One Day, ChatGPT Will Move You to Tears Generative AI is mechanizing writing itself. Is poetry far behind? The Walrus · Dec 15, 2023
How Journalists Can Win People Back Trust in “the media” is failing. But countries like Norway have found a way to keep it strong The Walrus · Dec 14, 2023
Exclusive: Docs Blocked by BC NDP Raise Questions about First Nation Statement on Fairy Creek Protests The Pacheedaht First Nation’s statement was an ideological bomb for protesters and their supporters. Was it influenced by the BC government? The Walrus · Dec 13, 2023
Jude the Brave Everything looked the same as the year before—the rows of brick, a tree with lights, an inflatable Santa. Nothing was The Walrus · Dec 12, 2023
As Real Estate Costs Soar, an Influx of Residents Is Changing My BC Town We can’t expect others not to want what we have. And yet we do it all the time The Walrus · Dec 11, 2023
My Guilty Pleasure: I Own about 1,100 Records and Still Want More I would dig into the clearance section at the back of every store until my hands hurt from the rough plastic of the packaging The Walrus · Dec 11, 2023
Editor’s Letter: Why We Can’t Unfriend Big Tech The Online News Act has us re-evaluating our relationships with major platforms The Walrus · Dec 7, 2023
A Canadian Art Gallery Refuses to Reckon with Former Director’s Nazi Ties More evidence against Ferdinand Eckhardt is revealed since last month’s bombshell story in The Walrus The Walrus · Dec 7, 2023
Why Women Hate the Pill What birth control teaches us about the failure—and future—of women’s health care The Walrus · Dec 6, 2023
Why We Need Community Now More than Ever Isolation might be as unhealthy as smoking. Why aren’t we taking connection more seriously? The Walrus · Dec 5, 2023
How Quebec Fell in Love with Documentary Theatre Would you watch a play about hydro electricity? How about the dairy industry? The Walrus · Dec 4, 2023
The Walrus · Dec 1, 2023 Will New Tech End the Need for Human Pregnancy? We are five to ten years from a partial artificial womb for humans, according to estimates
The Walrus · Nov 29, 2023 What Does “Defence” Really Mean? The United Nations prohibits the use of force except in the case of self-defence—but that can too easily be moulded into a euphemism for retaliation, revenge, and punishment
The Walrus · Nov 28, 2023 The Case for Never Reading the Book Jacket I don’t want to be told what’s going to happen and I definitely don’t want to be told what the book is “about”
The Walrus · Nov 27, 2023 At McMaster University, Building a Better 2080 Starts Now The Imagining 2080 forum invited future-thinkers from across generations and disciplines to envision possible futures for Canada
The Walrus · Nov 27, 2023 Why the Opioid Crisis Is Rooted in the Housing Crisis A prevalent narrative asserts that the tents, the despair, the not waking up are about mental illness and addiction. That narrative crumbles after the first questions
The Walrus · Nov 25, 2023 Body and Soul Dan was the most physical person I knew. Then he broke his neck
The Walrus · Nov 24, 2023 Why Is It So Hard for People of Colour to Get Good Tattoos? My first tattoo looked fine at first, then started to blur. It should be easier to find artists who can work on melanated skin
The Walrus · Nov 23, 2023 When Britney and Pamela and Paris Tell All Memoir writing offers women defined by their images a space to speak. But we’re seldom satisfied with what they give us
The Walrus · Nov 22, 2023 The Walrus’s Most Memorable Magazine Covers Art directors past and present reveal the stories behind the eye-catching illustrations and photography
The Walrus · Nov 22, 2023 Momentum Ventures: Empowering Connectivity Through Travel From AI to electric aviation and beyond, how a Canadian holding company is moving the travel economy