About 1/3 of our electricity comes from Hydro Quebec. The connection is only about 250 MW while our peak demand is closer to 1,000 MW.

Our natural gas does come from Canada. That's why it's only in the NW corner of the state and recently expanded south instead of only in the SE corner and expanding north.

For any electricity not provided by long term contracts or local renewables, it would be come from the New England grid, which is mostly gas power plants connected to the US gas grid, so that's how we could be affected by the gas market. But our utilities buy little market power so the effect is muted.

Yup, a drastic change! I think about a month late in my area, but I don't know for sure yet since we haven't had a frost.

That last time I saw hard data, about 10 years ago, the frost-free season in Vermont had already grown a couple of weeks on either end. It would make sense that it could be close to a month on each end now.

Yes, it's incredible our little state somehow has a stronger brand internationally than Quebec, or maybe even Canada? That can't be true, but why don't they play up Canada's brand and good will? I've seen a very similar label in a normal grocery store in Sweden. We're kind of getting screwed here, but that they wanted to use our reputation is flattering!

I've been using one from https://www.slimfoldwallet.com/ for a couple of years so I can't vouch for durability yet, but it's one of top features they promote.