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
Tallulah Fontaine co-created the zine collective Home Zine.| thewalrus.ca
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
In a disaster worse than the Titanic, it was believed a young man swam over six kilometres to safety. It didn’t add up| The Walrus
The inside story of one of Canada’s most brazen, baffling, and mysterious art heists and how the police cracked it| The Walrus
Linden MacIntyre is a distinguished broadcast journalist who spent twenty-four years as the co-host of the CBC’s The Fifth Estate. He has won ten Gemini Awards for his work and the Giller Prize for his novel The Bishop’s Man, among other awards. He was born in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, and now lives in Toronto.| thewalrus.ca
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
Politics| 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Outdated public tools leave policy makers stranded while private companies hold the real insights| The Walrus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
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
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
Politics| The Walrus
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
Society| The Walrus
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
