Quebec City

Quebec City:: old world charm with a new trendy flair, pt 2

Vagablond (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

Fantastic food choices: Breakfast Dollar: Auberge Saint-Antoine’s Panache-a luxuriously overhauled maritime warehouse offers a surprisingly warm and cozy atmosphere, partic if you are seated by the crackling fireplace overlooking the magnificent St. Lawrence River. The Poached Eggs on a Spinach Puff Pastry, Prosciutto Chips (loved these puppies) and Cheese Sauce provide a delightful twist to...

Toddler survives fall from three-story window in eastern Canada

People Daily (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

An 18-month-old boy recovered well after falling from the window of his three-story home in eastern Canada on Tuesday, reports reaching here said on Friday. Police in Quebec City in the French-speaking Quebec province said the boy was sitting on a windowsill and playing with his brother when he fell 10 meters onto a patch of grass below, the Canadian Press reported. Spokesman Jean-Sebastien Roy said...

Quebec City:: old world charm with a new trendy flair

Vagablond (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Even though I’ve visited Quebec City quite a few times, I still get a kick out of hopping a plane in NYC and one measly hour later arriving in a “foreign” country, complete with fortified stone walls, winding cobblestone streets, ancient buildings, beckoning bistros and cozy cafes, fashionable boutiques, trendy galleries and the most fun [...]

These Dog Concierges Have Written a Book, Have You?

HotelChatter - (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

It's that time of the week again: Cute Hotel Doggie Friday! And today we give you not one but two adorable hotel doggies. Because we're nice like that. Both of these smilin' fools work for Fairmont Hotels—Catie Copley (the black lab) at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston, and Santol (a Bernese mountain dog cross) at the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac in Quebec City. They have the lofty...

Conway Resources Inc.: Conway Resources Starts Bulk Sampling on the Conway and Paquin Veins

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC (MARKET WIRE) Conway Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: CWY) is pleased to announce that it has started a 3,000 metric ton bulk sampling on the Conway and Paquin veins at the Conway Paquin property in Guillet Township, Belleterre, Quebec.

Canadian golfers don't have to drive to Myrtle Beach with new non-stop flight from Toronto

Brandon Tucker (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Canadians love Myrtle Beach , I can’t tell you how many I’ve played with when I’m down there. During January and February I’d always get a kick out of the snowbirds, many of whom were Canadian, waiting out a frost delay on the putting green at 9 a.m. in shorts and a tee shirt, while I’m in the clubhouse clutching a hot chocolate and tap dancing to stay warm. Canadians...

Virginia Mines Inc.: Virginia Closes a CA $2.5 M Flow-Through Private Financing

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC (MARKET WIRE) Virginia Mines Inc. ("Virginia") (TSX: VGQ) announces the closing of the flow-through private placement announced on November 12. The placement consists of 297,086 flow-through common shares at a price of $8.67 per share for gross proceeds of $2,575,736.

Cossette to Review Cosmos' Amended Offer

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

QUEBEC CITY, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ - Cossette Inc. ("Cossette") indicated today that its Board of Directors will review the amended offer announced by Cosmos Capital Inc. ("Cosmos") on November 17, 2009 once it has been filed by Cosmos with the Canadian provincial securities regulatory authorities. At that time, Cossette's Board of Directors will determine any action that may be...

Keeping Their Stick on The Ice

Gods of the Copybook Headings (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

Quebec. Tories. Hockey arenas. The three most expensive words in the Canadian lexicon. Consider the linkage between two recent news items flowing out of the Quebec City mayoralty race. During that campaign, the eventual winner Regis Labeaume talked openly about...

• Keeping Their Stick on The Ice - The Shotgun

Virginia Mines Inc.: Virginia Begins its Drilling Programs in James Bay

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC (MARKET WIRE) Virginia Mines Inc. ("Virginia") (TSX: VGQ) is pleased to announce the beginning of drilling programs on several of its gold projects located in James Bay, Province of Quebec. Within the next six months, Virginia will conduct, alone or in partnership, six drilling programs on the Poste Lemoyne Extension, La Grande Sud, Anatacau-Wabamisk, Lac Pau, Auclair...

Toddler survives fall from 3rd story window

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

An 18-month-old boy escaped seemingly unharmed after falling from a third-storey window in Quebec City Tuesday.

No Tolls For T.O.

All Politics Is Local (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

As Toronto's mayoralty race begins to heat up the perennial question of funding Canada's largest city rears its ugly head. One of the more popular ideas out there among the chattering classes is tolls on Toronto's major highways. The evidence that most advocates like Marcus Gee in this column put forward is that it works in Europe. Usually Stockholm and/or London are offered as examples of functioning...

Hotwire Reveals Canadian Hotel Rate Report for November 2009

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Hotwire.com®, a leading discount travel site, today announced the results of the November Hotwire® Canadian Hotel Rate Report. This monthly report features the top five cities in Canada where hotel rates have dropped the most. When combined with Hotwire's already discounted prices, the Hotel Rate Report helps guide customers to the destinations that will...

Alizee Paradis: Hottest Female Athlete of the Decade?

RightFielders (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009

Meet Alizee Paradis – A tennis player who is in the running for the title of Hottest Female Athlete of the Decade. It doesn’t hurt that the bodacious brunette is a model, and has appeared in numerous “sexy” pictures. Read more below. Not only is the Quebec City native super hot, but also she [...]

Downhill Ice Skating - Roller Derby Meets Hockey at the Red Bull Crashed Ice Competition (VIDEO)

TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009

(TrendHunter.com) In Quebec City, downhill ice skating has a huge following among adrenaline junkies and residents alike. With four teammates barreling down an ice surface at ridiculous speeds, this somewhat contact sport…

Mosquito-B : Going South for a spring buzz promo tour (US release of ‘Send in the Clowns’)

moisanmrk | 01/04/2009

Dan Louis, band leader of Mosquito-B, from Quebec City, is taking a break from touring up North and is travelling towards Nashville for a special kind of spring break. Dan, with is USA shaped electric guitar will be travelling South and is eager to stop by radio stations and papers(commercial and college) to talk about his album “Raid” and the release of the classic ‘Send in the clowns’, and if the...