Quebec City, officially Québec, is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2016, the city had a population of 531,902, and the metropolitan area had a population of 800,296. It is the eleventh-largest city and the seventh-largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is also the second-largest city in the province after Montreal. It has a humid continental climate with warm summers coupled with cold and snowy winters.
The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) is a French-language public university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québec system.
Laval University is a public research university in Québec City, Québec, Canada. The University was founded by royal charter issued by Queen Victoria in 1852, with roots in the founding of the Séminaire de Québec in 1663 by François de Montmorency-Laval, making it the oldest centre of higher education in Canada and the first North American institution to offer higher education in French. The university, which started in Old Québec, moved to a new campus in the 1950s in the suburban borough of Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge. It is ranked among the top 10 Canadian universities in terms of research funding and holds 4 Canada Excellence Research Chairs. Like most institutions in Québec, the name "Université Laval" is not translated into English.
The Université de Saint-Boniface (USB) is a French-language public university located in the Saint Boniface neighbourhood of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. An affiliated institution of the University of Manitoba, the university offers general and specialized university degree programs as well as technical and professional training. In 2014, 1,368 regular students were enrolled. Its Continuing Education Division, which includes a language school, has also counted over 4,200 enrolments.
J. Maurice LeClair was a Canadian physician, businessman, civil servant, and academic.
Cégep Édouard-Montpetit is a public Francophone college in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. Approximately 7,300 students are enrolled in the 2 campuses, the main one located in Longueuil and the École nationale d'aérotechnique in St-Hubert campuses. It is affiliated with the ACCC, and CCAA.
Urgences-santé is the statutory public emergency medical service for the islands of Montreal and Laval, Quebec. The corporation operates a fleet of 165 vehicles and employs over 1,300 people, including 891 professional paramedics. Urgences-santé is one of the largest paramedical services in Canada.
The Université de Montréal is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located on the northern slope of Mount Royal in the neighbourhoods of Outremont and Côte-des-Neiges. The institution comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal. It offers more than 650 undergraduate programmes and graduate programmes, including 71 doctoral programmes.
Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University is a French public university created in 1991, located in the department of Yvelines and, since 2002, in Hauts-de-Seine.
Abdou Moumouni University was formerly the University of Niamey from 1974 to 1994. On the right bank of the Niger River in Niamey, its students and faculty have historically been involved in protest movements in the capital.
The école de musique Vincent-d'Indy is a subsidized private music college situated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the Outremont district, that specializes in music education.
Germain Belzile was an economist born in Chicago (USA). Both his parents were from Quebec (Canada). He held a bachelor's degree in Mathematical Economics from the Université Laval and a M.Sc. in economics (macroeconomics) from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). He did further doctoral studies in Economics at UQAM. He specialized in macroeconomic theory, macroeconomic policies, money and banking, and international economics.
Marc Tanguay is a Canadian politician and a member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the LaFontaine electoral district.
Thomas De Koninck is a philosopher from Québec.
Brigitte Alepin, born in 1966, is a Canadian tax specialist. She is notable for her published works, documentaries, the TaxCOOP conferences she co-founded and her various media interventions related to tax justice, as well as philanthropic and environmental taxation.
The ASSQ is a professional association of statisticians based in the province of Quebec, Canada. The acronym stands for Association des statisticiennes et statisticiens du Québec. The association was officially created on May 12, 1995, by Letters Patents from the Québec Government. Its permanent office is located in Quebec City.
Marie-Françoise Mégie is a Canadian physician, university professor at the Université de Montreal and member of the Independent Senators Group in the Senate of Canada. Born in Jacmel, Haiti, she moved to Quebec in 1976.
The Répertoire de vedettes-matière de l'Université Laval (RVM) is a controlled vocabulary made up of four mostly bilingual thesauruses. It is designed for document indexers, organizations that want to describe the content of their documents or of their products and services, as well as anyone who wants to clarify vocabulary in English and French as part of their work or research.
The Corneille River is a river in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada. It empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence opposite Anticosti Island.
Monique F. Leroux CM OQ is a Canadian businesswoman. From 2008 to 2016, she was chair of the Board and chief executive officer of Desjardins Group.
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