner service, the Costa Concordia struck a rock near the island of Giglio, just off the coast of Italy. Within minutes the …
Disasters on the St. Lawrence at the Morrin Centre
By Rajiv Juggernauth“The Second Victory of Notre Dame” with historian Charles-Andre Nadeau“The Second Victory of Notre Dame” explains how the little church of Notre Dame des Victoires at Place Royale …
The Author, the Subject and the outstanding Book
The first two elements are equally important to write a book. A great author and a great subject will produce something outstanding like the book I have just finished reading …
Resolution solutions
While welcoming 2012, it’s estimated that half of all Canadians adopted a New Year’s Resolution. Probably the most common resolutions pledged each year include losing weight, exercising, or losing weight …
Sepsis, a spooky performance piece from Lapointe
Christian Lapointe, a Quebec-area Artistic Director, closed out his last six years of work on the Cycle of Disappearance of Christian Lapointe with Sepsis, a performance presented from January 10 …
Grosse Île: Musical Drama coming soon
A musical drama at St. Lawrence College“They say home is where the heart is. I believed that, once. There was a time when my heart and home were whole. When …
Irish Heritage Quebec conference on the sinking of the Titanic
The sinking of the RMS Titanic occurred on April 15, 1912, after the passenger liner struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York. After setting sail …
The sound of noise
It started slowly over a period of a few years when I found myself asking people to repeat what they said or raising the volume of the radio when I …
Anglophones live longer than francophones in Quebec!
Well, this is good news, at least for those who speak English in the province of Quebec. A study, carried out by the Research Centre of the University of Montreal …
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
“In order to unite with one another, we must love one another; in order to love one another, we must know one another;in order to know one another, we must …