Gourmet Discoveries
Sea Bream Ceviche with Passion Fruit
What could be more fitting than passion fruit to celebrate the arrival of sunny days? This sea bream ceviche is refreshing, juicy, and even spicy (if you like it that way). The creaminess of the avocado adds just the right touch of sweetness for a well-balanced bite. Bon appétit! Yield: 4...
Sea Bream Ceviche with Passion Fruit
What could be more fitting than passion fruit to celebrate the arrival of sunny days? This sea bream ceviche is refreshing, juicy, and even spicy (if you like it that way). The creaminess of the avocado adds just the right touch of sweetness for a well-balanced bite. Bon appétit! Yield: 4...
Culture
Five Balancing Acts
A metal tightrope. Or is it a silk one? Not losing your footing. Or rather, accepting to fall, getting back up, and continuing to move forward. That the I has access to its inner world, then encounters the We on every possible path: relational, professional, cultural, spiritual, and so on....
Five Balancing Acts
A metal tightrope. Or is it a silk one? Not losing your footing. Or rather, accepting to fall, getting back up, and continuing to move forward. That the I has access to its inner world, then encounters the We on every possible path: relational, professional, cultural, spiritual, and so on....
Gourmet Discoveries
Hosting Without the Pressure
Hosting friends at my home is one of my favourite activities. I love planning the menu, cooking with my favourite ingredients, picking out the music, laying out a beautiful tablecloth, and bringing out my collection of vintage tableware. Unfortunately, I don’t do it nearly as often as I’d like because...
Hosting Without the Pressure
Hosting friends at my home is one of my favourite activities. I love planning the menu, cooking with my favourite ingredients, picking out the music, laying out a beautiful tablecloth, and bringing out my collection of vintage tableware. Unfortunately, I don’t do it nearly as often as I’d like because...
Strøm news
Five Havens in the Colours of Summer
In the summer, our sites come alive under the open sky. The blue pools blend into the landscape, nature takes centre stage, and the light—from morning to night—becomes an integral part of the experience, transforming every journey into an invitation to savour the moment outdoors to the fullest. Mont-Saint-Hilaire...
Five Havens in the Colours of Summer
In the summer, our sites come alive under the open sky. The blue pools blend into the landscape, nature takes centre stage, and the light—from morning to night—becomes an integral part of the experience, transforming every journey into an invitation to savour the moment outdoors to the fullest. Mont-Saint-Hilaire...
Interviews
Charting Your Own Course
Now a fixture in Quebec’s rap and media landscape, Sarahmée has carved out a prominent place for herself through hard work and resilience. Blessed with an uncommon creative force, she uses her voice to champion causes that move her, paving the way for others who find resonance in her words....
Charting Your Own Course
Now a fixture in Quebec’s rap and media landscape, Sarahmée has carved out a prominent place for herself through hard work and resilience. Blessed with an uncommon creative force, she uses her voice to champion causes that move her, paving the way for others who find resonance in her words....
Holistic health
Enjoying the Sun While Protecting Your Skin
After a harsh winter, the return of sunny days marks a long-awaited reunion with the sun and the great outdoors. Outdoor patios come alive again, and parks and beaches become popular spots where we love to take it slow. To fully enjoy these moments, however, it’s important to understand how...
Enjoying the Sun While Protecting Your Skin
After a harsh winter, the return of sunny days marks a long-awaited reunion with the sun and the great outdoors. Outdoor patios come alive again, and parks and beaches become popular spots where we love to take it slow. To fully enjoy these moments, however, it’s important to understand how...
World
Mapping the Spark
There’s always a spark. An image that lingers a little longer than the others do. A phrase overheard by chance. A scent, a light, a season. A trivial detail that opens a door. I think I started travelling long before I ever set out to do so. In my childhood...
Mapping the Spark
There’s always a spark. An image that lingers a little longer than the others do. A phrase overheard by chance. A scent, a light, a season. A trivial detail that opens a door. I think I started travelling long before I ever set out to do so. In my childhood...
Gourmet Discoveries
Pleasure and Health on Our Plates
Combining scientific evidence with proven culinary creativity in a single volume: this is the unique formula behind Mange ta vie [Eat your life], a lively, gourmet book that sparks a love of cooking while focusing on well-being and healthy longevity. The result of the combined talents of Anne-Julie Tessier (a...
Pleasure and Health on Our Plates
Combining scientific evidence with proven culinary creativity in a single volume: this is the unique formula behind Mange ta vie [Eat your life], a lively, gourmet book that sparks a love of cooking while focusing on well-being and healthy longevity. The result of the combined talents of Anne-Julie Tessier (a...
