The power of Canada’s many ‘Senates’

All across the country they are the faithful, the friends, the former work colleagues, the civic-minded, some politically engaged, some not, who gather to discuss the issues of the day.
The stories and memories contained within the people who make up the various ‘Senates’ across Canada are fading away, writes Andrew Caddell.

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—You see them everywhere across the country. They might be in the local Tim Hortons, an independent coffee shop in the middle of town, a social club, a shopping mall, or, as in Kamouraska, down by the wharf.

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