October, 2024 | The Walrus

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Health

Menopause Is a Pretty Damn Fine Stage of Life

October 17, 2024October 28, 2024 - by Susan Glickman

The joy of aging like a “space crone”

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Politics

The $20 Sandwich That Could Topple Trudeau

October 16, 2024January 27, 2025 - by Ira Wells

Consumer rage is real—and it’s shaping the next election

Stephanie Watterson is the 2024 TD Fellow on Disability and Inclusion

News about The Walrus

The Walrus Announces the 2024 TD Fellow on Disability and Inclusion

October 15, 2024October 11, 2024 - by The Walrus Staff

The Walrus and TD Bank Group welcome Stephanie Watterson as the newest recipient of the fellowship

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Books

Undoing the Fairy Tale of Alice Munro

October 15, 2024October 15, 2024 - by Justina Elias

For years, I helped spread a glowing narrative about one of Canada’s most famous authors

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Health

To Get into Medical School, I Thought I’d Have to Hide Parts of My Blackness

October 14, 2024October 15, 2024 - by Chika Stacy Oriuwa

But then came a question I wasn’t prepared for

Quiz

Weekly Quiz: Epigraphs, Climate Change, and the Art of Conversation

October 12, 2024January 10, 2025 - by Sophie Siew

How closely have you been reading our online stories this week? Take The Walrus Weekly Quiz to find out—released every Saturday.

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Politics

The Quebec Secession Crisis Is Coming, and Canada Isn’t Ready

October 11, 2024January 27, 2025 - by Gerald Butts

Why sovereigntists see their chance now

Against a green backdrop with multi-coloured splotches of yellow, purple and orange, a curly white line connects the black-and-white, cropped photos of one man's eyes and nose to another's nose and mouth. There's a question mark on one man's face.

December 2024 / Memoir

How to Talk to People When You Live Alone

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024 - by Ian Williams

“Once it became apparent how underused my voice was by noon, I couldn’t stop noticing”

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World

In Gaza, Language Is All We Have Left

October 10, 2024November 13, 2024 - by Pacinthe Mattar

Every day, I watch Palestinians mourn in the language I speak with my own mother. If the world understood the beauty of their words, perhaps they might care about them

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Poetry / September/October 2024

The Contagion in the Countryside: Train

October 10, 2024October 9, 2024 - by Tom Wayman

ominous, as if the cargo / constitutes a threat beyond “Hazardous Goods”

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Month: October 2024

Menopause Is a Pretty Damn Fine Stage of Life

The $20 Sandwich That Could Topple Trudeau

The Walrus Announces the 2024 TD Fellow on Disability and Inclusion

Weekly Quiz: Epigraphs, Climate Change, and the Art of Conversation

The Quebec Secession Crisis Is Coming, and Canada Isn’t Ready

In Gaza, Language Is All We Have Left

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