Most weekday afternoons, free copies of the Montreal Gazette are given away on street corners around the city. The nice men who give me free papers are not always at the same intersections though, so I have to plan my route to the train station very carefully.

I walk down McGill College to St Catherine Street, where there is sometimes a free paper man. If he’s not there I walk along St Catherine Street to Peel, where there is sometimes a free paper man. If he’s not there I walk down Peel to Rene Levesque, where there is sometimes a free paper man. If he’s not there I walk down to the Bell centre where my last chance free paper man sometimes is. It’s a sad day when I reach the station without a paper.

Thank you to Empire Auctions for supplying me with comics, two crosswords and a sudoku for my journey home. Most days.