Hit the Road, Jacques

Save the Tracks Today, or Canadian Trains Won't Be Coming Back No More...

I hope you’ll excuse my silence. Since I started writing these dispatches in February of 2023, I’ve stuck to a more-or-less weekly schedule, but things got complicated over the holidays. My wife and I have two elementary-school-age boys, and a province-wide teachers’ strike here in Quebec means that they’ve been home since Nov. 23. The strike is now res…