Professor Ross worked on a study comparing how Canadians and Americans reacted after being pulled over by the police for speeding. I feel very fortunate to be coming home when Canada, ever the bashful self-deprecating starlet, is finally having its global close-up. When I was growing up in Montreal in the 1970s and 1980s, it was a restive time. Nearly three decades later, a panda-hugging son of Montreal is prime minister and an international darling. And Montreal, always a user-cool city, is experiencing a boom and being trumpeted across the Atlantic as “the perfect city,” or Paris meets Brooklyn.

Source: New York Times November 24, 2017 23:15 UTC