Quebec politicians, Muslims take issue with new election rules on veils (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News)
September 8, 2007 on 10:09 am | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No CommentsQuebec Premier Jean Charest is slamming new federal election rules that will allow Muslim women with concealed faces to vote in coming byelections, calling the policy a bad one.
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Quebec politicians, Muslims take issue with new election rules on veils (CBC Ottawa)
September 8, 2007 on 10:09 am | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No CommentsQuebec Premier Jean Charest is slamming new federal election rules that will allow Muslim women with concealed faces to vote in upcoming byelections, calling the policy a bad one.
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Quebec politicians, Muslims slam new election rules on veils (CBC Ottawa)
September 8, 2007 on 10:09 am | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No CommentsQuebec Premier Jean Charest opposes new federal election rules that will allow Muslim women with concealed faces to vote in coming byelections, calling the policy a bad one.
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Premier Jean Charest says all voters must be clearly identified when voting (CP via Yahoo! Canada News)
September 7, 2007 on 10:44 pm | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No CommentsSHERBROOKE, Que. (CP) - Premier Jean Charest is disagreeing with a decision to allow Muslim women wearing burkas or niqabs to keep their faces covered when voting in three upcoming Quebec byelections.
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Osisko Recruits Experienced Mine Development Team (CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance)
September 7, 2007 on 10:44 pm | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No Comments MONTREAL, QUEBEC– - Osisko Exploration Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has completed the recruitment and appointment of the following key individuals who will form the core of its mine development group for the Canadian Malartic gold project.
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U.S. job losses take shine off robust employment performance in Canada (CP via Yahoo! Canada News)
September 7, 2007 on 10:44 pm | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No CommentsOTTAWA (CP) - Canada’s stronger-than-expected job creation performance in August was sideswiped Friday by evidence of a sharp downturn in the U.S. that could signal worse times ahead for the economy.
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Exhibits this week (The Barre Montpelier Times Argus)
September 7, 2007 on 10:44 pm | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No CommentsBennington Museum: Complementary Visions, Sept. 8-Nov. 17, Greg Winterhalter and Ray Bulb; Impressionism and Beyond, through Oct. 31, rarely exhibited works from private collections by Monet, Manet, Pissaro, Cezanne, Matisse, Chagall, and more; Jane Stickle’s Civil War Period Quilt, Sept. 
ct. 15, annual exhibit of this quilt that inspired the book “Dear Jane,” 75 Main St., Bennington, (802) …
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City’s first hybrid buses get green light for 2008 (Montreal Gazette)
September 6, 2007 on 9:46 am | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No CommentsMontreal’s first hybrid electric-diesel transit buses will hit the streets in early 2008 with the financial support of higher levels of government.
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Making money as an environmentalist? “It’s a fantastic combination” (Sherbrooke Record)
September 5, 2007 on 7:19 pm | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No Comments“Any business deal starts with a sale and ends with a cheque,” Dennis Wood once told a reporter. It’s the stuff sandwiched in between that most people don’t know about this long-familiar Townships businessman.
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Top 10 (#2): No. 1 Laval opens season at Sherbrooke (universitysport.ca)
September 5, 2007 on 7:19 pm | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No CommentsOTTAWA (CIS) - For the second time in as many weeks, the reigning Vanier Cup champion Laval Rouge et Or are a unanimous choice at the top of the CIS football national rankings.
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Two men arrested (Montreal Gazette)
September 3, 2007 on 10:07 am | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No CommentsMontreal police have arrested two men after a heist at a downtown art gallery. The theft occurred Aug. 5 at Galerie Lamoureux Ritzenhoff on Sherbrooke St. W. at Redpath St., police said. All three paintings were by Jean-Paul Riopelle and other Quebec artists. Gilles Bodart, 60 and Denis Savaria, 58, face charges of theft. The paintings have been returned.
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BMTC Group Inc. announces the renewal of its programs to acquire Class A Subordinate Voting Shares and Class B Multiple … (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
September 1, 2007 on 8:18 pm | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No Comments BMTC Group Inc. announces that it has received the required regulatory approvals to renew its program to acquire Class A Subordinate Voting Shares listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange for the period between September 6, 2007 and September 5, 2008 at the latest.
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Metal plaque honouring wartime dead vanishes from Knowlton cenotaph (Montreal Gazette)
August 31, 2007 on 7:36 pm | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No CommentsThe rash of thefts of historic artifacts, believed to be driven by the high price of scrap metal, continues unabated in the Eastern Townships.
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News Index (Prince George Citizen Online)
August 31, 2007 on 9:20 am | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No CommentsPrince George Citizen Community Newspaper
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High-tech material could help prevent overpass collapses (CBC Montreal)
August 29, 2007 on 7:55 pm | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No CommentsTransport Quebec planning to build a six-lane, high-tech overpass in Sherbrooke using a special material engineers say could help prevent the kind overpass disasters the province has seen in recent years.
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Church bells ring up hot trade as scrap metal (Montreal Gazette)
August 29, 2007 on 7:55 pm | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No Comments The Eastern Townships village of Béthanie was trying to save for future generations the bell that had been ringing from the town’s Roman Catholic church since 1917.
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Charles River Laboratories “neutral” (New Ratings)
August 29, 2007 on 9:58 am | In Sherbrooke Quebec | No CommentsIn a research note published this morning, the analyst mentions that the company’s plan to build a Preclinical Services facility in Sherbrooke, Quebec lends support to the forecast of double-digit PCS sales growth.
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