Okay, America, it's winter up here, and when the snow is flying you'll always look pretty darn good. February through April is when we of the semi-frozen True North escape across the border, stab our cars into snow-drifted airport parking lots at Bangor, Buffalo, or Bellingham, and catch your el...
(10) Comments | Posted January 27, 2012 | 10:58 AM
New Yorkers, we are among you -- we Canadians -- though you are usually unaware. Unless, perhaps, it's the season of Stanley Cup Finals -- usually a torpid June week in Manhattan -- and you notice loud, polite groups of us in neighbourhood bars, cheering on our Vancouver Canucks, Montreal...
(2) Comments | Posted November 10, 2011 | 9:47 AM
I grew up in Montreal in what felt like the shadow of the World Wars. There were soldier ghosts everywhere: in the dining hall at my school, Lower Canada College, fading sepia-tinted photos of Old Boys killed in World War I. In the school's Memorial Gymnasium, bronze tablets with long...
(265) Comments | Posted February 13, 2012 | 1:36 PM