Word: quebecers
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...parliament calling for strong fiscal support to save Canadian jobs, the government may once again face the possibility of being toppled. Earlier this month the Conservatives narrowly escaped being replaced by a coalition of parties, including the separatist Bloc Quebecois, which wants to cede the province of Quebec from Canadian confederation...
...people who are always there for you. When I would go on the ice, every time, I would be playing for the people who were my teammates rather than just playing for my own purposes.”It was tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt, a French-speaking native of Quebec, who really helped Ryabkina adjust to both the Crimson game and the Harvard way of life. “[Vaillancourt] played a huge role not just on the ice, hockey-wise, but in my everyday life too…She understands me in the way that...
Though predicting the success of a season and a team’s newest players from one exhibition game is a risky exercise in extrapolation, the No. 20 Harvard men’s hockey team has plenty of reasons for optimism after its 3-1 win over Quebec Trois-Rivières in Friday night’s exhibition game at the Bright Hockey Center. In a game that the Crimson hoped would help Harvard’s seven freshmen acclimate to college hockey, the Crimson freshmen were the ones who found the back of the net. Freshman Alex Killhorn...
...research team studied data on 1,970 children - about half boys, half girls - and their families, all participants in the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development. The children were born between October 1997 and July 1998 and represented a socio-economic cross-section of Quebec society. Mothers were surveyed about their children during their earliest school years - every six months up to age 6 - in order to determine how often children complained of suffering physical violence at school, being called names or being teased by their peers. Subsequently, the study asked the same questions of teachers and the children themselves...
...researchers then compared prescribing behavior of French-speaking Quebec residents, who only tune in to American channels five percent of the time, with those living in English-speaking Canada, who are estimated to spend about 30 percent of their time in front of the television watching American shows...