5/29/2023 0 Comments Ducks 2 years in the oil sandsThe author will be at Calgary’s Wordfest at Central Library Nov. Kate Beaton now lives back in Cape Breton with her family. But thanks to her staggering skill as a cartoonist and obvious efforts to be unusually fair as a storyteller, the now-39-year-old Beaton paints a nuanced and sympathetic picture of her co-workers, even amid recurring cascades of toxic masculinity and, indeed, worse. The dislocation and isolation so many feel while working in the Patch far from home was compounded by the fact Beaton was one of just a few women among thousands of men in the camps. The next issue of Calgary Herald Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.
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