Love these families and their closeness: my byline on a story I’ve waited a long time to share. What It’s Like Working With Mom at a Montreal Restaurant montreal.eater.com/2022/5/4/23056… via Eater Montreal

Stories you can tell with industrial biscuits!! “I have memories of being dizzied by the nifty packaging and plastic colours that accompanied this flush of Western capitalism.” Indian Biscuits: 1947-2022 vittles.substack.com/p/indian-biscu…

Climate mitigation in capital cities costs. Is building new ones the solution? Experts weigh in; I wrote it up. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

Kampot Peppers Inspire Boisbriand’s Newest Southeast Asian Restaurant montreal.eater.com/2022/5/13/2307… via Eater Montreal

I have this story on repeat, written and in audio. I'm awestruck by Jamil Jan Kochai . Brilliant structure and style. Moving, at times hilarious, and utterly human.

Learn French in 6 months? Quebec commissioned - and then hid - a report that shows why that's nearly impossible | CBC News cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…

Toula, as always, tells it like it is.

Plus de 600 ménages n’ont toujours pas de logement lp.ca/gmGnBo?sharing…

Lovely study! Tree rings chart the course of global warming. So do restaurant menus, writes [email protected] , ianrosewrites on IG for Hakai Magazine: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

People ask me questions all the time; here are the folks who REALLY know their stuff! A Guide to Montreal’s Top Food Tours montreal.eater.com/2019/7/11/2068… via Eater Montreal

😬 #DontLookUp in real life. 🥵

One of the sweetest threads about the role that teachers can play in a child’s life. Jamil Jan Kochai, thank you for being a good student then, and teacher, now.

Quebec Elections: the CAQ's inaction on overdoses is costing lives, by Christopher Curtis rover.substack.com/p/quebec-elect…

The Locavore's piece on Krishnendu Ray has a bunch of lovely food book suggestions, as does his Instagram page. I'm so glad that he speaks of the complex relationship between labour and love, especially given that so much is carried by women across cultures: thelocavore.in/2022/09/26/bei…

The complexities of stubble burning in Punjab: solutions exist, implementation elusive scroll.in/article/103574… via Scroll.in

Opinion: At Burger King and Tim Hortons’ parent company, the only winners are lavishly paid executives /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

Teen girls ‘engulfed’ in violence and trauma, CDC finds washingtonpost.com/education/2023…

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Here's a gift to think about on Valentine's Day.