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I was very unsure whether to publish the story A BIG RED COUCH POTATO. Although it came to me in one go, was it really a good idea to reveal my bouts of laziness so easily? So I turned off…

When I first discovered the alphabet in first grade, I started writing and have never really stopped. As a child, I was instantly amazed by the magical power of each vowel or consonant to transcribe the sounds of our language.…

This holiday season, let’s celebrate the simple fact of being alive despite the many difficulties we’ve all faced since the arrival of this awful virus. What may come, we are strong, we are fighters, we are resilient.Back in the good…

One day, a well-intentioned journalist arrived at our offices and asked me how I managed to balance work and family.I answered that I hadn’t managed to balance these two worlds at all. She wanted me to elaborate. – “When we opened…

Another memory has prodded me to leave my warm bed on this chilly December morning.  Nicole, Marie, Caroline, Guillaume the Mexican, who garbled his French, and Moustafa at the grill, as slow as a turtle. I loved them so much. As I…

Bravo, Gigi! This morning another memory tugged at my mind – a wonderful story also begging to be let out and told again. It goes like this. I opened the first small Cora restaurant the day I turned 40, on…

I’ve have so much free time these days that I am beginning to feel nostalgic for my very first customers. I greet them in my mind’s eye, vivid and real, just as if I were back behind the restaurant’s counter…

What is optimism? Am I an optimist? Is it believing that everything is going to be okay despite everything? To hear those brave doctors on TV telling us that the country’s situation is improving and choosing to believe them? I…

Great news! Cora restaurants across Canada are hosting a fundraising event in support of Breakfast Club of Canada. Yes, you read that right! From October 18 to 31, in every Cora restaurant across the country, all kids’ breakfasts will cost…

“It’s not that I’m smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” ALBERT EINSTEIN I don’t think our success can be put down to being smart, but like sunlight concentrated through a mirror to light a twig, it was…