Human resources is getting much less human| The Walrus
Boycotts work, but only if they don’t fizzle out| The Walrus
Vass Bednar is the managing director of the Canadian SHIELD Institute and co-author of The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians.| thewalrus.ca
Obstacle parenting is about cultivating focus and endurance, two skills lost in the ChatGPT era The post My Job as a Parent Is to Make My Kids’ Lives a Little Harder first appeared on The Walrus.| The Walrus
Loneliness, low-income patients, and Elon Musk The post Letters to the Editor: July/August 2025 first appeared on The Walrus.| The Walrus
From burritos to Beyoncé tickets, micro-loans now bankroll our most routine needs The post How “Buy Now, Pay Later” Seduced a Generation—and Trapped It in Debt first appeared on The Walrus.| The Walrus
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Companies have been leaning on governments to break strikes. Now they’ll think twice The post Air Canada Flight Attendants Faced Down Ottawa—and Won first appeared on The Walrus.| The Walrus
Jewish groups say new food safety rules infringe on faith. Regulators argue they’re needed to ensure animals don’t suffer The post The Beef Over Kosher Beef first appeared on The Walrus.| The Walrus
Bell Canada, the Canada Pension Plan, and traders are making big-time investments in America The post Boycotts Be Damned: Why Canadian Money Keeps Flowing to the US first appeared on The Walrus.| The Walrus
Are writing and suicide related? The same thing? Or estranged relatives, at least? The post “Why Do I Write?” You Might Not Like My Answer first appeared on The Walrus.| The Walrus
How closely have you been reading our online stories this past week? Take The Walrus Weekly Quiz to find out—released every Saturday The post Weekly Quiz: Trump’s Climate Attacks, Carney’s Tentative Truce, and Locked Up Labour Data first appeared on The Walrus.| The Walrus
Outdated public tools leave policy makers stranded while private companies hold the real insights| The Walrus
She first gained fame as a child actor. The writer and director has been confronting the traumas of these early experiences ever since| The Walrus
The medical community has never taken women’s sexual desire seriously. Now, Gen X women are hitting menopause and demanding better| The Walrus
Poet and songwriter Bill Hawkins rubbed elbows with Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, and other stars. Why didn’t he become one himself?| The Walrus
Heather O'Neill is an award-winning novelist and essayist. Her works include Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Lonely Hearts Hotel. Her most recent novel is When We Lost Our Heads. She lives in Montreal.| thewalrus.ca
The World Wide Web hasn’t felt this supportive since it was invented. Why did it take a pandemic?| The Walrus
Josh Greenblatt is a freelance journalist based in Toronto covering cultural and consumer trends for outlets such as Wired, GQ, and The Walrus.| thewalrus.ca
The country’s future is being treated like a software update| The Walrus
It may not exist yet, but no one in tech can risk ignoring Mark Zuckerberg’s next big thing| The Walrus
Conrad Sweatman is a Winnipeg-born arts communicator and musician.| thewalrus.ca
Connor Garel is a contributing writer at The Walrus.| thewalrus.ca
The Walrus provokes new thinking and sparks conversation on matters vital to Canadians including politics, the environment, business, and society.| The Walrus
Through my photography, I explore how my siblings and I have shaped one another| The Walrus
What looks like reform is really just a long-avoided chore| The Walrus
Wade Davis left home to escape monotony and tumult. On the open road, he found bliss and rebirth.| The Walrus
The team at The Walrus was nominated for four awards in the Consumer category| The Walrus
Canada likes to brand itself as tolerant, multicultural, and benevolent. Black communities know that’s not true| The Walrus
The two writers on media representation, anti-Black violence, and true liberation| The Walrus
US media aren’t afraid to confront sensitive issues. Why is Canada so far behind?| The Walrus
Pacinthe Mattar is an Egyptian Canadian journalist and author of the National Magazine Award–winning essay “Objectivity Is a Privilege Afforded to White Journalists.” She was the 2022 Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.| thewalrus.ca
Natalie Vineberg is a designer at the Washington Post and a former designer for The Walrus.| thewalrus.ca
When it comes to the climate crisis, new normals convey a single, grim message: instead of acting, get used to it| The Walrus
Pierre Poilievre seems to be on a mission to defund the CBC. He’s not the first Tory to attack the public broadcaster| The Walrus
David Moscrop is a contributing writer for The Walrus.| thewalrus.ca
How relationships come to an end and the scourge of the smartphone| The Walrus
That there are two sides to every story is cliché. That there are two stories to every marriage is almost science| The Walrus
Courtney Shea is a freelance journalist based in Toronto.| thewalrus.ca
Literature often describes matrimony as banal or repressive. That’s a shame| The Walrus
For families overwhelmed by modern life, office tools offer order. But do they fix the deeper problem?| The Walrus
The Green Party is ahead in the polls going into the provincial election. A win could herald big changes for the rest of Canada| The Walrus
From politics to guns, here's what truly makes Americans different from Canadians| The Walrus
