As language regulations tighten, manufacturers may be saying “adieu” to Quebec
As the 2025 deadline for compliance with Bill 96 creeps closer, retailers and manufacturers are signaling their anxiety about the possible effects.… [Read More]
Link to Part 1 here.
Today (September 30th) is la Journée de la vérité et de la réconciliation, or the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. It honors the memory of thousands of Indigenous children who were taken from their families between 1867 and 1996 and sent to federally-run residential schools, where they were abused, neglected, and often died.… [Read More]
Yup, that’s us (apparently)
It seems that when you live in a certain place, you become the default consultants for tourism in that place. People contact you, sometimes on behalf of people you don’t even know, wanting to hear about the best restaurants or most exciting local experiences or whether the weather is weathering, etc.… [Read More]
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Comix
Many, many years ago, when Sylvain was visiting relatives in Indianapolis, one of his cousins gave him a copy of a Mad Magazine publication* that he was too young to understand.… [Read More]
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A World of Dreams and Wonder
Manon and I have a weekly ritual to bike over to the Jardin Botanique where we wander around, admire the seasonal plantings, look at wildlife, and have a coffee or lunch in the café.… [Read More]
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Mount Royal
It’s raining again today, so instead of going walking I put together a video from my walk on Labo(u)r Day.
I took a lot of video of bees and mushrooms and moss and things that I wanted to include, but even without all that, this is a bit too long at two minutes and eleven seconds.… [Read More]
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Autumn Approacheth
The weather has been chaotic this year. We’ve had repeated heat waves and a lot of rain. In fact, this has been the wettest summer on record (although when you read they only started tracking in 1942, it’s a lot less impressive than the headline suggests).… [Read More]
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A Local Landmark
In 1926, in far-off California, some dude by the name of Julius Freed opened up an orange juice stand. According to Wikipedia, in ’29, an associate named Bill Hamlin came up with a recipe that added ice, sweetener, milk, vanilla flavoring, and egg white to make the beverage tastier and less acidic.… [Read More]
Sadly, this post is late. The experiences in question happened during the Olympics, and would have been so much more appropriate to post then. But such is life.
I’d gone many times to Île Sainte Hélène, but I’d never been to the other island that includes portions of Parc Jean-Drapeau: Île Notre-Dame.… [Read More]
(If you didn’t see them, here are part 1, part 2, and part 3)
Since last working on this reading list, I’ve read an additional Heather O’Neill’s book and a handful more of Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series.… [Read More]