Extended Hands, a food bank at a church in Lachine, feeds 75 to 100 families in a regular week. It is already seeing more people coming by, and next week, it is expecting even more people will need help.

At least two Montreal bakeries are grinding their own grain to make sure its at its peak and their products are the most healthful they can be.

Believed to be the first black reporter at the CBC, Ernest Tucker broke the news of John F. Kennedy's assassination to CBC Radio listeners, met Ringo Starr and Louis Armstrong, and mentored generations of journalists as a teacher at John Abbott College.

Some Quebecers are trying to make the holiday season more low-key and planet-friendly

In less than one year, Tippi Thole, a web designer from Saint-Constant, has reduced the amount of garbage she and her son produce to one fistful a week.

For decades, most cut flowers in Quebec have been flown in imported from Colombia or Ecuador or farther afield. But change is blooming.