Conservative politicians who denounce white supremacy may lose votes this federal election. They should do it anyway| The Walrus
This is writing my colleagues and I believe is among the best The Walrus has published over the past twenty years. We have been rating, debating, and reassessing the lists for months, looking for work that still surprised us, impressed us, moved us—work that could speak to the present moment. We wanted the overall mix| The Walrus
The Vatican may never see another like him| The Walrus
Randy Boyagoda is a novelist and professor of English at the University of Toronto. He has been contributing to the magazine since 2005.| thewalrus.ca
The hunger to believe in something beyond the self is real. What if bots started creating scripture?| The Walrus
The real threat with super intelligence is falling prey to the hype| The Walrus
Pope Leo XIV takes aim at thinking machines| The Walrus
By being responsive to die-hard conservatives, he puts himself at their mercy| The Walrus
I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated| The Walrus
Former staffers reveal what made the channel so special—and why MuchMusic has failed to reclaim its former glory despite a relaunch| The Walrus
Harkirat Sangha has joined the growing ranks of Punjabi artists singing about the Canadian dream| The Walrus
People want my art, but as a working-class musician, I can’t make a living| The Walrus
It’s easier than ever to make music, and harder than ever to make a living from it| The Walrus
The best way to heal your mind is by paying attention to your body| The Walrus
He had a loving family, financial support, and the best treatment. He fell victim to an overdose anyway| The Walrus
Some experts aren’t so convinced it’s a good idea| The Walrus
MDMA helped me come to terms with years of trauma| The Walrus
Provincial funding for schools has been decreasing for decades. Many educators aren’t sure they can go on| The Walrus
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The radical new approach includes year-round classes—with breaks for hunting and fishing| The Walrus
Mice and rat infestations, leaky roofs, a lack of staff and class supplies. Inside the gradual erosion of public education in Ontario| The Walrus
Amanda Perry teaches literature at Champlain College Saint-Lambert and Concordia University. She is a contributing editor with Literary Review of Canada.| thewalrus.ca
The culture war’s favourite prophet can’t finish a straight thought| The Walrus
Her stories are about the cost of living and the cost of love. It’s why they still endure| The Walrus
How the company chased scale, hit a wall, retrenched, and became the very thing it promised not to be| The Walrus
Research suggests trailblazing art gallery director Ferdinand Eckhardt may have been a supporter of the Third Reich| The Walrus
Artist Jorian Charlton on the meaning of the Black family photo album and the essential nature of these archives| The Walrus
The infamous Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops were ad hoc, low budget, and falling apart. They also reimagined the possibilities of art| The Walrus
Carmine Starnino (@cstarnino) is editor-in-chief of The Walrus.| thewalrus.ca
Voters are begging for something, anything, different| The Walrus
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The best stories about Canada’s twenty-third prime minister.| The Walrus
Eva Holland (@evaholland) is a a contributing writer for The Walrus.| thewalrus.ca
Teaching is a profession, but it’s being turned into a gig| The Walrus
More evidence against Ferdinand Eckhardt is revealed since last month’s bombshell story in The Walrus| The Walrus
In an exclusive interview, a confident prime minister addresses his doubters| The Walrus
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Tajja Isen is a contributing writer for The Walrus.| thewalrus.ca
Publishers are turning away from personal stories. Have readers stopped caring about each other’s lives?| The Walrus
Kidnapping, bigamy, financial ruin, babies falling from roofs—and really great clothes| The Walrus
Melanie Lambrick is an illustrator based on a remote island in British Columbia. She has worked with an international roster of clients, including the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and Volkswagen.| thewalrus.ca
Ottawa won’t disclose list of alleged war criminals believed to have sheltered here after the Second World War| The Walrus
The NABJ convention was meant to be a time to lift each other up. Instead, we were shushed into silence while Trump attacked us| The Walrus
Why are we letting algorithms rewrite the rules of art, work, and life?| The Walrus
The AGO wanted to shake things up with Wanda Nanibush. Then it balked| The Walrus
Survivors of Shambhala International, a worldwide Buddhist community, reveal decades of abuse| The Walrus
Rachel Browne is a contributing writer for The Walrus.| thewalrus.ca
Fringe beliefs are fringe until they’re not. Their mainstreaming has historically been aided by prominent thinkers| The Walrus
Under the banner of diversity, racialized people are told to bring ourselves and our perspectives. But, if we bring too much of them, we get held back| The Walrus
The territories are such an integral part of our national brand. Yet most of us pay them little collective attention| The Walrus
They’re busy making accusations of “eco-radicalism” while the world burns. It wasn’t always like that| The Walrus
A shocking spree of anti-Asian violence taught me to put community first| The Walrus