Everything looks different and it’s going to be like this for the next few months. I took these pictures last night, on my way to the supermarket. See what I’m talking about?
French woman in English Canada.
Looking for comrades to start a revolution.
In the meantime, I write stories, explore cultures and travel. You know, the usual.
Everything looks different and it’s going to be like this for the next few months. I took these pictures last night, on my way to the supermarket. See what I’m talking about?
Oh, go ahead, skip the nod if you can hear me—clearly, Pink Floyd didn’t have access to Google Analytics when David Gilmour and Roger Waters wrote the song, but I do.
I understand governments need our help as citizens to flatten the curve and that we need to take proper precautions. But in turn, we need government’s help for part of the plan.
It’s not going to last but damn, it feels good. Just like everybody else, we went out and spent Sunday afternoon chasing the sunset on Parliament Hill.
“Hypothetically—asking for a friend, obviously—can a foreign national work in Canada without a proper permit?”
No matter how it’s phrased, this is the gist of the question I get asked once in a while.
The atmosphere was strange this month. Maybe it’s the grey, rainy, cloudy, foggy an unmistakably colder and colder weather.
We spent October playing the most popular game of 2020—“where are we still allowed to go and what’s safe to do?”
Rules are… anything but simple.
“Poutine” (CC BY 2.0) by eekim Every country has its own quirks and oddities, that’s what makes it unique. Before anyone says that this is stereotyping, it really isn’t. There are...
This is why, if honk at me, I probably won’t stop. If we know each other, we can always catch up later.
Last weekend, the three of us crossed Alexandra Bridge between Ontario and Quebec, one of these “let’s do it while we can” moments.
I knew another lockdown was likely. “Red zone” Montreal began a month-long partial lockdown on October 1.
We were next
This is how easily you can be accused of something you didn’t do. This is how easily you can end up making decisions uncharacteristic of you—come on, I’m 37, I can speak up and stand up for myself!
I had a very strange and mildly disturbing experience this summer, the kind I’d normally write about.
Except this time, I didn’t.
I was embarrassed and I was worried no one would believe me.
Whether you are a holidaymaker heading off for a much needed break or an expat moving abroad longer term for work or personal reasons, you need to make preparations for how you will be looked after...
We did the usual Canadian fall park visit routine at Mackenzie King Estate—checking out the leaves, fighting off bugs, climbing trees and running around.
I’m not overly worried about getting sick given our lifestyle in Ottawa. I'm worried about everything else, though.
“Are you sure his first day is today? Where are the other kids?”
I shrugged. “Socially distancing? Waiting in the car? Who knows!”
On Sunday night, I completed Canada’s most important parenting task for the first time in almost exactly six months—I packed a waste-free, egg-, soy- and nut-free, safe to leave at room temperature...
Go ahead, read the news and comments below, browse Twitter, chat with a neighbour—there’s anger and outrage all over the place about IRRESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOUR, topped by a layer of virtue signalling...
Solve, Down the Hill and Distorsion: discover three podcasts that are not about COVID or the 2020 US elections!
With fall just around the corner and winter not far behind, it’s time to start accepting that the weather will soon be changing and the sunshine is going to be around a lot less often. Instead of...
This is what a French brings back from a trip to France. Yes, detergent and instant soup, why?
Mark should have started Grade 3 this week. Instead, I’m keeping him busy with the latest download, Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Clearly, something went wrong along the way…
