With the issue of local control bridging Quebec's age-old linguistic and cultural divides, 5,000 people braved the first blast of winter to protest forced mergers in front of the provincial assembly in Quebec City.
As we deplaned at 2 p.m., we got our first blast of arctic winter, and it didn't disappoint — minus 30 degrees centigrade with 80kmh wind gusts.
John Knox attacked her in his 1558 First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women and she was prominently featured and vilified in Actes and Monuments, published by John Foxe in 1563, five years after her death.
But her sex is what has the town and university buzzing, and with her characteristic humor she noted in her address that a graduate of the university, John Knox, had written a book in 1558 called, "First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women".
In the title of his 1558 pamphlet, "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regimen of Women," Knox employs "regimen" (which also appears in early printings as "regiment") in the sense of "regime" or "government".
In his 1558 work, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, Knox urges his readers to rebel against female authority.
Time for the first blast of flatulence.
"The first official blast of winter up here.
Calgary, Canada, awoke to its first major blast of winter last Tuesday, when 20cm of snow hit the city, leaving 15,000 people without power, and icy roads and poor visibility caused 170 accidents.
Today, after the first harsh blasts of winter, half a million or more people are homeless and half-starved inside Afghanistan.
