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It’s a sight you seldom see. Both the American Stars and Stripes and the Canadian Maple Leaf, just metres apart, flapping in the breeze buffeting the Promenade des Gouverneurs overlooking the St. Lawrence River in Quebec City. Both flags at half-mast, for different reasons.

On Sept. 22, Élections Québec announced that voters in the jurisdictions of the nine English-language school boards in Quebec will be able to elect the people who will sit on the council of commissioners of their school board. Across Quebec, nearly 295,000 people will be called to the polls to elect 95 commissioners and nine board chairs.

As most health officials had predicted, a second wave of COVID-19 cases is underway, with most of the Quebec City area being declared a red zone, the maximum according to government criteria. A range of tighter restrictions on social interaction came into force at midnight on Sept. 30 and will continue until at least Oct. 28.

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The 10th Quebec City Film Festival (QCFF) celebrated the art of film from Sept. 16 to 20. For the first time, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, cinephiles across Quebec could enjoy the experience in the comfort of their own homes. The festival was jam-packed with short and feature-length films, and conversations with major players in the film industry.

Photo: Lise Lafond

Fall, with its breathtaking colours, is now officially here. Leaves, as well as the pumpkins in the fields, are turning orange, but this year “orange” is not only a fall colour, it is one of the colours on a chart prepared by the Quebec government to inform people in the various regions of the province of the evolution of the second wave of COVID-19.

Photo: Luc Lang from the QCT archives

The Québec–Chaudière-Appalaches division of the Réseau du Sport Étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) has cancelled the 2020-2021 football and soccer seasons for the region’s high schools due to COVID-19 restrictions.

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After six months of confinement, indie-folk-bluegrass band Les Chercheurs d’Or found themselves onstage at Le Studio of the Grand Théâtre for two exclusive concerts on Sept. 17 and 18 to relaunch their latest album, Caballero, which was initially launched during a blizzard in February.

With the Nov. 3 showdown looming between Donald Trump and Joe Biden – don’t they sound like names from a 1950s boxing card? – there will be the predictable agonizing about the effect of that uniquely American political mechanism, the Electoral College.

The Central Québec School Board (CQSB) has so far been spared the significant numbers of COVID-19 infections that have popped up in many educational institutions across the province with the return to school.

Of the board’s 18 schools in Quebec City and other regions, only one case has been recorded – at the Eastern Québec Learning Centre (EQLC) – on Sept. 13.

A public primary school and a public secondary school will be built on land that was once occupied by the Quebec Zoo, Minister of Education Jean-François Roberge confirmed last week.

Roberge made the announcement on Sept. 17 in the company of Jonatan Julien, Charlesbourg MNA and minister of energy and natural resources, and Chauveau MNA Sylvain Lévesque.

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1870 – The Morning Chronicle
(To the Editor of The Morning Chronicle)

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Music is an element essential to movies. It establishes the setting and drives the storyline. It can frighten, worry, sadden, elate and move audiences. For this reason, film composers such as Academy, Golden Globe and Grammy Award winner Howard Shore, a member of the Order of Canada, deserve their spot in the limelight.

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Elizabeth Tweddell, known to many as Betty Mallon, celebrated her 100th birthday with many friends at a special brunch held at the Chartwell Appartements de Bordeaux in Sillery, on Sept. 13.

Photo: Cassandra Kerwin

The 10th Quebec City Film Festival (QCFF) opened at the Cinéplex Odéon in Sainte-Foy on Sept. 16 with Martin Villeneuve’s short film Imelda 2: Le Notaire starring Robert Lepage and Pascal Plante’s full-length feature film, Nadia, Butterfly.

Due to the second wave of COVID-19, the five-day festival went virtual, pleasing cinephiles across the province.

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The Réseau du Sport Étudiant du Québec (RSEQ), which regulates sports activities for the university, collegiate, elementary and high school sectors, confirmed on Sept. 14 that there will be no sports for any of the university teams across the province of Quebec. The RSEQ has agreed, however, that the sports seasons can go ahead for the collegiate and school sectors.