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Imprinting Memories with Gyotaku

Alexis Aubin-Laperrière has spent the last few years dedicating himself to gyotaku, a traditional printing technique from Japan. In the artist-fisherman’s studio, fish have a second life on washi.

Marie-Charles Pelletier

Tim and Hannah’s ark

How a young couple beat the flood of modern chaos and built a tiny salvation.

Kathryn Borel Jr.

Freedom and Salty Air

Lessons learned from a zero-waste camping road trip with a baby.

Anouck Serra-Godard

Inner Landscapes

Architect Pierre Thibault makes nature his laboratory, and beauty his philosophy.

Sarah Champagne

Renovating a Century-Old Home in Québec

Against a tide of cookie-cutter neighbourhoods and instant polyurethane dwellings, the Rhéaume Gonzalez family immersed themselves in the joys and challenges of restoring a heritage home.

Juliette Leblanc

This Designer Is Preserving the Old Ways of Making Furniture

Over three decades of producing ethically made furniture by hand, Heidi Earnshaw has remained committed to the abiding lessons of traditional craftsmanship.

How to Fish Responsibly

The best fishing stories are all about the big catch. But if we want fish to continue to thrive, we need to take care of them and their environment by adopting ethical fishing practices.

Guillaume Rivest

More Beautiful with Age

In a garage that serves as his workshop, leather worker Patrice Didier — founder of The Robinson Company — celebrates the marks of time on objects designed to last for generations.

Marie-Charles Pelletier

The Music of Spaces

A walk with architect Brian MacKay-Lyons in Shobac, Nova Scotia: a place where history and modernity exist in harmony.

Catherine Bernier

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