The Rise and Fall of MuchMusic | 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
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
Luc Rinaldi is a contributing writer for The Walrus.| thewalrus.ca
The publishing industry’s troubling reliance on visual stereotypes| The Walrus
The publishing industry is hinging its hopes on a twenty-three-year-old with a Substack and a devout following. Can she deliver?| The Walrus
From its shop in Nova Scotia, Gaspereau defied the industry for three decades| The Walrus
Ana Luisa O. J. is senior designer at The Walrus.| thewalrus.ca
Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it| The Walrus
Ashley Au is a Winnipeg-based bassist, composer, sound artist, arranger, and queer creative. She is the director of Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival.| thewalrus.ca
Mary Dalton’s fight to preserve her community’s speech| The Walrus
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The inside story of one of Canada’s most brazen, baffling, and mysterious art heists and how the police cracked it| The Walrus
Notorious for his brutal crackdown on Irish freedom fighters, Hugh Tudor tried to live a quiet life selling codfish in Newfoundland| The Walrus
As the conspiracy theories continue to creep northward, experts warn that we should be prepared for anything| The Walrus
Our world is becoming more unsettled in many troubling ways. In others, it is not nearly unsettled enough| The Walrus
Why are federal and provincial conservative leaders echoing the talking points of QAnon?| The Walrus
Tracing the protest’s growth, its symbols, and the troubling signs of hardening perspectives| The Walrus
Daniel R. Meister is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New Brunswick. He is the author of The Racial Mosaic: A Pre-History of Canadian Multiculturalism.| thewalrus.ca
Daniel Panneton is a writer and researcher based in Toronto.| thewalrus.ca
Human resources is getting much less human| The Walrus
Boycotts work, but only if they don’t fizzle out| 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Outdated public tools leave policy makers stranded while private companies hold the real insights| The Walrus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
The World Wide Web hasn’t felt this supportive since it was invented. Why did it take a pandemic?| The Walrus
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
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
The real threat with super intelligence is falling prey to the hype| 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
Technology| 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
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
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
