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Tim and Hannah’s ark

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

Freedom and Salty Air

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

Inner Landscapes

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

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.

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.

Ben Swims Oceans

A modern-day explorer travels to the frontiers of human endurance to raise awareness about plastics in our oceans.

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.

The Music of Spaces

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

Long weekend (ou courte semaine) dans Lanaudière

La journaliste et photographe Léa Beauchesne nous propose un itinéraire lanaudois qui combine abbaye, chutes naturelles et cidres fermiers.

NEW ISSUE nº17

EPHEMERAL

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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