Latest Quebec Stories
Natural gas: An economical and environmental alternative to traditional fuels MONTREAL, Feb. 4, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Gaz Métro is proud to take stock of its achievements in line with its liquefied natural gas (LNG) development plan. The goal of this plan is to supply LNG to the heavy transport industry in Quebec and eastern Canada, via its indirect subsidiary Gaz Métro Transport Solutions, LP (GMTS), and subsequently to assess the possibility of hauling LNG by truck to service...
TORONTO, Jan. 31, 2013 /CNW/ - Groupe Média TFO invites cable TV subscribers in Quebec to discover its television programming during a free preview period that will run throughout February 2013. From February 1 to 28, subscribers to Bell, Videotron, Cogeco, and Telus cable services in Quebec will have the chance to familiarize themselves with TFO's amazing content offerings, what the network's new advertising slogan proudly describes as je-ne-sais-quoi télé. Already widely...
TORONTO, Jan. 30, 2013 /CNW/ - TFO's signal is now available to TELUS Optik TV(TM) subscribers in four regions of Quebec: Côte-Nord, Bas-Saint-Laurent, the Gaspé, and the Greater Quebec City Area. Starting today, these TELUS customers can watch TFO in Standard Definition (SD) on Channel 34 or High Definition (HD) on channel 534 and enjoy the bold, unique universe of TFO's French-language programming, including educational, entertaining children's shows from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm,...
GATINEAU, QC, Jan. 28, 2013 /CNW/ - After visiting nine cities, the Canadian Museum of Civilization will hold the last panel discussion and roundtable of its cross-country tour back on home soil at the Museum on Thursday, January 31 to invite the public to participate in the creation of the new Canadian Museum of History. The new exhibition gallery, which will be inaugurated in 2017, will present the national history of Canada and its people. Representatives from the Museum are...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CSX Corporation (CSX) and its transportation and intermodal terminals subsidiaries today announced an expansion of the company's intermodal presence in the greater Montreal region and Quebec. CSX's intermodal terminals subsidiary will build a new 36-hectare (89-acre) intermodal rail terminal in the City of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield in Quebec, connecting the region with CSX Transportation's (CSXT) 34,000 kilometer (21,000-mile) rail...
LACHENAIE, QC, Jan. 21, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Capital Pro-Égaux Inc. (the "Company") (NEX: CPE.H) announces that its US counsels have been advised that a judge of the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, has granted all of Nobel Biocare's motions for summary judgment of non-infringement. Such motions were filed by Nobel in response to the Company's proceedings for patent infringement undertaken against Nobel in the summer of 2012 as described in the Company's...
GATINEAU, QC, Jan. 18, 2013 /CNW/ - Representatives of the Canadian Museum of Civilization will be in Montréal, Quebec on Thursday, January 24 to invite the public to participate in the creation of the new Canadian Museum of History. The new exhibition gallery, which will be inaugurated in 2017, will present the national history of Canada and its people. Representatives from the Museum are travelling the country asking Canadians what they would like to see in this new...
AMOS, QC, Jan. 18, 2013 /CNW/ - Royal Nickel Corporation ("RNC") (TSX: RNX) is pleased to announce the official opening of its new community liaison office located in the municipality of Launay in the Abitibi region of Quebec. Approximately 75 people, including local residents, media and representatives from the municipality of Launay and RNC attended the opening ceremony, which was held at the new office yesterday evening. The liaison office has been established in the...
MONTREAL, Jan. 16, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - SNC-Lavalin (TSX: SNC) has been awarded a contract by Opinaca Mines Ltd., a company owned by Goldcorp Inc., to provide project management, detailed engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the Éléonore gold project in northeastern Quebec, Canada. The Éléonore mine is located in the James Bay region of Quebec, 350 km north of Matagami and east of the Opinaca reservoir. The process plant will be designed to...
MONTREAL, Jan. 15, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - La Coop fédérée and Groupe BMR have confirmed that discussions are currently underway towards an eventual business relationship. These discussions are being held in an active business context for Quebec distributors and retailers specializing in hardware, renovation, agricultural machinery and gardening products. In the event that a formal agreement is reached, members, management and employees of both organizations and their...
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Symbol: CRSU2 Group: Dicot Family: Rosaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Tree Shrub Native Status: L48 N CAN N Synonyms: CRCH80 Crataegus champlainensis Sarg. Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:NY, WI Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed...
Symbol: CAQU4 Group: Monocot Family: Cyperaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Graminoid Native Status: CAN N Distribution: Carex×quebecensisLepage [bigelowii × saxatilis] distribution:CAN(QC) Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class ...
The Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus), or Red-back Salamander, is a small, hardy woodland salamander. It inhabits wooded slopes in Eastern North America, west to Missouri, south to North Carolina, and north from southern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces in Canada to Minnesota. salamander. It is also known as the Northern Redback Salamander to distinguish it from the Southern Redback Salamander (P. serratus). The Red-backed Salamander is found mostly in two color variations: the...
Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis, synomym B. lutea), is a species of birch native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and southern Quebec west to Minnesota, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia. It is the Provincial tree of Quebec and the name reflects the color of the tree's bark. This medium-sized deciduous tree reaches 20 m tall (exceptionally to 30 m) with a trunk up to 80 cm diameter. The bark is smooth, yellow-bronze, flaking in fine...
Comptonia is a genus of a single species, Comptonia peregrina, in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales. This shrub is native to eastern North America, from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia, and west to Minnesota. The common name is Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it is not a fern. Several fossil species have been discovered, showing that the genus once had a much wider distribution throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
