Why Are Sex Workers Forced to Wear a Financial Scarlet Letter? - Discrimination against sex work has become a flashpoint for advocates of freedom of expression and economic rights
I Miss Being Bored at the Mall - Browsing taught me to enjoy my own company. In a digital age, how will my children learn to be by themselves?
- Who Loses as Online Betting Takes over Sports? - Gambling on sports used to be tightly controlled. Now the floodgates have been flung open
- Judy I. Lin’s Recipe for YA Success: Fantasy and a Cup of Tea - A Magic Steeped in Poison swaps tired European tropes for Taiwanese folklore
- When Big Tobacco Was Forced to Pay - The cigarette industry had its Erin Brockovich moment in the nineties. How has it managed to survive?
- 100 Years of Mavis Gallant - Her stories are about the cost of living and the cost of love. It’s why they still endure
Inside the September/October 2022 issue of The Walrus
The crisis in public housing, the neuroscience behind our love for pumpkin spice, the future of Quebec sovereignty, and more.
➔ How the UK Is Winning the Race against Climate Change
➔ Why Are There Still So Few Women Leaders in Politics?
➔ Much Ado about Hummus: The Fight for Bragging Rights over a Middle Eastern Dip
➔ The Gate of Heavenly Peace
André Picard, is a health reporter and author who started us off on this audio journey, with his talk on the epidemic of loneliness, so it only felt appropriate to hand the mic back for the final episode of season 3, because this has been quite a time to be a health reporter, and Picard is one of this country’s best.
Tajja Isen, the former digital editor of thewalrus.ca, now editor-in-chief at Catapult magazine, talks about her new book, Some of my Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service. It’s an essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions.
Virginia Burkett is the Chief Scientist for Climate and Land Use Change at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), where she’s worked for over three decades. She is based in Louisiana and is an expert in global change and low-lying coastal zones.
- Most Quebecers Don’t Want Sovereignty. Can This Politician Change Their Minds? - Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois plans to unseat the premier with a new, more “inclusive” vision of separation
- Who Loses as Online Betting Takes over Sports? - Gambling on sports used to be tightly controlled. Now the floodgates have been flung open
- How the UK Is Winning the Race against Climate Change - While Canada has fumbled every climate promise, the UK has been hitting its emissions targets. What would it take to catch up?
- Doctors on TikTok: The Dark Side of Medical Influencers - Medical data is supposed to be confidential. But social media is threatening the privacy and dignity of patients
- Kettle - Hesitant whistles. Then this wheezing laugh, / growing hysterical, like a dance-of-death
- The Click - Sometimes we look younger than we are, sometimes much older, depending on how we’ve chosen to live with what we’ve seen
