“He always had a smile on his face.”So said Michele Thibeau, a former editor of the Chronicle-Telegraph, who worked at the paper with James W. Coates.Coates, 37, was working with…
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California festival features Québec films
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will mark its 25th anniversary next week with a special sidebar featuring more than a dozen films during a sidebar entitled “Focus on Quebec,”…
Québec City Jazz artists raise money for Haiti
Thirty jazz artists and poets gathered Monday night at the Largo restaurant on Rue St. Joseph, raising $3,000 that will go to help victims of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti….
Québec City Kebs play double whammy
Saturday provided a double whammy for the Quebec City Kebs, who not only lost a heartbreaker to the Maryland Greenhawks in the season’s first meeting between the two teams, but…
Finding care for mental illness
Dealing with mental illness can be difficult enough. Finding care for it can be doubly so.”Sometimes it’s difficult to know which way to turn,” says Blanche Moskovici, an Ami-Québec Support…
Irish Moutarde spreads folklore the modern way
“The whole thing is Irish, whether it’s folklore or songs by Irish rock bands. There’s not a lot of people who know the Irish music.”Mathieu Audet was speaking of Irish…
Quebecers donate to World Vision
Quebecers have so far contributed over $406,291 to World Vision’s efforts to support the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.Donors in Quebec sponsor 1,249 children in Haiti through World Vision….
Parks Canada announces investment in Quebec City’s fortifications
Jim Prentice, Canada’s Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, has announced major investments in the Fortifications of Quebec National Historic Site. This announcement is part of Canada’s Economic…
Soldiers from Valcartier garrison among contingent of 2,000 troops sent to Haiti
Photo Courtesy DND, The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway speaks with soldiers who are working on Canadian Forces vehicles at the…
Quebec City home sales up 2% over same period last year
Sales rose by three percent in 2009 in the provincial real estate market in 2009. Overall, there were a total of 79,185 MLS(R) sales transactions, according to the Quebec Federation…