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Offers information about Cascades Inc., a paper company that supports paper recycling programs in Kingsey Falls, Quebec.

Since its 1947 inception, the Hockey News has been essential reading for hard-core fans. Ken McKenzie, its co-founder and long-time publisher, died in an Ontario hospital. His son, John, a New York-based correspondent with ABC News, wrote this tribute to his father and his achievements. Ken McKenzie--along with Will Cote--started the Hockey News in 1947, and the paper that came to be known as the bible of hockey. After the Second World War, Ken, who grew up in Winnipeg, moved to Montreal, where he got a job as a sportswriter for the Gazette. Within months, he approached the president of the National Hockey League, Clarence Campbell, and suggested that the league needed a full-time publicity director. Campbell gave him the job, and more. For Ken, whose father had died in his early 50s, Campbell became a surrogate parent. Campbell supported my father's dream of starting a newspaper devoted exclusively to hockey. There is a picture of my father taken at his induction in the Hockey Hall of Fame, which shows him at the podium, arms outstretched, fists clenched, wearing this big, beautiful smile.

This article describes a labor dispute at Quebecor, a sprawling conglomerate of television, cable, Internet, bookstores, and newspapers. It is at "Le Journal de Quebec," where management has locked out 140 employees for refusing to accept changes in pay and working conditions. The employees have begun printing their own alternative paper.

There are many good reasons why the St-Maurice River remains a secret. For decades, the powerful Quebec waterway, which flows into the St. Lawrence halfway between Montreal and Quebec City, has been a toxic-waste disposal site. Aluminum smelters, paper mills and other heavy industry placed Shawinigan and Trois-Rivieres among the wealthiest cities in Canada 50 years ago, but also used the river as a workhorse--to float logs, cool down machines, produce power and "lose" waste. The St-Maurice has been cleaned up, and is now yours to explore and enjoy. In Shawinigan, make sure to visit La Cite de l' energie, a hands-on history and technology museum, and climb to its 115-m-high observatory, built on top of a discarded hydro tower.

The article describes the journey of several Quebec adventurers, including Guillaume Moreau, Nicolas Roulx and Jacob Racine, that if completed, would set a new standard for land crossings of Canada, as of 2021. Topics covered include the setbacks that the group had not anticipated when they started planning the adventure in 2018, the danger with the group's planned route along Back River and the expected arrival of the adventurers in Black Lake, Saskatchewan.

This article discusses a new study by Université du Québec à Montréal economists of the effects of government subsidized daycare on the school-readiness of children in Quebec, Canada. While mothers are being positively affected, because they are able to enter the workforce earlier, their kids in the 7 dollar-a-day daycare programs, especially the five-year-olds, are scoring worse on verbal ability tests. Advocates for government-funded child care are skeptical about the results of the study.

The article focuses on celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay and why he chose to remake a family-style restaurant called Rôtisserie Laurier BBQ in Outremont, Montreal in Quebec province. The discussion focuses on Ramsay's licensing deal with chief executive officer Danny Lavy of Elite Group Inc., which distributes the Gordon Ramsay product brand, and Ramsay's fatigue. Speculation is offered on how Ramsay's schedule has negatively affected his restaurants in London, England.

Reports on developments pertaining to the referendum in Quebec as of September 25, 1995. Withdrawal of a television advertisement against drugs; Trading of insults by legislators; Decline of the Canadian dollar; Holding of separate referendums by Inuit and Cree groups.

The article focuses on François Legault, a businessman who was a member of the sovereignist Parti Québécois political party and former education minister from Quebec province. The political platform of the Coalition pour l'Avenir du Québec (Coalition for the future of Quebec), which was created by Legault and businessman Charles Sirois, is mentioned. The outlook for Legault to return to public office is discussed.

This article discusses the wealth that Alberta, Canada is gaining from the oil industry and its effect on the country. When fortune shines on one corner or another of this country, it is always interesting to see how the neighbours react. The sustained rise in the world price of oil has made Alberta particularly shiny this year. Some of the neighbours are starting to complain. And covet. "It is becoming unacceptable and revolting that Ottawa doesn't do more to reduce inequalities among Canadian regions," Jean-Robert Sansfaçon wrote in an editorial in Le Devoir. He states that Alberta, with only 42 per cent of Quebec's population, has a provincial government that plans to spend fully half as much as Quebec's this year -- making Premier Ralph Klein's government nearly 20 per cent more freespending, proportionately, than Quebec's. It's worth pointing out that one Quebec editorialist does not make a consensus. André Pratte, in La Presse, wrote his own editorial pointing out that if provinces are to be forbidden from enjoying resource windfalls, then Quebec should start paying market rates for the megawatts of power it obtains at locked-in prices from Newfoundland's Churchill Falls development. Still, some Albertans are feeling a little nervous. The last time oil prices took a sustainable leap, the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau responded with the National Energy Program, designed to make Alberta's oil available more cheaply inside Canada than outside: Ottawa-mandated bargain-basement pricing. Experts say that while an organized federal raid on the Alberta treasury is all but inconceivable, the scale of Alberta's windfall is so breathtaking it can't help but cause problems for the rest of the country.