Society
Micro-Feminism: Ten Simple Actions That Make All the Difference
Micro-feminism refers to small, concrete initiatives that subtly rebalance gender relations. This trend, popularized on social media, highlights everyday practices, such as intentionally yielding the floor to a more reserved colleague so that she can be heard or choosing clothing from the men’s section to remind people that gender shouldn’t...
Micro-Feminism: Ten Simple Actions That Make All the Difference
Micro-feminism refers to small, concrete initiatives that subtly rebalance gender relations. This trend, popularized on social media, highlights everyday practices, such as intentionally yielding the floor to a more reserved colleague so that she can be heard or choosing clothing from the men’s section to remind people that gender shouldn’t...
Culture
Five Works and Artists with Powerful Voices
There’s the one, as Catherine Major sings, “that travels the paths / like Bohemians live / that stumbles in the morning / in a poem / the sun makes it shimmer / like porcelain / it bursts out laughing / the human voice.” There’s the one that counts, in the...
Five Works and Artists with Powerful Voices
There’s the one, as Catherine Major sings, “that travels the paths / like Bohemians live / that stumbles in the morning / in a poem / the sun makes it shimmer / like porcelain / it bursts out laughing / the human voice.” There’s the one that counts, in the...
Lifestyle
Ski & Spa: Benefits of a Thermal Experience After a Day on the Slopes
THE PERFECT DUO: EFFORT & RELAXATION With abundant snowfall magnifying the already breathtaking natural landscapes, winter in Quebec is an invitation to get out of the house and enjoy it to the fullest. Hiking, sledding, snowshoeing, snowboarding, downhill skiing, or cross-country skiing—there’s no shortage of winter sports for those who...
Ski & Spa: Benefits of a Thermal Experience After a Day on the Slopes
THE PERFECT DUO: EFFORT & RELAXATION With abundant snowfall magnifying the already breathtaking natural landscapes, winter in Quebec is an invitation to get out of the house and enjoy it to the fullest. Hiking, sledding, snowshoeing, snowboarding, downhill skiing, or cross-country skiing—there’s no shortage of winter sports for those who...
Architecture & Design
Calming the Mind Through Design
Whether born here or adopted by us, we Quebecers spend an average of 90% of our time indoors, according to the Institut national de santé publique du Québec. By choice, perhaps; by necessity, certainly. Here, winter is a moment in suspense. It pushes us to take shelter from the elements...
Calming the Mind Through Design
Whether born here or adopted by us, we Quebecers spend an average of 90% of our time indoors, according to the Institut national de santé publique du Québec. By choice, perhaps; by necessity, certainly. Here, winter is a moment in suspense. It pushes us to take shelter from the elements...
Architecture & Design
Sleeping Beauty
There’s a demand for perfection in the air of time, a relentless pursuit of novelty that sometimes leaves us breathless. Propelled by the endless scrolling of impeccable interiors on our screens, a desire for perfection and uniformity sets in. This race for the “all new, all clean” pushes us to...
Sleeping Beauty
There’s a demand for perfection in the air of time, a relentless pursuit of novelty that sometimes leaves us breathless. Propelled by the endless scrolling of impeccable interiors on our screens, a desire for perfection and uniformity sets in. This race for the “all new, all clean” pushes us to...
Architecture & Design
Five Havens to Honour Winter
Winter reshapes our spaces. It makes them more raw, more authentic, more essential. Through five spa resorts deeply rooted in their surroundings, this visual feature offers a new perspective on the cold season: one of calm, choice, and presence. An invitation to slow down, to feel, to embrace the months...
Five Havens to Honour Winter
Winter reshapes our spaces. It makes them more raw, more authentic, more essential. Through five spa resorts deeply rooted in their surroundings, this visual feature offers a new perspective on the cold season: one of calm, choice, and presence. An invitation to slow down, to feel, to embrace the months...
Lifestyle
5 wellness gifts for every budget
The festive season is here, and each day in December brings us closer to Christmas, along with the age-old question: what to give to our loved ones, most of whom already have everything they need? If inspiration is lacking in your search for gift ideas, Strøm Nordic Spa is the...
5 wellness gifts for every budget
The festive season is here, and each day in December brings us closer to Christmas, along with the age-old question: what to give to our loved ones, most of whom already have everything they need? If inspiration is lacking in your search for gift ideas, Strøm Nordic Spa is the...
World
Travelling at a Slow Pace
The sheets twist themselves up silently, like a secret whispered in the morning. No wake-up call to break the softness of that grey area between dreams and consciousness. A gust of warm air slips through the window which, as always, refuses to shut completely. It wafts into the room, bringing...
Travelling at a Slow Pace
The sheets twist themselves up silently, like a secret whispered in the morning. No wake-up call to break the softness of that grey area between dreams and consciousness. A gust of warm air slips through the window which, as always, refuses to shut completely. It wafts into the room, bringing...
