Author: Derek

The Feast of Saint Patrick is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461), the foremost patron saint of Ireland. It is widely celebrated around the world. Montreal never fails to celebrate St-Paddy’s day. The Montreal St. Patrick’s Day Parade is actually the oldest St. Patrick’s Day parade in Canada and has been held every single year since 1824. Historian Don Pidgeon claims Montreal has been celebrating St. Paddy’s Day decades earlier than that, since at least 1759, the year of the Conquest, just not in a parade format. So try and beat that NP Winnipeg, Edmonton, Toronto, Vancouver, Kelowna, Regina, Ottawa, Calgary, Victoria! read more

PR could mean many things to different people. It could mean:

Public Relations
P.R.: a Canadian television sitcom
Partisan Review, a former political and literary journal
Parma, Italy
Puerto Rico
Pastor, an ordained leader of a Christian congregation
Partial Response, a component of Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors
Per Rectum, meaning “administered rectally”
Progesterone receptor, a protein
PR interval, a measurement used in cardiology
pr (Unix), Unix command to paginate or columnate files for printing
PR (complexity), a complexity class
Personal Record
Punt returner, a position in American football
Protected ranking, a method of ranking tennis players coming back from injury
Pakistan Railways
Park and ride, a type of car park with public transport connections
Parachute rigger, a former U.S. Navy rank read more

It’s never too late to plan your Valentine’s Day date with your life partner. Sure, you could have pulled out all stops and make dinner reservations at an expensive restaurant in romantic Montréal, followed by a night of drinks at a downtown bar where a cocktail costs more than your rent. Or, you could think outside the box and plan an NP themed Valentine’s Day workout – something that won’t set you back a few hundred dollars and actually be loads of fun! read more

WISCONSIN NOTES:

• Our first parkade workout
• Train was never-ending: 20 minutes of waiting 😉
• First week of Winter Recruitment challenge. Bring those friends and family members y’all!

What to say of our workout this morning? It was our first ever semi-indoor parkade workout at November Project Montréal! Hope you enjoyed it. We try to keep it new and fresh every week and we thought that a workout within the open-aired parking garage would give us an added challenge. The ramp up to the second level was a personal favourite. Just the right incline to get the legs worked up and add that extra spice to our mornings. You guys really crushed it this morning considering a part of the group was stuck behind the never-ending train (20 minutes) and couldn’t join the fun. This tested your patience and weatherproofness. You’ve passed the test 🙂 read more

With the holiday season behind us, many of us have indulged in retrospection and in reevaluating some of their life choices. New Year’s resolutions are an opportunity for all those who have failed to start making the changes that they said they would have made.

Well, now is your chance to sit down and prepare a list of NP resolutions you want to make for 2018. Since the majority of people fail to stick to their resolution, we at NP Montréal thought you would need all the help you can get. Here is a list of 3 SIMPLE & ACHIEVABLE NP New Year’s Resolution Ideas and how to achieve each of them read more

WISCONSIN NOTES:
IT WAS SO FUCKIN’ COLD… but nothing stops us 🙂

Mother nature made it a point to keep us humble by setting us up with -32°C/-26°F weather for this last workout of 2017! This has to be one of the coldest days we got since we started November Project here is Montréal – since last winter was pretty mild compared to other years. If today’s weather is any indication of what is to come for the New Year… 2018 will be frigid. We just might need to create our very own -32°C badge 🙂 read more

WISCONSIN NOTES:

• November Project MTL holiday dessert potluck party last Monday was a blast!
• Happy Hanukkah everyone! Hence the theme of the workout this week
• #NPadoreMTL: First serious snowfall of the season and the tribe came out strong. Long live MTL!

What a week! The week started off with an awesome party at Mila’s place (Thanks MILA!) for the first annual November Project MTL Holiday Dessert potluck party. What a yummy evening. Big Thanks to everyone for showing up and baking the sweetest desserts in Montréal. We had everything: spice cake, latkas, pannetone, rice crispies squares (or notJ), cookies, cupcakes, donuts, etc. I do not think I have eaten so many sweet cakes and bites in my entire life. The ambiance was super festive and everyone contributed to make the event a memorable one. If you missed it, mark your calendars for next year! This event is not to miss!!! read more

WISCONSIN NOTES:

• This week was PR day (2 versions) – the tribe crushed it once again!
• Positivity Award is MIA. Reward given to person that finds it 🙂
• Positivity Award was “handed” anyway to our favourite lift and kickass Triathlete Gilla! So well deserved. Thanks for being here every week…
• Tribe is amazing….you all know this!
• Save the date: NP Montreal Holiday bash coming mid-December. Date TBD

“Saudade” is beautiful word of Portuguese origin that evokes a sense of incompleteness. A deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something that one loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never return. One English translation of the word is missingness, although it might not convey the feeling of deep emotion attached to the word “saudade”. Stronger forms of saudade might be felt towards people and things whose whereabouts are unknown, such as a Positivity Award. read more