Word: quebecers
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Dion was raised in Quebec and learned English as an adolescent, so her lyrical emphasis is slightly but consistently odd. She also sings generic love songs with frightening sincerity; the combination makes her seem a little bit kooky and a little bit spooky...
...many schools in Holland collected money for the starving children in Africa. Not much has changed. Will the money Bono collects bring democracy and accountability to Africa? Let's hope Bono is the right man to make the changes that are so desperately needed. TRUUS VAN GINHOVEN Piedmont, Quebec...
Supporters of the PSA test contend that the decline is due to the routine screening that began in the 1980s. If that were the case, the researchers from the University of Laval in Quebec City argue, the greatest fall in the death rate would have been recorded in those sections of Quebec where more men underwent screening. In fact, there was no statistical correlation between screening and death rates...
...adapting a work of art is to allow for its universal themes to emerge in a context readily identifiable and relevant for audiences. In transporting the action of George Bizet’s opera Carmen from 19th-century Seville to the tumultuous backdrop of the free trade protests in Quebec and post-September 11 Wall Street, Lowell House Opera’s (LHO) new adaptation fails to shed light on the complex, weighty issues of free trade and globalization, while confusing and compromising the dramatic appeal of the opera itself
...opera now opens with the chorus girls behind the police perimeters: they are free-trade protesters in Quebec, though their bright, expensive-looking costumes seem out of sync with their political message. The entire scene, including the cramped arm-waving protests of the chorus girls, feels artificial, with the haphazardness reading not as purposeful disruption but awkward staging...