It’s cold outside. We’re in February and the temperature is at a chilly -22 degrees Celsius. With the wind, it feels like -30°. In Fahrenheit, that equals to -22° in the wind. Ouch! I live in an area where winter usually kicks in at the end of November and sticks around until the end of [...]

We can find inspiration in the least expected places. In the previous post, I wrote how a student summer job in a remote area in northern Quebec had triggered a process that would have a huge impact on the rest of my life. I was a 22 year-old university student majoring in English literature. Reading [...]

It all began in the summer of 1976. I was twenty-two years old. That was the year I got a summer job in James Bay. James Bay is one of the largest hydroelectric projects in the world and it was then in its first phase of development. Located in a very remote area in northern [...]