Quebec City

Beauty Pageant Of Sea Set To Sail In July Into Quebec City

... national parks for the year and festivals of every flavor. Even in normal times, Quebec City vibrantly lives up to its claim, "So Europe, so close," and it knows how to party. During the tall ship festivities, the waterfront will be alive with music, street performers and visitors clambering aboard the ships for free tours. Also free: arena performances by the Spanish troupe Xarxa Teatre, a parade of more than 3,000 sailors and even more fireworks than Quebec City usually puts on during the summer. The bulk of the fleet will be engaged in a five-month-long trans-Atlantic race from Britain to North America to France. Joining them in Quebec City will be more tall ships, based in Boston and the Great Lakes. Among superstars of Rendez-vous 2017: the U. S. Coast Guard's Eagle, a cutter built by Nazi Germany and seized by the U. S. as a war prize. It's the sixth Coast Guard ship ...

A Beauty Pageant Of The Sea Is Coming To Quebec City, And Ports Along The St. Lawrence River

... with its cobbled streets, commanding cliffs and fortifications from the British-French struggle over New France, is the only place the entire fleet of more than 40 ships will rendezvous. The event is a highlight of Canada’s 150 th birthday, which is also being celebrated with free entry to all national parks for the year and festivals of every flavour. Even in normal times, Quebec City vibrantly lives up to its claim, “So Europe, so close,” and it knows how to party. During the tall ship festivities , the waterfront will be alive with music, street performers and visitors clambering aboard the ships for free tours. Also free: arena performances by the Spanish troupe Xarxa Teatre, a parade of more than 3,000 sailors and even more fireworks than Quebec City usually puts on during the summer. The bulk of the fleet will be ...

Quebec City Mayor Says Changes Coming To Intersection Where Pregnant Woman Died

... before Gagné died of her injuries. ' Alexe inherited your strength': Father pays homage to pregnant girlfriend killed in collision. Pedestrians who cross Laurier in that area say motorists often drive fast and don't always yield to foot traffic. Marie-Pier Gagné was on the median on Laurier Boulevard when she was hit by a car. She died but her baby, a girl named Alexe, was delivered safely. (Facebook). Mayor Régis Labeaume wants to make the roadway, which is six lanes wide, safer for pedestrians. "If only out of respect for the mother and her child, something must be done," he said. Starting in the spring, barriers will be put up along the median as a temporary measure. Labeaume says the city, neighbouring businesses and the hospital will help pay for whichever permanent solution they decide is best, including the possibility of creating a pedestrian tunnel or walkway. Jonathan ...

Hurricanes ‘not Moving’ To Quebec City

... over the past decade. The Hurricanes remain a potentially attractive option for a buyer, though, because they hold such a team-friendly long-term lease at PNC Arena, which is owned by the region’s Centennial Authority. According to NHL bylaws, Karmanos would have to exhaust all efforts to sell the team locally before relocation would even be considered. The NHL holds the ultimate trump card because any sale would need to be approved with a Board of Governors vote, something that thwarted three previous relocation attempts by former Blackberry CEO Jim Balsillie. Interest in Quebec City remains steadfast. The NHL fielded an expansion bid from the Citadel City in 2015, with a commitment from prospective owner Quebecor to pay the $500 million USD fee, which is nearly $660 million Canadian. The league decided to expand by just one club in Las Vegas in 2017-18. The ...

David Aurine & Mathieu Fornier Are Not The Quebec City Mosque Shooting Suspects

... David Aurine is my twin brother, left handed, works with Antifa, wasn’t raised by wolves like me.”. The man in the second photo, called Mathieu Fornier, is Matt Forney , an alt-right writer. The Reuters “parody” account previously used a photo of Forney and called him the leader of Russia’s hacking team. BREAKING: CIA identifies leader of Russian hacking campaign in US election as Matvei Fornov #Russia #russianhacking __link__/n TYNfs QWdj. — Gerald Butts 🇨🇦 (@gmbutts) January 30, 2017. Another hoax, which claims the shooters were recent refugees from Syria, has spread on Reddit and on Twitter. Quebec city shooters 2 Syrian refugees who came in LAST WEEK __link__/HCnm 9 ICinp. — RYAN (@MAGA_1187) January 30, 2017. But witnesses and police have said the suspects are believed to be natives of Quebec, based on their accents, the CBC reports. Twitter trolls have notoriously posted fake names and photos after mass shootings and other major news events. As Buzzfeed has chronicled , the name Sam Hyde appears on Twitter after almost every attack. ...

