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?
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?
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.
Last weekend, the three of us crossed Alexandra Bridge between Ontario and Quebec, one of these “let’s do it while we can” moments.
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.
“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...
COVID-19 is disrupting everything but it has yet to infect and affect weather patterns—that would be the other threat, global warming, but I can only deal with one major disaster at the time.
Any place in Canada with “park” in the name is typically hundreds of square kilometres of true wilderness. Expect kilometres-long trails, no cellphone network, lakes, waterfalls and fauna you’d...
A man was shot and critically injured on “my” gym’s parking lot last Wednesday morning. Organized crime? A former gambling ring boss? Are we talking about Ottawa, Ontario?
When a serious snowstorm was forecast last Monday night, I geared up for the fight—that’s what winter is, a long battle with the elements.
Canada’s scariest organization delivered the most terrifying news ever—the Weather Network issued a Special Weather Statement for Halloween.
It’s the season of endless downpours, days that could be warm enough if it wasn’t for the chilly northern wind, freshly harvested apples and colourful squash, hot drinks and thick soups, scary movies...
Article views: 202 Capturing the beauty of fall colours is a yearly challenge. It all comes down to luck and timing, the window of opportunity is small. In Ottawa, summer—or rather Indian summer—can...
Someone finally turned the heat on this weekend. It was lovely, warm, hot, amazing and other adjectives used and reused by everyone here. And this is what happens when it suddenly gets hotter in...
It rained all day on Friday. It snowed on Saturday. As I’m typing this tonight, on May 1, there’s a freezing rain warning in effect.
Some years, fall can be like a long French movie where you can almost see each leaf changing colour while having an identity crisis and wondering about the meaning of life.