[NEWS] Four links: post-strike education in Ontario, mummers of Newfounland, Vancouver, Mary Edelman

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• News that one-tenth of Ontario college students dropped out during the recent strike is not surprising. The National Post reports.


• Atlas Obscura shares photos of the mummers of Newfoundland and the backstory of this cultural phenomenon.


• Making abandoned housing in the Vancouver neighbourhood of West Point Grey into student housing sounds great to me. Global News reports.


• This obituary for Mary Edelman, long-time Toronto resident and repairer of the typewriters of famed authors, offers insight into a fascinating literary past. The Toronto Star has it.