Canadian military will continue with U.S.-led counter-drug ops but won’t support attacks on alleged smuggling boats

He was a Trappist and a chatterbox, guestmaster at the little orchard house in Georgetown, aging man of paradox if not comedy. Father Canisius welcomed us with hours of talk on silence and the use of mantras. He had a history of chat: twenty-five years a garrulous Jesuit before his leap to Benedict and the cheese-maker monks, Oka’s most unsilent man. He nearly burst. An abbot pitied all the pent-up words, sent him to this daughter-house as greeter to talk at will, just not to his chanting brothers. Novice SJs, high on Merton, we drove from Guelph to see these monks and their apple trees...