Canada Letter: Catalonia Is a Reminder of Not Just Quebec
Read: Five Tech Myths People Still Believe My colleague Dan Levin, who has reported on the opioid crisis in Vancouver, British Columbia, suggests reading "The Family
That Built An Empire of Pain" in The New Yorker, "This shocking article in The New Yorker reveals that the company behind OxyContin is owned by one secretive family," Mr. Levin said.
Like many of Mr. Johnston’s books, "First Snow, Last Light," his latest work, partly takes place in 1949 when Newfoundland, after
two closely contested votes, decided to become a province of Canada rather than remain a self-governing British colony.
d we’d spend hours sitting on the sofa initialing every single item we were interested in, taking turns back
and forth on each page." Often, Mr. LaPorte said, her parents took the hint and one or two of the items would appear as gifts. that my friend Judy would come over an
"My mother later told me that she used to go through the catalog herself
and fill out the order form with every single thing each of her seven children, husband and she needed, as well as a few things for the house," Ms. LaPorte added.
"I remember, like it was yesterday, sitting in our farmhouse living room with tears streaming down my face at the thought of never seeing my mother again yet dutifully turning the pages of the catalog
and trying to decide between the new moms on offer." For Heather McLaren, who now lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, catalogs were a way to earn, as well as spend, money.
