Canada Letter: Debating Sir John A. and a Remote Town Stranded
Read: Canadian Town, Isolated After Losing Rail Link, ‘Feels Held Hostage’ View: Suddenly Isolated, a Canadian Town Struggles The Times Book Review sat
down with Louise Penny, author of the crime novels featuring Armand Gamache, a police inspector in a fictional town in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.
It is United States trauma month: parental separation in Brooklyn in "The Squid
and the Whale," suburban Connecticut families facing societal upheaval in "The Ice Storm" and the Vietnam War in "The Deer Hunter." Read: The Best Movies and TV Shows New on Netflix Canada in September Mountain caribou are endangered in southern British Columbia.
And most of the tourists come during polar bear season: six weeks, starting in the middle of October, when polar bears are most
likely to be seen around town, waiting for the sea ice to bump against the shore so they can rush off in search of seals.
Read: Hunting Moose in Canada to Save Caribou From Wolves Read: Tree-Eating Beetles March Northward, Lured by Milder
Winters More than a decade ago, I worked with Clifford Krauss when he was The Times’s Toronto bureau chief.
Read: Canada, Too, Faces a Reckoning With History and Racism Churchill, Manitoba, is to polar bears as Kingston is to Macdonald.
A native of Windsor, Ontario, Ian Austen was educated in Toronto, lives in Ottawa
and has reported about Canada for The New York Times for over a decade.
