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Well-known Quebec greasy spoon Chez Ashton says it will now be offering scholarships to encourage its staff to continue their studies.

As survivors and world leaders in Poland commemorated the liberation of Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp and extermination centre where over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives, Montrealers gathered to do the same at the city's Holocaust museum. 4

St. Raphael Palliative Centre opened just months ago but has already found itself filling a much-needed niche in Montreal. 1

In golf, a hole-in-one is always a special occasion. Quebec golfer Laurent Hurtubise's ace happened on one of the world's biggest stages -- and it captured the world's attention because he has only one arm. 2

Two Montreal caleche horses are getting an early retirement, joining some old friends at an off-island refuge. For Maximus and Freddy, the days of pulling around tourists are over. They're the two newest residents of A Horse Tale Rescue in Vaudreuil-Dorion. 2

Montreal's music scene has lost a favourite son. Sheldon Sazant was the general manager at Steve's music store, but he was also recognized as the driving force behind local artists. He died Thursday after a short battle with cancer. 1

The owners of Restaurant Manitoba, on Saint-Zotique Street, claim they found a threatening note, as well as glue inside the lock of their door.

Have you checked your lottery tickets lately? Winners have 12 months from the draw date to claim their prize.

Award-winning director Isabelle Raynauld has spent the past five years investigating the influence music has on the brain in everyone from military veterans, to cancer patients, to premature infants. In one segment of her latest documentary, Tuning the Brain with Music, Raynauld focuses on a group of girls on the autism spectrum who started a rock band. 2

A debate has emerged over an archeological find after an expert suggested that a wooden structure heralded as one of Quebec City's first fortifications is not nearly as old as claimed.

Activities will take place across Quebec on Tuesday to celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the Fleurdelisé.

A private chef who moved to Canada from Iran five years ago is spreading a message of peace, love and kindness through Persian food. 1

The STM is getting 830 new hybrid buses costing almost $1 billion as part of the city's plan to get more people out of their cars and into public transit. 1

Friends and family are mourning the loss of Garnet Bourgaize, a devoted military veteran and beloved father and great-great grandfather. 1

They may appear aloof or peaceful, but a scientific study says cats might be suffering in silence.

Men make more than women, on average, straight out of university, a new study has found. 1

A funeral home's plan to expand into St-Bruno on the South Shore of Montreal is encountering strong resistance. At issue is a crematorium, which residents on Parent St. claim will be built too close to their houses. 1