From what we've , autumn is going to be cool, wet and windy, with days of warm sunshine and long, cold nights. Conditions will be perfect for the leaves to turn red on the trees fairly early (late September), and the...
In Quebec, we know that the weather is intense - very hot, very cold, windy, icy - and secretly, we greatly appreciate the violence of the elements, because after walking across Montreal during a blizzard, we've earned...
The apple season begins in summer in Quebec, but the region's apples are the centerpiece of Quebec autumn. Even from Montreal, the most urban and international city around, apples are easy to pick. It's been a very h...
That's it, summer vacation's over, and Montreal is filling up with students, and the finance bros are putting their BOSS suits back on - and we're all heading back to the office. Autumn will also bring one of Quebec'...
I've always been told that Quebec (especially in the north) is a bit like Scotland, and that Quebecers are to Canada what Scots are to the UK. In the middle of Quebec, in the Centre-du-Québec region, Scottish immigra...
We're entering the last phase of the Montreal summer: it's getting a little cooler, the kids are heading back to school and the corn and sunflowers are turning Quebec green and gold. September arrives, and with it th...
Did you know that it's been scientifically proven that proximity to water is a powerful anxiolytic? Just looking at the water (in this case, the river) for a few minutes a day can make us calmer, happier and, more broa...
This summer, several days a month - and sometimes for a week - there's something strange about Montreal. The light coming down from the clouds is red-orange, not white, and the sky is milky and heavy. It's hard to breat...
There's a special place in the hell we imagine for people who make donuts in seadoos by the beach in summer, when we're trying to spend a quiet afternoon in the sun. We've all been there - and sometimes, we're not go...
Summer in Montreal is all about parks, , grilling in the backyards, ice-cold matcha in the scorching streets, moving quickly from the shade of one tree to the shade of the next. It's also , music - all the time - and st...