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Eleven year-old Jacob Tyronne DeShawn’s mother is in prison serving a lengthy sentence, and he and his sixteen year-old sister Shoshona travel ten hours four times a year to visit her. Accompanied by Ms. Granite, a social worker, a rag-tag collection of children and adolescents boards an old school bus after midnight on the [...]

News that they have inherited a big old Victorian house in Mirimachi, New Brunswick, from a elderly great-aunt, Sarah Wentworth, whom neither has ever met comes as a surprise to Sarah Gilmore and her mother. For Maggie Gilmore, who has struggled for years to make ends meet on the salary and tips from her [...]