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On the trail of Expo67

In 1967 the Universal Exposition took place in Montréal, on the Island Notre-Dame. I went there to see what was left from it. The most impressive building is the American one: the Biosphere, actually it contains a museum about ecology. Further we can...

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Cirque du Soleil

The Cirque du Soleil is in Montreal! I couldn't the opportunity to see their new show: Kurios, Cabinet des curiosités. So I went there yesterday with a friend. They instal their big top on the Old Port, it was already beautiful from the outside. The show...

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A Canadian car advert

When I saw I had to write an article about an advert from Canada, I immediately thought about this one. Indeed I saw it several times on TV, and I found it interesting because it is an advert you could not find in France. This advert is from the company...

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Canadian political system

Monday 7th of April it was the provincial elections in Quebec to choose the new prime minister, the occasion to learn more about the Canadian political system. Canada is a constitutional monarchy, whose sovereign is the reigning monarch of the United...

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Boston

After Toronto, let's go to BOSTON! Departure on Friday 28th of March at midnight by bus. Wake up at 2am to go throw the custom. It was a little bit hard to answer the custom's questions half asleep but we managed to go throw and here we are in the USA!...

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Give me some sugar

March has arrived and it is a tradition in Quebec to have a dinner in a sugar shack. So I went there this friday with the organization of the international student of Concordia. The sugar shack we went to was in Oswald (50 minutes away from Montreal)....

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Toronto

After visiting Montreal and Quebec City it is time for us to go to Toronto! We left Montreal on Friday 7th of March at 00:15 and after a 6hours trip in a bus we were finally in Toronto! First step: find our hostel and we faced our first difficulty: the...

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Wild week-end

I spend my last week-end in the Mont Mégantic with a family friend. We were going to go snowshoing and cross-country skiing. We left Montreal on Saturday afternoon after packing warm clothes and food for the week-end. We were supposed to arrive there...

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Quebec City

With an association of the university we had the opportunity to spend a day in Quebec City, the capital of the province of Quebec. Founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain is one of the oldest city of North America and it's the only walled city in Canada....

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Igloo Fest

Who thought that Canadian people hibernate? Well if you do it's a big mistake because in this country we don't stop living during winter ! During the month of January, every week-end, takes place the Igloo Fest. A festival of electronic music, outside!...

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