Letters to the Editor: June 2024 On cheap labour, doctor burnout, and walking the walk The Walrus · May 24, 2024
Made You Look: The Power of Great Magazine Covers Provocative design is still one of the best ways to slice through the digital noise The Walrus · May 24, 2024
How States Sanction Violence against Minorities Pakistan offers a chilling window into the use of morality laws to legitimize mob assaults The Walrus · May 23, 2024
A Strong Narrative How stories—even the tiniest ones—allow the nominees for this year’s Amazon Canada Youth Short Story Award to brave all of life’s plot twists The Walrus · May 23, 2024
The Return Home This year’s nominees for Amazon Canada’s First Novel Award explore what it means to lose one’s home and find it again The Walrus · May 22, 2024
What Should You Do with Your Stuff before You Die? The practice of “death cleaning,” or minimizing your belongings in your twilight years, is more appealing than ever The Walrus · May 22, 2024
How Three Big Conspiracy Theories Took Root in Canada Fringe beliefs are fringe until they’re not. Their mainstreaming has historically been aided by prominent thinkers The Walrus · May 21, 2024
What People Forget about Student Protesters? They’re Usually Right From apartheid to Gaza, university campuses remain crucial arenas for political change The Walrus · May 20, 2024
After 124 Years, One of Canada’s Oldest Independent Newspapers Dies The Whitehorse Daily Star ’s closure will deepen the country’s local news crisis The Walrus · May 17, 2024
The Unspoken Contradictions of Quebec’s Immigration Policy Familial separation can have devastating consequences on mental health and productivity The Walrus · May 16, 2024
“We Don’t Have Any Water. We’re Lost”: In the Footsteps of Migrants Who Never Made It Thousands die trying to cross into the US from Mexico. Each year, activists follow their harrowing trek The Walrus · May 15, 2024
Alice Munro, Nobel-Winning Author, Dies at Ninety-Two A Canadian master of the contemporary short story passes away The Walrus · May 14, 2024
Goodbye Body Shop? Buying Body Butter Can’t Save the World After the company announced widespread closures, I visited a store for the first time in decades The Walrus · May 14, 2024
Deepfakes and AI Trickery Are Disrupting the Biggest Election in History Nearly 1 billion voters are set to choose India’s next government. Will the country’s future be shaped by disinformation? The Walrus · May 13, 2024
The Walrus · May 10, 2024 My Guilty Pleasure Is My Old Friend, Diet Pepsi The first can I drank was exhilarating—it tasted like seventeen!
The Walrus · May 10, 2024 Emergency Exit I told Lenny to quit teasing my servers. / I picked Gala apples. I picked Suncrisp apples.
The Walrus · May 9, 2024 The Insult Comedy of Sugar Sammy The Montreal comic has enraged politicians and received death threats. He also proves that stand-up can be a great unifier
The Walrus · May 8, 2024 India Is Banning Critics from Coming Home Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is cracking down on dissidents in the diaspora by revoking their right to re-enter the country
The Walrus · May 7, 2024 Roots’ Race to Make Hoodies and Sweatpants Sexy The legacy brand has hired fashion provocateur Joey Gollish to breathe life back into it. Will Gen Z even notice?
The Walrus · May 6, 2024 Hybrid Workplaces Are Still a Headache Why is it so hard to figure out an arrangement that’s good for everyone?
The Walrus · May 3, 2024 The Two Faces of Indian Democracy Prime Minister Narendra Modi likes to tout India as the world’s largest and oldest democracy. But his politics are exposing the rot behind the facade
The Walrus · May 2, 2024 Cuts Push National Film Board of Canada to the Brink Dozens of layoffs and the closure of studios spark questions about the agency’s future
The Walrus · May 1, 2024 Tim Hortons Is Brewing an Idea of Canada That No Longer Exists At sixty, the coffee chain’s success proves old habits die hard
The Walrus · Apr 30, 2024 How Workplace Diversity Fails Indigenous Employees What began with optimism and enthusiasm has curdled into exploitation
The Walrus · Apr 29, 2024 Dreading Wildfire Season The North’s light infrastructure makes wildfires less likely. It also makes them more dangerous