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Recently, Chuck Colson (founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries and BreakPoint ), a man who has been greatly used by God and that I greatly respect and admire, published this article concerning Quebec. To begin, I greatly appreciate Chuck Colson and his...
For the three of you who care, this is blog post #100 on our World Venture blog (I ate a cookie in celebration). Two feet of snow in one night...I always dreamed of winters like this growing up in snow-poor western Oregon. We are now officially about...
She loves Jesus. She is outspoken about her faith and full of compassion. She spent most of last summer working with many of the underprivileged in Haiti. She would love nothing more than to see the few thousand students at her Cégep see the love of Jesus...
Every year, between Christmas and New Year, a certain genre of music blasts from speakers all over Quebec. It is called "le rigodon." "Le rigodon" is a form of traditional Quebecker dance music from before the turn of the last century...
Exactly one year ago, my friend Zac and I wandered the streets of St-Jérôme asking French-speaking Quebeckers these questions: What were the best and worst presents you ever received for Christmas? What is the meaning of Christmas? What is the origin...
Footprints on crackling snow. Visible breath. Clanging bells following midnight mass. All these, on an often sub-zero Christmas Eve, commemorated the beginning of the traditional Quebecker Christmas celebration. Though few still attend midnight mass,...
So you think you might know a thing or two about your neighbor to the north? Watch this clip to find out. (And we are making no political statements here either... it's simply very funny).
Yes, this is an old beer commercial. But is a cool 60-second introduction to being Canadian and Canadian culture (albeit, English-Canadian).
-An Interview with a Quebecker-American (Rob Karch)- . I thought all Canadians were basically hockey-loving, pacifist, Americans that said ‘eh’ and had socialized healthcare. Is there really a difference between Quebeckers and English-Canadians? Quebec...
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