Susan Campbell

Journalist

Susan Campbell is the community reporter at CBC Quebec.

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Quebec City's South Shore will soon have its 1st English school

New Liverpool Elementary is the first new school built by the Central Québec School Board in 60 years. It means students from the Lévis region will no longer bus to the North Shore.
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From table scraps to energy: Quebec City's biomethane plant up close

Quebec City's biogas plant was supposed to be up and running months ago, but technical problems led to truckloads of biopulp being shipped to Rivière-du-Loup to be processed. Now those problems have been solved, and Susan Campbell got a tour of the plant.
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From awry to zealot: The epitome of linguistic faux pas

Have you ever come to the terrible realization that the way you've been pronouncing a word in your head when you read it isn't, in fact, the way it's pronounced at all?
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Pro women's soccer league welcomed by top Quebec players

Women's soccer in Canada is on a roll after Team Canada won Olympic gold in 2021, and now plans afoot for a first pro women's league in this country. Susan Campbell got to talk soccer with two of Quebec's top players, Évelyne Viens and Gabrielle Carle, while they were home for a break.
2022 Charity Drive

Men's Shed gives senior men in Lac-Brome a place to make friends and share skills

Senior men in the community in Quebec's Eastern Townships started meeting together to break isolation and learn new skills at a time when they really needed the companionship.
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Stanstead science camp offers students a chance to build skills outside of school

The non-profit tutoring organization Phelps Helps offers a weeklong summer STEAM-based science camp thanks in part to financial support from CBC Quebec's Charity of the Year, the Townshippers Foundation.
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Prolific horticultural writer Larry Hodgson, the Laidback Gardener, dies at age 68

Larry Hodgson was one of the best known horticultural writers in Quebec, helping generations of novice gardeners.

For the only girls team at Quebec City's International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament, it's about representation

Natalia Chenier sometimes feels like she's dreaming as she walks around at the International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament in Quebec City. Chenier is a forward with the Girls PeeWee All-Stars, the only all-female team playing in the 2022 edition of the storied tournament.

34 years later, Guy Lafleur is remembered by the small Inuit village that welcomed him

In April 1988, Lafleur and his son, Martin, flew 1,472 kilometres from Montreal to Inukjuak for the dual inauguration of the community’s new Tikittavik Airport and the Sikulik Arena.

Tapped out: Shawinigan residents want answers about water filtration plant

In Shawinigan, Que., 30,000 residents have had to boil their water for almost four months because a new water treatment plant has been shut down. Now taxpayers want to know what went wrong with the Lac à la Pêche facility.