Caroline Plante

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• Quebec City youth wins contest, sings with Keith Urban

  Keith Urban was wowed by Allison Fortier's personality and stage presence.

  Canada

  Jul 10, 2015
• Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters to headline Quebec City’s summer festival

  Three hundred shows , ten stages and eleven days of music in downtown Quebec City starts July 9.

  Canada

  Jul 9, 2015
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• Quebec hip hop crew takes ‘America’s Got Talent’ by storm

  Fans of DM Nation are holding their breath until next Tuesday's episode of 'America's Got Talent'.

  Canada

  Jul 8, 2015
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• Heading to Quebec City? Check out the new Zoofari

  Zoofari is a new hiking ground with 27 species of animals who roam free.

  Canada

  Jul 3, 2015
• Solitary bees get royal treatment at Château Frontenac

  Unlike honeybees who live in colonies, solitary bees have to fend for themselves without a Queen bee.

  Canada

  Jul 2, 2015
• Quebec City monastery turned into trendy hotel

  Those longing for peace and quiet, renewal and relaxation can book packages in the former monastery starting August 1, 2015.

  Jun 29, 2015
• Quebec rolls out new charging stations for electric cars

  The province is the only one with 6,000 electric cars and 400 charging stations, including a dozen new high-speed ones.

  Jun 26, 2015
• Quebec City receives $7 million from feds for Tall Ships event

  The Tories hope to make gains in the Quebec City area at the next federal election.

  Canada

  Jun 25, 2015
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• Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants a hockey team in Quebec City

  NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced plans to expand the league this week; some are hoping that means to Quebec City.

  Canada

  Jun 25, 2015
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• Quebec Liberals tackle I.T. cost overruns…again

  The creation of electronic health files for Quebecers was supposed to cost $540 million; so far it's cost taxpayers $1.6 billion.

  Canada

  Jun 19, 2015
• Quebec doctors, scientists looking for early signs of Alzheimer’s

  Quebec doctors will test 350 participants to try to find out what causes Alzheimer's disease.

  Jun 18, 2015
• Companies need to respect Bill 101, says Couillard

  The provincial government has announced it will not appeal the court's decision to allow big corporations to keep their English trademarks.

  Jun 17, 2015
• Montreal activist Lucia Kowaluk awarded Order of Quebec

  Lucia Kowaluk has fought for Montreal's impoverished and marginalized for five decades.

  Politics

  Jun 16, 2015
• Pilot project brings sex education back to Quebec

  The number of Quebecers aged 15 to 24 with chlamydia jumped 55 per cent between 2005 and 2011.

  Canada

  Jun 15, 2015
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• Quebec Liberals happy with spring session

  On last day of spring session at Quebec's National Assembly, Caroline Plante takes a look at what was achieved and reviews some of the drama.

  Canada

  Jun 12, 2015
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• Quebec’s opposition parties want chador banned from public sector

  Parti Québécois House Leader Agnès Maltais calls the chador, which covers a woman's body from head to toe, except for her face, is a symbol of oppression.

  Canada

  Jun 11, 2015
• Quebec Liberals table religious neutrality legislation, promise to better detect radicalization

  By introducing Bills 59 and 62, Quebec's Liberal Party is trying to navigate the choppy waters of secularism and radicalization.

  Canada

  Jun 10, 2015
• 2 new Liberals make their entrance at Quebec’s National Assembly

  Former TVA reporter and Quebec Liberal candidate Véronyque Tremblay crushed her CAQ rival Jocelyne Cazin, putting an end to the party's eight-year reign in Chauveau.

  Canada

  Jun 9, 2015
• Quebec National Assembly moves on sexual harassment policy

  Only Quebec and Nunavut parliaments have sexual harassment policies placing everyone on equal footing.

  Politics

  Jun 5, 2015
• Political drama around National Assembly legal advisor

  Claude Bisson says PKP's blind trust would be illegal, should he become Premier.

  Politics

  Jun 4, 2015
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• Is whale watching Quebec’s great, white hope for tourism?

  Tourism Quebec is hoping whale watching will lure tourists from New Brunswick, Ontario -- and Quebec -- to the St. Lawrence River.

  Canada

  Jun 1, 2015
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• Quebec City mother and educator faces sex charges

  A 36-year-old mother of four and daycare educator in Quebec City is facing charges of luring a child.

  May 29, 2015
• English school boards ‘reservedly hopeful’ after meeting education minister

  Quebec's education minister maintained that his government will abolish school board elections, but insisted he wants to work with the community.

  Canada

  May 22, 2015
• Quebec to review the resale of daycare permits

  Did you know that a private subsidized daycare permit can be resold in Quebec and the average annual profit of these daycares is $370,000?

  Canada

  May 21, 2015
• Quebec Liberals ready to slash departing premiers’ allowances

  Coalition Avenir Quebec leader François Legault said he finds the amount -- and the way Pauline Marois spent it -- revolting.

  Canada

  May 20, 2015