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The Decade in Science and Technology

December 26, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From surveillance capitalism to Russian hacking, these are the science and tech conversations that helped define Canada

Arts & Culture

The Decade in Food

December 25, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From Canada’s farming crisis to our love of Kraft Dinner, here are the ideas, people, and conversations that helped define Canada

Arts & Culture

The Best Books of the Decade

December 23, 2019December 24, 2019 - by The Walrus Staff

The Walrus asked contributors and staff to pick their favourite titles of the past ten years

Arts & Culture

The Decade in Icons

December 23, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From the famous to the infamous, these are the personalities that helped define Canada

Arts & Culture

The Decade in Arts & Culture

December 12, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From Leonard Cohen’s darker legacy to art’s obsession with dead young women, here are the culture conversations that helped define Canada

A photo of the poet Elizabeth Smart in her later years, wearing a dark jacket and a white shirt with a frilled collar, looking to the left of the frame and smoking.

Arts & Culture / December 2019

Elizabeth Smart Died in 1986. Her Work Still Haunts Me

November 29, 2019November 29, 2019 - by Dale Hrabi

Poetic genius, bohemian, copywriter: she taught me to never compromise

Arts & Culture / December 2019

The Making of Margaret Atwood

November 18, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Tajja Isen

An oral history of the writer’s journey from student poet to cultural prophet

Three athletes crouch in a starting position for a race while three suited officials observe behind them.

December 2019 / Sports

How the World Anti-Doping Agency Betrays Honest Athletes

November 13, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Curtis Gillespie

When the highest authority on cheating is compromised, what happens to athletes who play by the rules?

Six cassettes with unspooling tape coloured in pink, red and orange

Arts & Culture / Music

When Sexism Makes for a Catchy Song

November 11, 2019 - by Tariq Hussain

My songwriting students pen misogynistic lyrics. But the music industry tells them that’s okay

A woman's hands holding a picture of a saint.

Arts & Culture / November 2019

How a Seventh-Century Irish Princess Got Me Back On a Plane

November 1, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Anne Thériault

To overcome my fear of air travel, I turned to Saint Dymphna