Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? Universities Aren’t Ready for the Answer AI is here to stay. It’s up to educators to articulate why writing still matters The Walrus · Mar 24, 2023
Why Are More People Claiming Indigenous Ancestry? New controversies represent an increasingly popular pastime: grasping at the furthest branches of a family tree in search of an Indigenous ancestor The Walrus · Mar 22, 2023
Kids Deserve a New Gender Paradigm For youth, transitioning is often seen as a point of no return. What if we view gender as something that evolves over a lifetime? The Walrus · Mar 20, 2023
The Walrus Talks It’s Happening Now Climate change, social policy, and changing the future The Walrus · Mar 17, 2023
Editor’s Letter: Broadening Our Reach We’ve been stuck in Toronto for far too long. How have we expanded our coverage? The Walrus · Mar 17, 2023
Will AI Actually Mean We’ll Be Able to Work Less? The idea that tech will free us from drudgery is an attractive narrative, but history tells a different story The Walrus · Mar 16, 2023
The Walrus Talks a New City What’s happening now—designing sustainable, inclusive places to live and thrive The Walrus · Mar 15, 2023
How I Tried to Stop Snoring, Fix My Sleep Habits, and Confront My Mortality I wanted a quick fix even if that quick fix was strapping a glorified bike pump to my face The Walrus · Mar 15, 2023
Letters to the Editor: March/April 2023 On death, trauma, and Pierre Poilievre The Walrus · Mar 14, 2023
Finding My Grandmother in Portraits of Other Women For years, I was drawn to photographing older women without knowing what I was searching for The Walrus · Mar 13, 2023
The Downfall of Jason Kenney and His Big Blue Truck Why the maverick, masculine symbol ran out of gas The Walrus · Mar 10, 2023
Defeat I submit to winter’s / half-melt shame and kneel / before summer’s trumped-up / flames. The Walrus · Mar 9, 2023
I’m Not Here to Make Friends, Eh: Big Brother Canada Turned Backstabbing into Art Why the spinoff became a hit when so many other Canadian reality TV shows failed The Walrus · Mar 8, 2023
Steven Heighton’s Posthumous Book Is a Reckoning with Death Instructions for the Drowning offers a glimpse of the closure the author may have hoped for The Walrus · Mar 6, 2023
The Walrus · Mar 2, 2023 China’s Election Meddling: Canadians Deserve a Serious Response The last thing the country needs is a half-hearted approach to protecting our democracy
The Walrus · Mar 1, 2023 Why Is Starbucks at War with Its Unions? The coffee giant bills itself as a progressive company. But when employees started unionizing, corporate pushed back
The Walrus · Feb 27, 2023 The Photograph, 1889 She looked up at the wall, and the young woman with dramatic eyebrows gazed back at her from the frame
The Walrus · Feb 24, 2023 Zellers Is Back. Is Nostalgia to Blame? Companies have tapped into a longing for the past as a powerful marketing tool. Are Canadians buying in?
The Walrus · Feb 22, 2023 Ottawa’s Transit Gong Show How the capital city’s dream of a world-class transit system became a nightmare
The Walrus · Feb 21, 2023 Sustainable Solutions Canada’s forest sector plays a vital role in supporting a net-zero carbon future
The Walrus · Feb 20, 2023 Are Herring Making a Comeback in BC? The fish all but disappeared from the shorelines around Squamish in the mid-1970s. Locals are monitoring signs of hope
The Walrus · Feb 17, 2023 What UFO Fears Tell Us about Trust in Government The horrors of the world wars shook public confidence in technical expertise and the state’s ability to ensure the safety of its citizens
The Walrus · Feb 15, 2023 Blood and Honey: In Defence of the Winnie-the-Pooh Slasher Flick Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s horror film might ruin your childhood, but it’s a win for creative freedom
The Walrus · Feb 14, 2023 The Walrus Talks at Home: Indigenous Health What must change to promote greater health equity among Indigenous peoples in Canada?
The Walrus · Feb 14, 2023 The Walrus Talks Economic Reconciliation How the private sector and government can support a brighter economic future for Indigenous peoples in Canada.