Photo: St. Lawrence Lions Facebook page

The CEGEP Champlain–St. Lawrence Lions’ golf teams capped off the 2019 season in a sensational way. Playing at the 2019 Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) national championship, the women’s and men’s teams finished in first place at their tournaments to bring home two Canadian titles.

OK, Justin Trudeau is not his dad, Andrew Scheer is not exactly a clone of Joe Clark, and for sure François Legault is not René Lévesque. But as we enter the denouement of this election we can’t help but be reminded of the 1979 vote when those three characters had lead roles in an intense national drama.

With Halloween on the horizon, Joël Lightbound is hoping to break the 30-year curse of Louis-Hébert riding. Not since the 1988 federal election, when Progressive Conservative Suzanne Duplessis won a thumping second majority, has the incumbent MP been re-elected.

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October 17, 1819 – The Quebec Gazette

Photo: Mark Lindenberg

Visitors to the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (MNBAQ)’s newest exhibit COZIC – Over to You: From 1967 to Now may be struck by the depth and scope of the 100 works on display. The exhibit is showing from Oct. 10 to Jan. 5, 2020 in the Pavillon Pierre Lassonde.

Photo: Cassandra Kerwin

Superheroes, Disney princesses, princes and other strange characters took over the Centre des Congrès on Oct. 12 and 13. No, people didn’t confuse Thanksgiving with Halloween. This was the annual Comiccon, with cosplay (dress-up), fantasy worlds and comic books at the heart of the event.

In an article published in the QCT just before the 2015 federal election, I wrote: “Canada is not the Canada of which I was a proud citizen until recently. It has been fundamentally changed for the worse by the current Conservative government. I plan to vote Liberal.”

Alice Evelyn (née Ross) Aird passed away peacefully after a long illness in the Avalon Care Centre in Orangeville, Ontario, on Oct. 1, 2019.

Photo: Luc Lang

The St. Patrick’s High Junior football team is one step away from making the playoffs, in the RSEQ Eastern Conference. On Oct. 12, the Fighting Irish Juniors won 27-8 over the Corsaires from École secondaire of Pointe-Lévy, on the south shore.

Photo: Luc Lang from QCT archives

The Quebec Remparts, of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, are having a great start to the month of October. After wins in Charlottetown and Saint John earlier this month, the Diables Rouges came back home this past weekend and won both games.

Photo: Cassandra Kerwin

The weather was ideal for the annual Central Québec School Board (CQSB) Cross-Country Run on Oct. 5. For the 23rd edition, some 525 runners and many supporters assembled at the Base de plein air de Sainte-Foy.

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This street was named to commemorate Clan Douglas, one of Scotland’s most powerful families, and certainly the most prominent family in lowland Scotland in the Late Middle Ages, often holding the real power behind the throne of the Stewart kings.

Photo: Shirley Nadeau

A visit to the Ministry of Finance building (formerly the Palais de Justice) located at 12 Rue Saint-Louis revealed an architectural treasure in the heart of Old Quebec.

Photo: Cassandra Kerwin

Over the weekend, curious visitors discovered the local wizarding culture. Witches and warlocks, wizards and fantastic creatures revealed themselves at the first edition of the Sorcelleries de Québec. From Oct.