Seatmate

Dept: What s the best university program for my daughter to get a good job? , according to The Chronicle Herald. As a professor of journalism, a field pretty well guaranteed not to get you a good job, I resented such questions. This didn t faze my seatmate, who began worrying aloud about her five-year-old son s education and on the two-hour flight to Fredericton from Toronto last weekend, my seatmate was in a chatty mood. It was a quintessential Maritime question. Except my seatmate was a new immigrant from China and was speaking Mandarin. Her 15-year-old daughter, in neon-orange platform sandals and matching pedicure, sat across the aisle. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.