Category: events & festivals

• call me a fool 

  

  The things that are lost in translation. Or just lost on me. So many things. I wasn’t sure if my daughter was kidding, or what, when she said that I should use a photo of a fish for an April Fool’s Day post. Sure enough, poisson d’avril, celebrated on April 1st (in France, primarily) is…

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  Johanne Provençal

  1 Apr 2025

  events & festivals, everyday life

  April fools’ Day, poisson d’avril

• 41 million+

  

  When I see Canada Day approaching in the calendar, I have mixed thoughts and feelings. Some have remained constant and some have changed over time. Some are happy and some are sad. Some are frivolous and some are factual. In advance of Canada Day tomorrow, a few words and a few numbers (sourced from Statistics…

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  Johanne Provençal

  30 Jun 2024

  arts, culture, music, events & festivals, everyday life, research and academics

  Canada Day, Indigenous, Statistics Canada

• the May long weekend

  

  Is the May long weekend the best long weekend of the year in Canada? Quite possibly, according to the opening editorial that arrived in my email this morning for the Canadian edition of The Conversation — “academic rigour, journalistic flair” is their tag line (check it out, it’s also available en français). I am biased…

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  Johanne Provençal

  18 May 2024

  all, arts, culture, music, events & festivals, research and academics

  Gemini, Long weekend, Tap Water Jam, The Conversation