All seasons are illegal in winter in Quebec for a reason. Get proper winter tires.

Winter tires. "All season" tires are not the answer for snow and ice.

My uncle who worked with tires all his life used to say that there is no such thing as an all season tire, regardless of what the markings say.

All seasons are horrible in the winter. It's impossible to create a rubber that has the right stiffness in both freezing temperatures and the summer heat. If you live in a place that gets sub freezing temperatures, you need tires that don't get rock hard in the cold. Where I live, everyone keeps two sets of wheels and switches them with the seasons.

All season, maybe in California...

Just popping in to say that studded tires are popular in some circles but that only makes a difference in ice which is a very occasional condition even in “subarctic” conditions 1000km south of the arctic circle. But they do make an absolute mess of the road and are banned in Japan because of the cancer causing dust they produce.

Nokian makes good winter tires. But so does Michelin, continental, etc. If you’re driving where temperatures are consistently below 8°c for a period of time, snow tires are beneficial.

You know how car nuts talk about handling and braking and suspension and all that stuff? When the limits of grip are suddenly reduced dramatically by snow, it makes a big difference suddenly. It also makes a difference driving in it all the time. Somewhere between overconfident and comfortable.

I live in Canada and have never used specific tires for the winter. All-season with a 4WD. I drive to the conditions and am experienced and drive defensively. Never had one ice-related accident. I believe the science of rubber getting soft in the heat and hard in the cold, so winter tires make sense but for me I see it as an extra expense I just cannot afford.

Not Canadian, but have driven in winter-long icy conditions. There's a Finnish brand of tire - Nokian - that are the only brand I've found that actually work well in bad winter conditions. Deep snow or snow and ice.

Specifically their Haakapaliita (sp?) line of tires. Nothing I've driven performs in awful weather like them (Michelin can keep their X-ice garbage).

I imagine the folks up there may know of other high-winter-performance tires like them.