Using snow tires in summer

[doctorwayne]

Thanks! I'm quite sure Ontario doesn't have any such laws for the summer but I believe you need snow tires by law in Quebec.

Dat's becuz K-beck is farder nord, and dey git more snow an' dice.

(No disrespect intended towards my friends in Québec.)

I can recall when studded snow tires were allowed in Ontario...now they're allowed only in northern Ontario.

As for snow tires in the summer, you'll likely wear them out if you do any appreciable amount of driving.  I put new snow tires on my Mazda last fall, but we didn't have much snow at all (maybe 10" once and 8" another time.  In most cases it was gone in a few days. 
We also had a lot of fairly mild weather, and I found the snow tires to be a lot squirrelier on dry and wet pavement when the weather got milder, although I do tend to push that car a lot more than most drivers would.

I have high performance summer tires, and it's like the car's on rails when you put the pedal down on a twisty road.

Wayne