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Heritage: Mayor Labeaume opposes the amended reform project
Bill 69 until now provided for an exception for Quebec, but in a series of twenty or so amendments, this initial provision has gone under the carpet, to the dismay of Régis Labeaume. Read the article…
Hard time for churches
Listings could be less and less rare, even if a moratorium is still in effect in Montreal. Read the article in Le Devoir , by Jeanne Corriveau
Religious heritage must return to the heart of the debate
Over the past ten years or so, the idea of safeguarding religious heritage has gradually faded from public debate in favor of a discourse that has swallowed it up as one element among others of a so-called…
The heritage bill lacks solid foundations, according to Serge Joyal and Phyllis Lambert
"We ask you to intervene so that Bill 69 is fundamentally rewritten, so that it truly becomes the law 101 of our history and our roots. Left as is, this bill will perpetuate the same dynamic that…
A church heated with bitcoins
[Updated Feb. 8, 2021] There is no bingo hall in the basement of Saint-Adrien Church. Rather multiple servers that mine cryptocurrency. Without them, the project of transforming the church into a creative…
Death of architect Frédérick Dawson
As an architect, one of his proudest accomplishments was designing the Notre-Dame-de-Pompei Catholic Church on Sauvé St. Dawson has the distinction of being the only architect to have designed…
Religious archives, "great forgotten ones in the reflection on Quebec's cultural heritage"
Private archives, and more specifically religious archives, are "the great forgotten ones in the reflection on Quebec's cultural heritage", deplores the Canadian Society of the History of…