A police investigator walks by an abandoned house where the body of Nancy Michaud was discovered Sunday May 18, 2008 in Riviere-Ouelle, Quebec. Quebec provincial police say they have arrested a man in the death of the political aide to a prominent provincial cabinet minister. Police, acting on a tip, found Nancy Michaud’s body Sunday afternoon in the basement of an abandoned home just a few kilometres from her own residence in Riviere-Ouelle, a small town 140 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Francis Vachon

Technical: Canon EOS 1D mark II, 1/1600 at f5 with a 70-200 at 110mm – ISO 2000

Tuesday, May 20 2008 – A crime scene investigator throws a jacket to his colleague at an abandoned house where the body of Nancy Michaud was discovered last Sunday in Riviere-Ouelle, 150km East of Quebec City. Michaud, politic aide of Quebec minister Claude Bechard, disappeared last Friday. Photo Francis Vachon for the Montreal Gazette

Technical: Canon EOS 1D mark II, 1/800 at f4.5 with a 70-200 at 75mm – ISO 200

Quebec Mayor Regis Labeaume speaks to TQS (Television Quatre-Saisons) TV station employees in front of the local station in Quebec City April 23, 2008. Remstar, new owner of TQS, announced this morning that they will stop the production of all their news bulletin on September 1st, firing 270 employees.
Technical: Canon EOS 1D mark II, 1/250 at f13 with a 16-35 at 23mm – ISO 200, on camera flash

A soldier looks at the Manege Militaire de Quebec (Quebec city armory) ruins on avenue Wilfrid-Laurier April 7, 2008. The fire completely destroyed on April 4 the Manege militaire, an important piece of the Canadian military history built in 1885.

Firefighters shovel snows to free a hundred cows trapped in a part of a barn that the roof collapsed due to heavy snow in St-Françoise-de-Lotbinière March 20, 2008. Dominic Drapeau, co-owner of the dairy farm, who was shovelling snow from the roof when the incident happen, fell through it when it collapsed and got stuck under the snow, with just one leg poking out. He was rescued just in time as he was turning purple, according to the witnesses.

Back story: I was on a job for The Montreal Gazette in this little and isolated municipality, an hour from Quebec City. I was taking photos in the Church with the Mayor and the ex-Mayor (now a volunteer firefighter), when they get a call about the roof, 500 meters away from where we were. Now that’s a coincidence!

Quebec City, March 12, 2008 – Quebec finance Minister Monique Jerome-Forget talks to the media about the Liberal budget that will be presented tomorrow. Photo Francis Vachon for The Montreal Gazette.
Technical: Canon EOS 20D, 1/125 at f2,8 with a 16-35 at 21mm – ISO 800, on camera flash with a stofen to soften the light a bit