The Walrus Podcast
#28: The Trials of Philip Halliday
“After a few days, a ton and a half of cocaine was found on-board.” Noah Richler discusses the life and alleged crimes of Philip Halliday, an out-of-work fisherman from Digby accused of smuggling drugs into Spain
By Chris Berube
Published on July 30, 2014
#27: Stand Down
“The cops are yelling at him, ‘Stop! Stop! Or we’ll shoot!’ He’s clearly not taking any of this in.” John Lorinc discusses his feature story about police shootings of people with mental illnesses—and explains how some authorities are working to solve the problem
By Chris Berube
Published on June 18, 2014
#26: Outcasts
“There was this omerta of silence. You did not out another gay person...you could lose them their job, their livelihood, and even their freedom.” Historian Hugh Brewster revisits the early years of Canada’s gay rights revolution
By Chris Berube
Published on May 27, 2014
#25: Facing Difference
“Instead of thinking of them as would-be visitors to our world, I think it would help us if we thought of ourselves as potential visitors to theirs.” Photographer Jaime Hogge and writer Ian Brown discuss life with Down syndrome and other chromosomal anomalies
By Chris Berube
Published on April 28, 2014
Jaime Hogge Rachel, six, has Down syndrome. She takes music lessons and is integrated with other children at her public school.#24: How to Teach Boys About Sex
“Much of pornography is as relevant to what people actually do [sexually] as The Fast and the Furious is for how people actually drive.” Rachel Giese discusses the new sexual education for young men
By Chris Berube
Published on March 31, 2014
#23: Mackenzie River
“It’s like a lake moving northward. It’s one of those majestic things that Canadians should be very proud of.” Writers Tim Querengesser and Chris Wood discuss the health and welfare of the one of the world’s great water arteries
By Chris Berube
Published on March 13, 2014
Research for this podcast provided by the Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation.
#22: Sledgehammer
“You use everything you have in these sports.” Disability scholar and former Paralympian Danielle Peers joins senior editor Drew Nelles to discuss the latter’s story about sledge hockey, Oscar Pistorius, and how society views athletes with disabilities
By Chris Berube
Published on March 7, 2014
Benoit AquinDominic Larocque, twenty-six, was wounded in Afghanistan. He made the Canadian sledge hockey team just nine months after he took up the sport.#21: Inside the Story behind the Rob Ford Story
“If the choice is between giving readers pause and not telling the story at all, I think you’ve got to tell the story.” Ivor Tossell on the legal challenges of reporting Toronto’s ultimate political scandal
By Chris Berube
Published on February 18, 2014
#20: Electric Powwow
“It always starts with that basic, straight-forward drum beat, which...is supposed to symbolize the heartbeat of Mother Earth.” Waubgeshig Rice discusses his profile of Aboriginal DJs A Tribe Called Red
By Chris Berube
Published on December 20, 2013
#19: Boy Next Door
“You want to be able to relay...how horrible it actually was, while still maintaining your respect for the people who endured it.” Stacey May Fowles discusses her challenging memoir about growing up in the shadow of Paul Bernardo
By Chris Berube
Published on December 9, 2013
#18: Eleanor Catton
An interview with the winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Co-produced by the Canada Council for the Arts
By Chris Berube
Published on November 27, 2013
#17: Forgotten Woman
Marian Botsford Fraser discusses the crimes and punishment of dangerous offender Renée Acoby
By Chris Berube
Published on November 20, 2013
#16: Big Mac
On oil sands, SUVs, and sustainability: Taras Grescoe recounts his visit to Alberta boom town Fort McMurray
By Chris Berube
Published on November 11, 2013
#15: Return to Afghanistan
Five years ago, reporter Mellissa Fung was kidnapped, stabbed, and held outside of Kabul. Now, she explains why she had to go back
By Chris Berube
Published on October 11, 2013
Lana ŠlezićA woman rests at Chaman Babrak, a settlement for internally displaced persons in northern Kabul. From the photographer’s Forsaken series.