Judique homecoming

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that many fine editors had struggled to improve Contrarian's prose over the years. One of these was Jo-Anne MacDonald, a journalist of cool discernment and unflagging commitment who edited my columns in the Port Hawkesbury Reporter and the Halifax Daily News. Jo-Anne now works at the National Post, today's edition of which carries her lovely story about  76-year-old Lella Dubuque of Walpole, Mass. Last year, doctors diagnosed Lella with inoperable cancer, and many rounds of chemotherapy failed to arrest the disease. Her son Michael urged her to get a second opinion and to make her annual...