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We would wait patiently outside the hotel where the band was staying, hoping for a sight of one of our musical heroes. 0.900

👤 Lisa Morais-Knudsen 📋 Personal Essay 🏷️ Personal Experience , Entertainment

Simplified: Lisa Morais-Knudsen and Peggy waited outside hotels hoping to see musical heroes.

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Back in the mid-1960s, my best friend at the time, Peggy, and I would travel to Manhattan whenever we heard that a British pop group was coming to New York City. 0.900

👤 Lisa Morais-Knudsen 📋 Personal Essay 🏷️ Travel , Personal Experience , History

Simplified: Lisa Morais-Knudsen and Peggy traveled to Manhattan in the mid-1960s when British pop groups came to New York City.

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4 days ago
She had known little about the Morrin Centre until she used the library for a photo shoot. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Culture

Simplified: Sandra Tomayla knew little about the Morrin Centre until she used the library for a photo shoot.

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French, a requirement for most immigrants to Quebec. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Culture , Regulation

Simplified: French is a requirement for most immigrants to Quebec.

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Ms. Tomayla, the night’s speaker, arrived in Quebec City at the age of 7 with her family from Peru and was schooled in French, a requirement for most immigrants to Quebec. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Culture

Simplified: Sandra Tomayla arrived in Quebec City at age 7 from Peru and was schooled in French.

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Mr. Shriqui said he belongs to a book club at the Morrin and regularly attends workshops and poetry readings here — all in English. 0.900

👤 Mr. Shriqui 📋 News Article 🏷️ Culture , Community

Simplified: Christian Shriqui belongs to a book club at the Morrin Centre and attends workshops and poetry readings in English.

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4 days ago
The torrent of tourists who descend on Quebec City who now pay for tours of the library and jail have created a reliable revenue source to maintain the building and fund programs. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Tourism , Finance

Simplified: Tourists paying for Morrin Centre's library and jail tours created a reliable revenue source.

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4 days ago
The cells from its days as a jail had never been removed from the basement, largely because they held up the foundation. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Architecture

Simplified: Morrin Centre's jail cells were never removed from the basement because they held up the foundation.

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4 days ago
They were transformed into a claustrophobic, if evocative, museum about the prison and prison reform in 19th-century Quebec. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Tourism

Simplified: Morrin Centre's jail cells were transformed into a museum about prison and prison reform in 19th-century Quebec.

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4 days ago
A series of fund-raising events and government grants financed extensive renovations, and the building’s history became an asset. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Finance

Simplified: Fund-raising events and government grants financed Morrin Centre's renovations. Building's history became an asset.

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4 days ago
Money was so tight, remembers Ms. Kameen, a board member at the time, that “the big decision as a board member back then was if we would get an electric typewriter.” 0.900

👤 Ms. Kameen 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Finance

Simplified: Morrin Centre's board's big decision was whether to get an electric typewriter due to tight finances.

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4 days ago
If you embrace both the English and the French, it’s a wonderful place. 0.800

👤 Richard Walling 📋 News Article 🏷️ Culture , Language , Advice

Simplified: Embracing English and French makes Quebec City a wonderful place.

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If you come here thinking you’re going to be able to live everything in English, you had better leave because you won’t be happy. 0.800

👤 Richard Walling 📋 News Article 🏷️ Culture , Language , Advice

Simplified: If you expect to live everything in English in Quebec City you should leave.

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4 days ago
And many more private companies now must conduct business in French after the threshold was lowered to 25 employees. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Business , Law , Language

Simplified: Many private companies must conduct business in French after threshold lowered to 25 employees.

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4 days ago
Now the city is a center for video game developers and other tech companies that sell their products worldwide and that have to recruit employees, many of whom are English speakers, from outside Quebe... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economy , Technology , Language

Simplified: Quebec City is now a center for video game developers and other tech companies.

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There’s a weekly newspaper, a local CBC Radio station, English-language churches, English public schools and a junior college. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Culture , Community , Language

Simplified: Quebec City has a weekly newspaper local CBC Radio station English-language churches English public schools and a junior college.

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4 days ago
The provincial government recently introduced a series of measures mandating French, including requiring most public servants to work exclusively in French; limiting access to English services for imm... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Law , Language

Simplified: Provincial government introduced measures mandating French.

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4 days ago
The Morrin Cultural Centre acts as a hub for Quebec City’s English speakers much the same way as outposts of the Goethe-Institut do for Germans living abroad. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Culture , Community , Language

Simplified: Morrin Cultural Centre acts as a hub for Quebec City's English speakers.

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A series of provincial laws enacted over the last five decades that were meant to assert the dominance of French, along with Quebec’s separatist movement, prompted an exodus of many English speakers t... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Law , Demographics

Simplified: Provincial laws and Quebec's separatist movement prompted exodus of English speakers to other parts of Canada.

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4 days ago
Just 2.3 percent of its population, about 17,000 people, identify as primarily English speakers in Canada’s census. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Demographics , Language , Census

Simplified: 2.3 percent of Quebec City's population identify as primarily English speakers in Canada's census.

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