As Real Estate Costs Soar, an Influx of Residents Is Changing My BC Town - We can’t expect others not to want what we have. And yet we do it all the time
My Guilty Pleasure: I Own about 1,100 Records and Still Want More - I would dig into the clearance section at the back of every store until my hands hurt from the rough plastic of the packaging
- 20 Years of The Walrus: Visual Essays - Fascinating photography that’s covered subjects both large and small
- Sovereignty from the North - Canada is asleep at the post in the Arctic
- The Science of Late-Blooming Lesbians - What takes us so long?
- A Canadian Art Gallery Refuses to Reckon with Former Director’s Nazi Ties - More evidence against Ferdinand Eckhardt is revealed since last month’s bombshell story in The Walrus
- Why Women Hate the Pill - What birth control teaches us about the failure—and future—of women’s health care
Do you know a teen who dreams of being a writer?
The 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award is currently seeking submissions for the Youth Short Story category. The prize is $5,000. The deadline to submit is February 4, 2024.
Inside the Jan/Feb issue of The Walrus
➔ How Québec fell in love with documentary theatre
➔ Israel–Palestine: Canada must lead where it can
➔ Why Sunrise Records is still spinning
➔ Why women hate the pill
➔ The challenges of multigenerational living
In 2023, more than 15 million hectares of forest burned in fire in Canada. The world has become combustible in scary ways. Climate change accounts for many of the new and novel ways that humans are confronting fire. Author and journalist John Vaillant talks about his recent book “Fire Weather”, oil and the role it plays in the very different fires of today, changes in the atmosphere, Indigenous fire traditions that serve as really effective solutions and how we can each be “good husbands and wives of the earth.”
Canadian criminal law is changing in response to intimate partner violence, but is it changing for the better? Pamela Cross, Advocacy Director at Luke’s Place, examines the consequences of criminalizing intimate partner violence and emphasizes the importance of policy that centres victims rather than their abusers. This episode is presented by The Canadian Women’s Foundation.
How can AI transform your organization? And where do you even begin? Craig Alleva is the director of customer engineering for Google Cloud in Canada. He has experienced first-hand the unprecedented shift that’s underway thanks to generative AI, and has unique insight into how it will change the way businesses operate and engage with their consumers. Here, he talks about the impact of AI on Canadian organizations and how they’re applying it today.
- Sovereignty from the North - Canada is asleep at the post in the Arctic
- My Guilty Pleasure: I Own about 1,100 Records and Still Want More - I would dig into the clearance section at the back of every store until my hands hurt from the rough plastic of the packaging
- How Much Further Can Mining Go? - Unless business as usual can change, companies will venture into ever deeper, darker, and riskier places—with potentially catastrophic consequences
- Why Women Hate the Pill - What birth control teaches us about the failure—and future—of women’s health care
- Sonnet - Things detached from names can be seen, witnessed, / but naming things sates the hunger God’s absence leaves
- Care and Feeding of the Amish - They had snuck from their tents this fine morning, before the spring dew dried on the grass, and come back with their prize
