Category: research and academics

• “you have to learn how to live as long as you live”

  

  Well, we don’t have to … learn how to live … as long as we live … but it’s probably a good idea. The advice comes from Seneca in a letter written around 65 CE (making its way to us today via an Oxford University Press translation). I may not agree with all ideas that…

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  Johanne Provençal

  29 Jul 2023

  all, arts, culture, music, everyday life, research and academics

  art of living, the human condition

• where there’s smoke …

  

  As I write this, the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) website is reporting 427 active wildfires across Canada (the year-to-date figure is 2,391 with a total of 4.4 million hectares burned). I’m not sure why I’m telling you this. If you live in Canada, you know that summer this year hasn’t yet begun and…

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  Johanne Provençal

  9 Jun 2023

  all, nature & landmarks, research and academics

  forest fires, wildfires

• the places that make you

  

  I have been on a pendulum for the past six months. On one side, there is Montréal, the place I call home. On the other side, there has been a steady rotation of other places that, one way or another, have made their way into my life over the course of the past 40 years.…

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  Johanne Provençal

  2 Jun 2023

  all, everyday life, nature & landmarks, neighbourhoods, research and academics

  British Columbia, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa, place identity, Toronto