The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup presents its annual ‘Dirty Dozen’
The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup presents its annual ‘Dirty Dozen’ Press release COVID-19 has changed so much in our lives, including how we litter. The proportion of single-use food packaging …
Memorials and Things of Fame
Memorials and Things of Fame Researched and compiled by Lorie Pierce lorie@qctonline.com September 23, 1861 The Morning Chronicle A new firm was established in this city … under the title …
STREET VIEWS: The story behind Rue Volta
STREET VIEWS: The story behind Rue Volta Shirley Nadeau shirley@qctonline.com Rue Volta, a short dead-end street that runs off Rue Lavoisier in the Parc Industriel Duberger, is named in honour …
City reports incinerator admissions well below standards
City reports incinerator admissions well below standards Peter Black, Local Journalism Initiative reporter peterblack@qctonline.com Four years after a study found Quebec City’s mammoth incinerator released 12 times the safe level …
Quebec makes offer for nuns’ farmland in Beauport
Quebec makes offer for nuns’ farmland in Beauport Peter Black, Local Journalism Initiative reporter peterblack@qctonline.com The fate of a huge swath of farmland in Beauport may be decided soon, with …
COMMENTARY: Computers taking errors — and human element — out of sports
COMMENTARY: Computers taking errors — and human element — out of sports Peter Black, Local Journalism Initiative reporter peterblack@qctonline.com While the performances of Quebec’s tennis darlings Leylah Annie Fernandez and …
Arts Alive! Québec returns…live and in person!
Arts Alive! Québec returns…live and in person! Ruby Pratka ruby@qctonline.com For over a year, Morrin Centre executive director Barry McCullough and his colleagues have organized cultural events and children’s activities …
Fête Arc-en-ciel drag show takes off at Le 737
Cassandra Kerwin cassandra@qctonline.com The drag queens landed at Le 737 near the Jean Lesage airport! The trendiest new restaurant in town, tucked under the wings of a refurbished Boeing airplane, …
Boys from the hood headline Limoilou en musique’s hip hop night
Danielle Burns danielle@qctonline.com Rapper Webster (Aly Ndiaye), is proud to have been born and raised in Limoilou. Here he shows the Limoilove hand symbol for peace, unity and love. (Photo …
Some random closing thoughts on a random federal election
Peter Black peterblack@qctonline.com This is your scribe’s last column … before the federal election. So why not indulge in some random thoughts and wild speculation as this mercifully brief campaign …