Let us take you into the pages of the Walrus as a chorus of vibrant voices bring to life essays, fiction, poetry, illustrations and photography from some of Canada’s best writers and artists.
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Pierre Poilievre has promised to shake up Canadian politics if he and the Conservative Party win the next election. He speaks in punchy slogans, but what would he actually do in power? The Walrus asked political observers how his rhetoric might look in practice. Matt Speirs reads If He WinsAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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Stop Panicking about Your Kid’s Screen Time
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In some cases, screen time might actually be helping your kids. Lori Wilson reads Stop Panicking about Your Kid’s Screen TimeAutor: Roger Ashby, Lori Wilson
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When Facial Recognition Helps Police Target Black Faces
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An AI engineer reckons with the moral implications of his work. Lori Wilson reads When Facial Recognition Helps Police Target Black FacesAutor: Roger Ashby, Lori Wilson
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After the forest fires, almost everybody left, all the neighbours left. I could have stayed, but I — I took the opportunity to hit the road. Marjorie Nicolaou reads Nour Abi-Nakhoul's fictional story, Smokehouse.Autor: Roger Ashby
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Why Canada Should Worry about Trump’s Second Coming
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The alarming cross-border influence of America’s political turmoil. Lori Wilson reads Why Canada Should Worry about Trump’s Second ComingAutor: Roger Ashby, Lori Wilson
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Canada’s Prime Ministers: More like Monarchs than You Think
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The key to fixing our democracy? Dismantle an electoral system that panders to the culture of celebrity. Paul Berry reads Canada’s Prime Ministers: More like Monarchs than You ThinkAutor: roger ashby, paul berry
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Shadow Government: The Consulting Firms Telling Ottawa What to Do
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According to Justin Ling, Justin Trudeau’s $840 million spending spree has led to hidden deals, wasted money, and useless improvements. Lori Wilson reads Shadow Government: The Consulting Firms Telling Ottawa What to DoAutor: Lori Wilson, Justin Ling, Roger Ashby
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The Ozempic Era Is Distorting What We See as Healthy
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Fat people are constantly told they have to shed pounds. What will weight loss–inducing medicines really cost us? Lori Wilson reads The Ozempic Era Is Distorting What We See as Healthy.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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The Murder Trial That Exposed Toronto’s Police Misconduct Crisis
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Disturbing allegations of police collusion came to light after Umar Zameer’s acquittal in a police officer’s death. Lori Wilson reads The Murder Trial That Exposed Toronto’s Police Misconduct Crisis.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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Canada’s Universities Are a Pipeline for Chinese Military Technology
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How hundreds of Chinese researchers across the country were identified as undercover scientists. Lori Wilson reads Canada’s Universities Are a Pipeline for Chinese Military TechnologyAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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You Can’t Talk Your Way Out of Depression
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Theories have surfaced in the past few decades that the way humans heal from adversity is not typically by ‘thinking’ their way out, but primarily within and through our bodies. Marjorie Nicolaou reads You Can’t Talk Your Way Out of DepressionAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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As Temperatures Rise, So Does Pressure to Engineer the Ocean
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New technology might help us combat the climate crisis. But is it safe to tinker with the seas? Lori Wilson reads As Temperatures Rise, So Does Pressure to Engineer the OceanAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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Quebec has to conserve energy in its push to electrify everything.
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Lori Wilson reads In a Province Where Electricity Is Cheap, How Do You Get Consumers to Use Less Power?Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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Jason Guriel still recalls when comics were childish, outlaw, and slightly problematic. Read by Lori Wilson.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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How the “Queen of Canada” and Conspiracy Theorists Splintered a Small Town
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Romana Didulo believes she has communed with aliens and been recognized by Donald Trump. When she and her inner circle moved to Richmound, Saskatchewan, some residents protested to kick her out. Others saw an opportunity. Read by Paul Berry.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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It’s Time to Take Phones Away from Students
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The spike in teen mental distress and disruptive behaviour will require extreme steps and one of them is removing cellphones from schools. Read by Lori Wilson.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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Cities are good at planting trees but not so good at keeping them
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In many cities newly planted trees are often left to fend for themselves. Vancouver managed to buck the trend, and its urban canopy is flourishing.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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Quebec's crushing immigration policy
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Familial separation can have devastating consequences on mental health and productivity.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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Thousands of migrants die trying to cross into the US from Mexico. Each year activists follow their harrowing trekAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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Menstruation ties us to the land in ways we've all but forgotten.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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In her new novel, Rachel Cusk makes the case for becoming a stranger to yourself.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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Victoria Chan says nostalgia has always seemed more bitter than sweet to her, but every time she indulges in it she finds it serves a purpose.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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Canadian voters are begging gor something, anything, different.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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The real threat with artificial intelligence is that we'll fall prey to its hype.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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What does Diet Pepsi taste like? It taste like faux sweetness and maximum carbonation, and takes me back to my teen years.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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What Richard Remick learned about being a writer from trying to finish a dead man's bookAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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We love acquiring, hoarding and displaying books even more than we love reading them.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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One man's war against what he called 'pious versicles' lead to an enduring work of children's literatureAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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Hybrid Workplaces are Still a Headache
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Why is it so hard to figure out a workplace arrangement that's good for everyone?Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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Welcome to Mass-Market Mountaineering
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Personal guides, private chefs, helicopter rides. Tensions are rising between Sherpas, who do the hard work, and the foreign climbers they escort to the top of the mountains.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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It's a privilege to take paid time when your baby is born. But the system is far from equal.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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Seven hard truths about the climate crisis
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Cooling the planet will be impossible without direct human intervention. How can we safely save the world?Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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The Taliban extremist group uses social media to legitimise itselfAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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The Money pit that is Montreal's Olympic stadium
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Montreal's Olympic stadium's new roof will cost tax payers nearly a billion dollars. Is it time to let the concrete relic die?Autor: The Walrus, Roger Ashby, Toula Drimonis, Montreal's Olympic stadium, concrete relic
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for many Indigenous employees, workplace diversity initiatives miss the mark.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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Farmers are struggling to compete against larger operations. Is automation the answer?Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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Clever, carnal, conniving Alexis Carrington of dynasty stalked into the courtroomAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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The Ukrainian government put in a marshal order that restricted some people from leaving the country. this is the story about how one family fled.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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Loblaws has become an everything company
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The grocery chain Loblaws is now involved in pharmacare, financial services and real-estate with no signs of slowing down.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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Tech companies are creating conditions that will deal a death blow to journalism everywhereAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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Joni Mitchell's best album is turning 50!
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For Court and Spark, Joni the lonely, Joni the soloist, did something nobody expected her to do. She hired a band.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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How did Mount-pleasant cemetery group amass 1.2 billion in assets - and so much powerAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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Antibiotics may become useless in our lifetime. Doctors are looking to the past for helpAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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Norval Morrisseau is one of the most famous Indigenous artists anywhere. Then the fakes of his works surfaced - and kept comingAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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I can do good work if I don't get killed
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Activists and dissidents come to Canada to escape inprisonment or assassination. But the government doesn't take their safety seriously.Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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Can vegan cheese pass the taste test?Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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In an exclusive interview, a confident Prime Minister addresses his doubtersAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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Bullying. Harassment. Horrible bosses. Are work places inherently toxic?Autor: Accessible Media Inc
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The impossible promise of the first planned Palestinian community in the occupied West BankAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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Why Conservatives turned against the environment
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Conservatives are busy making accusations of 'eco radicalism' while the world burns. It wasn't always that wayAutor: Accessible Media Inc
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