One cannot eat like a culinary King all the time — at least not on my salary. So the second half of my trip to Quebec City featured less of the fancy meals. But there are still a few meals worth sharing. I actually had plans to get back on
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A BCer in Ottawa: Eating OFF the Hill: Day Three in Quebec City
Breakfast on Thursday was the rest of yesterday’s leftover tossard from Paillard, so for lunch I took the funicular down to lower town and managed to duck into Cochon Dingue just before the skies opened up. Cochon Dingue I was excited about both my choices at Cochon Dingue, but what
Continue readingA BCer in Ottawa: Eating OFF the Hill: Day deux in Quebec City
Slept in and got a slow start Wednesday — because I’m on vacation, y’all. But once I hopped the bus downtown and walked through the St. Jean gate, it was straight to Café-Boulangerie Paillard, recommended by several as an important stop for baked goodies. Café-Boulangerie Paillard I managed to navigate
Continue readingA BCer in Ottawa: Eating OFF the Hill: Day One in Quebec City
I’m off to Quebec City until Sunday for my summer break, deciding to spend my vacation dollars North of the border for the foreseeable future — as much as I would have enjoyed another baseball road trip. So, having crossed Halifax off the bucket list at biennial this spring, my
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Mosque Massacre and the Bigotry of Indifference
It's been one year since the Le Pen groupie Alexandre Bissonnette burst into a Quebec City mosque and opened fire on a group of helpless worshippers.He killed six people, and wounded nineteen others. It was a horrifying massacre and a real nightmare. But what I find almost as disturbing, is what
Continue readingAlberta Diary: U.S. grain and seed ports will kill a few more Canadian jobs – with a little help from Stephen Harper
Bunge’s $200-million US grain port at Longview, Wash. Below, U.S. police and strikers scuffle at the port. Back in 2009, when the destruction of the Canadian Wheat Board was still just a twinkle in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s eye, work started on a $200-million US grain-handling terminal in the port
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: In Quebec City, A Protester Confronts Stephen Harper
The CBC News reports that a lone protester interrupted a speech by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as he addressed an international conference on the French language in Quebec City today. The protester “began shouting and approaching the stage” before he was “grabbed by two security guards and hustled out of
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: This Weekend in Quebec City
This weekend is the St-Jean, which i would guess probably resembles other nationalist holidays in nations-without-a-state: massive crowds, lots of partying, confused politics, often fights with cops or just between people. For that section of the left here that considers Quebec independence a worthy goal, the St-Jean has all the
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