I like to read a few on-line accessible for free (at least a few articles until you need to get a paid memberships) newspapers from other countries. I like the NYTimes, some from France and England and a few across Canada. I read the local ones for Montreal but get fed up of the same old same old stuff...

My passeport has expired this past December and because of our Cdn $ so weak vs US$ and the Trump issues, border crossing across USA becoming more of a hassle than anything else, I have decided not to renew it for now and I already booked our summer vacation and will remain in Canada. Not happy as we love heading to Nashville or Colorado to visit friends and ride bikes, etc but it is a choice I made and will live with it. We used to cross the borders to head to Vermont or Mass for cycling and shopping (while camping), even for long weekends only, but because of Trump and our weak $Cdn we've stopped it all.

Maybe next year things will have improved on the political side and exchange $ will be better, then we'll resume our US traveling but for now, for every $1,000US I spent when in the USA, it costs me right now $350 more for nothing in return because of the exchange rate... that is a lot of money when we are on a month long trip. I could not travel last summer to the USA (nor Canada) as we had to spend over $6,000 on our pets' surgeries and missed it. Again this coming summer there are no US trips but at least I can plan something while remaining in Canada. Can't get everything they say...