Wheeling her three-quarter-tonne Suburban down the gravel road of her Ladner, B.C. farm where Dr. Janet Friesen keeps horses, the dreariness of the typical West Coast winter was matched in bleakness by the economic news on the radio.
It wasn't the cathedral of Notre Dame or Montmartre's basilica calling to Dr. Vincent Hanlon that neared a religious experience, but his quest for heavenly bread from the famed boulangeries.