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The Decade in Long Reads

January 1, 2020February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From a debonair grifter to Canada’s peacekeeping mission in Mali, these are the conversations that helped define Canada

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Photo of Celine Dion
Cover Story / September 2019

Céline Dion is Everywhere

August 28, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Suzannah Showler

At fifty-one, Dion is wrapping up her Vegas residency with a world tour, an album, and two movies in the works. Why has it taken forty years for the world’s most talented singer to finally become cool?

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Feature / Society

An Oral History of Whale Cove

June 21, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Suzie Napayok-Short

Six Inuit tell the story of their families’ forced relocations to an unfamiliar land—and how they came to call the place home

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Cover Story / June 2019 / Society

The Rise of Junk Science

May 27, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Alex Gillis

Fake publications are corrupting the world of research—and influencing real news

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Illustration by Bruce Mau
Cover Story / March 2019

Is the World Getting Better or Worse?

February 6, 2019November 14, 2019 - by Bruce Mau

We are now faced with a choice: return to old patterns or take a leap into a radical and uncertain future

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bundles of lumber on a lake
Cover Story / Environment / November 2018

People vs the Planet

October 15, 2018April 22, 2020 - by Edward Burtynsky

In the Anthropocene, the argument that deforestation’s economic benefits overrule its environmental impact no longer holds weight

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Cover Story / Education / October 2018

Who Gets to Be Gifted?

September 19, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Katrina Onstad

Kids in the gifted program are disproportionately white and affluent. How streaming became another form of segregation

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Illustration of a lightbulb against a black background. Instead of a filament, the bulb has a syringe inside.
Cover Story / Opioids: A Public Health Crisis / September 2018

My Life and Death on Opioids

August 23, 2018December 13, 2019 - by Chris Willie

In November 2017, The Walrus started working with Chris Willie on a memoir about his fentanyl addiction. While writing the article, Willie died from an overdose. This version of his story is published with his family’s approval

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Arts & Culture / Feature / June 2018

How Digital Archives Delete the Human Experience

June 6, 2018March 27, 2020 - by David Sax

The push to preserve information forever can forfeit our emotional connections with the past

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Feature / World

The Future of Almost Everything

June 4, 2018February 10, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From the environment to the future of biography

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