[Toronto Star]On the streets of New York after 9/11, I saw two decades of pain and death begin
New York’s Times Square was calm, and the silence was unsettling. Broadway was dark. There were no tourists. There were no Disney characters lurking optimistically and you couldn’t find a taxi nor a knock-off handbag. It was nearing midnight on Sept. 14, 2001.When I had arrived in the city ...