![]() ![]() Out east, almost everyone is affected by or knows someone who is affected by the realities of remote work in the oil sands. Q Can you talk about why you wanted to make Ducks?Ī I wanted to make this book for a long time, because I carried memories of my time in the oil sands with me wherever I went and thought of them often. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() ![]() ![]() 7 if you can make it down, but I had a chance to talk with her about this book, which is honestly one of the best things I’ve ever read by a Canadian author, and will undoubtedly be summoned as a revealing historical document decades, if not even longer, from now. The 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. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way. ![]()
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