What Impact Did Canada’s Military Have on Ukrainian Resistance? - Canadian soldiers helped train more than 30,000 of their Ukrainian counterparts. Many are left wondering about their legacy
How Two Doctors Are Hacking the Transplant System - What if there were a better way to get life-saving organs to people who need them?
- Orville Peck Rides Again: How the Singer Nods to Queer Country History - Some may reckon that Peck is subverting the genre. Instead, he’s highlighting themes that have always been part of it
- Death 101: Life Lessons from the Country’s Only Degree Devoted to the End - Some first-year arts students are asked to write papers about Plato or Jane Austen; thanatology students need an existential sensibility
- What Is the Point of Cancelling Russian Artists? - Scrapped tours and broken contracts won’t hurt Vladimir Putin
- Early Warning Signals: How Poetry Helps Us Understand Our Impact on Ecology - The environmental crisis is, in part, a crisis of the imagination. Poems can create a new form of knowing
Inside the May 2022 issue of The Walrus
The promise of $10 child care, how two doctors are trying to fix the organ transplant system, life lessons from the study of death, and the toxic legacy of Yellowknife’s gold.
➔ Burning Up: The Controversial Biofuel Threatening BC’s Last Inland Rainforests
➔ Sometimes Baffling, Sometimes Sublime: Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour
“Man up,” “be a man,” and “don’t be a girl” are phrases that boys often hear while growing up. They send the message that men should always project toughness, stoicism, and independence. Jake Stika believes that we need to teach boys to express vulnerability, ask for help, and show compassion and that doing so will benefit everyone in our society.
A conversation with award-winning writer Rawi Hage. Hage recently released his first collection of short stories, Stray Dogs and he sat down with Jessica Johnson, the editor-in-chief at The Walrus, to talk about his latest book, being a political writer, and identity.
The oil and gas industry is under pressure to accelerate towards a decarbonized future. That means green investments and a hard pivot towards becoming energy companies, which lets them engage in a broader range of technologies. These efforts require bold and courageous leadership. Who better to change an oil and gas company from the inside out than its first Chief Climate Officer, Martha Hall Findlay.
- The Ruthless Math of Political Campaigns: Is Big Data Bad for Democracy? - As the fate of elections is increasingly tied to analytics, we could end up with voters nobody will bother trying to persuade
- Let Her Eat Cake: The Subversive Power of Women Feasting - Women are told to tame their desires, stifle their appetites, and not take up space. But, as women directors have shown, there’s power in indulgence
- Early Warning Signals: How Poetry Helps Us Understand Our Impact on Ecology - The environmental crisis is, in part, a crisis of the imagination. Poems can create a new form of knowing
- Faith and Access: The Conflict Inside Catholic Hospitals - Why should publicly funded hospitals get to limit access on religious grounds?
- The Procedure - They left Ketman, whose breathing came now in fishlike gasps. Crepe-soled orderlies brisked back and forth
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