My family immigrated to Canada in May 1990, just two weeks after my thirteenth birthday. I already had a preconceived notion of what I would discover here. I had studied North American culture carefully, or so I thought, through the pages of an Archie comic book. Now I know that one of the biggest lies my circle of friends in the Philippines had been exposed to was Archie and his cast of friends. To be fair, we were all aware that the gentle, predictable humour and plots of Archie comic books were fiction in the true sense of the word....