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For the three of you who care, this is blog post #100 on our World Venture blog (I ate a cookie in celebration). Two feet of snow in one night...I always dreamed of winters like this growing up in snow-poor western Oregon. We are now officially about...
Every year, between Christmas and New Year, a certain genre of music blasts from speakers all over Quebec. It is called "le rigodon." "Le rigodon" is a form of traditional Quebecker dance music from before the turn of the last century...
Exactly one year ago, my friend Zac and I wandered the streets of St-Jérôme asking French-speaking Quebeckers these questions: What were the best and worst presents you ever received for Christmas? What is the meaning of Christmas? What is the origin...
So you think you might know a thing or two about your neighbor to the north? Watch this clip to find out. (And we are making no political statements here either... it's simply very funny).
Yes, this is an old beer commercial. But is a cool 60-second introduction to being Canadian and Canadian culture (albeit, English-Canadian).
With nothing to replace the enormous void caused by the collapse of the Catholic church over the past generation, Quebec is trusting in a non-existant foundation on which to base their future.
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