I’m standing at the helm of a dogsled in the middle of a forest in Quebec. The six huskies and malamutes pulling the sled bark with excitement, eager to bound down the snow-covered trail. Dog sleds ...

“Montréal is cool, not cold,” explained a friend a few years back, as the two of us hunched into the boreal wind paring icy corkscrews from snowbanks along the city’s Boulevard de Maisonneuve. She ...