Focuses on the 22nd annual Montreal World Film Festival, and reviews Robert LePage's movie `No.' Sense of occasion provided by selection of LePage's film to open the festival; Features of the festival; LePage's career in film; Review of the movie.

Focuses on St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec's bellwether riding whose voters have earned a reputation as the most reliable barometer of public opinion in the province. Lack of public passion about the September 1994 election or the referendum on independence that Parti Quebecois Leader Jacques Parizeau has promised to hold; Reasons for the current relaxed attitude; Political candidates including Michel Charbonneau, Roger Paquin and Claude Bachand.

The author suggests that the Quebec political party Parti Québécois (PQ) has developed an unfair dislike for those Quebecers whose first language is not French, even if they are bilingual. He argues the shift toward this attitude is because appealing to identity politics gives the party a bigger following. Topics include the shooting at the September 2012 victory rally for PQ candidate Pauline Marois and policies that are unfriendly to Anglophones.

The article looks at the campaign promises of the Quebec political party Parti Québécois (PQ), which is reportedly leading in the polls related to the September 4, 2012 provincial election. Topics include proposed PQ laws around immigrants' knowledge of French and secularism, the party's plan to resurrect the Quebec secession referendum if elected, and the question of whether to force Quebec's CEGEP vocational schools to be conducted entirely in French.

The article focuses on the controversy surrounding a report completed by Jacques Duchesneau, former police chief of Montreal, Quebec. Information is provided on the report, which detailed the corruption within the construction sector in Quebec. It is noted that Duchesneau alleges that the government of Quebec stymied his investigation into corruption.

The article looks at how the declining vaccination rates are causing cases of relatively rare illnesses such as measles, mumps, and polio to increase. Topics discussed include the increasing number of parents declining some or all routine vaccinations for their children, the need for at least 95 percent of a population to be vaccinated for so-called herd immunity to take effect, and an April 2011 measles outbreak at a school in Quebec. A discredited study linking autism and vaccines is noted.

The article focuses on the environmental hazards of plastic bags. The author reports that according to environmentalists, because plastic bags are made from oil, they choke both landfills and wildlife. Jacques Lalonde, a Montreal translator who started an online petition and collected 50,000 signatures, urged the government to consider a tax on each of the plastic bags used by Canadians every year. Liberal Environment Minister Line Beauchamp is weighing the idea.

The article focuses on the rise of the New Democratic Party (NDP) in Canada during the 2011 elections. It talks about the history of the NDP in Quebec during Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's administration and on the gradual growth of NDP's vote share in Quebec under NDP leader Jack Layton. It comments that Bloc Québécois under Gilles Duceppe was losing Quebecois voters due to its focus on Montreal and that the NDP capitalized on this alienation of voters.

The article reports on a 2009 domestic partnership lawsuit brought in Quebec, Canada. At issue is the dissolution of the relationship between an unnamed Canadian billionaire and his Brazilian girlfriend with whom he had a 15 year affair beginning in 1992 when she was 17-years-old. A ruling in favor of the woman, and an award that carries with a significant amount of money, would define the rights and obligations of Canadian partners engaged in unmarried relationships.

The article discusses the campaign leading up to the 2008 federal elections in Canada. Topics include Opposition leader Stéphane Dion's efforts to woo votes by means of video posted on the Internet and Dion's campaign plans 12 days before the elections. Also discussed is Dion's address to the Board of Trade in Montreal, Quebec.

The article reports on conflict between Lawrence Stroll, a rich businessman who enjoys racing expensive cars on his private racetrack in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, and his neighbors. Many of them characterize Stoll as a nouveau riche barbarian who has destroyed the peace and quiet of their neighborhood with his noisy cars and helicopters.

This year's best actress sat cross-legged on a stool in a chic Montreal café while photographers and reporters swirled around her. Marie-Josée Croze remained an island of calm in the middle of it all. The company distributing "The Barbarian Invasions" (Les Invasions barbares), Denys Arcand's marvellous new film, couldn't afford to keep Croze in Cannes until the festival handed out its awards on May 25. So there she was, on a TV chat-show set in Montreal, when a jury including Steven Soderbergh and Meg Ryan named her the festival's best actress (and also named Arcand as its best screenwriter). In the New York Times, critic Elvis Mitchell called the movie a "melodrama on the Canadian health-care bureaucracy," but in some ways, it's even more specific to today's Montreal. Its bitter critique of Quebec's overcrowded hospitals would have cost the Parti Québécois even more seats if the film had opened before April's election. A panel of judges on Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio chose "Prochain épisode" by Hubert Aquin (translated by Sheila Fischman as Next Episode) as the book that everybody in Canada should make a point of reading this spring.

