Source Feed: Ottawa Citizen
Author: Elizabeth Payne
Publication Date: October 10, 2024 - 04:00
Is this the way COVID ends? Next-generation nasal vaccines could be the key to ending pandemic
October 10, 2024
When the first COVID-19 vaccines began to roll out in late 2020, they were met with gratitude and hope. To many people, the remarkable production of vaccines less than a year into the deadly global pandemic suggested the end would soon be in sight. Read More
Unpublished Newswire
Good morning. Hurricane Milton slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast – more on that below, along with the risks of a second Trump term for Canada’s economy and the Syrian refugees heading home from Lebanon. But first:Today’s headlinesBill Blair’s former aide can’t explain the warrant delay in the Michael Chan surveillance request from CSISFormer Afghan policewomen live in fear of the Taliban as Canada is urged to resettle themWaterloo’s international graduates outearn Canadian-born students, experts say, paving the way for immigration policies
October 10, 2024 - 06:51 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
I’m a journalist. I use words to convey things that have been verified as true, observable, and rooted in reality. A requirement of journalism is that language be stripped of emotion, of opinions, of “bias.” There should be no flowery language or poetry. Just the facts.
Under these guidelines, since October 2023, I have been pushing through fear, and a deeply ingrained self-censorship, to say yes to press interviews in which I use my journalism, my language, to tell the story of what’s happening in Gaza. And to also tell the story of how journalists’ language is sterilized, muted, and,...
October 10, 2024 - 06:30 | Pacinthe Mattar | Walrus
Rumble of heavy railcars
throughout the dark house:
an unending pulsing drone
of hoppers, flatcars, reefers, grain haulers,
intermodals, centrebeams, tank cars.
No train now passes through this valley.
Beyond my walls is only the silence
of the surrounding mountains
under May’s stars. Indoors, however, steel wheels
press down on steel rails, and the clatter seems
ominous, as if the cargo
constitutes a threat beyond “Hazardous Goods,”
as if this routing through my rooms
is a confirmation of trouble, not a warning.
Ordinarily, a quiet trails the end of any train
while it shrinks up the...
October 10, 2024 - 06:30 | Tom Wayman | Walrus
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