Quebec Poutine News Today

The week-long poutine festival has returned to Canada and will run from February 1 to 7, 2024 across all 10 provinces in cities including Montreal, Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, and Winnipeg, to name a few.

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Google unveiled a Quebec poutine-themed doodle in Canada on Friday, May 19, to mark the ninth anniversary of the entrance of the word "poutine" in the English Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The doodle depicts a steaming bowl of fries, gravy and cheese curds in front of a redesigned Google logo evoking the folky font of a roadside casse-croûte. A smiling, dancing fork clutching a single, gravy-soaked French fry replaces the 'L' in "Google."

2023's edition of the Festival de la Poutine is bringing some high-tier francophone musical celebs to Drummondville this summer, all for a weekend price of $45 (plus however much it costs to douse yourself in poutine gravy).

At the world's end, when nothing remains but dust and rubble, when the land lies grey and fallow and the birds don't dare to sing, what will become of Quebec's legacy? What will we remember of the province that once stood so tall? Poutine, duh.

On Valentine's Day, the nation's greatest contest ended for the 11th time. Now, La Poutine Week has unveiled its best in show, from publicly voted-upon to privately judged poutines. Four of the five La Poutine Week concoctions that topped the people's choice list are from Montreal.

Le Grand Poutinefest, an annual celebration of the staple québécois dish, is launching its 2022 edition with a first stop in Montreal's Saint-Laurent borough starting April 28. The festival will feature 17 takes on the traditional pile of fries, gravy and cheese curds — many of them a bit eccentric.