Photo: Screenshot from the Angèle Dubeau website

Angèle Dubeau is to be the recipient of the 2019 Denise Pelletier Award, the highest honour given to individuals for an outstanding contribution to the performing arts in Quebec. This and other Prix du Québec awards will be presented at a ceremony that will take place at the National Assembly on Nov. 6.

Photo: Danielle Burns

How many pairs of jeans do you own? After watching a recent CBC documentary on The Passionate Eye entitled “Fashion’s Dirty Secrets,” I was moved to open my closet and count.

Photo: Ruby Pratka

It is 5:30 p.m. I’ve just finished a training session in Cotonou, Benin’s largest city, and I’m giving a workshop in the much smaller town of Pobè, where I live, at 8 tomorrow morning.

Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 5:30 p.m. – Literary Feast at the Morrin Centre, 44 Chaussée des Écossais. Honorary chair Jean St-Gelais of La Capitale Insurance; keynote speaker actor, director, playwright, film director Robert Lepage. For more information and to reserve tickets ($250 each) visit morrin.org/en/events/2019-literary-feast.

Photo: Luc Lang

For the second straight season, the St. Patrick’s High School Fighting Irish junior football team met the Laser from École secondaire Les Sentiers, in the regional playoffs. But unlike 2018, when the Laser beat the Junior Irish in the Eastern Conference championship and also handed the Green and White their only loss of the season, this year was totally different.

Photo: Mathieu Bélanger- U Laval

Jean-Simon Desgagnés of the Université Laval Rouge et Or defended his cross-country conference title in front of a big crowd on Oct. 26 on the Plains of Abraham, when he led his team to its ninth consecutive RSEQ banner.

A top-hatted ghoul seems unaware of the approaching ape in this gruesome scene on Rue du Petit-Champlain. Photo by Jonathan Letellier-Black

What better way to avoid talking about an election whose results are unknown at this writing than to talk about another impending election – to wit, the one down south?

Whatever party ends up attempting to govern Canada over the next stretch of history will need to contend with whomever American voters choose as president in a year’s time.

Photo: Wikimedia Commons - Public Domain: Library and Archives Canada, C-030723

This terrace on the Plains of Abraham, overlooking the St. Lawrence River, is named in honour of Sir Albert Henry George Grey, the fourth Earl Grey. Born in London, England, in 1851, he was Governor General of Canada from 1904 to 1911. He died in 1917.

Photo: Cassandra Kerwin

A new exhibit at the Musée de la Civilisation (MCQ) celebrates 250 years of firefighting by the Service de protection contre l’incendie de la Ville de Québec (SPIVQ). The recently inaugurated exhibit shows the public what it was like to fight fires in 1769 with little or no training or equipment, compared to today’s modern apparatus.

Photo: Danielle Burns

According to Statistics Canada, in 2017 there were some four million children of trick-or-treat age (five-14 years old) in Canada. An abundance of Halloween parties will take place between now and Oct. 31 with schools, libraries, malls, stores and entire neighbourhoods getting into the spooky spirit.

The gymnasium at Holland School has been transformed into the Russian village of Anatevka, the setting for the Quebec Art Company production of the beloved musical Fiddler on the Roof.

Once again this year, Jeffery Hale–Saint Brigid’s is offering free flu vaccinations for members of the English-speaking community who meet certain eligibility criteria (see below). No registration is required; this service is offered on a walk-in basis.

The locations and times are as follows:

The St. Patrick’s High School Fighting Irish Junior football team could have used the following motto for their last game of the season: “Win and we’re in!”

Photo: Jay Ouellet

The Université Laval Rouge et Or football team captured the Réseau du Sport Étudiant du Québec (RSEQ) conference championship by defeating the Université de Montréal Carabins 16-3, in front of a record crowd of 19,381 spectators on their home field on Oct. 20. The win also means the Rouge et Or will have all their conference playoff games at home.