Why Are More People Claiming Indigenous Ancestry? - New controversies represent an increasingly popular pastime: grasping at the furthest branches of a family tree in search of an Indigenous ancestor
Kids Deserve a New Gender Paradigm - For youth, transitioning is often seen as a point of no return. What if we view gender as something that evolves over a lifetime?
- Will AI Actually Mean We’ll Be Able to Work Less? - The idea that tech will free us from drudgery is an attractive narrative, but history tells a different story
- How I Tried to Stop Snoring, Fix My Sleep Habits, and Confront My Mortality - I wanted a quick fix even if that quick fix was strapping a glorified bike pump to my face
- China’s Election Meddling: Canadians Deserve a Serious Response - The last thing the country needs is a half-hearted approach to protecting our democracy
- I’m Not Here to Make Friends, Eh: Big Brother Canada Turned Backstabbing into Art - Why the spinoff became a hit when so many other Canadian reality TV shows failed
- The Downfall of Jason Kenney and His Big Blue Truck - Why the maverick, masculine symbol ran out of gas
Inside the March/April 2023 issue of The Walrus
➔The Meeting House: Inside a Megachurch Scandal
➔Why Is Starbucks at War with Its Unions?
➔Taking It Slow: What Turtles Can Teach Us about Living Longer
➔How to Make Peace with Canada Geese
➔Nuchatlaht First Nation: How a Legal Battle Could Change Land Rights for Good
In August 1972, Ugandan President Idi Amin announced that all residents of Asian descent had to leave the country within 90 days. The expulsion impacted over 50,000 people — many of whom had ties to East Africa for several generations. Canada played a crucial role in helping resettle over 7,000 Ugandan asylum seekers. In this episode, we’ll hear from two people who were resettled in Canada following the expulsion order: historian and anthropologist Zulfikar Hirji, and writer/editor Tasneem Jamal.
For young Black professionals, the employment line remains a long and bumpy road to only get half as far. At The Walrus Talks Advancing Work, Agapi Gessesse, Executive Director of the Centre for Young Black Professionals breaks down how she is assuring success for young Black Canadians today and beyond.
In this episode, we’re going underground, undersea and into your water and sewer pipelines with science fiction’s favorite problem-solvers…robots! Jay sits down with Vanessa Speight, a professor of Integrated Water Systems at the University of Sheffield, to learn how new, spider-like robots have the potential to locate and fix leaks in aging water pipes.
- The Downfall of Jason Kenney and His Big Blue Truck - Why the maverick, masculine symbol ran out of gas
- Will AI Actually Mean We’ll Be Able to Work Less? - The idea that tech will free us from drudgery is an attractive narrative, but history tells a different story
- Are Herring Making a Comeback in BC? - The fish all but disappeared from the shorelines around Squamish in the mid-1970s. Locals are monitoring signs of hope
- How I Tried to Stop Snoring, Fix My Sleep Habits, and Confront My Mortality - I wanted a quick fix even if that quick fix was strapping a glorified bike pump to my face
- Defeat - I submit to winter’s / half-melt shame and kneel / before summer’s trumped-up / flames.
- The Photograph, 1889 - She looked up at the wall, and the young woman with dramatic eyebrows gazed back at her from the frame
