As Christmas nears, striking Quebec teachers do what they can to help each other out

Mariah Carey reverberates from the speakers. Tables teem with candy canes, toys, fruits, vegetables, coffee and the classic Italian Christmas cake known as panettone.With teachers donning Christmas sweaters and reindeer horns, it may look like a holiday shindig, but the educators gathered at the Maison de Jeunes d'Anjou in Montreal aren't celebrating. Like their colleagues across the province, they're collecting and handing out donations to fellow teachers in need. Since Nov. 23, some 66,000 tho