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Montreal Critics' Week presents its inaugural edition
Montreal Critics' Week, a new film festival, debuts in Montreal on Jan. 13. We speak with co-founder Ariel Esteban Cayer and filmmaker Melanie Shatzky whose documentary will be screened on opening night. Screenings are at the Cinemathèque Québecoise and Cinéma Moderne.
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Voting is open for the annual Quebec Science top 10 discoveries
The magazine Quebec Science is asking you to vote on the top scientific discovery of 2024 in the province. We talk with the editor in chief, Marine Corniou, about some of the research projects in their annual juried competition and some of the areas of interest.
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Here's what Montreal chef David Ferguson cooks for Santa on Christmas
Montreal chef David Ferguson talks about what he cooks for Santa Claus, that's right - Santa - as his personal chef one day a year. He also read us a bit of the short story he wrote about his fantasy job.
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Torill Kove on the Oscars shortlist and her latest animated film Maybe Elephants
Oscar-winning Montreal filmmaker Torill Kove has been shortlisted for another Academy Award. It's for her animated NFB short Maybe Elephants, which is based on a real-life story of her Norwegian family moving to Nairobi. We speak with her about the possibility of another Oscar nomination and the story behind this film.
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Christmas show brings together 3 generations of artists from a Quebec family
Natalie Choquette, her daughter Florence K, who is also a singer and host of CBC's C'est Formidable, are part of a Christmas show that features three generations of talented women, including Choquette's granddaughter, Alice Cyr.
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As part of a study, these 4 Quebec seniors climbed to the base camp of Mount Everest
Eléonor Riesco, a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke's physical activity sciences faculty, climbed alongside four women between ages of 66 and 75 to see how they handled the challenge of getting to the base camp of Mount Everest.
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Oka National Park hosts 2nd edition of Indigenous Winter Market
Véronique Vincent, the tourism project manager for Kanehsatà:ke Tourism, the organizer behind the event, says the market is a good way to "take leadership" of the community's tourism development.
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Cookbook highlights cuisine, heritage of Molisan community in Quebec
Montreal historian Cassandra Marsillo talks about gathering recipes from Montreal's Italian community from the Molise region for a cookbook that preserves their culinary heritage. She'll be at Read Quebec on Dec. 7 with the book and some Italian treats.
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Montreal's Space for Life to hold 5th edition of Researchers' Night
Around 150 scientists will be at the Planetarium and the Biodôme in Montreal on Nov. 15, talking about their research projects in a variety of formats, including an event modelled after YouTube's popular Hot Ones series and a tour of the Biodôme at night.
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Drag queen Barbada de Barbades to host panel on misinformation
Barbada will be hosting a discussion panel in Montreal for the first ever national Together Against Misinformation event in Quebec on Tuesday.