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Thirty-three young women graduated from St. Joseph’s School of Nursing at the Hotel Dieu Hospital, Cornwall on June 12th, 1968. 

Montreal and Quebec City are regarded as two of the best cities in Canada. However, when it came to a recent ranking of the best cities across the country to get rich, neither Montreal nor the province's capital made the cut — but three other Quebec cities did.

Heading to Quebec's Maritime island escape will probably soon cost you even more than it already does. As La Presse first reported, the municipal agglomeration council of the Îles-de-la-Madeleine has voted to impose a $30 fee on almost every person who visits the islands. The fee would not apply to residents or people who own local property.

A new report breaks down "livable income" thresholds in seven Quebec cities. The study from the Institut de recherche et d’informations socioéconomiques (IRIS) examined the cost of living in Gatineau, Montreal, Quebec City, Saguenay, Sept-Îles, Sherbrooke and Trois-Rivières to determine how much money a household would need to make after taxes in 2022 to live both above the poverty line and "with dignity" in each urban area.

The provincial government has announced a plan to make flights within Quebec cheaper and promote air service to more remote destinations. The plan includes a $500 limit on the price of round-trip intra-Quebec flights to select destinations in outlying regions. That price cap will take effect in the summer of 2022 once government subsidies kick in.