Oriuwa determined that mini twists would be the “perfect middle ground”; allowing her hair to retain its natural curls while being styled in a way that would come across as less imposing. “I promised my coils, as I twisted them into singlets the evening before the interview, that if I got in, I would embrace them once more. A small and temporary sacrifice of identity—or so it seemed.”

The federal Conservatives, under Pierre Poilievre, have firmly ensconced the affordability crisis at the centre of their pitch to Canadians, writes Ira Wells. Last fall, Poilievre argued on the floor of the House of Commons that “you can buy a castle in France for a lower cost than a middle-class home in Ontario,” pressing the government to “reverse their inflationary deficits and reverse their tax hikes so that Canadians can eat, heat, and house themselves.” His signature slogan, “Axe the tax,” pegged to the Liberal government’s levy on consumer carbon, has been interpreted more broadly as “everything is too expensive.”

The indiscriminate encouragement of women to take hormones to “manage” menopause is a cause for genuine concern, writes Glickman, especially given the fact that aging men go through a similar process (called andropause), with many of the same complications. “But nobody publishes articles about them with titles like ‘The Fate of the Untreated Menopause’ as though getting older were a disease rather than a normal stage of life.”

In less than eighteen months, the Can’t Buy My Silence campaign had won a series of astonishing victories, explains Elizabeth Renzetti. One of those victories meant that NDAs covering sexual misconduct at universities, like the one Macfarlane had unintentionally breached, were banned in several jurisdictions, including the UK and Ontario.