Unpublished Newswire
I didn’t have to read Frankenstein—there was no assignment, no looming exam. I didn’t own a copy of it. In fact, I had only known Frankenstein as a movie monster or Halloween costume, never as a book. But when I discovered that the novel actually emerged from the Romantic period, the same cultural movement that produced the majestic and sublime landscape paintings of Caspar David Friedrich or J. M. W. Turner, I was surprised and intrigued. I wanted to understand what made the story so lasting and how the so-called monster, who wasn’t even named Frankenstein, came to be...
March 20, 2026 - 06:29 | Maggie Yang | Walrus
EVEN BY THE standards of an industry defined by brutal contractions, the cuts at the Washington Post shocked. Roughly one-third of its newsroom was wiped out, with more than 300 positions eliminated. Entire departments, including sports and books, were disbanded and foreign bureaus scaled back. The layoffs rank among the largest in American newspaper history, a grim distinction for one of the country’s most storied dailies.
The paper described the move as part of a “strategic reset.” There’s no reason to doubt that. Journalism has been a miserable racket for decades. But it’s hard to...
March 20, 2026 - 06:28 | Carmine Starnino | Walrus
Good morning. Superbugs are becoming increasingly drug resistant and the market for discovering new antibiotics is broken. But last year, a Canadian lab made not one, but three, major discoveries. More on their surprising success below, along with fraud charges and firearms. But first:
March 20, 2026 - 06:13 | Jennifer Yang | The Globe and Mail
A Nova Scotia mayor says it’s time for a national conversation about children, mental health and the influence of the internet after alleged school shooting plots were foiled in his town and in Manitoba, just weeks after the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., school shooter killed eight people.
“I feel like we’re losing that connection of community and kids in the day of the internet, where sometimes the internet is the parent. And so, if there’s anything that comes out of this and the incidents of 2026 I hope it is a willingness to have a very serious conversation about that,” said Bridgewater, N....
March 20, 2026 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Mayor Michael Prue said Diageo appeared to lose steam in its attempts to quickly sell a facility in his town as soon as Doug Ford stood down his threat to ban Crown Royal.
March 20, 2026 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Canada
Mayor Michael Prue said Diageo appeared to lose steam in its attempts to quickly sell a facility in his town as soon as Doug Ford stood down his threat to ban Crown Royal.
March 20, 2026 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
