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.
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Who Is the Real Pierre Poilievre? - The Walrus
Jul 1, 2024 · T o Canadians, Pierre Poilievre is a Conservative politician doing battle with Justin Trudeau and his Liberals. But being the leader of a political party also carries administrative and managerial responsibilities. Most of these are delegated, though it’s Poilievre that sets the tone and must own the decisions.
The Best Books of Fall 2024 - The Walrus
Sep 4, 2024 · In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life by Sadiya Ansari House of Anansi Press Publication date: August 13. After the death of her first husband, Sadiya Ansari’s grandmother, Tahira, left her seven children in Karachi, Pakistan, to pursue a …
If Pierre Poilievre Wins | The Walrus
Sep 18, 2024 · F or over a year, Pierre Poilievre and his team have been putting out a remarkably disciplined message: we are not the Liberals. Campaigns are about contrast, and in its dark appraisal of the country’s current state, the Conservative Party has honed a rhetoric that offers frustrated Canadians an alternative.
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.
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 ...
2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award | The Walrus
Submissions for the 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award are now open. Details can be found here. 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Alicia Elliott, author of And Then She Fell (Doubleday Canada), is the winner of the forty-eighth annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award And Then She Fell is a gripping novel about native
Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era
Aug 30, 2024 · Phone calls to France confirmed Chatwin’s account (a sensible move: Chatwin always preferred a good story to the literal truth), and Sebregondi’s hunch was confirmed by serendipitous sightings of le vrai moleskine in other contexts: exhibitions of Matisse’s and Picasso’s sketchbooks, a photo of Hemingway at work.
Gerald Butts - The Walrus
Oct 11, 2024 · Gerald Butts is vice chairman of Eurasia Group, a global geopolitical risk firm headquartered in New York. He was principal secretary to the prime minister of Canada and the premier of Ontario.