(Source: J’en veux plus. Journal Métro, December 17, 2013). Voir plus bas pour la version Française. I’ve been slowly emptying out my parent’s house now that they are both in a nursing home. It’s amazing how much stuff people accumulate over the years. My parents were immigrants and had to make do with very little. They [...]
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Homelessness and mental illness
As a young student in CEGEP (in Quebec, we replace the last year of high school and the first of university with an intermediate general college system called CEGEPs), I took a course called Poverty in Montreal. I thought it was a joke at first. I had grown up watching starving children in Biafra with [...]
