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Painting Like Breathing: Inside the Raw World of Self-Taught Artist Mephisto Bates

Mephisto Bates creates to free himself. And he invites anyone who looks at his work to do the same.

Marie-Charles Pelletier

The Short Guide to Slow Travel

Traveling in the age of carbon credits, geolocalization, and the climate crisis.

Juliette Leblanc

A Short Guide to Living More Pointlessly

Les plateformes numériques de réseautage et de développement personnel reposent souvent sur des systèmes de points. Mais la vraie vie, est-ce un jeu?

Nadine Sander-Green

L’art du canotage

Notre collaborateur Guillaume Rivest nous enseigne les bases du canotage et nous fait rêver à une expédition de canot-camping au Québec.

Guillaume Rivest

Sauna Spirits

In cultures around the world, saunas are everyday sites of immense social and spiritual importance, not least because they feel divine.

Mark Mann

How to Make Ink from Foraged Pigments

For years, Toronto-based photographer Lauren Kolyn has collaborated with artist Jason Logan, who creates natural inks with pigments foraged from around the city.

Lauren Kolyn

Predicting the Weather with Molly and Edouard

A walk in nature can help us understand and predict the weather, if we take the time to observe the signs. Molly and Edouard, an Anishinaabe couple from Pikogan, share their story and advice for learning the “heart of weather.”

Eugénie Emond

NEW ISSUE nº17

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In this issue, we explore the art of the moment, death, nature, and relationships that wither or transform. We question these notions through stories in which the impermanence of everything around us becomes a source of reflection on how we live, create, and engage in a constantly changing world.

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Chatting on the Corner

In Search of the Giants of Labrador: A Drifting Route to Iceberg Alley

An Ode to Our Storms

Unraveling the Thread with Béatrice Dubreuil

The Lay of the Land

From Gym to Crag

“Where’s Your Skidoo?”

(Re)découvrir Charlevoix

Wending Your Own Way

Alice Picard : Playing with Light

Building Together

A Short Culinary Guide to South Korea