The article discusses Canada's Action démocratique du Québec political party. In 2007 the party gained 41 seats in the Parliament and 31% of the popular vote, ahead of the Parti Québécois. Analysts say the party is the most important new force in Quebec politics. The party's leader, Mario Dumont, is running for Premier of Quebec.

The article reports on a document adopted by the Hérouxville, Quebec town council on the expectations and standards for immigrants choosing to move there. Muslim women felt they were slurred by advice in the document. The town endured worldwide criticism. Topics discussed include the debate between religious groups and civil society, immigrant code supporter André Drouin, multiculturalism, ethnic traditions, Muslim Oromo, immigration, diversity in Canada, and assimilation.

A plane crash is the worst of many calamities to hit Montreal's Griffintown in Quebec, Canada. The storied neighbourhood -- home to Irish immigrants who fled the potato famines in the 1800s and to several generations of their descendants -- has endured floods, fires, riots and strikes. It's a colourful past that has won Griffintown a small, if unhappy, place in the literary imagination. In the acclaimed historical novel 'Away,' Ontario writer Jane Urquhart's heroine heads to Griffintown in search of her lover, only to encounter "ragged families huddled on thatched or tin rooftops," trying to escape a flood. Author Brian Moore chose Griffintown as the home for the hapless protoganist of his 1960 award-winner, 'The Luck of Ginger Coffey.' Even renowned humorist Stephen Leacock found only gloom there. In his 1942 book about his adopted home, 'Montreal: Seaport and City,' Leacock touches on Griffintown, and dismisses it as "a wretched area, whose tumbled, shabby houses mock at the wealth of Montreal," and "the first of our industrial 'slums.' " In 1654, Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve, the founder of Montreal, granted the land that would eventually become Griffintown to Jeanne Mance, a pious woman who, with the nuns of the H&ocric;tel-Dieu, ran the city's first hospital.

Discusses demonstrations which took place at the 2001 Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Quebec. Thoughts on the use of tear gas by police as a means of riot control; Eruption of violent protests at the summit; Comparison to protests mounted in the 1960s against the Vietnam war.

Focuses on the 2001 Summit of the Americas which took place in Quebec City, Quebec. Issues of the development of a free trade area for the Americas; Demonstrations which took place in Quebec; Efforts of Canadian police to control the crowd.

Offers observations on opponents of globalization. Their plans to demonstrate at the 2001 Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Quebec; Security measures planned by the Canadian government for the summit; Issues protested by anti-globalization activists, including free trade.

Comments on the Montreal Canadiens hockey team. Sale of the team by Molson Inc.; Likeliness that the team will be bought by an investor from the United States; Decline of the franchise as a viable business in Montreal.

Reports on the campaigning being done by Quebec Liberal Leader Jean Charest and Parti Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard in 1998. Efforts of both to be elected leader of Quebec in November 1998; Concerns that Charest's economic plan will contaminate the `Quebec model' of social democracy; Important issues being addressed during the campaign such as the health-care system; Comments. INSET: Supporting the Cause of Quebec Sovereignty.

Focuses on efforts of Gilbert Lavoie and his paper `La Soleil' to help people find jobs in Quebec. Launching of a jobs program, with employment clinics; Free postings of jobs for four weeks.

Investigates the Museum of Humor, Montreal, a $13.5 million attempt to explain humor. Promoted by Gilbert Rozon, architecture by Luc Laporte, the museum is housed in an old brewery building, a rabbit maze of interconnected rooms that are designed to take 2 1/2 hours to traverse. Admission of $17.50 makes it the most expensive museum in North America; Best jokes in Montreal come for free in the street; The silent films are the funniest of all.

This article discusses how some Canadian cities aren't suffering during the recession. The economies of cities such as Ottawa and Quebec City are dominated by government offices and civil service employees who are relatively unaffected by the economic slowdown. Luxury car dealers in Ottawa are reporting record sales for 2009 as public employment remained stable while private employment suffered severe job losses.

This article presents news briefs for both good and bad news items. The good news items include stories about Oprah Winfrey's appearance on the David Letterman show, a story about the decrease in youth crimes and incarcerations, and the support of tax cuts by both the Liberals and the Tories. The bad news items include stories about the Knights of Columbus's refusal to allow a lesbian couple access to their banquet hall, an item about high level of infection and attributable mortality rate in Quebec hospitals, and an item about how pregnant women who gain an inordinate amount of weight during pregnancy run a higher risk of having obese children.

