The Personal Essay Isn't Dead. It's Just No Longer White
Recent criticism of the form’s faults says more about the genre’s historical whiteness than it does the talent of its new stars
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The Number of Youth Taking Antidepressants Is Growing, but Are the Drugs Working?
Why medication shouldn’t be the default treatment for our kids’ mental health
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The Best Way to Combat Climate Change is Compromise
We’ve turned the oil industry into an ideological war zone—and that is why both sides are losing
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Cottage Country Murder
Police have dragged the lake. They’ve dug up property. They’ve brought in dogs. But after twenty years, they still can’t find the bodies of the four missing seniors in Muskoka
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How Farmers Are Saving the Trumpeter Swan
The world’s largest water-fowl has rebounded from near extinction—thanks, in part, to the people who hate them
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When Disability Movies Become Inspiration Porn
TIFF debuts Breathe and Stronger flub their chance to show the reality of disabled lives
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Why a Country Music Act Will Never Win the Polaris
Canada’s narrow cultural taxonomy excludes some of our best artists
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Preview: Cottage Country Murder
A joint investigation by The Walrus and CBC’s The Fifth Estate, available this Friday
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How Humans Are Inadvertently Hastening the Extinction of Canada's Whales
An investigation into this summer’s mysterious deaths blames our booming industries. But it isn’t too late to save the endangered mammals
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