Tory Road Map Replaces Grit Action Plan On Official Languages
Three weeks following Off icial Languages Commissioner Graham Fraser’s annual report, which blasted the Harper government’s lack of an action plan on official languages, the federal government responded with a …
McCartney Mania Captures Quebec
Paul McCartney thrilled fans with a free concert on the Plains of Abraham on Sunday, July20. Over 200,000 people came out to see the rock legend’s tribute to Quebec’s 400th …
A philanthropist’s life in Quebec City, Dunn: “No walls a human being cannot overcome”
Jane Osla Holt was born in Montreal on July 13, 1924. On June 24, 2008, just short of her 84th birthday, she passed away as Pam Dunn, the name under …
QC’s Canadian Idol falls just short of top 10
Quebec City’s Canadian Idol hopeful, Marie-Pierre Bellerose, made it within one round of the show’s top ten last week. Despite falling short of her aspirations of becoming a Canadian Idol, …
YWCA opens Girls Centre
The YWCA has opened a Girls Centre and created a series of workshops beginning this week aimed at young girls addressing issues they may be facing at home, in relationships, …
Singing to save orphaned headstones in Ste. Agathe
The highly acclaimed People’s Gospel Choir of Montreal will be in the neighbourhood on Sunday afternoon, July 20 at L’Église Ste. Agathe-de-Lotbinière Church in Ste. Agathe-de-Lotbinière. The choir will be …
Summerfest attendees confused over bracelets and badges
The Festival d’Été’s success this year came with one small headache. In order to access the festival’s venues this year, concert goers were asked to wear bracelets in addition to …
2008 Summerfest Mirror Prizes
Concertgoers showered praise on Charles Aznavour at the 2008 Mirror Prizes for the Festival d’Été, voting his concert the best show of the festival. Aznavour was given an exceptional prize …
Bring back the robins, get rid of the crows
Have you noticed the changes in the behaviour of crows over the years, especially in our urban communities? I don’t know anything scientific about the bird but I do know …
MEMORIALS AND THINGS OF FAME
The Morning Chronicle 1848 Threatened Debouli t was discovered yesterday morning, that another rent had taken place in the Cape, below the citadel flagstaff, commencing near the guard-house situated within …