MCQ Views and Voices

Welcome to the Business Edition of CASE Views & Voices ! This special 8-part series highlights local entrepreneurs and their unique journeys. In our very first episode, John A. Binns shares his experiences, insights, and lessons learned in the world of business. Tune in for an inspiring conversation!

In this episode of the local gardening series, contributors Julia Frid, Marilyn Mastine and Sharon St-Onge join host Julie Miller to chat about their favourite garden tools - the ones they just can't live without.  Besides rakes and hoes, there are some interesting implements tucked away in their gardening sheds!  Who knew that a subject like "Gardening Tools" could inspire such a g...

This is a mouth-watering episode, as regular contributors and green thumbs Sharon St-Onge, Marilyn Mastine, and Julia Frid are back to talk with host Julie Miller about their favourite vegetables to grow.  Pumpkins, eggplant, peas, tomatoes, spinach and more, including favourite varieties, a hull-less pumpkin grown in Nicolet,  and lots of anecdotes.  They'll give their opinions on the best,...

We're launching a new series which brings together passionate gardeners with green thumbs who have had their share of cracked pots over the years to share stories and discuss issues related to gardening, with a focus on experience in our own region, the Mauricie and the Centre du Québec.  In this introductory episode, you'll meet the series' regular contributors: Julia Frid, Marilyn...

For this second installment of our series about gardening,  host Julie Miller and contributors and green thumbs  Julia Frid, Marilyn Mastine, and Sharon St-Onge  share personal stories and thoughts about why they garden and what gardening means to them. You never know what is going to come up when gardeners sit down together for a chat! 

English/Welsh poet Zoë Skoulding will be appearing several times at the 38th edition of the Festival International de la poésie de Trois-Rivières.  In this chat with host Julie Miller, Zoë talks about her fascination with translation, her interest in both soundscapes and landscapes, how a visit to Montreal galvanized her to begin speaking French, and how a hidden river is at the heart of her recen...

This fall (2022) Anya Bussière-Filion entered her 3rd year of medicine at the University of Sherbrooke.   In a chat with host Julie Miller, Anya talks about the program and what brought her to study medicine in the first place.  Originally from Drummondville, Anya has grown up with both English and French, attending elementary and high school and also Cegep in English, before making the switch to...

In this second episode about Trois-Rivières' poetry festival, we meet Beatriz Hausner.  Beatriz has been to the Festival before, and she talks about what makes it special.  Her conversation with host Julie Miller ranges from talking about poetry to how she discovered it, about freedom and what inspires her, and about why she writes in English although her mother tongue is Spanish.   Besides h...

Beatriz Hausner, one of the poets invited to the Festival International de la Poésie de Trois-Rivières, reads her poem, " High Priestess ," taken from her latest collection, Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, published by Book*hug Press in 2020. 

Before his visit to the Festival International de la Poésie de Trois-Rivières this October (2022), Jérôme Melançon gives us a little taste of his work by reading his poem, “Irregularities,” from his English-language chapbook poetry collection, Tomorrow’s Going to Be Bright, published by above/ground press in 2022.  To read the poem for yourself, visit the MCQ Views and Voices companion blog at www...

Jérôme Melançon reads “Solidarité,” a poem from his latest French language collection, En d’sous d’la langue , 2021 (Prise de Parole), then he discusses it with Julie Miller.  To read the poem, visit the MCQ Views and Voices companion blog at www.mcqvoices.ca  

Jérôme Melançon is a bilingual professor from the University of Regina who is also a poet, a translator, and a philosopher. He  thinks a lot about language, identity, minorities, and what it's like to be bilingual, living and moving between two languages in Canada. Jerôme is one of the poets invited to the 28th edition of the Festival international de la poésie de Trois-Rivières, which is hap...

Just before the pandemic, Carole Jones and her husband moved to Drummondville from Ontario.  She was surprised by just how many details and issues came up in moving from one province to another.  And once she was here, the pandemic hit, and she found herself trying to adjust to a new town without being able to go anywhere.  True to style, Carole found a way forward and has been  exploring resource...

Singer-songwriter James Forest was born on the Magdalen Islands but he has made St Mathieu du Parc his home, when he is not travelling and playing his music around the globe. James released a new album called All Shades of Purple that came out during the Covid lockdown.  In a conversation with host Julie Miller, James talks about the album's title, what it's been like for a travelling mu...

Michael McCall has recently moved to Trois-Rivières from Ottawa.  He is no stranger to microphones, because he cohosts a podcast called FC13 all about Canadian soccer.  Michael joins host Julie Miller not only to talk about why it's a great year to be a soccer fan, but also to chat about bilingualism,  adapting to life in a new city, and what happened recently that has given him a fresh outlo...

Trinity Mastine grew up on a farm in a little village in the Centre du Québec, and is now a student at McGill in the Speech Language Pathology Program.  In this chat with host Julie Miller, Trinity talks about the village and farm where she grew up,  and shares her experience of leaving home to study in Montreal - an experience which has opened up both new horizons and new challenges.  There is a...

The second trailer for the third season of our podcast, celebrating the diversity of views and the  experience of people living and working in the Mauricie and the Centre du Québec.

The third season of MCQ Views and Voices is coming up this fall!  Listen in to hear what's in the works!

Lesley Joy Whitehead, aka Jo Whitehead, was the eldest child of industrialist Charles Ross Whitehead of Trois-Rivières.  Born in 1895, she led a most remarkable and unusual life, which has been all but forgotten in her home country of Canada until now.  Over the course of her work researching the history of the Scottish Women's Hospitals' Serbian Units, Dr. Natasha Stoyce of the UK stumb...

In this very last episode of season two, hosts Julie Miller and François Roy talk a bit about more recent history in Trois-Rivières, discussing important international events such as the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières and the poetry festival.  François mentions some famous people from the city, and the two hosts talk about the life of Brian Barton, to come full circle with the season's title, F...

This week, Julie Miller and François Roy take a look at the summer of 1946, the first peacetime summer after the long and dark war years .  People were picking up their lives and trying to get back to normal, but as often happens after momentous societal upheavals, life was never going to be the same again.  The summer of 46 was special for a lot of reasons, and people in Trois Rivières had reason...

Julie Miller and François Roy are back with another episode.  This time they take a look at  the controversial figure of Maurice Duplessis.  As François says, everything bad that happened before 1960 in Québec always seems to be Duplessis' fault, but it was more complicated than that- history always is more complicated.  When Duplessis, from an old Yamachiche family, was first elected in the...

For Trois-Rivières and Trifluvians, World War II was very different from WWI.  During the Second World War, the whole town was mobilized for the war effort, whereas in the previous war all the trouble had seemed far away for a lot of the population.  Julie and François discuss the build up to the war, and many of the ways the city changed during the war.  There were training grounds and POW camps;...

Charles Ramsay Devlin (1858-1914): during his own lifetime, he was a man impossible to ignore, but today his accomplishments have fallen into the shadows.   A  champion to some, a big headache for others, Devlin was a firebrand, a politician, a fearless campaigner, a defender of Catholics across Canada, a friend to Quebecers, a bilingual and charismatic figure…and a man who did not limit his actio...

In this episode, co-hosts Julie Miller and François Roy look at the Irish and bilingual history of  Sainte Brigitte on the south shore, going back to the first settler in the 1830s, John O'Sullivan.  This episode focuses  on some of the women of the parish, but Julie starts by going back even further to tell the story of the saint in whose honour the parish was named.  In the 1800s and first...