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Take a Sea-to-Table Journey with Québec’s Snow Crab

As international demand for snow crab has skyrocketed, fishing families like the Landrys of Rimouski brave the well-known dangers of hauling in this precious catch.

Atelier / Miniguide

How to Practise Radical Listening

The Montréal-based mindfulness facilitator Joanna Chevalier shares a guide for embracing active listening in your relationships.

Village / Essay

Guerrilla Gardening Is More Vital Than Ever

DIY urban landscaping is the solution we forgot we needed.
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The Art of Slow Travel in Québec

In partnership with Bonjour Québec

Picking cloudberries, kayaking on the river, taking in outdoor art shows, and spending nights under the forest canopy: Québec is one great outdoor playground.
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Getting Started with Cold-Water Swimming

Multidisciplinary artist Jessica Lynn Wiebe shares her love of hydrotherapy and offers advice to those who crave the mental and physical benefits of a very chilly swim.
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Village / Essay

That Sweet Spray

Once stigmatized for its relationship to our intimate parts, the bidet has reconquered hearts and backsides, flying off the shelves almost as quickly as toilet paper in March 2020. Once…

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BESIDE Issue 12

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Release date: June 7, 2022

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Dossiers

Eat, Love, Experiment — We pamper our pets, we want happy meat, and we…
In partnership with CCUNESCO

New Harmonies — In this four-part dossier, we have collected stories from biospheres…

Extreme Pollination — We dream of food sovereignty and access to local fruits…

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Going Sideways / Episode 02
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Opening Up Outdoors

Illustrator Florence Rivest dwells on one shore of the St. Lawrence; across the water live Uapukun Mestokosho and Shanice Mollen…

Going Sideways / Episode 05
14:16

Regrowing Nature

Lawns no longer rule supreme for these citizens bringing back native plants. In Montréal, Emile Forest and Philippe Asselin are…

Going Sideways / Episode 06
16:13

Tending Community

All too often, we underestimate the power of community. In Montréal, Les Filles Fattoush has created work—and a warm welcome—for…

Going Sideways / Episode 03
15:48

Reinventing Work

Should you change your career or reinvent it? Quilt maker Marilyn B. Armand and fashion entrepreneur Inder Bedi may have…

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