78th Fraser Highlanders celebrate Robbie Burns with traditional Scottish Haggis
Robbie Burns 251st birthday party at the Garrison Club on rue St-Louis was again a success, despite the fact that the guest of honor was again absent. “We had 56 …
Monica Warren (nee Hewitt)
Monica Warren (nee Hewitt) passed away peacefully at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre on Saturday, 23 January 2010, days shy of her 88th birthday on January 31st. Loving mother of Rosemary …
Former QCT contributor dies in Earthquake in Haiti
“He always had a smile on his face.”So said Michele Thibeau, a former editor of the Chronicle-Telegraph, who worked at the paper with James W. Coates. Coates, 37, was working …
California festival features Québec films
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will mark its 25th anniversary next week with a special sidebar featuring more than a dozen films during a sidebar entitled “Focus on Quebec,” …
Québec City Jazz artists raise money for Haiti
Thirty jazz artists and poets gathered Monday night at the Largo restaurant on Rue St. Joseph, raising $3,000 that will go to help victims of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. …
Québec City Kebs play double whammy
Saturday provided a double whammy for the Quebec City Kebs, who not only lost a heartbreaker to the Maryland Greenhawks in the season’s first meeting between the two teams, but …
Haiti donations will be tax deductible
Mechanisms will be set up to enable those Quebecers who so wish to deduct, in their 2009 tax return, donations of money made from January 12 to February 28, 2010, …
Quebecers donate to World Vision
Quebecers have so far contributed over $406,291 to World Vision’s efforts to support the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Donors in Quebec sponsor 1,249 children in Haiti through World …
Parks Canada announces investment in Quebec City’s fortifications
Jim Prentice, Canada’s Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, has announced major investments in the Fortifications of Quebec National Historic Site. This announcement is part of Canada’s Economic …
Soldiers from Valcartier garrison among contingent of 2,000 troops sent to Haiti
Photo Courtesy DND, The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway speaks with soldiers who are working on Canadian Forces vehicles at the …