Tag: western festival

Quebec Town Tries Cowboy Tactics After Crop-Trampling Cattle Evade Capture for Months

A small Quebec town is resorting to cowboy tactics to round up a herd of runaway cattle that have evaded capture for months and have been wreaking havoc in farmers’ fields. The mayor of St-Sévère, in Quebec’s Mauricie region, says the 20 or so young animals jumped out of their field at the end of…


Local Authority Bans Chinese Schools From Western Festivals

A recent official notice from southern China circulating online bans local schools from foreign festivals, sparking public concerns. In a Dec. 20 notice, the Education Bureau of Rong’an county, Guangxi Province, requested local primary and secondary schools and kindergartens to prohibit any foreign festival celebrations on- and off-campus. The notice claimed to uphold the “spirit…