November 11 is coming and so is that moment when we all stop in silence at eleven o’clock to remember. I sang in the choir at Remembrance Day ceremonies in school and veterans came and talked to us. We discussed Great War battle strategy in History Class. In the media, we honour our dead like
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People on the coast of Colombia ask me all the time what Canada is like. I make awkward hand diagrams of the position of the earth around the sun, trying to explain the endless days and endless nights in the Yukon. Nobody quite understands. After getting over the shock that there is no plantain, yuca,