Eat a meal featuring pumpkin spice. October 1 isn’t just the start of sweater weather, it's also the official day for celebrating the flavour of fall. Forget lattes—you can make all sorts of tasty pumpkin spice recipes. Our recommendation: Make your own spice mix and whip up a pie. 

Read We Spread the newest novel from Canadian author Iain Reid. Recently dubbed ‘Hollywood’s favourite Canadian novelist’, he’s had two of his previous works turned into movies, and this new genre-defying thriller is likely to be the third after getting rave reviews.

Watch Smile, now in theatres. Since it’s October, you should only be watching horror films for the next 31 days (sorry, that’s movie law). One scary movie you can catch in theatres is Smile: A gory, unsettling psycho-horror about a doctor haunted by a great evil. Sounds spooooky!

Listen to grunge, R&B, ska, etc. and peruse Pitchfork’s lists of the best albums and songs of the 1990s. As always with these sorts of lists, there’s plenty to argue about (Steal my Sunshine should be way higher) but one thing is inarguable: The ‘90s had a lot of great tunes.