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Marie-Noël Côté, founder of Canopée Bus café, smiles on a wooden walkway in the middle of the forest in Saguenay

Marie-Noël Côté: the only place where the noise stops

Marie-Noël Côté built Canopée Bus Café in a former adapted transport vehicle, in Saguenay. The first mobile café in the region and a concept nobody understood for three years. Portrait of a woman whose brain never stops, except in the forest.

Audrey Lessard

15 hours ago12 min read

Véronique smiling with her horse, outdoors in the sun

Behind the equine coach, there is Véronique Fanard

She spent fifteen years as a notary before betting everything on her horses. Véronique Fanard now practises equine coaching: sessions where the animal, unable to lie, goes straight to what we have been avoiding for years. Portrait of a woman who made freedom her work.

Audrey Lessard

Aug 1812 min read

David Boily: Behind the director, the candidate and the street worker

Street outreach worker, manager, dad, residence director in Alma, municipal candidate. David Boily's path looks like a puzzle, except it has one common thread: being useful, wherever he is. A portrait from the Offbeat conversations.

Audrey Lessard

Jun 226 min read

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