Where the Christmas tree would stand, there’s nothing. This year, François Gauthier can’t muster the energy or spare cash to go out, buy a tree and hang decorations on it.
Where the Christmas tree would stand, there’s nothing. This year, François Gauthier can’t muster the energy or spare cash to go out, buy a tree and hang decorations on it.
He looks ahead to the holidays, a time normally bustling with the noise of family and Franco-Manitoban tradition, and sees no escape from the loneliness the pandemic has imposed on him. It’s devastating, he says. I would try to do the most I can to make it special for my daughter, but with non-essentials not being accessible and not having worked for months, money’s been really tight. I’m struggling to afford everything.