Latest from Marika Wheeler
Brush cutters describe exploitative work conditions by Hydro-Québec subcontractors
Radio-Canada spoke with 15 brush cutters who worked for two Hydro-Québec subcontractors this summer, finding the companies failed to meet basic standards for health, safety, transportation and accommodation.
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This Quebec City food bank can hardly keep up with demand, as clientele nearly doubles
For La Bouchée Généreuse in Quebec City, finding enough food to fill over 1,000 baskets this season is a challenge as management says the “need is exploding.”
Saint Brigid's Home in Quebec City receives a failing grade from local health authority
Following an analysis of the health of Quebec City's Saint Brigid's Home by the CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale, the building and its systems were graded an E, and the anglophone community is pushing to get it refurbished.
Quebec resort called discriminatory for paying temporary foreign workers less than Canadian employees
Salaries below what most of their Canadian counterparts earn and pressure to work overtime: Mexican temporary foreign workers at Club Med Quebec Charlevoix are denouncing their working conditions.
How Pope Francis's visit helped 2 generations of a Cree family heal
A Naskapi-Cree woman and her father, who each saw the Pope in two different parts of the country during his weeklong trip to Canada, say his visit played a significant role in helping them heal from the intergenerational trauma they experienced because of residential schools.
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Innu residential school survivor shares her story of resilience and reconciliation
Survivors of residential schools were given priority to attend the mass inside the Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Basilica today. One of those attending is Élizabeth Ashini, an Innu woman who shared her views on resilience and reconciliation with Marika Wheeler.
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré pilgrimage comes with complex feelings for Indigenous Catholics
The site of a yearly pilgrimage for the feast day of St. Anne, the bascillica where Pope Francis will hold mass Thursday is especially significant to Indigenous Catholics in Quebec.
Arundel, Que., family and physician form a special bond after death of 11-year-old boy
The connection between Brayden Odell's family and the neurosurgeon who treated him for a brain bleed in January 2021 has led to the creation of a fund aimed at improving outcomes for others with the congenital brain malformation Brayden had.
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Part Three: What died and what still lives
In Part Three of Everything is unfolding exactly as it should, we hear how replying to an email reconnected Reenie to a long lost love and forced her to move forward with the lessons learned during her late husband's last weeks in this world.
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Part Two: The blueprint for the rest of my life
In Part Two of Everything is unfolding exactly as it should, we hear how Reenie Marx and her husband, Wendell Hyde, smooth the rough edges of their marriage as he faces death with honesty and courage. We learn how his final 12 weeks drew the blueprint for the rest of her life.