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For another year the Adäka Cultural Festival is providing a venue to celebrate the North’s Indigenous traditions through art, music, stories and more. The 2023 festival began on June 29 and runs through the evening of July 5.

Sidhartha Banerjee Staff members pose at Manoir Stanstead in Stanstead, Que., in this undated handout photo. Staff at a retirement home east of Montreal are living with their elderly residents to prevent them from being confined to their rooms during Quebecs COVID-19 lockdown. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Stanstead Manoir, *MANDATORY CREDIT* January 30, 2021 - 1:00 AM MONTREAL - Staff at a retirement home east of Montreal are living with their elderly residents to prevent t...

Since Jan. 9, Quebecers have been under tight restrictions that include a nightly provincewide curfew and the closure of all non-essential businesses. Dining rooms at all long-term care homes and private seniors residences are also closed. For Donna Rolfe, closing the dining area and keeping residents locked in their rooms at her facility is unacceptable. Instead, to ensure residents arent isolated, she and her colleagues decided to shut themselves in the private care home located about 160 k...

  OTTAWA -- A group of long-term care workers in rural Quebec have taken extreme measures to keep COVID-19 from entering their facility: they have each decided to move in with the residents. For the second time since the start of the pandemic, employees at Manoir Stanstead in Stanstead, Que., about 160 kilometres southeast of Montreal, have committed to move into the facility for an entire month as a way of limiting their own exposure to the virus and thus keeping their residents as safe as...