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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

Cover Story / September 2019

Céline Dion Is Everywhere

August 28, 2019June 10, 2021 - 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?

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

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

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

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

student looking through lines in paper like they were blinds

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

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, 2018April 6, 2021 - 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

illustration of a book turning into pixels

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

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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