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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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.Av 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.Av 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 TechnologyAv 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 DepressionAv 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 OceanAv 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?Av Accessible Media Inc
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Jason Guriel still recalls when comics were childish, outlaw, and slightly problematic. Read by Lori Wilson.Av 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.Av 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.Av 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.Av Accessible Media Inc
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Familial separation can have devastating consequences on mental health and productivity.Av 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 trekAv Accessible Media Inc
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Menstruation ties us to the land in ways we've all but forgotten.Av Accessible Media Inc
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In her new novel, Rachel Cusk makes the case for becoming a stranger to yourself.Av 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.Av Accessible Media Inc
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Canadian voters are begging gor something, anything, different.Av Accessible Media Inc
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The real threat with artificial intelligence is that we'll fall prey to its hype.Av 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.Av Accessible Media Inc
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What Richard Remick learned about being a writer from trying to finish a dead man's bookAv Accessible Media Inc
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We love acquiring, hoarding and displaying books even more than we love reading them.Av 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 literatureAv 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?Av Accessible Media Inc
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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.Av 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.Av 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?Av Accessible Media Inc
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The Taliban extremist group uses social media to legitimise itselfAv 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?Av 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.Av Accessible Media Inc
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Farmers are struggling to compete against larger operations. Is automation the answer?Av Accessible Media Inc
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Clever, carnal, conniving Alexis Carrington of dynasty stalked into the courtroomAv 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.Av 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.Av Accessible Media Inc
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Tech companies are creating conditions that will deal a death blow to journalism everywhereAv 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.Av Accessible Media Inc
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How did Mount-pleasant cemetery group amass 1.2 billion in assets - and so much powerAv Accessible Media Inc
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Antibiotics may become useless in our lifetime. Doctors are looking to the past for helpAv 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 comingAv 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.Av Accessible Media Inc
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Can vegan cheese pass the taste test?Av Accessible Media Inc
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In an exclusive interview, a confident Prime Minister addresses his doubtersAv Accessible Media Inc
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Bullying. Harassment. Horrible bosses. Are work places inherently toxic?Av Accessible Media Inc
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The impossible promise of the first planned Palestinian community in the occupied West BankAv 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 wayAv Accessible Media Inc
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There's a path to peace in Israel and Palestine
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Territory is a fixed commodity, but compassion, freedom and dignity should have no boundaries.Av Accessible Media Inc
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The fragmenting of shared reality is fueling extremism and dysfunction. The era of the deepfake campaign has already begun.Av Accessible Media Inc
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Those on the line between Gen X and millennial are watching their identities shift and age in a way no previous generation hasAv Accessible Media Inc
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A foiled assassination points to India's increasing recklessness
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Criminal cases in Canada and the US raise troubling questions about the motives of India's Modi governmentAv Accessible Media Inc
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I want Palestinians to be afforded basic humanity, I know saying so might affect my career or friendshipsAv Accessible Media Inc
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Family doctors' burnout is about more than their workload
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Many physicians believe there needs to be a reset in how they treat patients - and their own well-being.Av Accessible Media Inc
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Why do I constantly have to prove my disability?
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Having to negotiate what it means to be disabled, and then fight for limited benefits and services if you are, is exhausting.Av Accessible Media Inc
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