MONTREAL — Time for a holiday-season break from the divisions of the day. Surely you can read about war, protests, economic strains, cultural disputes, AI, cryptocurrency, the White House ballroom and Donald Trump elsewhere.
Even here in Canada, it's time to put aside the tensions between French speakers and English speakers, the trade war with the United States, and the worries about Chinese and Russian initiatives in the Arctic.
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