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Letters to the Editor: November 2024 | The Walrus
Dec 11, 2024 · It’s Just a Phage. As an undergraduate student at Queen’s University with a particular research interest in antibiotic resistance, I found Monica Kidd’s evaluation of antibiotic resistance and bacterio-phage therapy in “The Resistance Is Coming” (May) to be insightful and well communicated. Given the presentation of bacteriophages as a potential solution to widespread antibiotic ...
Want to Raise a Kid in Canada? That’ll Be $293,000
Nov 25, 2024 · R achel Cairns always knew she wanted to have a child someday. But she didn’t start thinking seriously about the particulars—when, where, and how she would afford it—until the instance she chose not to. In 2019, she had an abortion after an intrauterine device slipped out of place and she got pregnant.
It’s Hard to Tell What Poilievre Makes of the World
Sep 18, 2024 · T he Conservative Party manifesto, published in September 2023, describes a broad approach to world affairs in its two pages and nine clauses on foreign policy.It is only on promised actions against Beijing that it offers an itemized agenda. It is a short and sharp to-do list. The Conservatives say they will end military co-operation with …
Is It Time for Singh to Go? - The Walrus
Aug 7, 2024 · Today, the NDP finds itself in an awkward parliamentary, electoral, and organizational spot. Firmly third in the polls—and the fourth party by seat count in the House of Commons—the NDP is bound to the Liberals by its March 2022 supply and confidence agreement, or SACA, as wonks call it.That deal is designed to keep the minority Liberals in power for progress on policy near and dear to the ...
Seven Years after #MeToo: What Is the Cost of Speaking Up?
Oct 18, 2024 · O n a November night in 2022, I rode a very long escalator up to a movie theatre in Toronto. Always on the lookout for metaphors, I thought the elevator provided a lovely one: it was long and very slow, much like the progress of women’s equality in this world.
Chalk River: The Forgotten Nuclear Accidents | The Walrus
Jul 13, 2022 · The first serious nuclear accident occurred at Chalk River Laboratories in 1952, followed by a second incident in 1958. Now that the federal government is compensating workers who took part in cleanup efforts.
In Afghanistan, Women Haven’t Given Up | The Walrus
Dec 9, 2024 · این مقاله به زبان دری در دسترس است.. O n December 2022, Roqia Saee joined dozens of other Afghan women at a crossroads near Kabul University to protest a Taliban decree that banned women from universities.The organizers invited journalists to cover the event, but most outlets declined to send reporters for fear of arrests by the Taliban, Afghanistan’s de facto ...
The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age | The Walrus
Sep 17, 2024 · Y ears ago, I worked in the backroom of a Tower Records. Every few hours, my face-pierced, gunk-haired co-workers would line up by my workstation, waiting to clock in or out. When we typed in our staff number at 8:59 p.m., we were off …
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