We took a really big airplane to get to Montréal from Los Angeles.
I mean, just look at it!
Seat-back map imageThe flight was largely uneventful and somewhat less grueling than past flights.… [Read More]
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Whew! Just in time for our next sojourn North of the Border, Apple has implemented the newly approved moose emoji.
It should be visible above if you’re running an operating system that supports Emoji 15.0.… [Read More]
photo: Lise Gobeille
Hey kids, we’re heading back to Montréal next month, and we’ll be living in a new arrondisement (borough) called Rosemont-La Petite Patrie (“the little homeland“). According to one source, it acquired the second half of its name from a novel that was adapted into a popular TV show:
… [Read More]The name of this district comes from a soap opera, broadcast in the 1970s, created by Claude Jasmin: La Petite Patrie.
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Watch this space…
A new adventure will be beginning this April!
What a weekend! Our grueling travel day back across the border was endured, the post-COVID-booster-and-flu-shot side effects weathered, and now it’s Monday and back to business for us both!
So much business–mountains to climb, tunnel through, and raze for new foundations.… [Read More]
We’ve been packing up and cleaning for several days now, but today is the massive push to pull out and fly home. I’ve been sad and wistful; said goodbye to one of my Montréal Facebook friends who became an IRL friend and got teary, and today feeling keenly all the “this is the last time” thoughts crossing my brain like shooting stars of sentimentality.… [Read More]
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Autumn
We’re in our final week here, and I’m getting all the feels about leaving. At some point, I hope to be able to figure out how to articulate some of these thoughts.… [Read More]
As Manon’s mentioned, we spent a couple of days poking around the Ottawa area.
Our experience of Ottawa-Gatineau was significantly different than our quotidian Montréal experience, in part because we rented a car.… [Read More]
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Ought We To Ottawa?
We took our exploratory trip to Ottawa this past weekend. It was productive; we got a sense of the town and found some viable neighborhoods if we decide to spend our next residency stint one province over.… [Read More]
Tomorrow, September 30th, is a statutory holiday in Canada called the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
This holiday is meant as a day of reflection on Canada’s colonization of its indigenous peoples and the devastating impact of the Indian residential school program on indigenous families and culture.… [Read More]