Beef products sourced from the JBS Swift Beef Company, Greeley, Colorado may be contaminated with E. coli 0157:H7. The recall orders started in the US have now expanded to Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada...
"Au Revoir Charlevoix, Allo Nunavut" Last night was a late one. I had to edit and post a few items, and finish a giant to-do list concerning our Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube account. The...
"It’s a bit predictable and nothing new, but some of the best things about Quebec have been about the food (cheese, wine and poutine), the architecture and the arts."
Life is one big festival in Montreal. Despite a little cold that managed to sneak up on me on the day I left for Montreal with Air Canada (which by the way, was a lifesaver flight considering it was the red-eye–I...
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called for bringing municipal and provincial contract bidding into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The announcement was made last night at a private dinner in Quebec City, where he and Quebec Premier Jean Charest...
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It was a posh restaurant in Gastown. Good Australian wine flowed freely, and the hors d’oeuvres were out of this planet. I had expected to see men in worn-out jeans and beards, kind of like those streakers on...
opinion by steffanileman | 11 wks ago | updated 7 wks ago 257 views | 22 recommendations | 9 comments
A Montreal judge imposed a six-year sentence on the unidentified juvenile who beat Francesca St-Pierre, 14, to death with a baseball bat in 2007. The killer, who was 15 at the time, was remorseless as his sentence was read and even smiled when he heard the six-year...
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The Ontario government is planning to bolster the province’s long-term energy stocks by refurbishing nuclear plants, and introducing additional gas-fired plants and wind turbines as part of...
Jack Gibbons of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance and Long Island Soundkeeper Terry Backer join Krystyn and Mark this week to discuss the plans for investing in the future of power in Ontario, and...
Barry Artiste Op/EdBoy, it is pretty scary when the Taliban look to Canada for ideas, such as polygamy, religious freedoms, and Yes, a Liberal Province of Ontario were seriously considering Sharia Law in...
WHY CAN'T AMERICA & CANADA FIX THEIR BORDER & TRADE LIKE EUROPEANS DID 30 YEARS AGO?
While the border issue is still fresh on my mind, I thought I should question why Americans and Canadians are...
opinion by steffanileman | 13 wks ago | updated 13 wks ago 232 views | 44 recommendations | 7 comments
Gilles Boutin, has recently begun a 5th trip in Northern Quebec to photograph the aurora borealis. This trip will fill the last pages of his book to be published next fall.This will be the first book dealing with...
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One of the world's longest charitable cycling events on behalf of childhood cancer is taking place this summer from June 13 to June 24, 2008. Gordon Drummond, 49 of Peace River, Alberta, is one of the 36 National...
opinion by stirmyoeufs | 15 wks ago | updated 15 wks ago 318 views | 11 recommendations | 4 comments
Actress Natasha Richardson, the wife of actor Liam Neeson, might have suffered brain damage after she was "critically injured" in a ski accident while in Canada. Richardson was taken to a hospital in Montreal where she is currently being treated for a "traumatic brain...