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This Week's Round-Up: December 1, 2025 |
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Experts say subsidiaries are operating abroad with little accountability
BY MEGHAN DAVIDSON LADLY
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Among the companies contracted to provide services for Alligator Alcatraz are IRG Global Emergency Management—a US offshoot of ARS Global Emergency Management, a Toronto-based company also known as Access Restoration Services Ltd—and a US-based business unit of Quebec-based security operator GardaWorld. In July, it was advertising vacancies for full-time positions based in a remote part of southern-central Florida for armed security guards and correctional officers, with a preference for candidates who were bilingual in English and Spanish.
While the job advertisements did not explicitly cite Alligator Alcatraz, it is the only detention facility in that location.
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At The Walrus Talks at Home: Aging and Belonging, four speakers will share their unique perspectives on how aging shapes identity, connection, and community. Join us as we explore how to build more inclusive and age-friendly spaces, strengthen intergenerational relationships, and challenge ageism in our workplaces, homes, and public life.
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Exploring the Realities and Questions Behind MAID
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Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) is a deeply personal and often polarizing topic. In this episode of Sorry for Your Loss, we hear from Dr. Jean Marmoreo, one of Canada’s first MAID practitioners, and Krista Carr, a leading disability rights advocate, as they share their perspectives on the implications of MAID. What does the process really look like, and what are the concerns about how it’s being implemented? A wide-ranging conversation on one of the most complex issues in the world of death care.
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In this episode of What Happened Next, host Nathan Whitlock is joined by author Catherine Bush. Her most recent book is the story collection Skin, published by Goose Lane Editions earlier this year. Catherine and Nathan talk about the many exotic locations at which she has written, including time spent at an Italian villa with Zadie Smith as her neighbour, about writing her most recent book at a remote Ontario schoolhouse she had to break COVID-19 protocols to get to, and about where serious literature fits within a world in which serious art of any kind is often overlooked.
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Private Practice
Bruce Brady’s letter to the editor responding to Monica Kidd’s cover story, “Need a Knee Replacement? You Can Get It at the Mall” (May), misses the point. It is all fine and wonderful that he got good private care in the UK; the question is how he would fare if he did not have the means to pursue private options. Or, to put it more bluntly, how did everyone else do? I used to think of
Canada as the gold standard of universal care; now, starved of funding and undercut by private providers, our health care system is barely breathing. The solution is not privatization but full nationalization of care, including insurance, primary medicine, and medication.
Kate Korycki
Toronto, ON
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Love Doesn’t Cost a Thing
I read Chantal Braganza’s “Want to Raise a Kid in Canada? That’ll Be $293,000” (January/February) with consternation. As a father of three, the headline-grabbing piece was worrying. To me, having children is the greatest joy possible, and those who are so fortunate to have children rarely look back. Only analyzing the cost side of an idea is an incomplete portrait and is disingenuous in nature. If I have one small regret in life, it is not having my children earlier (my first was when I was thirty-six). I encourage everyone who can to have children, regardless
of the perceived cost. It is worth it, no matter what.
Jonathan Brun
Montreal, QC
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