A Deep Dive into 2021
Complex topics require a bit more breathing room and extra space to explore. This year, The Walrus published a number of deep dives: extensive features that investigated everything from immigration to medical mysteries to animal smuggling.
These meticulously reported long reads feature many different voices and, in some cases, travel across international borders. While many of these stories have global ramifications, others unpack how major Canadian institutions—be they a national police force or a provincial government—operate. Each piece is an opportunity to delve into some of the most pressing issues of the year.
These are the big-picture conversations we were having this year.
@nickhunebrown on Twitter
“My feature on international students is online. It’s a wide-ranging look at a massive, under-examined industry, following students from rural India, through the unregulated world of education agents, to the colleges that increasingly depend on their fees.” – @nickhunebrown
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
@TheWalrus on Twitter
“Questions of accountability, timeliness, sensitivity to victims, and the RCMP’s ability to work well with other police forces have come up over and over. How has the force evolved over its nearly 150 years of existence?” – @thewalrus
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
@TheWalrus on Twitter
“In September 2019, the RCMP arrested one of its own: Cameron Ortis. The arrest was the end of a mole hunt inside the upper echelons of Canadian national security that led to the country’s most senior intelligence official.” – @thewalrus
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
@TheWalrus on Twitter
“What happens when you’re one of the few making a call for change? Particularly when you are coming from a community that is not represented, or misrepresented. When you criticize the system you work in there is tension, apprehension, courage. – @Nanaaba”
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
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@TheWalrus on Twitter
“For the past several years, a medical mystery has gripped New Brunswick. The symptoms, terrifying and incapacitating, appear to be expressions of a sickness with no name and no known provenance. So what is being done about it? ” – @thewalrus
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
@TheWalrus on Twitter
“Deepan Budlakoti was born in Canada in 1989 and was automatically granted citizenship by the ‘law of soil.’ When Canada eventually learned that his parents worked for India’s diplomatic staff, they refused to recognize his birthright citizenship.” – @thewalrus
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
@TheWalrus on Twitter
“Canada has one of the most complex immigration systems in the world. A radical policy innovation has been moving #immigration decisions away from the federal government and into the hands of locals, writes @ktoughill.” – @thewalrus
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
@TheWalrus on Twitter
“What is the correlation between a lack of information, misinformation, and too much information? @BrittanyAmofah of The Broadbent Institute asks us to consider.” – @thewalrus
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
@TheWalrus on Twitter
“Why don’t we have Covid-19 vaccine production in Canada?
@pcfralick asserts decades of policy decisions have not encouraged the sector to thrive. There has not been an ideal relationship between Big Pharma and the federal government to work toward common objectives.” – @thewalrus
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
@pcfralick asserts decades of policy decisions have not encouraged the sector to thrive. There has not been an ideal relationship between Big Pharma and the federal government to work toward common objectives.” – @thewalrus
READ THE FULL THREAD HERE
