What’s the Point of Epigraphs Anyway? | The Walrus
Oct 9, 2024 · When pressed to describe what an epigraph does, writers tend to reach for metaphor. In her newsletter Before and After the Book Deal, Courtney Maum calls them, decadently, “apéritifs” and “a spritz of fragrance in a large room.”Thomas Swick conjures grandiosity in Literary Hub: an epigraph is “a ceremonial gate ushering us into the realm of the author,” a book devoid of one “a ...
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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 ...
When Mailboxes Exploded: A Graphic Novel Revisits Quebec’s …
Dec 6, 2024 · C artoonist Chris Oliveros was a toddler when the Front de libération du Québec was busy blowing up mailboxes with homemade bombs. Between 1963 and 1970, the FLQ—a militant Quebec independence movement—would be responsible for over 200 bombings and dozens of robberies that left many Quebecers injured …
Justin Trudeau Might Be the Only One Who Still Believes in Justin ...
Dec 4, 2024 · “T rudeau must go or party beaten, Liberal MPs state,” went the Globe and Mail headline.. It was August of 1983, and everyone knew that Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who had won his first federal election in 1968, was into his final act as prime minister; the only question was when the curtain would fall.
Why Is Canada Protecting the Names of Suspected Nazis?
Nov 12, 2024 · Whether the Galicia Division participated in war crimes is a matter of considerable debate. The published, and public, first part of the Deschênes Commission’s final report concluded that charges against the unit had never been substantiated and that members had already been screened by Allied officials before their admission to Canada.
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 …
Canada’s $32.5 Billion Tobacco Settlement Is a Hollow Victory
Oct 30, 2024 · This is for good reason. Over decades, Mahood, with a small but talented staff, first at the Non-Smokers’ Rights Association and now at the Campaign for Justice on Tobacco Fraud, pushed governments at all levels, as well as health organizations and medical professions, to tackle the tobacco issue in Canada.
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.
[WATCH] The Walrus Talks at Home: Polarization
Oct 31, 2024 · Polarization is on the rise in Western democracies and Canada is not immune. Politicians and public figures are intensifying their rhetoric and wedge issues are becoming the norm in political, social, and cultural conversations. The impact? An erosion of trust in our democracy and institutions. At ...