Steven Heighton’s Posthumous Book Is a Reckoning with Death - Instructions for the Drowning offers a glimpse of the closure the author may have hoped for
China’s Election Meddling: Canadians Deserve a Serious Response - The last thing the country needs is a half-hearted approach to protecting our democracy
- Why Is Starbucks at War with Its Unions? - The coffee giant bills itself as a progressive company. But when employees started unionizing, corporate pushed back
- The Photograph, 1889 - She looked up at the wall, and the young woman with dramatic eyebrows gazed back at her from the frame
- Zellers Is Back. Is Nostalgia to Blame? - Companies have tapped into a longing for the past as a powerful marketing tool. Are Canadians buying in?
- Ottawa’s Transit Gong Show - How the capital city’s dream of a world-class transit system became a nightmare
- 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
Inside the March/April 2023 issue of The Walrus
It was massively popular. It billed itself as a new kind of church. Then sexual abuse and misconduct allegations surfaced against its leaders
➔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.
Stephen Trumper passed away on January 4, 2023 and left behind a legacy of disability advocacy that will never be forgotten./ He had been an instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Journalism since 1995. Trumper was also an editor at Toronto Life, Harrowsmith, and Financial Post Magazine, a vice-president of the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors, a board member of the National Magazine Awards Foundation, and among the over 800 fantastic Canadians who have been featured on The Walrus Talks stage.
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.
- China’s Election Meddling: Canadians Deserve a Serious Response - The last thing the country needs is a half-hearted approach to protecting our democracy
- Blood and Honey: In Defence of the Winnie-the-Pooh Slasher Flick - Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s horror film might ruin your childhood, but it’s a win for creative freedom
- 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
- Taking It Slow: What Turtles Can Teach Us about Living Longer - A conservation demographer explains how the secret to a long life might be found under a hard shell
- A Love Poem for Steven Page - I’ve had others. I could be what’s been done, / I could be your Yoko—I hated you on MTV—Ono.
- The Photograph, 1889 - She looked up at the wall, and the young woman with dramatic eyebrows gazed back at her from the frame
