Does Journalling Actually Improve Mental Health? - Writing down your thoughts can be helpful. But getting the perfect notebook isn’t a substitute for professional care
Canada’s Big Flex in Space - The Canadarm started as a boring robotic appendage. Now the future of space travel depends on it
- Is CanCon Obsolete? - When it comes to what qualifies as “Canadian,” nobody seems happy. It’s time to rethink the nationalistic vanity project
- Grieving a Lost Future in Sudan - I planned to return to my hometown of Khartoum one day. As it burns, I wonder if the city of my childhood ever really existed
- There’s Only One Spotted Owl Left in the Canadian Wild. Can She Be Saved? - Old-growth logging has forced the species into near extinction. Inside the race to save it
- Nostalgia about Newsrooms Ignores How Much They Need to Change - Tantrum-throwing reporters and endless meetings aren’t glamorous—or good for modern journalism
- Have Assisted Dying Laws Gone Too Far? - As Canada expands access to MAID, many people with disabilities are sounding the alarm. Some say the law was flawed from the outset
Who We Are Now
Amazon Canada and The Walrus are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award is Jasmine Sealy for The Island of Forgetting.
Learn more about the winning novel and the entire shortlist.
Inside the June 2023 issue of The Walrus
➔ Mary Simon Is Leading Indigenous Peoples to New Heights
➔ As a Therapist, I Know What’s Breaking Couples Up
➔ O, Canadarm
➔ Bombs, Bullets, and Endangered Birds
➔ Have You Been to the Library Lately?
In this episode, we look at the 50th anniversary of the Decorations for Bravery. We speak with former Governor General, Madame Adrienne Clarkson, about what she’s learned from the everyday heroes she awarded during her tenure and from Russ Fee, a Medal of Bravery recipient who saved a family from a wolf attack.
What does a future look like where trans people live long enough to become elders, where Black liberation is assured, where there is landback and Indigenous resurgence, and where people with disabilities have everything they need in order to thrive in society? From The Walrus Talks Reconnecting Arts and Culture, where Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware shares what it means to work toward a future that is bigger than what we’ve dreamed of.
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.
- ᐊᖓᔪᖃᒻᒪᕆᒃ - ᒥᐅᕆ ᓴᐃᒪᓐ ᓵᓚᒃᓴᖅᓯᒪᓕᖅᐳᖅ ᑲᓇᑕᒥ ᒐᕙᒪᒃᑯᓐᓂ ᑲᑎᒪᔨᓂᒃ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐊᐅᓚᑦᓯᓯᒪᓕᖅᖢᓂ ᐊᒥᐊᓕᑲᒃᑯᑦ ᓴᐃᒪᑎᑎᔨᖏᓐᓂᒃ. ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐸᐅᓪᓗᓂ ᐃᓄᓪᓚᕆᐅᓪᓗᓂᓗ ᒐᕙᓄ ᔭᓄᕈ ᓯᕗᓕᖅᑎᐅᓂᐊᖅᖢᓂᓗ ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᐊᖏᔪᒻᒪᕆᐅᔪᒃᑯᑦ
- Am I Being Priced Out of Making Music? - As a working-class musician, people want my art but it doesn’t make me a living
- There’s Only One Spotted Owl Left in the Canadian Wild. Can She Be Saved? - Old-growth logging has forced the species into near extinction. Inside the race to save it
- Does Journalling Actually Improve Mental Health? - Writing down your thoughts can be helpful. But getting the perfect notebook isn’t a substitute for professional care
- Seascape with Buoy - It layers and piles, swells and doesn’t fall. / I can’t remember anything at all.
- The Photograph, 1889 - She looked up at the wall, and the young woman with dramatic eyebrows gazed back at her from the frame
