MCQ Views and Voices
This podcast is all about life in the Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec regions of the province of Québec, and features interviews with interesting people who live or work here, discussions about bilingualism, and amazing but little-known stories about local history.
Episodes
63 episodes
Green Thumbs and Cracked Pots: "The Little Plastic Bucket"
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, ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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36:59
Green Thumbs and Cracked Pots: "Veggies: Mouth-Watering When Home Grown!"
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, tomatoe...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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26:59
Green Thumbs and Cracked Pots: "Why Garden?"
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 ...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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23:45
Green Thumbs and Cracked Pots: Introducing a New Series!
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 re...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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26:27
Bridges and Rivers: Talking with Poet Zoë Skoulding
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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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31:36
A Passion for Medicine: Getting to Know Anya Bussière-Filion
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. Origi...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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32:27
Bonus: Poet Beatriz Hausner Reads "High Priestess"
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 i...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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7:57
Beatriz Hausner: A Poet Seeking Freedom
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 a...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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37:49
Bonus: Jérôme Melançon reads "Irregularities"
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, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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10:05
Bonus: Poet Jérôme Melançon reads, "Solidarité"
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 compan...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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7:57
Jérôme Melançon: A Way With Words
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 betwee...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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40:36
Carole Jones: From Both Sides Now
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 hi...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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39:50
James Forest's Shades of Purple
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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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42:08
Michael McCall: A passion for soccer and a love of life
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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37:00
Getting to Know Trinity Mastine
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 sh...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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31:21
Season Three: Trailer no. 2!
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.
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Season 3
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Episode 0
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2:46
Season 3 Trailer
The third season of MCQ Views and Voices is coming up this fall! Listen in to hear what's in the works!
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Season 3
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Episode 0
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2:09
From Burton to Barton, Bonus Episode: The Remarkable Life of Jo Whitehead
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 Cana...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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48:30
From Burton to Barton, part 25: It's Been a Great Run!
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.&nbs...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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39:17
From Burton to Barton, part 24: The Summer of '46
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 mom...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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39:07
From Burton to Barton, part 23: Mobilizing for WWII
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 p...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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38:13
From Burton to Barton, part 22: It's All His Fault...Or Is It?
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 ...
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39:12
From Burton to Barton, part 21: Sainte Brigitte's Daughters
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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45:00
From Burton to Barton, part 20: The Irish Firebrand
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, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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42:24
From Burton to Barton, part 19: A Foot in Both Worlds
In this episode, Julie Miller and François Roy look beyond black and white definitions to talk about three women who lived outside of the box, in a "grey zone," with a foot in at least two worlds, sometimes more. Whether it was beca...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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44:49
