Auberge St-Antoine co-owner and administrator Evan Price, also president of SIM Composites, is the sixth finalist in the Chambre de commerce de Québec’s Prix Rayonnement hors Québec 2007.This prize awards…
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Getting shoes on the feet of children in Afghanistan
AFHGANISTAN — It all starts at least a day before with planning and preparation. Local leaders are consulted in order to determine where the shoes are the most needed by…
Lord delivers preliminary draft on state of bilingualism
Former New Brunswick premier Bernard Lord has delivered a preliminary draft of his report on the state of bilingualism in Canada to the federal government. The draft copy, which contains…
Historic Domaine Cataraqui to house hotel-tourism school
The city of Quebec is placing its money in building for a bigger future in tourism. Domaine Cataraqui, currently managed by the Commission de la capital nationale du Québec (CCNQ),…
New theatrical effects for Shannon Irish Show
This year’s Shannon Irish Show will feature a few theatrical effects and some avant-garde costumes for the dancers. “Our dancers begin outside … and for the second part of the…
Mikes turns 40 with a new, more Italian concept
The Québécois chain Mikes is 40 years old this year. The restaurants, which began in Montreal, are evolving to meet their customers’ more refined tastes for Italian-inspired food. But the…
Greed to Read
There’s yet more stuff in the papers today about reading, how it’s declined so horrifically, how the next generation will be a crowd of wholesale illiterates, playing violent computer games…
Memorials and Things of Fame
1848The Morning Chronicle, News of the DayThis morning about one o’clock a fire broke out in Kelly’s buildings, Ermine Street; twenty-one buildings, chiefly of wood, were destroyed. At three o’clock,…
Scaredy Squirrel helps his own author conquer her fears
Mélanie Watt took a big step in sending her school project to Kids Can Press — the result was the beginning of her Scaredy Squirrel adventures. Into her third book,…
CQSB welcomes student teachers
“Let such teach others who themselves excel.” Alexander Pope (1688-1744)Once again this year the Central Québec School Board has welcomed four student teachers from Bishop’s University into their schools, allowing…