Letters to the Editor: September/October 2023 On triumphs in space, safety nets, and studying literature in the time of ChatGPT The Walrus · Oct 26, 2023
Trauma Is Shaping Our Reactions to the Violence in Palestine and Israel This is a struggle where neither side is able to demonstrate grief for the other The Walrus · Oct 26, 2023
As the Israel-Hamas War Escalates, Misinformation Surges The spread of false claims on social media makes it hard to sort fact from fiction The Walrus · Oct 25, 2023
The Best Thing I Could Do for Climate Change Was Go Home I was making gelato and living large in Vancouver, but something was missing. Then I returned to Old Crow, Yukon The Walrus · Oct 24, 2023
We May Be Stuck with Doug Ford Failure and corruption seem to follow Ontario’s premier at every turn. What would it take to get rid of him? The Walrus · Oct 23, 2023
Rethinking Uncertainty in an Insecure Age Our world is becoming more unsettled in many troubling ways. In others, it is not nearly unsettled enough The Walrus · Oct 20, 2023
Care and Feeding of the Amish They had snuck from their tents this fine morning, before the spring dew dried on the grass, and come back with their prize The Walrus · Oct 19, 2023
How a Summer House Triggered an Existential Crisis on PEI An Ontario couple’s planned property development has sparked environmental and right-of-access concerns—and has Islanders questioning their sense of self The Walrus · Oct 18, 2023
I Changed My Mind about Reading Problematic Male Authors I came of age loving the works of Milan Kundera and Derek Walcott. Now, as a professor of literature, I have to ask tough questions The Walrus · Oct 17, 2023
How a Sexual Assault Case in St. John’s Exposed a Police Force’s Predatory Culture Winning a sexual assault conviction against a cop is hard. That didn’t stop Jane Doe The Walrus · Oct 16, 2023
The Next Target in the War on Affirmative Action? Law Firms The move to weed out equitable hiring is part of a much longer history of exclusion in both the US and Canada The Walrus · Oct 13, 2023
Introducing the Second Recipient of the CIBC Digital Fellowship for Emerging Black Journalists at The Walrus The Walrus is pleased to announce Makda Mulatu as the CIBC 2023/24 Fellow The Walrus · Oct 13, 2023
Hadfield, We Have a Problem The acclaimed astronaut’s latest novel fails to blast off The Walrus · Oct 12, 2023
“Parents’ Rights” Rhetoric Is Rooted in Radical Conspiracy Theories Why are federal and provincial conservative leaders echoing the talking points of QAnon? The Walrus · Oct 11, 2023
The Walrus · Oct 10, 2023 Canada’s National Parks Are Colonial Crime Scenes Many see wilderness as a right of citizenship. But the concept of Canada as untouched nature is unrecognizable to Indigenous people
The Walrus · Oct 9, 2023 Are AI Companies Ripping Off Writers? Canadian Authors Speak Out Yann Martel, Heather O’Neill, Douglas Coupland, and others weigh in on their books being used to train AI systems
The Walrus · Oct 6, 2023 The Mushroom Boom From beer to vegan leather, fungi are increasingly being used in new ways. But there’s still a lot we don’t know about the mysterious organisms
The Walrus · Oct 5, 2023 Margaret Atwood Reviews a “Margaret Atwood” Story by AI Plus a poem that a chatbot took ten seconds to write
The Walrus · Oct 5, 2023 Editor’s Letter: Why We Can’t Trust AI Once, disinformation came solely from humans. Now it’s a feature of the machines that run our lives
The Walrus · Oct 3, 2023 20 Years of The Walrus: Long-form Stories Deeply reported stories that look into food waste, sad songs, sex ed, the alt-right, and more
The Walrus · Oct 3, 2023 20 Years of The Walrus: True Crime Journalism about con artists, crime fighters, undercover agents, and more
The Walrus · Oct 3, 2023 Why Are So Many Authors Abandoning Speech Marks? Sally Rooney, Ian Williams, and Lauren Groff are just a few of the contemporary authors avoiding quotation marks for dialogue
The Walrus · Oct 2, 2023 FlightHub Turns Kids’ Fantasies into Reality Dreams come true with Passport to Dreams
The Walrus · Oct 2, 2023 The Secret Life of Plastic What happens to our trash once we’ve done our duty and tossed it into the right bin?
The Walrus · Sep 29, 2023 The Walrus Reflects on Canada’s History on the Third National Day for Truth and Reconciliation On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, The Walrus recognizes the Indigenous peoples impacted by residential schools in Canada