Conservative Caucus In Quebec City

... in Quebec City, and she was proud of her 12 MPs for fighting for Quebec's interests against "a Liberal government that does not see this region as a priority.". Bernier, from the nearby Beauce region, may be the leadership front-runner. But it's equally possible the next leader could be O'Leary, who skipped the debate "out of respect," given his poor French. While candidates with weak French have pledged to improve, last week their  French skills  were put "under the microscope," Deltell said. "The real race is on now.". Report Typo or Error Send Feedback. To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada's online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any ...

Multiple People Reported Killed And Injured By Gunmen At Quebec City Mosque

... “Bonne appétit,” as The Washington Post reported at the time. The consumption of pork is banned by Islam. Concerned about that kind of incident, the mosque installed several closed-circuit cameras around the building. The shooting is a particular shock for Quebec City, a quiet white-collar city with a low crime rate. In 2015, the city reported two murders. The metropolitan area has 800,000 people. According to La Presse , the province’s leading newspaper, police were also treating the attack as a terrorist incident and had activated a joint task force involving municipal police, Quebec’s provincial police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. An ambulance is parked at the scene of a fatal shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City, Canada. REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. Samer Majzoub, the president of the Canadian Muslim Forum, a Muslim advocacy group in Quebec, said he knows people who attend the Quebec City mosque, but that he and other area Muslim leaders were still trying frantically to find out who had been shot. “People that we know, we are ...

5 Reported Dead In Terrorist Attack At Quebec City Mosque

... home countries to avoid such situations, because they lived through trauma and didn’t want the same for their children.”. A non-profit group that fights Islamophobia in Quebec said it has been asking authorities “for years” to deal with threats and attacks on Quebec mosques. The Collectif Canadien Anti-Islamophobie said on Twitter Sunday night that the Quebec City attack was preventable but nothing was done. The shooting came two days after U. S. President Donald Trump imposed an American travel ban that has barred citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. Montreal police chief Philippe Pichet said the department will be more visible at certain locations, is in contact with the Muslim community and will meet with community leaders Monday morning. A vigil has already been planned in Montreal on Monday. Witnesses say about a dozen people were wounded and some reports state two of three suspected gunmen have been arrested. A live video feed on a Facebook page of a mosque showed images of ...

A Beauty Pageant Of The Sea Is Coming To Quebec City, River

... bring a wallop of European seafaring history to a city already steeped in it. Stone-walled Old Quebec, with its cobbled streets, commanding cliffs and fortifications from the British-French struggle over New France, is the only place the entire fleet of more than 40 ships will rendezvous. The event is a highlight of Canada’s 150 th birthday, which is also being celebrated with free entry to all national parks for the year and festivals of every flavor. Even in normal times, Quebec City vibrantly lives up to its claim, “So Europe, so close,” and it knows how to party. During the tall ship festivities, the waterfront will be alive with music, street performers and visitors clambering aboard the ships for free tours. Also free: arena performances by the Spanish troupe Xarxa Teatre, a parade of more than 3,000 sailors and even more fireworks than Quebec City usually puts on during the summer. The bulk of the fleet will be engaged in a five-month-long trans-Atlantic race from Britain to North America to France. Joining them in Quebec City will be more tall ships, based in Boston and the Great ...

A Beauty Pageant Of The Sea Is Coming To Quebec City

... a beauty pageant from the age of sail that will bring days of festivities and fireworks to the historic walled city. (AP Photo/Cal Woodward). FILE - In this June 16, 2000, file photo, the Italian tall ship Amerigo Vespucci sails past Fort Monroe at the entrance to Hampton Roads during Op Sail 2000 in Norfolk, Va. The venerable three-masted frigate is a handsome piece of work and just one of dozens of majestic ships that will be sailing North Atlantic waters this summer, visiting ports along the St. Lawrence River for weeks and gathering en masse in Quebec City July 18-23. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File). A photographer captures the vista in the south sector of Forillon National Park, in Gaspesie, Quebec, in this Aug. 19, 2016, photo. On July 7 and July 9 this year, a fleet of tall ships will pass in these waters en route to ports ...