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Lisa Kowalchuk

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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Guelph

People walk amongst the high rises of St. James Town in Toronto in July 2023. St James Town is one of Canada’s most diverse and densely populated neighbourhoods. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

December 23, 2025

Reducing household waste poses serious challenges in residential high‑rises

Lisa Kowalchuk, University of Guelph

Many multi-unit residential buildings are designed or managed in ways that make recycling and proper waste disposal difficult.

Women protest outside a courtroom in San Salvador in 2017, demanding the government free women prisoners who are serving 30-year prison sentences for having an abortion. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

April 11, 2018

The unspeakable cruelty of El Salvador’s abortion laws

Lisa Kowalchuk, University of Guelph

Pregnant teens take their own lives, raped children are denied abortions and women who suffer stillbirth are imprisoned for 30 years – El Salvador’s torturous anti-abortion regime must end.

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