The article discusses the Quebec government's investment in and financing of the Port-Daniel-Gascons cement plant in the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, with a particular focus on the emissions that it causes to the environment. An overview of the relationship between the Quebec government's policy towards this plant and its environment policies, including it opposition to the Energy East pipeline project and the author's contention that the government is acting hypocritically, is provided.

The article discusses the reasons why the author believes that the Quebec branch of the Liberal Party of Canada is in disarray as of 2015, and it mentions a political battle involving candidate Mélanie Joly and five other people who are vying for the party's nomination. Political leader Justin Trudeau is mentioned, along with the claim that the Liberal Party of Canada has dropped 11 percentage points in the public opinion polls since September 2014. An open nomination process is examined.

The article discusses the results of the 2013 World Happiness Report, which ranks countries in order of their citizens' reported happiness levels. Focus is given to research published in the journal "Canadian Public Policy" about the improvement in Quebec citizens' reporting on their happiness. The study author, economist Christopher Barrington-Leigh, suggests that the reason behind the findings is Quebec's unique political, cultural and linguistic changes.

The article looks at the Quebec company Alimentation Couche-Tard, operators of nearly 6,000 convenience stores and depanneur shops across North America. Topics include their plans to expand into Norway, campaigns brought against the company by the Quebec Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) union organization, and Couche-Tard's plans to acquire gas station chain SFR.

The article focuses on Lucien Bouchard, former premier of Quebec. Bouchard, leader of the Quebec's sovereignist Parti Québécois (PQ) in the 1990s, criticizes the party for its continued focus on separatism rather than other issues facing the province. He also criticizes the party's anti-immigration policies. Bouchard is seen as having little interest in returning to politics.

The article presents an interview with Gaston Deschamps, a Trappist monk from Quebec, Canada. In the interview Deschamps discusses a number of topics including his awareness of current events, the intrusion of the modern world into monastic life and the satisfaction he derives from the daily routine in his monastery.

The article discusses chef-proprietor Normand Laprise, owner of the Restaurant Toqué! in Montreal, Quebec. He has worked hard to cultivate local suppliers, the article states. Other topics include the use of fresh seaweed in his restaurant, the work of his support staff done to inspect grapes, and how relaxed Laprise looks.

The article discusses the city of Saguenay located in the Canadian province of Quebec. In 2008 a survey ranked it as having the worst learning environment of any Canadian city. The author states that conditions in Saguenay are indicative of the general decline that afflicts the entire province. Demographic factors that have had a negative impact on the city are examined.

Focuses on Montreal, Quebec. Portrayal of the city in the motion picture 'The Score'; Efforts of Quebec to promote its culture and the French language; Discussion of Montreal society.

Focuses on classes being offered to protesters in the Holy Trinity Church in Toronto, Ontario. How the protesters are preparing for demonstrations at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Quebec; Issues of globalization, environmental protection, and free trade in the demonstrations; Tactics taught to the demonstrators for dealing with police.

Focuses on economic conditions and unemployment on the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec province. Involvement of Gaston Langlais in the formation of the movement called les patriotes that accuses the Canadian federal government and Quebec of `economic genocide'; Hearing before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva; Effect of the economy on the region's young people.

Discusses Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien's controversial proposal for a Quebec province independence referendum. How the rules would conform to the 1998 Supreme Court's opinion that Quebec can not separate unless it wins clear majority in a referendum on a clear question; Political opposition to the idea.

Offers a comparison of two Canadian towns and their fortunes. Symbols of economic stability and wealth that dominate London, a suburb of Toronto; Unemployment problems in the town of Chicoutimi-Jonquiere, north of Quebec City; Best and worst places to find a job in Canada. INSET: On the rocky river shore, by Mark Cardwell.

Surveys the younger generation of Quebec professionals, who tend to be tight-lipped about politics and are more concerned than their predecessors about the economy and their own jobs. Many are disinterested in the political process and convinced it has little relevance to their own lives. Nationalist sentiments now commonly accepted; Wide gap between young Quebecers and other parts of the country; Allure of the English language; Thoughts on government responsibility; Comments.

Discusses the Canadian federal government's new immigration accord with Quebec in light of the debate over Quebec's constitutional future. Quebec's new powers in the selection and integration of immigrants; Demographics; The Allaire report's proposed power-shifts from the federal government to Quebec.

Reports on the drop in the number of Israeli citizens of Russian origin who are granted refugee status in Montreal, Quebec. Serge Vallee chief of the Montreal office of the federal Immigration and Refugee Board on the drop in the number; Pressures being exerted on the board; Why the Russian descendants are leaving Israel; The federal-provincial September 1996 disagreement which erupted over the Montreal refugee decisions.