Word: quebecer
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...everyone was welcome, though, according to Solano. Cairnie excluded many from the store. This might have been nice for the writers and poets, but the general public felt abused. “Cairnie was quite high-handed for someone who had started out as a potato inspector in Quebec,” remembers Solano. The harsh tongue of Cairnie had lashed many, and he was known for only wanting to associate with individuals who were wealthy, famous or from Harvard. If the person was female, he preferred that she be attractive and the wife of one of the writers...
Celine Dion, the French-Canadian who helped close the telethon with a rousing rendition of “God Bless America,” is planning to headline a Montreal show that will benefit victims as well. “Quebec-New York” is slated...
...Sept. 29. The balls are thought to be the troublemakers' weapon of choice--easy to hide, easy to throw, legal to possess and dense enough to cause damage. Rioters defiantly threw them, along with less refined bricks, rocks and Molotov cocktails, at the Summit of the Americas conference in Quebec City last April. With as many as 100,000 expected to gather for the World Bank-IMF meeting, all local and federal law-enforcement agencies are on guard. "We certainly don't want to inhibit those who come to demonstrate peaceably," says Secret Service spokesman Jim Mackin. "But we have...
CommunAuto brought the car-sharing phenomenon from Europe, where there are now 120,000 members, to Quebec City and Montreal in the mid-1990s. Since then, six other Canadian cities have followed suit...
...family, Black demonstrated an early flair for entrepreneurship. When he was eight he spent his entire $60 savings on one General Motors share. Later, he sold stolen exams to fellow students at a prestigious Toronto boys' school - and was expelled. At 25, he bought the Sherbrooke Record, a small Quebec paper that began an empire that came to dominate the Canadian newspaper industry. Now that he's sold off what was for a time the empire's crown jewel, what's next? "I'll move opportunistically. I may increase holdings in Europe or in the U.S." The man has been...