“If you didn’t live here, you wouldn’t really know about the issues that come up on the border,” says Matthew Farfan, who expects to publish a book on border life and its trials — or lack thereof — by 2009. His project is titled Life on the Line: the Vermont-Quebec Border, and he believes readers will enjoy learning of the life and issues that touch American and Canadian residents, and their ...

Paul Martin should be able to walk out his back door and onto his new green to tee-off by summertime, as work on the former prime minister’s six-hole golf course winds down on his Brome Lake property.

An increase in French-language instruction at Knowlton Academy has some parents concerned about the future of the community’s long-standing English institution.

“If you didn’t live here, you wouldn’t really know about the issues that come up on the border,” says Matthew Farfan, who expects to publish a book on border life and its trials — or lack thereof — by 2009.

The provincial electoral commission has decided it cannot move mountains so Mount Orford will remain where it is, in the Orford riding.

A Canadian military plane carrying 2,000 emergency shelter kits for victims of the May 2 cyclone in Myanmar landed in Bangkok Saturday morning.

A suicide bombing Saturday morning in Kandahar City killed a nine-year-old boy and wounded four others.

She has moved to London, embraced a life of relentless media scrutiny and converted from Catholicism to the Church of England to maintain her fiance's theoretical eligibility for his grandmother's throne.

Myanmar's junta took diplomats on a tour of the storm-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Saturday as its toll of dead and missing soared above 133,000 people, making Cyclone Nargis one of the most devastating ever to hit Asia.

A Chinese county near the epicenter of a 7.9 magnitude earthquake was ordered to evacuate on Saturday amid fears a lake had burst its banks, prompting thousands to flee to the hills to escape possible flooding.

A 38 year old man is in a coma fighting for his life after he was attacked on his bicycle by a group of at least 10 young people Friday night in Marlboro Park in the St Laurent burrough.

The 19th annual Quebec Boating Safety week is being launched Saturday. Vahe Vassilian, President fo the Quebec Boating Council says they are trying to get people to improve their boating safety habits.

A Dorval man arrested in March for production and distribution of juvenile pornography faces 26 new charges. Daniel Lisiewicz faces a total of 85 charges against 18 victims, some of whom are minors.

The assistant to Quebec's natural resources minister Claude Bechard has been kidnapped. When 37 year old Nancy Michaud's husband came home late last night, their three kids were asleep but she was nowhere to be found. Police don't think Michaud's husband was involved.

Pauline Marois has told reporters today the sovereignty option is not outmoded and with that, the PQ leader is looking towards the creation of a new sovereignty manifesto.

Happy 15th birthday to us! Jamie O'Meara Fifteen'll get you twenty, eh? That's what we're hoping for as we hit mid-adolescence, celebrating yet another milestone in our continued growth as a publication.

When Dr. Gabor Maté sat down to write the book that became In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction , he thought he'd simply be telling his patients' stories.

This weekend kicks off Montreal's annual Anarchist Bookfair. The event has grown into the largest anti-authoritarian book fair in North America, and is the highlight of Montreal's month-long festival of anarchy.

"You may think I'm loony tunes but I'm convinced Bugs Bunny is a big ol' fag," I wrote right here back in July 1997.

Digital cable subscribers in Quebec have noticed a strange icon popping up on their screens during certain advertisements. An icon bearing the letters "etc" invites viewers to push a button on their remote to learn more about the product being advertised.

Last week, Montreal executive committee member André Lavallée and Quebec Transport Minister Julie Boulet announced that work on the $750 million Notre Dame St. revamp project would begin in October.

Although neither St. Leonard Lions U14 boys or girls team came away with a win at Stade Hébert on Saturday afternoon, the day was nonetheless a landmark event.

In a show filled with memorable performances from start to finish, it was the youngest performers who stole the spotlight and brought the audience to their feet.

More than 15,000 Montrealers celebrated Israel’s 60th anniversary in grand style, with a sea of blue and white flags downtown, an attempt to break a Guinness world record for folk dancing and tributes by federal leaders.

My notion of what to do on Mother’s Day when I was a little kid was largely formed by commercials I saw on TV. I must have seen some Hallmark commercial at some point where a kid brings his mom breakfast in bed because I can remember several years where I tried to do the same.