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Publication Date: May 29, 2026 - 18:01
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Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Fri. May 29th, 2026
May 29, 2026
A 6-year-old is dead after being found in the water near Mooney’s Bay. It’s an important reminder to keep your eyes peeled when approaching city beaches and waterways, especially as the temperatures start to warm up. Guest host Chris Holski checks in with Sean Duffy, the Vice-President of the Lifesaving Society of Ontario and a member of the Ottawa Drowning Prevention Coalition. Plus, as the U.S. keeps talking with Iran, how close are we to a peaceful resolution and a long-awaited end to the Iran War? Retired Major-General David Fraser pays us a visit in Hour 2.
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Agnes Ryoo had been trying to get her moles checked out for months. The thirty-two-year-old Toronto resident is Korean Canadian, fair-skinned, and has a smattering of moles all over her body and face. “That combination, plus me being anxious, [means] I’m always afraid of what my moles could become,” Ryoo says. When her family doctor referred her to a dermatologist, she spent a lot of time online looking for clinics that would see her quickly. Just four weeks later, in August 2025, Ryoo saw a dermatologist.
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June 25, 2026 - 06:30 | Rebecca Gao | Walrus
As a child, I loved summer rain only as much as its worms
on the driveway, on the sidewalk, on the road where cars passed
until the next morning, which would be sunny and dry and full
of bodies. As if umbilical, two worms could be born—
I had learned from classmates—by snipping one
in half. So I too conducted no great experiment,
only easy cruelty, my heart a knotted spool.
Boneless and blind as a needle, needy
and pink, worms have five hearts and live best
unseen. On days purified by rain, I watch them
thread out of black soil, scolding you aren’t meant for
this world with the knife of...
June 25, 2026 - 06:29 | Farah Ghafoor | Walrus
Child’s Play
In “Leave the Kids Alone” (March/April), Simon Lewsen argues that we are helicopter-parenting children, who are not in as much danger as parents perceive, and that they in fact benefit from being empowered, age appropriately, to navigate life’s challenges. In Winnipeg, from age nine onward, my classmates and I all took city buses to school, and we thought nothing of taking those same buses across town after school. And then home again, after dark, in the winter. By contrast, I now often pull up behind a school bus dropping off a child right in front of their house, and the...
June 25, 2026 - 06:28 | Readers | Walrus
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