Every street in every old Canadian industrial town has its own Gus Popadopolous. He's the old timer on your block that stuck around when the abandoned factory morphed into gentrified condos. His mode of dress is a white undershirt, no matter what the weather. His all-purpose accoutrement is a shovel, not a cell phone. He might cheer you on at road hockey, but wouldn't hesitate to yell at you if the ball went into his garden. You know him. You might even be him!
The story of the decline and fall of Gus and Canada's working class was brought to life this past February in Canada Steel, the second installment of the Canada House trilogy by playwright J. Karol Korczynski and ...