Interviews
Viviane Audet: A Radiant Light
Actress, singer-songwriter, and, most recently, television host, Viviane Audet has as many strings to her bow as there are keys on her piano. Solo and alongside her partner and musical collaborator, she has been pursuing a flourishing artistic career for nearly two decades, without forgetting her native Gaspé Peninsula, where...
Viviane Audet: A Radiant Light
Actress, singer-songwriter, and, most recently, television host, Viviane Audet has as many strings to her bow as there are keys on her piano. Solo and alongside her partner and musical collaborator, she has been pursuing a flourishing artistic career for nearly two decades, without forgetting her native Gaspé Peninsula, where...
Society
Winter Resilience
“We will not leave.” Jacques Brault Every year, in Quebec, as in other northern territories, winter returns with its biting cold, shorter days, slippery streets, and snow-covered silences. And while it’s part of a natural cycle, it’s rarely greeted with indifference. Because beyond a simple change in temperature or...
Winter Resilience
“We will not leave.” Jacques Brault Every year, in Quebec, as in other northern territories, winter returns with its biting cold, shorter days, slippery streets, and snow-covered silences. And while it’s part of a natural cycle, it’s rarely greeted with indifference. Because beyond a simple change in temperature or...
Society
November: A Time to Slow Down and Be Present
A pivotal month at the year’s end, November is the precursor of winter, inviting us to prepare for its arrival. As the first chill sets in and days get shorter, our natural rhythm embraces slowness within the comfort of our homes. Back-to-school season already feels distant, and our vitality has...
November: A Time to Slow Down and Be Present
A pivotal month at the year’s end, November is the precursor of winter, inviting us to prepare for its arrival. As the first chill sets in and days get shorter, our natural rhythm embraces slowness within the comfort of our homes. Back-to-school season already feels distant, and our vitality has...
Holistic health
Effloressence: What If We Finally Talked About Hair Loss?
The stress of modern life, the hormonal upheavals linked to menopause or postpartum, or simply the feeling that your hair is losing density over time… Hair loss is more common than we might think. It affects a growing number of our friends, colleagues, and loved ones, sometimes starting with ourselves,...
Effloressence: What If We Finally Talked About Hair Loss?
The stress of modern life, the hormonal upheavals linked to menopause or postpartum, or simply the feeling that your hair is losing density over time… Hair loss is more common than we might think. It affects a growing number of our friends, colleagues, and loved ones, sometimes starting with ourselves,...
Interviews
Inheritance
Photo : © Justine Latour Navigating between public and private life can be a real challenge, especially for those who live life in the spotlight. Léane Labrèche-Dor, an actress and host, shares her thoughts on this duality, the precarity of the profession, and the challenges of being perceived as...
Inheritance
Photo : © Justine Latour Navigating between public and private life can be a real challenge, especially for those who live life in the spotlight. Léane Labrèche-Dor, an actress and host, shares her thoughts on this duality, the precarity of the profession, and the challenges of being perceived as...
Architecture & Design
A new important award for Strøm Nordic Spa Old Quebec
At the 13th edition of the Grands Prix du Design gala, Strøm was awarded a prize in the Centre de bien-être, d’entraînement et récréatif category as well as the prestigious recognition of Project of the year.
A new important award for Strøm Nordic Spa Old Quebec
At the 13th edition of the Grands Prix du Design gala, Strøm was awarded a prize in the Centre de bien-être, d’entraînement et récréatif category as well as the prestigious recognition of Project of the year.
Society
The Work-Life Balance After Returning to Routine
If you’re a parent, you know all too well that back-to-school time is the equivalent of an ultramarathon. Buying the items on the school list, registering for various extracurricular activities, checking that their clothes are still the right size, labeling their belongings… And it doesn’t stop there! You also have...
The Work-Life Balance After Returning to Routine
If you’re a parent, you know all too well that back-to-school time is the equivalent of an ultramarathon. Buying the items on the school list, registering for various extracurricular activities, checking that their clothes are still the right size, labeling their belongings… And it doesn’t stop there! You also have...
Society
What Is Life Worth if It Has No Meaning?
The components of a long and healthy life are multiple, and they can often be measured or studied. But one ingredient that gives life flavour and is difficult to quantify is meaning. Can a life lived without intention be satisfying? Is it absolutely necessary to emerge stronger from the trials...
What Is Life Worth if It Has No Meaning?
The components of a long and healthy life are multiple, and they can often be measured or studied. But one ingredient that gives life flavour and is difficult to quantify is meaning. Can a life lived without intention be satisfying? Is it absolutely necessary to emerge stronger from the trials...